KestrelAlex

joined 1 year ago
[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"outlaws" also being a verb makes this title difficult to understand

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work for a company that specializes in ergonomic work setups and the OTs recommend Ergocentric chairs at least 90% of the time.

They're expensive, but if you are having health issues due to sitting then your employer has a "duty to accommodate" to get you a better setup.

We also often recommend sit-stand desks because too comfy of a chair can just cause different problems from lack of movement.

 

Some personality problems, like abandonment issues or low IQ, I think of as due to genetics or adverse childhood events not the fault of the person...other traits like being a person who litters or being greedy I think of as personal failings - my questions is where would you put attention seeking behaviors like being super entitled about your wedding or lying about traumatic events?

Are these caused by social problems, and if so what might they be? Or are they just people wanting attention because it feels good and they feel entitled to do whatever they have to to get it? I have cognitive dissonance on this and am curious to hear other people's take and why.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I get these often and I wouldn't define them as third person but more "non-person". To me first person dreams are where I'm watching it through my eyes and Thurs person would be watching myself as I do things (like third person video games). Not even being in the dream, just a mind movie as you called it, seems like another level removed.

I wonder how much the amount of movies and video games around these days has changed this - whether dreams in the past would have only been first person because that's the only thing people had experienced.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You got me there, my brain did just jump to high O2

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Giant insects and way more fires! It's happened a few times in the history of our planet.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It depends whether I can somehow go back to the body of a 20 year old but keep my current 40 year old brain. I'm not going to pretend the majority of my improvements in patience, empathy, humility, work ethic and dgaf-ness are me consciously maturing instead of improvements in brain chemistry.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

ASL has very different structure to spoken/written English, so not everybody who signs is going to comprehend English grammar as fluently/easily or the nuance of all the words that don't have a sign equivalent.

Additionally ASL communicated who is talking and the tone of their words, even when the speaker is off screen, which just can't be captured by captioning. Closed captioning has just caught on to using slightly different colors to indicate the speaker, so you know who's talking offscreen. I've only seen this in British panel shows so far but it's helpful.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

If you are in Canada or the US I can't recommend the Libby app highly enough - books, audiobooks and magazines borrowed to your devices from your local Library. Looking at the last 5 years of borrowing it has saved me (pirating probably) thousands of dollars of audiobooks, and having an endless supply of audiobooks with zero cost really encourages reading.

[–] KestrelAlex@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately only chrome has full support for Dragon professional, and Edge can be made to work. The dragon extension for Firefox stopped working and Microsoft, who now own dragon, doesn't have any incentive to fix it.

The unofficial supper via the ClickbyVoice extension doesn't have a Firefox version.

I would love to hear alternatives that support link numbering and voice commands :)