Promiseland

[Fetian]

The math/language divide often gets argued as one having right answers (that you can find, and be solidly confident that you are correct), and one having no right answers (so if you argue well enough, any answer can be correct), but watching people talk about high-level math stuff just convinces me that there aren't any right answers there, either

[Fetian]

Truly the world is nothing but nuanced, and changes drastically from one angle to another

[Fetian]

God I love niche websites

[Fetian]

Oh you KNOW I have opinions about this

[Fetian]

God I wish I could be involved in stuff like these dropout shows

[Fetian]

I had wanted to do things tomorrow but I've been up late trying to convince the dryer to dry my laundry. This is six hours now of laundry and some things still aren't dry

[Fetian]

Laundry finally done, now I can go to bed

The issue this time is that for whatever reason the spin cycle on the washing machine was doing absolutely nothing at all to stop things from being completely soaked through with as much water as they could hold, despite running the spin cycle multiple times. So the dryer had to do all that work, which took forever. But it's done now, so.

[knightofcups]

I do not understand what our washing machine/dryer do to your laundry. This doesn't happen to my clothes, but /does/ happen when I wash yours and I have /no idea/ why. It sucks and I'm sorry

[Fetian]

I hate hate hate hate very much that "aphantasia" caught on

I have been noticing this become more and more common a thing people say, and it seemed like it was fairly new?

It should be obvious I am fascinated by the way people's brains work, and how differently they do, but hearing "aphantasia" makes it sound like a disorder, so it's honestly thrown me for a loop. I had thought that the word itself was something clinical-- an actual disability that effects brain function-- as opposed to "I don't think in pictures."

Your post was helpful, b/c I didn't realize it's just the same thing (ish) with different words.

I know there's value in having names for things, and I love to label my own bullshit, but this one has been super confusing to me.

I dislike pathologizing variance in human brains.

YEAH.

That's exactly the problem, is that people hear that and think it's some kind of disorder, and the people talking about having it talk about it like it's some kind of disorder. That they are missing something by having a different mode of thought.

There are people who will argue that "aphantasia" refers to not having any mode of thought, of having no internal experience, and I have thoughts about that but the primary and most relevant of them is that this is not how the term is used. All of the studies on it are focusing on it as a lack of visual thinking, the vast majority of people who talk about it are talking about it from a reference point of not being able to picture things in their mind. And it sucks.

Listening to a podcast and a person -- a linguist, no less -- just said the words "if you have no imagination, links to [images of the shape we're describing] will be in the show notes"

If you have no imagination. Clearly intended to refer to people who ""have aphantasia""

This stuff fucking matters

[erikavonkaiser]

"if you have no imagination, [solution for having no imagination]" is lowkey the kind of backhanded insult I would have one of my villains say