sartalon

joined 2 years ago
[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Datamining is the reason every fucking second of our lives is monetized.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I only want to disagree about Facebook not monetizing private data in 2008.

My wife was in politics/campaign management. They were already selling fairly sophisticated targeted ads by then.

I was shocked/terrified by how well they were targeting and it wasn't even close to what they have today.

FUCK CORPORATIONS.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

My experience would disagree about the USMC having the least. 😏

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

😞, I thought you were talking about the sofa.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The originals comment I was replying to was making a generalized statement about fitted clothes and not specific to a fantasy scenario.

Edit.

And he also edited it.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They say it is safe but say they won't release it unless they are essentially given immunity.

We can trust them, right?

I mean, these big oil companies haven't lied to us yet, or fucked over rural communities.

Why would they start now?

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Having your pants in your crack that high, is NOT fitted.

Yoga pants, sure, I guess, but leather pants that you need to hike/fight in, that is a huge nonstarter.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Except for the fucking Boomers.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Fucking Kevin Spacey. So many great movies I just can't watch anymore.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No way they would have forgotten me.

Moved on, well, that's life sometimes, but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try to find my way back. I'm gonna see my little girls grow up if I have to divide by zero to make it happen.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Maybe he actually likes his job?

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'd be spending my life trying to find a way back to my kids.

I do like the premise of your question though. If I didn't have this family, it is a fun thought experiment.

 

I am not sure I have aphantasia, but I definitely have difficulty with images.

The best way I can describe it is like I have mental impressionism.

I can see my wife's face, but it's like I am seeing it out of the corner of my eye and not in focus. If I try to focus on the details, it falls apart like zooming in on the detail of a Monet.

She can remember the conversation we had a month ago, on a date. Like play it back almost word for word. Meanwhile, I barely even remember the date itself.

But I can remember feelings, smells, and sounds. I can look at an image and I can imagine what it smells, or even feels like. Very vividly, the feel of a sunny country day. How the sun and breeze feels on my skin, the smell of the field, and the sound of the insects. I can close my eyes and almost feel like I am there. But ask me to visually describe it, I would have a hard time. (I have a terrible sense of smell now too).

I have a talent for recognizing voices, even if I can't understand the words. I can hear an actor and usually place them pretty easily, but I also can't understand conversational audio if there is any competing sounds. It is so frustrating sometimes and hearing aids don't really help that much.

Photo is unrelated, but Lemmy made me post one, so enjoy my torty.

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