Marruk

altered carbon was a disaster

Personally, I loved it. I just wish they'd make a second season.

Lemmy: "All of the ways Elon mismanaged Tesla brought the quality of the cars down to the point where the brand's reputation is sunk. That hurt sales more than people not commuting to work."

You: "Look at all you on Lemmy saying how you don't need to own a car any more because you're using your car half as much!"

I honestly can't tell if he's trolling, or just unhinged. Either way, he's getting blocked.

Lmao what a shit take.

Great summary of every comment you've made in this thread.

Someone complains about one specific thing not being free. You:

I don’t know why people expect to get **everything **for free

Since you've started down the road of what people are and are not allowed to do: you are not allowed to participate in discussions if you can't avoid making shitty logical fallacies in your very first response.

That's correct. The indicator light was pretty obvious.

I always found it fascinating how upset people get about the idea of a novel device recording them without permission, but it is a complete non-issue that a familiar device (the common smart phone) could also record them without permission with less of a chance of them noticing.

Pretty sad that providing a better life for children than we had is apparently a controversial opinion.

I take great joy in providing my son a life free of the home life experiences that made my youth hell. It still remains to be seen how well he'll avoid the pitfalls of social interaction I suffered through, but I do feel like I'm preparing him far better than I ever was.

Posting ragebait articles about a platform because you know users will engage.

Lol irony.

There are posts and threads where people say that they can see images when they close their eyes.

I honestly don't know if that's just people not being specific with their words. I mean, "I can see images when I close my eyes" is still an accurate statement for me, even if the images don't appear unprompted. The idea of unprompted images forming every time I close my eyes is frankly rather terrifying. Closing my eyes is part of my strategy for dealing with over stimulation; if I didn't have calming dark when I closed my eyes, I think I'd freak the hell out.

For what its worth, I definitely do not have aphantasia, but that first description of closing your eyes and non seeing vivid imagery is nonsense. If I close my eyes, I don't just randomly start seeing things. I only "see" mental images if I think about what things look like. Unless there's music playing (that I enjoy). If I close my eyes while listening to good music I frequently get all sorts of mental images. However, they don't start as what I'd call vivid. Instead, they're faint at first, but get stronger the longer I keep my eyes closed and the music keeps playing.

As a side note, I have prosopagnosia (face blindness), so even though I can visual a tree, or an apple, or even a person, I almost never can visual a face. Like right now, I cannot picture my wife's face, or my son's. Sometimes I can, but I'd say that its rare, and I have no idea why sometimes it works and other times it doesn't.

So yeah, those are terrible descriptions of aphantasia (and to be clear, I'm agreeing with your overall point).

Ironic, considering I'm still waiting to hear who determined mail to be right.