Ireland is missing from this picture. Americans love going to Ireland.
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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
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My guess is there are only so many conversations you can have over whether a Silvertip Badger is superior to a Boar brush.
I understand the connections well enough and I could make them on my own if I saw a purpose to it, such as narrative storytelling or choosing them as representative props.
This is my point “if I saw a purpose” means that you would miss any purposes that would only be evident when the act was complete.
Someone seeing a banal object, devoid of story and history and just merely existing,
There is no object in existence that is devoid of story and history. Everything came from somewhere whether by nature or human intervention.
and then succumbing to emotions
What is the negative outcome of “succumbing to emotions” from your beaker example? What cost is paid? What energy lost that would have been expending elsewhere?
over loose connections to human characteristics is what I don’t relate to. A cigar without narrative purpose is just a cigar.
Just your suggestion of a cigar triggers in me dozens of different threads of thought. Here’s just a few:
- agricultural - Tobacco was planted and cultivate, harvested then dried and processed. Tobacco can only be grown in certain places in the world. The cigar itself may have been wrapped by hand.
- health - Tobacco has many of the obvious negative health aspects, but a bit fewer with cigars than other tobacco consumption methods
- visceral - Cigar smoke does not smell good to me. Its a pungent and then stale. Something to be avoided. Watching smoke rise is fascinating as it drifts with air currents in the room. Cigars weigh much less than I would expect from how they look.
- cultural - Some modern cultures have a high integration with cigars, and even some like Cuba, have a national identity surrounding them. In the west they were, at one time, an expected gift for the announcement of a new birth.
- historical - Growing tobacco massively changed the world a few times in history, and lead to the enslavement of people in some cases/regions.
The whole thought process that produced that entire list happened to me automatically and was started and ended in less than one second. To me, when someone mentions a cigar any of these things could include additional communications cues to the person or their purpose. Its non-verbal subtext.
I deal with these is recognizing the message when they are used or abused.
I think you may be missing messages.
But I don’t relate to people unwillingly imagining an inanimate object to be sentient and emotive to such an intense degree that the imaginer is affected by it. I’ve pondered with purpose over writing metaphors or fantasy worldbuilding, but it has been with intent rather than passively.
I don’t quite understand the distinction you’re making between the former and latter. The only difference I’m seeing is it is something you actively have to do while others can do it passively. If anything, I would think that those do it passively would have a strength.
Break down exactly what is probably happening with your beaker example:
- observation of physical traits
- pattern matching against other examples of dissimilar sizes
- analysis as to why this beaker may have an association with a found pattern match of “parent and offspring”
- offspring are often more visually pleasant versions of the grown version (puppy vs dog/kitten vs cat)
- apply ruleset of “parent and offspring” to beaker
- therefore small beaker is cute because it could be offspring of a pair of larger beakers
This demonstrates there is a willingness to accept the unknown and explore it. It applies existing knowledge to make assumptions about future status/behavior. This is a power fact finding skill. Further, your classmates demonstrated this passively meaning it look no effort to find relationships and identify matching traits. They could possibly discover many things in life simply by looking that them and applying critical thinking.
Have you ever had any kind of emotional reaction, even a mild, one to this lamp?
One of the best things about having knowledge in component level electronics is being able to open up consumer electronics and disable unnecessary lights and speakers. Personal table top fans are a big offender here. Lots of folks use them at night, and there’s no reason they need to have 10 bright blue LEDs lit all the time the fan has power.
I question the author of this infographic with regard to the source material providing the data.
During 1974 Pavel Senko, D.D.Maksutov, V.S.Ignatov, V.I.Serdyukov, N.A.Kornilov of the Soviet Union were leading the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. The original source material cites “everyone” so the exclusion of these 5 gentlemen and the entire continent of Antarctica raises questions about the validity of the graphic.
But…but its a trilogy series! Will one of the books be ganged up on by the other two? That just doesn’t seem nice.
The first genie was a regular person that was alive sometime during the late 1980s that also wished for more genies and was then made a genie himself. Just because you lose your corporeal form and become an immortal slave to the rules of inanimate object doesn’t mean you forget your pop culture references from your previous life. Its “wished genies” all the way down.
Me: I wish for more genies
The monkey’s paw curls and in a burst of smoke you now find yourself a creature of spirit, a being of power, but forced to carry out the will of all others, never yourself. You are now a genie.
First Genie: Welcome to the party, pal. Hope you’re happy. There is a guy over there that has your lamp. You owe him 3 wishes. Remember to tell him “no wishing for more wishes”.
Mars brewing makes a canned malört spritz which is good
“Everyday We Stray Further From God’s Light” /s
Where are the sport peppers on that dog?
This Guy Bakes
Gal, I think by the user name.
First, you’re awesome for actually volunteering to do this and following through!
They legitimately feel like they have no love they’re just neutrally palatable in flavor and texture in every way.
That sounds like a great description for many AI implementations too!
I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.
I understood it as the red eyes you see in photos is the wide open iris of an eye you’re photographing zooming in on the blood vessels in the back of the eye. Flashing bright light before the photo makes the iris of the person you’re photographing contract significantly, so you can’t see the blood vessels in the back of the eye anymore.
If you play chess, just make sure neither player’s pawn can reach the other end of the board. No one wants to clean up the board afterward.
Poor #4 had to settle for knees.
Settle? We don’t kink shame here, sir.
What if I prefer Postgres to MySQL?