Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.
I taught myself to juggle fire.
I can give up almost anything save for breathing, eating, and my dogs.
Save them for lunch later, smort
I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.
That’s really awesome, that is one of the main goals of most meditation techniques! Sometimes I‘d really like to do that as well.
Have you actively worked on this or were you just able to do this?
Is it difficult to „turn your thoughts back on“?
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
To me it’s as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I’m misunderstanding you.
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.
But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I’m like, what, you guys can’t just turn it on or off? I’ve concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.
If I try to stop thinking I just ended up thinking “stopthinkingstopthinking shutupshutupshutup”
Yeah, for some (like me) it’s almost impossible.
But then, there are also people that do not have any inner monologue at all…
I have actually been held at gunpoint many times in a dictatorship, by the leftists dictator forces.
I have actually gone through famine for years caused by leftists, and survived to tell the tale.
I also have survived a leftist dictatorship and escaped successfully from one
Weird flex but okay
Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.
Sometimes I’ll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone’s clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it.
wtf 😅 eww?
You sound like some kind of Anime villain
What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it
What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?
Oh. Lol. Weird…
Haha, it’s so weird that the only people that have caught on that are my sneezes are my wife and my parents. My wife used to think it was cute, until she realised that her smelling it basically means she’s breathing in my sneezes, which is pretty grim.
It’s maybe 1 in 5 sneezes, but I can almost always tell when it’s going to be a “smelly” one.
That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress… most only go through the tourist area.
I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.
At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. “There is no leak here, you’re just imagining things” was the response after I showed the room to my boss. “There is and we shall see in a few days.” After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.
I’ve been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn’t so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.
Elevators full of perfume must be hell
Dude has the super sniffer
Are you like the person that posted they can smell ants? Dude was able to find a single ant by sense of smell.
The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable
I do not know. I have never actively tried to smell ants nor had them inside any apartments I’ve lived in. I shall test this when summer returns one day. But I do remember that the ant guy wrote about having some genetic quirk that ables him to register some compound that’s out normal human range of smell.
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog
I was a super smeller but lost the sense during Covid. It still hasn’t fully returned. I have good days where I’ll surprise myself by picking up something subtle and off days where popcorn smells like vomit or skunks smell like brake dust. I was considering a sommelier course prior to this.
Yeah, Covid was a freaky experience. I got off easy, no fever or other symptoms, I just realized one day that I was unable to smell freshly cut grass. Then I realized that I did not smell anything at all.
My sense of smell started coming slowly back after a few days and I can’t tell if it’s diminished or not. But after Covid every brand of whiskey smells and tastes like vomit to me, so there was a price to pay. Also the smell of someone eating rice cakes became utterly disgusting, as well as yogurt. Before Covid I barely registered these two.
As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.
YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more (“The thing is, like, if you’re trying to do this, or this, do X first” – predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.
Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )
Wait, since when does the speed increase go up to 3x?
You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed
I also usually watch videos at around 1.3 to 1.6 times speed depending on the type of video
I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses…, in full 3D and a victorian setting.
In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).
Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multiplayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there’s that.
Heey there it is!
Thank you :-)
I’m trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:
My parents and my husband’s parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.
My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian’s first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.
I can lick my elbow.
No way
I can lick your elbow.
Me too! But only on one arm.
Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.
Are you a giraffe? FOUND THE GIRAFFE, GUYS!
I have never not gotten the job.
You’re telling me that if you go on indeed or linkedin, you’re getting every job?
No, just for all those to which I have applied, I have been offered the gig. It isn’t many: a few as a teenager and 7 since I left the military. But I’ve just been really fortunate, and not been rejected.
I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.
I love this dog and always forget where he comes from
2006: “You” is Time Person of the Year
2015-2024: OH MY GOD SOCIAL MEDIA IS BAD FOR DEMOCRACY AND WE NEED TO BAN IT FOR CHILDREN AND MISINFORMATION AND PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH AND FASCISM AND (“(&)§$()”§&(&$(")§&$
I was a preteen in 2006 and still hold the optimist views about technology and its democratization that so many people held in 2006, but it seems I’m nearly the only one who even remembers them.
You’re not the only one! I think it’s worth noting that back then, “social media” was a new model in which the viewers provided the content, a democratizing force which broke the hold of a small priesthood of editors, producers, and owners over the message we hear.
Now, so-called social media is synonymous with The Algorithm. That is, the powerful and connected have figured out how to tame it and gatekeep information again, this time in a far more insidious way. It still has the veneer of populism, but scratch the surface, and the owners largely control what you see.
It’s darkly hilarious to read discussions on here in which people deny that Lemmy is social media at all, rather than an example of the ur-social media, the good kind.
Yeah, not going to defend “algorithms”.
I wonder how we managed on web forums where the entire “algorithm” was… thread bumping, and that’s it.
I’ve been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.
Reminds me I still need to make a new set of running t-shirts
- I plan on outliving you
- Runners are objectively crazy
- I run to escape death
I’m on a sabbatical from running over the holidays but I would routinely run 10k and normally do about 30k a week.
For anyone reading this, heart health aside it does wonders for your mental wellbeing.
But how old are your knees and ankles?
Running is beneficial for knees and ankles over medium to long timeframes. There’s a 100 year old guy that runs 10k every day and his knees and ankles are doing fine.
Hahaha, I used to run; I had the same question! I can’t run anymore because knee pain :(
There was an arrow involved…
Look at my profile and check my comment count. 😎
Think that’s high? Check out @[email protected].
No one can compete with my patheticness.
Now : FIGHT!
Their fight: seeing who can go the longest without browsing Lemmy.
Much struggle!
I swore you would have used that your name is an anagram of “i anal kok”.
I do be seeing you in the comments
