Sheridan

@ sheridan @lemmy.world

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2 yr. ago

2mo ago

What turn of phrase do you hate?
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Sheridan @lemmy.world 2mo ago
I was thinking of it more in a work context where when I question why some old and very inefficient work flow can't be optimized in some way, I get that cliche in response.

2mo ago

Do you do anything while you watch movies/tv shows?

If it's a fictional show, not usually. But I'll often play reality shows like Shark Tank or Naked & Afraid or a crime documentary while I do chores.

2mo ago

What turn of phrase do you hate?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 2mo ago

"It is what it is". This cliche is symptomatic of learned helplessness and only serves to protect the status quo against any sort critical analysis and reform.

3mo ago

what is something silly you do for no other reason than its just normal for you?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Yeah

3mo ago

what is something silly you do for no other reason than its just normal for you?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I like to grab door handles with my just my index and pinky fingers. I don't know why. I've been doing it since I was a kid. It just amuses me a little. I think I started doing it pretending to be an alien.

3mo ago

Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I'd be on two monitors but my M1 MacBook Air can't output to two screens apparently.

3mo ago

The Uncanny Ancient Monkey that Roamed Europe Before Humans [10:05]

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 3mo ago

This is not an AI generated channel. This channel has been posting videos in this format for 6 years now, (eg https://youtu.be/1sjPGo_6unY) long predating AI made infotainment.

The visuals are comprised of stock footage and artist impressions, but they're not AI generated; you can see on some illustrations he credits the artists.

And they only post a few times a month; AI channels post several times a week.

This format (visuals and narration) has been common among science topic YouTube channels for over a decade. Unfortunately AI spam channels have appropriated this format and now legitimate channels are being incorrectly confused with them.

4mo ago

bible food groups in a pattern formation on a telephone pad rule

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Does she mention 'gothardism' or 'Bill Gothard'? It's a fundamentalist sect (cult?) in the southern US. For a couple of years as a kid I went to a church full of 'gothards' and I would hear about bible inspired diets like this.

4mo ago

UFO/UAP Close Technosignatures — New Information on the Palomar Transients

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 4mo ago

The video is merely summarizing new scientific research into night sky anomalies found in data recorded prior to the launch of the first human made satellites. Apparently the data suggests the presence of objects in orbit of Earth reflecting light from the sun. They're not saying it's proof of aliens but it is curious.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_multiple-transient_events_in_the_First_Palomar_Sky_Survey

4mo ago

Wtf did facebook marketplace just suggest to me?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Is it one of those fonts that dyslexic people find easier to read?

4mo ago

Making First Contact

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Why is Walter White's head just floating there?

5mo ago

In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size"

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.

5mo ago

"My HOA Sent Me GORE PHOTOS After Complaining About the AirBnbs" [5:39]

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

I interpreted that as the guy didn't know what the reason was yet.

I initially thought the HOA was implying physical threats towards their residents with the images, but on second viewing it looks like the HOA board originally received those images in their inbox. (If you pause and zoom in you'll see those images came from anonymous senders to the HOA.) Maybe the HOA is claiming one of the residents threatened the HOA board with those images?

5mo ago

Why do Conservatives physically look evil?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Conservatives will think the same about any public figure who's any degree to the left. It's just a human cognitive bias at play that we're all susceptible to. If you think someone is a shitty person, that's going to cause you to overemphasize whatever physical features you find negative about them. The danger of this is that you might in turn start using those negative features as an unreliable heuristic to judge the character of other people before you even get to really know them.

The different fashion/makeup trends among people across the political spectrum can also come into play similarly.

There are conventionally unattractive public figures on the left too, but if you know beforehand that they're on your "team", you probably won't even take particular notice to these "defects". In some mirror universe where MTG was as far left as AOC, you'd probably wouldn't think she looked "evil".

5mo ago

Old-timey window manager

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

I could actually use one of these.

5mo ago

Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry.

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Generally you post onto the public "federated" timeline. With Mastodon this timeline contains posts from many different Mastodon servers that are all federated with each other, but it appears as one single timeline.

Hashtags are really central to the Mastodon experience. There is no algorithm that automatically suggests posts and accounts like on mainstream centralized services. Instead you gotta purposely use hashtags to discover posts and people. Add descriptive hashtags to your posts, the more the better. This helps people searching for specific topics find your posts.

You can follow people and they can follow you. Posts from people you follow will appear on your home feed. You can also follow hashtags and posts containing those hashtags will appear in your home feed. At the moment there's no official support for communities like with Lemmy; following hashtags on topics you like is the closest you can get to that functionality. (You can also make separate lists of hashtags outside of your home feed).

The people and interests on Mastodon has a lot of overlap with Lemmy.

Here are a couple of resources you might find helpful: https://fedi.tips/ https://fedi.directory/

5mo ago

What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Creaks. It's a puzzle platformer sort of in the style of Limbo and Inside. Beautiful hand drawn graphics. Really challenging puzzles. And the music feels like it organically evolves as you progress through the game.

6mo ago

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Sheridan @lemmy.world 6mo ago

In the 00s I used to download pirated movies and tv shows off of these asian YouTube clones. There were english boards with links to videos on these sites so finding specific movies or shows was easy. They were often split in 10 minute parts. 240p at best. Audio was often out of sync. I'd then load them onto my click wheel iPod ("iPod classic") and watch them in bed. It's how I watched a lot of movies my parents wouldn't let me see, like Alien. It's also how I watched nearly all of MST3K.