You're being an ass. Nowhere in my post did I say that. I/do/ consider it to be my problem. That's why I own 30db noise reducing headphones at work, and very carefully oriented my desk. It's why I sleep and travel with foam earplugs. I don't eat with people, and I never go to bars or theaters. I have a whole array of coping mechanisms that I have assembled specifically so that I don't have to ask people such as your special self to have some child-level manners.
It is my problem. Even if I wanted the world to change for me, I can't hope for it to, because there's people like you that get off on deliberately being jerks. I keep it to myself, and I never talk to/anyone/ about it IRL.
However, if people specifically ask about it, I'll share. It's not my responsibility to tiptoe around your ego if you're totally unwilling to find a comping mechanism for someone sharing their secret internal belief that you've failed to master some fairly elementary social skills and are thus of questionable function and worth as a person.
The thought of undergoing that makes me, as a grown man, want to cry. You'd have to force me in with burly guards and a straitjacket. If I'm honest with you, it sounds too close to the adverse conditioning techniques they used with gay conversion therapy for it to sound promising to me.
The idea sounds like it hinges on an incorrect interpretation, namely that misophonia suffers get angry like a bull seeing red when they hear specific sounds.
It's weirder and more confusing to explain than that, but I'm gonna try*. it's more like my default state switches from "content" to "angry". If I let my mind wander, I start thinking about hurting the person making the sound and that's not normal and I know it, and it's pretty horrible to question your own sanity. It results in the oddly distressing feeling of being angry at, and at the same time terrified (or maybe horrified or revolted, or a bit of all of the above) of something that you know totally doesn't matter, and knowing that these emotions you are viscerally feeling make no sense whatsoever. The juxtaposition is as bad as the emotion itself.
I guess the closest thing I can offer for women (not being one myself and thus only guessing) is remember how bad the worst PMS you've ever had was at it's very very peak, and then imagine people can turn that on and off in you as easily as flicking a switch. Now imagine that some people do it all the time. Now imagine that there's a social convention against it for totally unrelated reasons, but some people do it anyway because they've got no manners, but you're the one that cops shit when you ask them to conform to expected behavior.
So now there's real anger about the injustice and the uncaring world on top of the artificial anger. Adding fluffy bunnies to the crazy blender mix that starts up inside my head when someone whistles isn't gonna do shit. What does work is leaving the room, so that's what I'm gonna do.
I already bottle the anger up like a god damn hero, I've been doing it for 20 years now. It's not a matter of learning control, I guarantee you my control is better than yours, I've got *waaay* more practice. I learned to control myself completely and totally very early in high school. Primary school was rocky. The problem anger management therapy won't fix is that securely bottled or not, the anger doesn't go away until the person stops what they are doing.
Anyone who wants to know more should listen to this: http://jessicamurnane.com/miso... I listen to it about once a month for comfort. Jesus, I'm venting a bit here. Thanks for listening?
*Anecdotal evidence I've seen around the internet seems to suggest that most people with Misophonia stop trying to explain it to others and just take on extreme avoidance strategies. I once tried to explain it to my dad, who is a geneticist married to a psychologist. You'd think if anyone could understand the concept of a chronic non-visible debilitating condition, it would be him, but I got a sarcastic wisecrack for my troubles. I haven't tried to explain it to anyone I know personally since then. If you don't get what I'm talking about here, that's fine, but please don't stab me through the heart again for trying:(
Honestly, I'll take anything that provides legitimacy. Most people think you're full of shit if you try to explain misophonia to them, which is why most people with misophonia never ever talk about it ever, and prefer to act like weirdos by wearing earplugs in public rather than try to ask people to be sympathetic.
Being able to show there's a verifiable effect makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside in general, but it's also something that I may one day really need during a meeting with HR.
Interestingly, I have both. I ofteb wonder if there's a connection. For what it's worth, I experience misophonia way more often than asmr, but on the rare occasions where I think a sound shoild trigger both, it seems the ASMR takes precidence.
Realistically, lawsuits over the ownership of dank memes are a few years away tops.
2. Reddit is increasingly working at *not* being a place for people to vent their two minute hate, as are facebook and twitter and githhub. Pretty much all corporate entities oriented around community contributions are stressing out about being seen as proponents of hatespeech and clamping down on it.
3. Nations around the world are scrambing to add GST/VAT/other_sales_tax to digital goods and online purchases. There's a solid chance that moving goods through Europe may become harder and more paperwork-heavy in the next few years.
I took it as a subtle dig at everyone who believed apple when they said "we're collecting all this data but we're not going to weaponise it against you".
It's a 360 degree turn to right where they were obviously always heading.
>I don't pay any attention to advertising at all unless I am proactively seeking a product in a store, virtual or otherwise, and then only to specific instances that are relevant.
But you are being influenced by it, and it takes pro-active attention measures to recognise and negate advertising.
Do you critique every article you read for hidden advertising? I read an article on ycombinator a few months ago about a type-writer repair shop in new york. It was well written and interesting, and told a great story about the shop, but it was also an advertising piece for the place. When I pointed that out in the comments, everyone got quite mad at me. Nothing spoils a story like realising someone is using it to manipulate you, I guess.
>The car hit people because the driver made an error, assuming the car had a feature the car did not have.
That's what we call an unknown-unknown. The set of features my car looks like it has is extremely large. If my car looks like it has a handbrake, but pulling the lever does nothing, that's the manufacturers fault.
If your car has auto-parking but not pedestrian detection, it is the designers ethical responsibility to make the system visibly reflect that information.
What are the odds that the privacy policy states that it can be rewritten at any time without needing to notify the subjects?
I'd abide by that policy...for as long as it took me to draw a massive cock all over it and replace it with one saying I can sell your data to whoever I like.
Do correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not a webdev, but if they're included in the webpage with literal include statements, my browser will download them from googles servers, and the exchange of headers involved will allow google to log who I am and what website I am downloading them for.
Did I misunderstand something, my friendly google-apologist?
>It's very easy to go to a different search engine.
Says the woman posting from google plus. Have you actually tried avoiding google?
Because I have. I try to force google out of every aspect of my life, and it's like fighting a hydra. Do you have any idea how many websites use googles pre-made scripts to run the most basic functions of their websites? Block them and 20% of websites instantly stop working.
Would it make money? Maybe to a niche market. If I were to do something, I'd focus on price/quality as opposed to volume. For example, the guitar would not be a cheap piece of plastic, but perhaps a real one that can be strung and played as normal once someone got tired of the game.
Have a look at Rocksmith. You plug a real electric guitar into it, and it teaches you to play guitar through the game.
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You're being an ass. Nowhere in my post did I say that. I /do/ consider it to be my problem. That's why I own 30db noise reducing headphones at work, and very carefully oriented my desk. It's why I sleep and travel with foam earplugs. I don't eat with people, and I never go to bars or theaters. I have a whole array of coping mechanisms that I have assembled specifically so that I don't have to ask people such as your special self to have some child-level manners.
It is my problem. Even if I wanted the world to change for me, I can't hope for it to, because there's people like you that get off on deliberately being jerks. I keep it to myself, and I never talk to /anyone/ about it IRL.
However, if people specifically ask about it, I'll share. It's not my responsibility to tiptoe around your ego if you're totally unwilling to find a comping mechanism for someone sharing their secret internal belief that you've failed to master some fairly elementary social skills and are thus of questionable function and worth as a person.
The thought of undergoing that makes me, as a grown man, want to cry. You'd have to force me in with burly guards and a straitjacket. If I'm honest with you, it sounds too close to the adverse conditioning techniques they used with gay conversion therapy for it to sound promising to me.
The idea sounds like it hinges on an incorrect interpretation, namely that misophonia suffers get angry like a bull seeing red when they hear specific sounds.
It's weirder and more confusing to explain than that, but I'm gonna try*. it's more like my default state switches from "content" to "angry". If I let my mind wander, I start thinking about hurting the person making the sound and that's not normal and I know it, and it's pretty horrible to question your own sanity. It results in the oddly distressing feeling of being angry at, and at the same time terrified (or maybe horrified or revolted, or a bit of all of the above) of something that you know totally doesn't matter, and knowing that these emotions you are viscerally feeling make no sense whatsoever. The juxtaposition is as bad as the emotion itself.
I guess the closest thing I can offer for women (not being one myself and thus only guessing) is remember how bad the worst PMS you've ever had was at it's very very peak, and then imagine people can turn that on and off in you as easily as flicking a switch. Now imagine that some people do it all the time. Now imagine that there's a social convention against it for totally unrelated reasons, but some people do it anyway because they've got no manners, but you're the one that cops shit when you ask them to conform to expected behavior.
So now there's real anger about the injustice and the uncaring world on top of the artificial anger. Adding fluffy bunnies to the crazy blender mix that starts up inside my head when someone whistles isn't gonna do shit. What does work is leaving the room, so that's what I'm gonna do.
I already bottle the anger up like a god damn hero, I've been doing it for 20 years now. It's not a matter of learning control, I guarantee you my control is better than yours, I've got *waaay* more practice. I learned to control myself completely and totally very early in high school. Primary school was rocky. The problem anger management therapy won't fix is that securely bottled or not, the anger doesn't go away until the person stops what they are doing.
Anyone who wants to know more should listen to this: http://jessicamurnane.com/miso...
I listen to it about once a month for comfort. Jesus, I'm venting a bit here. Thanks for listening?
*Anecdotal evidence I've seen around the internet seems to suggest that most people with Misophonia stop trying to explain it to others and just take on extreme avoidance strategies. I once tried to explain it to my dad, who is a geneticist married to a psychologist. You'd think if anyone could understand the concept of a chronic non-visible debilitating condition, it would be him, but I got a sarcastic wisecrack for my troubles. I haven't tried to explain it to anyone I know personally since then. If you don't get what I'm talking about here, that's fine, but please don't stab me through the heart again for trying :(
Honestly, I'll take anything that provides legitimacy. Most people think you're full of shit if you try to explain misophonia to them, which is why most people with misophonia never ever talk about it ever, and prefer to act like weirdos by wearing earplugs in public rather than try to ask people to be sympathetic.
Being able to show there's a verifiable effect makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside in general, but it's also something that I may one day really need during a meeting with HR.
Interestingly, I have both. I ofteb wonder if there's a connection. For what it's worth, I experience misophonia way more often than asmr, but on the rare occasions where I think a sound shoild trigger both, it seems the ASMR takes precidence.
I left Australia for Iceland, and I have no plans to return.
Seeing as how we have good reason to believe that Anita Sarkeesian's entire life narrative as presented to the gaming public is a lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You'd be a fool to take any other claims she's made at face value.
No comment on Zoe Quinn.
>And as long as there are cat pictures on YouTube and Reddit forums for people to vent their 2 minutes hate, and plenty of stuff to buy from Amazon
All three are under attack.
1. People are increasingly looking at things like funny looking cats as things to incorporate around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Realistically, lawsuits over the ownership of dank memes are a few years away tops.
2. Reddit is increasingly working at *not* being a place for people to vent their two minute hate, as are facebook and twitter and githhub. Pretty much all corporate entities oriented around community contributions are stressing out about being seen as proponents of hatespeech and clamping down on it.
3. Nations around the world are scrambing to add GST/VAT/other_sales_tax to digital goods and online purchases. There's a solid chance that moving goods through Europe may become harder and more paperwork-heavy in the next few years.
I took it as a subtle dig at everyone who believed apple when they said "we're collecting all this data but we're not going to weaponise it against you".
It's a 360 degree turn to right where they were obviously always heading.
>I don't pay any attention to advertising at all unless I am proactively seeking a product in a store, virtual or otherwise, and then only to specific instances that are relevant.
But you are being influenced by it, and it takes pro-active attention measures to recognise and negate advertising.
Do you critique every article you read for hidden advertising? I read an article on ycombinator a few months ago about a type-writer repair shop in new york. It was well written and interesting, and told a great story about the shop, but it was also an advertising piece for the place. When I pointed that out in the comments, everyone got quite mad at me. Nothing spoils a story like realising someone is using it to manipulate you, I guess.
>The car hit people because the driver made an error, assuming the car had a feature the car did not have.
That's what we call an unknown-unknown. The set of features my car looks like it has is extremely large. If my car looks like it has a handbrake, but pulling the lever does nothing, that's the manufacturers fault.
If your car has auto-parking but not pedestrian detection, it is the designers ethical responsibility to make the system visibly reflect that information.
What are the odds that the privacy policy states that it can be rewritten at any time without needing to notify the subjects?
I'd abide by that policy...for as long as it took me to draw a massive cock all over it and replace it with one saying I can sell your data to whoever I like.
Is there a version of firefox I can use that does not include this code, but remains compatible with my addons?
I don't want to contribute to mozillas usage stats.
We should be friends :>
None because the atmosphere does a fantastic job of absorbing energy from laser blasts.
If you want to kill people from orbit, you should take bricks up with you and throw them out the airlock, it's way more likely to succeed.
I'll be keenly watching both the enrollment and graduation statistics for this school.
My hypothesis is that it will have a disproportionately low enrollment.
In a non-monopoly case, it would be the website owners fault.
In a monopoly case, the website owner may have basically no choice because google has actively marginalized all competition.
Do correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not a webdev, but if they're included in the webpage with literal include statements, my browser will download them from googles servers, and the exchange of headers involved will allow google to log who I am and what website I am downloading them for.
Did I misunderstand something, my friendly google-apologist?
>It's very easy to go to a different search engine.
Says the woman posting from google plus. Have you actually tried avoiding google?
Because I have. I try to force google out of every aspect of my life, and it's like fighting a hydra. Do you have any idea how many websites use googles pre-made scripts to run the most basic functions of their websites? Block them and 20% of websites instantly stop working.
>What the heck? Who is doing this to whom? We are doing it to ourselves. Who does the TSA work for? Our government.
Osama's staged goal was to make the USA spend a million dollars for every dollar he spent.
Boy, that was a runaway success and a half.
It's amazing work, really. He didn't have to terrorize the US for a decade, they've been terrorizing themselves for him.
He's bloody dead, and they're STILL terrorizing themselves,
I'm secretly hoping the 80% success rate indicates that everyone else has a 1 in 5 chance of getting randomly banned, troll or not.
I feel this would noticeably improve many online communities.
I use ad block edge.
Who buys AMD cpu's anymore?
Both current gen consoles. Have you not been paying attention or something?
Would it make money? Maybe to a niche market. If I were to do something, I'd focus on price/quality as opposed to volume. For example, the guitar would not be a cheap piece of plastic, but perhaps a real one that can be strung and played as normal once someone got tired of the game.
Have a look at Rocksmith. You plug a real electric guitar into it, and it teaches you to play guitar through the game.
Don't block advertising, they deserve to earn money from their work!
Yeah, right...
"Fully autonomous weapons are not unambiguously bad. They can reduce burdens on soldiers."
I don't want the burdens on soldiers to be reduced. I want killing to be as hard on people as possible, so they think before they do it.