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The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.

I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”

You know how nice it is to hit one button on your phone at night and for all needed lights to go off?

So nice to have them on a timer so when you get home your house isn’t dark.

I think smart switches are really nice but for lamps not on a switch. Smart bulbs work great

Counting to 100 is like learning to read. Yes both are basic tools needed to learn English or math.

Do I need to know that the Ming Dynasty ruled from 1368 to 1644? Is anything about the Ming Dynasty relevant to my life? I cannot remember the other handful of dynasties so I guess the Ming Dynasty could be the only one needed to function.

Yes history is important and definitely worth telling people. But having them memorize stuff that you can look up in a textbook is dumb.

I could walk into any high school level history class and pass the test if it was open book and if I had enough time I’d probably find all the answers.

Anyone couldn’t walk into a Calculus class and pass the test with it being open book if they didn’t know how to do Calculus. Yes they could read the whole chapter and learn to do it then pass the test. But there’s no looking up the answers in the book. It’s not memorizing.

We know this is necessary because of cultures that are missing whole concepts like particular colors. The idea of right and left. So on.

Cultures are not missing whole concepts like particular colors or left and right. They just express it differently.

Light red is pink. But a light blue is still light blue, maybe baby blue or sky blue.

Russia has the word голубой for light blue. It’s equivalent to our pink. Are we missing the whole concept of light голубой? No.

The cultures understand them being a different color and even more so they understand how it’s a mix or part of a color group. Being able to point and say “orange” when equal red and yellow are mixed isn’t a necessary skill. Like what would you say if something was a mixture of equal parts green and yellow? You could say chartreuse. If you didn’t know that word are you really missing out on everything chartreuse?

The right and left thing I think you’re referring to the tribe that uses cardinal directions? Thinking in terms of cardinal directions instead of left or right is a bit bizarre and I don’t know exactly how deep it goes. Like if i wanted to tell you to hang the picture to the right of the fireplace, I would have to know the cardinal directions of your house? Cardinal directions are extremely useful to use in English. East side wall of your house tells you exactly what wall it is. Left or right doesn’t mean anything unless I say something like “facing your house”. If I knew your fireplace was on your north wall I could easily say “Hang the picture east of your fireplace” meaning hang it to the right.

They do have a point. School should be about learning and developing critical thinking skills rather than memorizing who the 30th president was.

I know my schooling had a ton of memorization. Funny to think about now that I know I have Aphantasia because I always excelled in math and science because they are less about memorization and more about learning a concept to apply.

They need to teach kids how to use AI. It’s like people that won’t let you use a calculator in math. “You aren’t always going to have a calculator in your pocket”

I’ve always been a big supporter of open book/note tests

There is no reason I should be able to recite as much of the Canterbury Tales as I can.

Do normal people really argue with themselves?

I have aphantasia, no visual mind images, and was thinking about the cartoon representation of the devil and angel battling on the character’s shoulders.

I learned counting sheep meant actually watching sheep in their mind. Could it be like that?

I’m debating if I have an interal monologe. I can “speak” words in my head.

But I wrote this comment without planning and just wrote it down as it came to me saying each word in my inner voice as I typed it.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand hypnosis.

I don’t really dream that much. I normally fall asleep and then just wake up. I’ve had dreams before and I can’t say that I saw images or not. I want to say that I did see images because I would describe them as being very vivid and real like almost like I was experiencing it rather than just thinking. But when I wake up I cannot recall any of the images but know how the things in the dream looked and would recall them like I saw something in the real world.

But if my muscles are relaxed how is that supposed to put my brain in a relaxed state?

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

It’s not a coincidence that the word image is in the word imagination. Most people image to imagine.

We have learned you don’t need to image to imagine. If you would have asked me awhile ago if I saw images in my head I would have said yes because I can hold details of an image in my head and “see” it. It’s like I’m imagining an image to imagine.

Just like I can imagine what would happen if you placed a ball at the top of a hill and let go. I don’t need to see images or a video to “imagine” the ball is going to roll down the hill.

Phantasia is a word used by Aristotle to describe “mental images”. What is thought of as “imagining”. He described it as a mind’s eye.

Imagining is the term that is wrongly named. It could be used for only processing thinking with images but like you said you “imagine”. I have aphantasia and I’m just “thinking” about the ball and it rolling down the hill, not imaging it doing it in my head.

I have aphantasia.

Personally I never thought being hypnotized was possible for me

When someone says “Imagine an apple” I think of the concept or idea of an apple. I would need them or me to give more details about what this imaginary apple has. Green/red, leaf/no leaf, connected to tree or not.

The more details I add the more I have to think about it to hold all the details together.

Example, I know my house very well. I can tell you every detail I remember about my house. But if you told me to imagine your house and just threw details at me I wouldn’t be able to remember the majority of them. If I physically walked through your house I could remember a ton of details.

Feel free to ask any questions!

As an aphant I cannot begin to imagine salivating by thinking of biting a lemon.

I believe some aphants can have smell and taste memories since it only has to do with a lack of visual imagine. Just like some cannot hear inner speech.

I cannot say it’s impossible but I’ve never believed in hypnotizism.

Same for me!

The women have to have an attractive face. Face>Body. I don’t really care for porn with the face hidden but if I can imagine her having a nice face then it could work.

Weird/unattractive guys in a video kill it. Rather just be a “normal” guy that I don’t really pay attention to.

I’ll be honest, I watch some trans porn sometimes because I really don’t care where the dick is attached too. As long as she has a pretty face thats what matters. In a way seeing her pleasure herself with something that I can relate to is much more enjoyable than watching a solo pussy performance (probably my least favorite porn, she would have to have an absolutely beautiful face). I’m imagining any dick I see in porn as my own.

I’m picky too and 90% of my porn experience everytime is searching for “the perfect video”. Guess it’s like foreplay. I won’t generally watch a video again unless I stumble upon it again. I do have some woman that fit my ideal dream girl look and will sometimes search for just them. But I do really enjoy the hunt lol.

Calvin Coolidge

That’s some sound logic right there

You convinced me Breaking Bad is perfect

Of course the story didn’t have to happen in any specific way. It’s a fictional story. It can be written in anyway. Doesn’t even have to be realistic

Walt could have had to make a rocket so he could transport meth to the moon because Tuco is on a moon base and really wants some.

From my 2.5ish season watching experience, Pinkmen was the only character I enjoyed from the show. I’m not saying that I hated his character or acting. But the premise that Walt was with Pinkman to begin with. The whole show hinges on that idea and Pinkman becomes more and more important to the show.

Breaking Bad doesn’t have many “likable” characters but it is a basic story about the characters.

A story with an amazing plot would still be good with subpar actors. Breaking Bad with worse actors would be totally insufferable.

You want a more plausible storyline than anything else? You like Breaking Bad because the storyline is realistic?

A smart guy infiltrating the DEA and using their information in a cat and mouse game sounds interesting to me

It’s a fictional story

“The story happened that way so that’s the only way it could have happened”

Walter was a high school science teacher with no friends, how would he have gone about looking for someone to sell meth for him?

Once again everything is stacked against Walt. Always another road block. Episode after episode.

They had to give him a complete dipshit to work with because a semi-competent person he knew would have been a “boring” story.

Maybe show interest in the DEA and ride around with his brother-in-law to secretly collect intel. Ends up getting a job for the DEA but basically an inside guy.

Let me go find the drop out high school student I knew and cook meth in an RV. Is definitely not a thing an intelligent person would choose to do. Sure if they are forced to like in the story, but that doesn’t make it right or enjoyable.

You’re telling me that it is a requirement to be a Complete Dipshit to have underground connections?

I get that is how the show sold it and I guess you believed it

There’s just no way for Walt to become Heizenberg without Complete Dipshit

Let’s just ignore the fact that the writer planned the Complete Dipshit to die a handful of episodes into the series

Again, EVERYTHING in the show is designed to make cooking/distributing meth challenging. They had to make Complete Dipshit useful because he “had” to be in the story.

I feel like you’d have to be a serious “hacker” kind of person to be anonymous on the internet.

Majority of people use their phone. I’m sure the government right now could tell who I actually am if they wanted to know. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on Lemmy could even figure it out.

Home WiFi?

Let me go sign up for a VPN with all my info…

I mean is it all really worth it?

I could be in the minority but I would rather watch tailored ads than hear another medication commercial.

Do I care that “they” know what kind of YouTube videos I watch? Do I even care what kind of porn I watch?

I am all for privacy and freedom don’t get me wrong. I think we should fight.

But it does feel like we have lost the fight. What’s wrong is we have to worry about what the government will do with that information.

We make a big deal about giving Pornhub our information but gladly hand it over to Amazon. Hell people would probably send in blood to get free 2-day shipping.