FishFace

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

While your broad point isn't wrong, it's good to separate wealth and income.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago

What rhyme? Only thing I can think that you mean is some things about "attercop" (old word for spider) that Tolkien writes.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I always heard it used for both and it confused me that they were two different things.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Article talks about energy but not why they're using weapons grade plutonium for that purpose. Anyone got an informed reason?

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:

  1. Denying the antecedent: "showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don't shower every day, you will smell bad"
  2. Confirmation & Selection bias: "that person smells bad, therefore they can't shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad"
  3. Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I'm assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone's condition.

It's quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it's the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can't form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not "nice and clean" but "disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease".

I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

Your jaw muscles force your jaws together. It's both jaws doing the biting.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 38 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Tylenol is paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, not aspirin.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 28 points 16 hours ago

Now this is the silliness I live for

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 17 hours ago

This is sad, not humorous

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why should a company be legally responsible for copyright infringement of its employees, if it wasn't something they did for work?

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They didn't claim it was respectable, they claimed it made them not liable? Where'd you get this idea?

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Then you should be less credulous. What is told to prospective employees is effectively public information.

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