Kefla

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[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Keep on using my phone till a good Linux phone or similar releases.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean we have trains also

No, we really don't. We used to, and then automotive companies bought our country, killed all the passenger trains, and redesigned every city to require cars.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Okay but I really feel you have completely misunderstood the context of the conversation, because this has nothing to do with it.

I was talking about vividness, not accuracy to the real world.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Snek with 98 mage hands because frankly 100 was too many what was he thinking

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago (14 children)

The incredible thing is that this is literally what America looks like. I think most people who haven't been to America probably imagine this is kind of a joke, like 99% of America can't possibly look like this. But it does. I could walk from my current position for around 5 minutes and take a picture that looks exactly like this.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I feel like in its normal context it is second person plural pronoun. "Chat, quit saying dumb shit" means the same as "Folks/Listeners, quit saying dumb shit." The people being addressed are being addressed directly in a largely one-sided manner, that of a performer addressing the audience as a collective.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Esperanto was cool for what it was trying to be at the time it was created. But the world moves on and now we're in a world where it looks silly and many of the decisions made in its creation look pointless.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

if tea flavor is good then MORE tea flavor is even better

Unironically true with high quality loose leaf tea. Outside of some niches (like gyokuro) I brew everything at boiling and without any particular care as to the length of the brew. Cooler temperatures and shorter brews are good for selectively extracting good tasting compounds in leaf that has good and bad tasting compounds, but the highest quality stuff is just good all the way through. So more temperature and longer brews just means more good in the cup.

And to be clear this is a tea snob perspective, I'm just an even bigger snob than most snobs. I look down on the snobs and their pathetic fragile low quality leaves.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the-democrat Americans live five dimensional lives. Those Chinese "people" living with only four dimensions could never understand our brilliance.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The title seems to disagree with you

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

What else is he supposed to do with them?

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the context of daydreaming, imagining is a very active process. In lucid dreaming, everything that is conjured simply happens independent of any active thought. I don't have to think "if there were a bear there it would have brown fur and be big and round with teeth and it might make a grunt that sounds like this" I simply go "I want a bear to be there now" and it just exists and does bear stuff as if I had been having a dream about encountering a bear independently.

Are your normal dreams not any different from daydreaming? If you have a nightmare about a monster chasing you it's not any different from imagining what a monster would be like while you're awake? Because for me those are two entirely different experiences.

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