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Mate, there are so many things that suggest I am on the spectrum now that I have given up keeping track of them all. I’m not sure that at my time of life there’s anything that can be done for me even if I did get a diagnosis.
Yeah, if my memory is correct the flickers stopped completely for me at around 80hz. I’m talking about monitors here rather than TVs.
No, I have very poor hand eye co-ordination. Every time I have tried to play table tennis people have been on the floor laughing at how poor my reactions are. My eyes are just very sensitive to light.
I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I’d ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn’t see it.
In the UK it’s called the Dragons’ Den. I mean I would be happy to watch some billionaires being fed to sharks, dragons or lions. Perhaps that could be the surprise element of the show, which species comes out of the gate. Kinda like Cabin In The Woods.
Edit: we could have people standing round the edge of the arena holding home made placards offering advice: ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!’ ‘Go Tim’ ‘We’re all in it together!’.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study
5·10 months agoAnd let’s define mass shooting.
Last time I discussed this matter on reddit, before I deleted all my comments and left, the person I was arguing with said something like:
More than four or more people in public space? That could include a routine gas station robbery gone wrong.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?"
29·10 months agoWhoever owns the fountains owns the money.
If someone throws money into a fountain and then wishes then that in itself is a complete transaction with whichever supernatural entity is being bargained with.
I am assuming that any entity which is powerful enough to grant wishes is also powerful enough to hang onto the money if that should be its wish.
Alternatively it’s a quaint custom that people engage in as a form of custom and the pleasure comes with a link to the tradition.
The periodic clearing out of the fountains is both necessary maintenance and a form of income that pays for said maintenance. No one is really harmed by this.
Talking of meta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhemao_hoaxes
And it’s not even the fifth weirdest thing you’ll see on the internet today.
I know, impressive effort.
Turns out this is false, the actual story is much better: https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia/
Spendrill@lemm.eeto
Music@lemmy.world•Song of the Day: Billion Dollar Babies by Alice CooperEnglish
2·10 months agoKiller is the best, in my opinion.
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NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•Meet Kubuś, the improvised fighting vehicle used in the Warsaw UprisingEnglish
2·11 months agoAmazing!
But only if you really mean it.
Good, for everyone involved. I do wish people would stop with the performative jealousy because Hollywood has taught them to think that way.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Nurse Allegedly Gang-Raped In UP, Stick, Chilli Powder Inserted In GenitalsEnglish
211·1 year agoThe police have, however, claimed that the woman was having an affair with another person and was beaten up by him and his family members.
That’s the same fucking crime you uniformed dunces!
“I’d like to give them some fucking stimulus.”
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What scientific discoveries greatly weakened religion and the case of God ?
28·1 year agoLetter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)
With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.




Ready to get knocked up and then knocked about? That’s the Chav-life.