ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXZau5VIIvU

He should get points for confidence. "RIGHT THEEEIA"

Something to note is that when the child is asked the rules of the shape game, he is able to correctly identify where the trucks and flowers go. And then he confidently proceeds to sort the cards as if he was still playing the color game. This is typical performance for a 3-year-old, including the part where he gets bored and tries to leave

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

None of those words are in the bible

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Thats literally not how it works though

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The thing about the phone seeing through objects is not true for all but 1 phone model: there was a phone released a while back that had an infrared camera which could see through thin plastics and clothes. Your phone can't do this.

The other capability you mention of listening to everything all the time is technically possible if some three-letter agency or corp started targeting you specifically and got access to your phone to install literal spying software on it. You don't have to worry about that. The mundane device that is actually doing that is your Alexa (if you have one).

If you are feeling seriously paranoid about this, you can factory reset your phone. On my Samsung phone, this is done by going to Settings, scrolling all the way down to General Management, scrolling all the way down again to Reset, and then selecting Factory Data Reset.

A more reasonable conspiracy theory thing to be worried about is that the government has access to a spyware program that can non-invasively (and therefore silently) take up space in your phone's cache, relaying everything you do back to its user. However, since its not actually installed on your phone, restarting your phone once each day will mitigate the damage this can cause. I have set my phone to restart at 3 AM every day for this reason. (It's also just generally a good idea to restart your phone regularly; it will run better if you do.)

 

Specifically looking for nerdy knickknacks like magnetic viewing film that a fellow autist would appreciate

You say that like it can't be both

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's sort of like when an actually bad AAA game gets labeled by right-wing chuds as being Woke Liberal Propaganda because theres a LGBTQ+ person in it or something stupid like that, so liberals feel to start treating this game as a unfairly slandered masterpiece with a deep message. In reality it's bog-standard corporate slop that says nothing about anything out of fear of limiting its audience (and also barely runs) but unfortunately the people pointing this out the loudest are the chuds.

And then when the game finally finishes being a flop or worse, the chuds sort it into the "Proof that Go Woke = Go Broke" portfolio and we all have to deal with that forever.

Fucking tribalism, man.

 

TV was a gift from my wife's dad. I wish he didnt. I already have a perfectly decent flat-screen I have hooked a computer up to.

 

Had a cool idea for an ttrpg about growing up in a hunter-gatherer culture in a stone-age fantasy setting. The coolest part of idea, for me as the writer/designer, would be to have a section on "rituals" where I describe their technologies as magical rituals, not just a series of materials and steps. For example, instead of saying "you can get a +1 bonus on knapping checks by heat-treating your toolstone" it would be described as blessing the toolstone with fire, which leads into the idea of magic rock that has been fire-blessed by volcano spirits (obsidian).

I am vaguely aware of other technologies, such as extracting glue from animal hide and a tree fungus that smolders for fucking forever when lit, but my knowledge of these is limited. I need a more thorough knowledge of how exactly the pre-agriculture hominids did these things if I want to wax poetic about it.