Haha from time to time. Mostly as something sorta amusing because of the absurdity of it, but with the added sting of embarrassment for the parts of the story that are directly stemming from me being an idiot, and the slight shiver down my spine at the thought of people like that out there that will happily attempt to ruin someone’s life on a whim. This is probably the first time I’ve been reminded of it for a few years but I figured it might make your own much more benign experience feel less awful in comparison, what happened to you, that’s something you’ll have well and truly forgotten much sooner than 20 years.

Almost 20 years ago now.

You know what might help you feel better? Hearing my story about when the same thing happened to me but it was so much worse, or maybe that’ll just make you feel even more anxious (fair warning).

I was at the pub on my 20th birthday. I had gotten thoroughly drunk and had to pee so I went to the bathroom. Somehow in my drunken stupor I walked in through the wrong door, which would have been an embarrassing but pretty mundane faux pas, except when this woman walked in, and I, in my super drunk-ass state, instead of realising the completely obvious, instead assumed that she’d walked in to the men’s. I kinda chuckled a little bit and said sympathetically “are you a little lost?” The woman responded “err what the FUCK this is the fucking WOMEN’S toilet you dick head” then she quite suddenly pulled the Rasta Beanie my friends had gotten me for my birthday off my head and said “I’m going throw this shit in the fucking toilet you stupid asshole” I’d managed to grab a hold of the beanie when she grabbed at it so it was still in my hands and she started yanking at it trying to steal it from me all the while shrieking “fuck you, you fucking pervert”. I wrested my hat from her clutches and apologised awkwardly for my mistake and stumbled out of there and went back to my table with my friends.

About 15 minutes later a bouncer walked up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said he needed to talk to me. He pointed to my new acquaintance from the bathroom and said “that woman over there said you walked in to the women’s bathroom and assaulted her” which came as a big surprise and instantly sobered me up. He asked me if that was true and was I really in the women’s bathroom? Fortunately, against all odds this bouncer was quite a reasonable man and when I explained that yes, I had actually mistakenly gone in to the women’s bathroom and that this woman then came in after and yelled at me and tried to steal my belongings and that no, I hadn’t assaulted anyone; he actually believed me and I was able to continue the rest of my evening without being further hassled. I thought for sure at the bare minimum he’d tell me to leave the premises just to avoid any more issues just or unjust but it actually all worked out which was quite a relief because I definitely did not expect such an escalation.

Anyway, at the very least you can say none of that happened to you.

Some countries have organisations that supposedly dictate the use of some official language, the French being a notable example, but whether anybody listens to them is a whole other story and frankly I think that’s probably for the best. Languages have always been influenced organically by the cultural forces at play, they serve and reflect the speakers not the other way around. They need to adapt to the experiences and lives of people that are using them and no steering committee is going to be able comprehend nor account for the totality of that. Maybe they’re useful for like helping a publication produce a style guide since they can defer to something “official” but that’s about it.

I’m not sure I see the contradiction myself. It sounds like the theory is the towers somehow transmit the virus which creates the need and pretext for the vaccine that allows the secret nanobot injection right?

Is it contradictory because the capacity to wirelessly transmit a biological virus through these 5g towers would mean they wouldn’t need to physically inject these nanobot things because they should be able to just transmit them the same way? Because if so, I can see what you mean but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily follow, like maybe for whatever reason viruses are different to nanobots and can somehow be transmitted through radio technology but nanobots can’t. Or also they might think, as so many conspiracy theorists do, that COVID is a “hoax” so that opens up all kinds of creative interpretations, maybe their 5g towers merely produce the disease known as COVID and there is no actual virus known as SARS-COV-2 and that’s the “hoax” part. That theory wouldn’t require virus transmission over radiowaves just radiowaves being “bad” for reasons that could be made up later.

It’s worth pointing out that whatever tips you get here, accurate though they may be today, are likely to be less accurate with time and this tech is improving at a rapid pace so if this is important to you, you’ll have to keep on top of what techniques for discernment are current at any given time or if there even remain any reliable techniques at all.

Looks like eventually it’s all going to come down to context and your assessment of the trustworthiness of the source. If something is so sensational it seems unbelievable and you don’t have much trust in the source from which you saw it, it probably is literally unbelievable until further corroboration emerges. This is a pretty exhausting model when modern live involves so much media consumption but I’d advise that there’s also an element of practicality you should incorporate in to your evaluation. You’ll have to decide if the answer to the question “is this AI?” is important for any given situation before actually investing any time or energy in to answering it. Sometimes you might get the calculation wrong and it turned out that by assuming something was innocuous enough not to matter one way or the other you ended up being misinformed about something that actually was important but at the end of the day we’re only mere mortals and can sometimes be wrong.

Hmm seems smart but I mean I’d rather I only run the risk of saying the wrong thing to a species that’s largely solitary or at least doesn’t live in really big groups that engage in organised warfare. If I piss off one cat that’s hopefully not as big a deal as pissing off a whole super colony of ants.

Aw shit here we go again.

Well a few years back it was decided that the burden and expense of being generally informed and educated was too much for humanity and so it was decided in a meeting that while it would be necessary for the safety and prosperity for our species to retain some intelligence, it’d be much easier and we’d all be much happier if it could just be mostly someone else’s problem so we all gave up a decent portion of our relative cognitive ability and it was all transferred using very advanced technology to one person, a Lemmy user going by the moniker ‘pwdxd@lemmy.zip’. It was determined this might be a heavy burden and a lonely existence and so it was also decided that the kinder thing to do, before destroying the technology developed to perform this procedure, would be to erase all memory and knowledge of these events from pwdxd’s mind in hopes this one exceptional ignorance in their now greatly enhanced brain would make their life easier, but the committee was split on the ethics of this and so a record of these events was kept as a latent memory in the spotless minds of we the blissfully ignorant, triggerable only in the event that pwdxd should notice and ask whence we’d be compelled to answer in this route fashion.

Anyway did you know about these chipset spyware vulnerabilities m8? 🤣 I heard about them on tiktok.

Imagine how frustrating it’d be trying send an intimidating message with all the dead animals but the intended recipient just thinks you’re trying be helpful in a misguided way

Time for a new cat?

In Australia our establishment conservative party is called the Liberal party. I understand why and how it actually made perfect sense at the time but man if that isn’t ever ironic in modern context.

Cunning runt

Oh so you weren’t a fan of this one

Haha I like the way the cartoonist decided the reactions of the characters should go. I kind of assumed it’d be the Dad character looking grumpy here for being called out on telling the same joke over and over but the dude’s chuffed as fuck. Kinda sweet.

Also saying “chuffed” definitely makes me thing of this tangentially related thing about chuffed Dads

All those people that treated you as “weird” for this do it themselves as well. If you were gaining special attention for this in particular such that multiple people noticed and weren’t just messing with you, then it’s probably not the fact of your blank staring itself, but the length of time. Normal steady gaze at nothing in particular for periods is normal and people only perceive it as staring when it’s reached some threshold length of time.

Why you specifically might be doing this past that threshold I couldn’t tell you. Many are suggesting ADHD or Autism, could well be but otherwise maybe you’re just finding yourself easily distracted or prefer longer trips into your own head. If you worry about it, best suggestion is just to randomize your gaze periodically in response to stimuli in the room, but the thing is if you’re not already doing that automatically it’s probably because you’re too engrossed in thought for that stimuli to get through.

But it’s not really the same kind of calculation as the car accident though. It’d be impossible to know if anyone using it ever had died from doing so, so impossible to compare the statistics and the concern is about whether the act of being teleported constitutes dying so depending on the answer to that the odds are either 100% or 0 (unless they have some kind of safety issue with more traditional, visible death or injury that bumps that up to something above 0% but below 100).

Never seen one like that. The video store I worked at had one that was huge and looked like an alien ware PC. You put the disc in and after a deafening horrendous noise for what felt like a full 60s or more you’d pull out an astonishingly well cleaned near scratch free disc. I didn’t actually put 2 and 2 together that the DVD cleaner was of course buffing and so inherently destructive and I thought it was kinda neat so for a little while there I started buffing discs with only superficial damage that hadn’t had complaints 😳.

The awful noise it used to make got worse and worse over the lifetime of the machine too. Crazy thing. Did it’s job really well though.

It’s always pretty hard to forget “satansmaggotycumfart”. I don’t really remember much of what they post but the name is always a trip.

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