Well, it started Here

Then it expanded Like a contagion

Until Random, unconnected individuals started spreading it

But, Lemmy got it in a different way so the spread isn’t as severe.

Go into the light charade-anne

Then they didn’t schedule a day to go, they just decided to roll up.

I dunno, it isn’t universally beneficial.

Votes, particularly down, can have a cooling effect on assholery.

Voting is faster, and people are lazy. So there’s a tendency for people to just vote and scroll on. Remove down votes, and you get more snark if mods don’t intervene.

It’s kinda hit or miss though

Chicken tacos at that.

So it goes

I wrote it, and it fucks with my head lol

What ephera@lemmy.ml said, 100%

I’m still an Android user, and likely will be for while, but the amount of junk Google has built into it all designed to make their ad sales what they are is just absurd. If I had total freedom of hardware, I’d degooogle as much as android allows on non Google hardware and wait for a fully daily driver ready linux phone, but I don’t currently, so I’m kinda stuck.

Besides, options are always a good thing. There’s not really a downside to more OS options for people with the ability and willingness to change OS in the first place.

Dammit, if that’s not gay, it should be! Because it’s fucking fabulous!

I know, I know, we’re supposed to say it’s fake, and it could be. But folks, never, ever underestimate the power of passion and joy. It won’t overcome everything, every time, but I’ll be fucked if it doesn’t help overcome yourself often enough that it’s worth seeking.

Word :)

I’m going to pretend you aren’t being an asshole for your own reasons, and explain why this kind of comment is a good thing.

What you’re missing is that shared cultural touchstones connect people. Comments like this aren’t robotic responses to preset conditions.

They’re humans reaching out to each other through screens to connect, even if it’s only some tiny and essentially frivolous thing. That’s a good thing. It’s the entire point of being human, to connect and share and hopefully help each other get through the ugliness that life brings.

Where you see predictability and rote habits, the rest of us see a shared experience. The other people in the thread popping off the lyrics or making related jokes, we’re all engaged in letting each other know that we aren’t alone, that there’s parts of each of our individual lived experience that can be directly related. It means we have the ability to stop seeing just words on a screen, and for just that moment see someone we’ve never met and likely never will, as part of our in group.

Friends in real life do this kind of thing. There’s phrases, and songs, and poems and book quotes, and movie lines that can be shorthand for shared experiences. It brings joy with it. Have you never seen a group of people say something that’s seemingly random and dissolve into laughter?

That’s what this kind of thing is. It’s strangers partaking in one of the benefits of friendship. Making each other smile or laugh a little.

If llms acted like this, they’d be one step closer to being actual artificial intelligence because it would make them part of that circle.

My homie across the screen. You stepped into that circle and tried to poop in it. Did that bring you joy? Did you smile? If it did, then great, you’re one of the lucky ones that can find happiness in attempting to piss on someone’s picnic. If it didn’t, then what are you doing?

It’s a song reference.

An old one, but it stays in circulation for some reason even among younger folks. It’s the one already linked by someone else, by they might be giants

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks

I’d also worry about flammability. I’m not up on the various insulators like Styrofoam when it comes to its flash point, or if shorts could set it off when improvised like that.

Shit, I used to be a cunt hair under 6 foot (so little below it that just shifting posture could take it over by a quarter inch, or under by the same).

Now, I’m a cunt hair over 5 10. Spine issues for the lose?

But some of my records still show me at 6 even, and that’s what I tend to put down when I’m not thinking about it. Years of habit.

That’s not the point.

So, if you take new York State as an example. If the average for the state is 18 miles (I can’t see the post when replying to a comment in this app, so that’s just using the same number as an example), do the cities skew that?

Like, if NYC and Albany have their own average of five miles, but people outside cities average 25 (or whatever it would be, I’m not doing math for this lol), that’s an interesting thing.

That’s what I’m talking about.

Does this factor in city dwellers? A lot of cities, you’ve got people that can’t just up and move to the next town over like we can out here in the boonies. You move from some parts of NYC 18 miles away and still be in the same city, but still effectively be like moving to another town.

I’d be interested to see what would happen to the numbers if you split out cities at given population levels.

That’s an interesting concept.

If a real person (as opposed to anon who is obviously fake gay) has a significant dysmorphia or dysphoria, it kinda makes sense that external images of their body would be viewed as a different person potentially.

But it would take at least a minor dissociation like in the post. There would need to be that break in the mind of “knowing” that the image is of one’s own body.

I don’t have any kind of dysmorphia based on appearance, but I still take a second sometimes to recognize older pictures of myself. That kid isn’t me in a sense, so there’s a moment of disconnect while my brain says, “oh, wait, that’s us”

Now, all we gotta do is line up some people willing to try it out and report back.

Afaik, nowhere has tried to ban that kind of treatment, only the ones for transition.

Well, if they’re much past infancy, there’s only so much that could be done until they’re adults anyway. Afaik, the kind of hormonal treatments to cause growth work way less past the early years. After that, it tends to need surgical intervention to change, but that’s just based on the last time I was reading up on it, which has been about a year at this point.

That being said, it’s worth talking to their doctor because the underlying causes can cause other problems that would be better detected early.

It’s a really simple thing to have checked, it’s just measuring the penis and comparing that to charts. No trauma involved, no complicated procedure, and unless it does point to a formal diagnosis there’s no further action needed.

It’s one of those things where knowing can give everyone involved time to prepare for anything down the road.

Well, no, not really.

Being a “grower” isn’t the same thing at all.

Someone putting on weight could be called buried penis. Totally different thing as well.

Libido loss doesn’t have anything to do with the penis itself, directly. There may be an underlying hormonal issue that causes both, but that’s still different. And, sometimes people with micropenis may have psychological issues with their penis that interferes with libido as well. But, again that’s not the same thing.

And, no, it doesn’t “turn” micro later. By definition, it’s an inborn thing. It would be called something else if it happens later in life.

The most recent research into this is barely a year old, but it only backed up and refined previous information; this stuff has been documented and studied since at least the seventies, since that’s when the first surgeries for altering the condition took place. And that’s just as far as I know currently.

It’s maybe one of those things where there’s a gap between the actual definition of a medical term and the colloquial usage, but I’m going off of the medical version. Again, from that standard, it is inborn, with the key factor in causing it being hormonal abnormalities in utero. The reasons for those hormonal issues are varied, and may have other symptoms after birth, but for it to be micropenis instead of something else, it’s an in utero malformation.