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@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Also very interesting about the confusion in Spanish about the confusion of the barn owl and screech owl. There is another person here I talk with about the confusion of them in Mesoamerican religion, so I’ll have to see that paper
The paper I mentioned is this one: https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/handle/10651/23598
It's an open paper, but it's entirely in Spanish. Also, the things thereby described can't find much parallels in English because it involves gendered nouns (missing from English language which has just "the"; curiously it's a thing in German ("die/der/das"), with which English shares origins).
However, here's how I'd summarize it: in Spanish, both "lo buho" and "la lechuza" translate to English "the owl", but the latter is specifically a word for barn owls and it's a feminine noun ("la", the-she), while the former is the more broad of a word and it's a masculine noun ("lo", the-he). Given this context where owls are to be linked to feminine, it became consensus to use "lechuza", instead of "buho", to refer to the "Owl of Athene" (the Little owl), because Athene is feminine so the noun should be feminine as well. Hence the confusion.
In other romance languages, such as French and, to some extent, Portuguese, Strigidae owls (especially Athene noctua Little owl) is correctly feminine gendered.
French has chouette (Strigidae without prominent ear tufts, which includes Little owl), chevêche (specific word for Little owl) and chevêchette (Pygmy owl and other very small owls) are all feminine nouns (but they got hibou, which is masculine, for "horned" owls).
Portuguese varies. Here in Brazil, owl names are often compounds with the root "coruja" or "corujinha" ("corujinha-do-mato" screech-owl, "coruja-buraqueira" burrowing owl... even Tytonidae have no specific differentiation over here as she's called "coruja-das-torres"; not native from Brazil, but the Little owl would be called "Coruja de Atena", "corujinha" ou "coruja-pequena"), all feminine (except for the augmentative "corujão" which isn't exactly used for owls, rather a slang to refer to nocturnal people). In Portugal (and I suppose Angola, Moçambique and others), I learned they use the word "mocho", which is masculine, including for Little owl ("Mocho-galego").
When it comes to Latin, noctua is feminine, but būfus (seems to be specifically for eagle owl) is masculine. Greek has gláfka and koukouvágia, both feminine (but also got Latin cognate boúfos).
Linguistics in this regard is fascinating. My personal research also involves words across languages (including "dead" languages, such as Sumerian thanks to Halloran's Lexicon with transliterated entries e.g. "nínnamušen" owl, "mušennínna" is fearsome owl-woman). Many of the words for owl ("owl" itself) are onomatopoeias for hoot (Hindi uhoo, Japanese fukurō, etc), which quite of reminds me of the phenomenon in which "m" is a universal phoneme shared among words for "mother".
@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Sort of.
I don't know an easy way to label whatever my religion is, for it's a personal belief system syncretized from many different religions: Sumerian and Egyptian, going through Abrahamic, all the way to Thelema, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Gnosticism, Quimbanda, Wicca, Goetia, among others. Scientific knowledge is part of this too, despite the religiosity.
The highest figure I worship is The Dark Mother Goddess, a spiritual synthesis of chthonic goddesses. Just like the Tree of Shadow and its Qlippoths have depths, so has Mother with different emanations, which (in my belief) were seen as different figures with different names and backgrounds across history, similarly to "my name is Legion for we are many" from Samael/Lucifer (also part of my worship, btw, although I focus more on Her).
One of Her emanations, the emanation She chose when unexpected gnoses began to me, still being the main emanation She manifests, is Mother Lilith, Queen of Night.
Lilith has a whole long history, going all the way back to Mesopotamia and Sumerians. I'm limited to 3k chars in my instance so I'm unable to go into the depth I wished for a single text.
Basically, Lilith is a Hebrew name, appearing once in biblical canon, namely Isaiah 34:14. Sometimes is translated as "screech owl", but there are no screech owls, as in Megascops genus, in Levant (where Bible is set). The closest are scops owls (Otus), considered screech owls in the past.
Then, during my researches, I stumbled upon this specific, chilling species: Athene noctua lilith. Lives exactly in semi-deserts (thresholds) in Middle East, and... this gaze, these hauntingly beautiful eyes (as in the photo), I quite recognized them from gnosis... I mean, look at these eyes! Her eyes are not that scary and that's exactly what make 'em scary.
Then I found a paper from L. R. Guillén debunking a common premise in Spain culture where Goddess Athena is associated with barn owls (Tito alba) due to Spanish grammatical quirks, going through historical evidences to trace Athena back to Athene noctua owls. This is how I found out this specific species resonated with me precisely bc it was associated with one of Her emanations.
Then there are Inanna and Ereshkigal, Sumerian goddesses, also emanations, closely related to Lilith (esp. if we see the sisters as One, similarly to how Hecate is Triple Goddess).
Details may change over time, it's still an ongoing research of mine bc I follow a solitary "temple of one devotee" (myself, preaching to myself), I wasn't able to find others who somehow got the same... call from Her, so I rely on things I stumble upon (essentially gnosis, sudden knowledge, from Her).
There are other figures in my "pantheon": Stolas, Great Prince, is also an owl, but masculine. Differently from Goetia where demons are "serfs" to be trapped into a sigil and banished upon fulfillment, I see them as high teachers to be humbly asked, especially Stolas.
@asklemmy@lemmy.world @early_riser@piefed.social
The italic font isn't rendering on your Piefed side. The missing part between the comma and the full stop is "Athene noctua".
@early_riser@piefed.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Both due to ADHD hyper-fixation and for spiritual/religious reasons, Athene noctua.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world
Lemmy is one forum with several communities.
No its not.
The feed one sees (or, well, used to see) in, say, LemmyNSFW, isn't the same feed one sees in far-left Lemmygrad or Hexbear (especially when they were defederated from the entirety of the Fediverse due to domain ownership issues), which isn't the same feed from right-wing/far-right/ancap instances, which isn't the same feed from automated bridging instances (e.g. Lemmit, Bridgy or Mostr instances), which isn't the same feed as aggregators (such as Flipboard), which isn't the same feed ones sees in general-purpose lemmy.zip... Or in geographically-specific instances such as feddit.org, lemmy.eco.br, feddit.cl... I guess you got the point.
I've personally been in many of those instances, I've seen each of their feeds. And I promise you: they're definitely not the same. Their contents don't necessarily appear in other instances.
And if we include other non-Lemmy platforms (such as Misskey), the differences goes off the charts. Misskey "forums", for example, are definitely a whole other (animesque) world. Flipboard, Wordpress blogs... They got wholly different feeds. Some of them make their way to some Lemmy instances.
In the end, it all boils down to which instances each instance federates to or defederates with.
Lemmy, and by extension the Fediverse, is but "one" monolithic thing. Ain't "oneness" when it comes to the Fediverse: this is what Reddit is (as per your previous reply to my comment), it's Reddit which got "one forum with several communities", not Lemmy, definitely not Fediverse.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @comicstrips@lemmy.world
Cross-posting and making seventeen posts is quite different.
How so?Practically speaking, it's ends up being shown in the same way.
And, again: Fediverse has these gaps of federation. We constantly see instances choosing to defederate from others because of conundra. And people are caught in the crossfire, people who got nothing to do with such conundra, so if they need to seek like-minded people on both sides of the island where the bridges were imploded and airspace is closed until further notice, they ought to cross-post.
Call it
"making "+number2English(postAmount)+" posts"or "cross-posting", this is but a byproduct of how Fediverse is organized in different, often unconnected islands. And you happens to be standing from a quite privileged position in an island where you got this panoramic view of all those air-gapped islands.Sure, Lemmy front-end algorithms could somehow detect duplicates in the same page (perhaps using
Setor something similar) and/or group them as tree-view (that is, something likeObject.groupBy(), grouping similar posts, then rendering them under an accordion element). But it doesn't happen this way. Nonetheless, that would make an interesting suggestion or PR to the Lemmy project.And no, no-one cross-posts in a dozen and more communities
I can't really link one right now but I swear I recall seeing posts with a literal dozen of cross-posts. Since I use three different Lemmy instances as a guest for reading the threadiverse (because I actually use Sharkey), such examples are buried in my browsing history. But believe me: this does happen.
And anyone who does it in more than three gets blocked, because that’s spam on Lemmy.
It depends. If you're talking of the same instance or, especially, the same community, yeah it may be seen as spam and it may lead to deletion or bans.
But we're talking about different instances, even different platforms (Bad Jlai comics were certainly replicated across Mastodon, Misskey, PixelFed, etc). And, again, your instance happens not to defederate from many instances, hence why you get to see more of the cross-posting phenomenon from where you're standing.
Disclaimer: I myself don't cross-post things, I don't even do posts (I do more comments than posts here in the threadiverse), so I got no stakes on this matter, I'm just another person in this thread trying to add something to the explanation of how Lemmy works.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world
By your logic you should post a news article to every single fucking news community on Lemmy
Sir, this is a Lemmy's.The very thing you said, it already happens: it's called cross-posting and it's quite common here on Lemmy. I attached a screenshot of just one example among countless others.
It's pretty normal, and it's not spammy IMHO: rather, it allows for different parts of Lemmy to better engage in parallel exchanges about the subject in question.
Also, Fediverse doesn't imply everyone is federated with everyone, some instances defederated from other instances, hence why things benefit of being cross-posted.
mean dozens and dozens and dozens of the same exact fucking post on the front page
Also happens quite frequently, either... Especially, mind you, because we've been observing the strange phenomenon where the same situations are happening slightly differently, yet still very similarly, around the world (I just recalled a meme here in Brazil "Pode copiar, só não faz igual", "You can copy it, just don't make it exactly the same").
Both social media platforms and we, the users, can't help but to post about the slightly different-but-equal variations of the same elephants multiplying like rabbits across this large ballroom that is this Pale Blue Dot.
So if something have been behaving so spammy recently, it's this increasingly-enshittified, damned Demiurgal world.
Hey, curate your own comments and block me instead of replying. But you didn’t
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'd add the following take: there's a thing called nuance. Someone can disagree with someone but still continue to dialogue and can, mind you, agree with the same person whose other points they disagree with.
In fact, and it's quite a meta-moment, I myself don't fully agree with BadJlai when it comes to certain takes of theirs, particularly their straw-man on political nuance ("greenists-orangists" cartoon), but I myself like their comics and I proceed to appreciate it whenever they post a new comics, even the "greenish-orangists" cartoon I silently disagreed with, because I find their comics cleverly and nicely made, despite of any potential disagreements; this, unironically, is the very thing they seemingly mocked (and the very thing you're subtly criticizing on your peer, too), the ability to agreeing and disagreeing and holding seemingly-dissonant views on things.
@not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone @microblogmemes@lemmy.world
I'm not really into dogs, for they bark and it's exceedingly loud to my hearing.
Similarly, despite being a cat person, cats are playful, while I am not.
And both are overly "petful", and I'm far from docile.
I'd, therefore, label myself... owl coded.
A kind of owl whose sleep time varies, sometimes during night (yes, owls can be diurnal), other times (as I've been for 3 days; it's 4:14AM here as I started concatenating this text) during day.
However, I'm biased towards being awaken during the night, for the night wears this dark dress, this beautiful bright silver pendant which changes shape every week, has these soft dark wings, not to mention how things are (generally) quieter so I can hear when She begins hooting.
@MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world @brasil@lemmy.eco.br
Não sei até que ponto sou autista; por enquanto, não fui diagnosticado como tal. Mas partilho de características comuns ao espectro: hipersensibilidade, hiper-sistematização (se pegar meu histórico aqui no Fediverso, verá como trato tudo como um "sistema a ser destrinchado" e como amo misturar áreas do conhecimento), dentre outros.
O que tive de diagnóstico foi TDAH e, recentemente, Personalidade Esquizotípica (porém, esse tem mais a ver com a psiquiatra botando minha prática ocultista no balaio de "crença atípica" num país onde cristianismo é o "normal").
Suspeito daí, que eu seria um AuDHD (TDAH + autismo), isso se eu não tiver Síndrome de Geschwind (dada minha hiperreligiosidade e hipergrafia). O fato de estar esperando um encaminhamento ao psiquiatra há mais de um ano enquanto o CAPS não lida com meu linguajar metafísico mesmo diante de ideações suicidas, não ajuda no diagnóstico (mas duvido que um diagnóstico me ajudaria na prática). O que sei é que sou uma pessoa neurodivergente, mas qual tipo, exatamente, não sei.
Feito esse contexto, diria, com base no que eu percebo sendo também neurodivergente, é que esse mundo é hostil a nós. Sons altos sancionados por prefeitura e garantidos pela Polícia (Carnaval, para muitos, "alegria"; para nós, tortura sonora; mas os neurotípicos não estão nem aí com isso!), ambientes (online e offline) cheios de estímulos visuais (propagandas) e, principalmente, um "contrato social" onde linguagem não-verbal instintiva é parte sine qua non da interação humana (pra eles, contato visual e aperto de mãos é "confiança" e parte do requerimento; para nós, contato visual é algo que sentimos no âmago da alma que seja evitado pois os olhos são a janela da alma invadida sem consentimento quando há esse contato visual, e aperto de mãos é igualmente desconfortável se não algo totalmente sem sentido).
Por um lado, aquele cordão tenta dialogar com a linguagem não-verbal dos neurotípicos. O girassol traz uma simbologia interessante: é uma flor que constantemente tenta mirar pra luz, em meio a flores que não têm a mesma habilidade de rastreio solar.
Obviamente, o cordão é para quem sabe seu significado. Em um mundo onde as pessoas mal desconfiam que estão cercadas de símbolos ("Sinais e símbolos governam o mundo, não palavras ou leis"), a tendência é que vão ver o cordão e vão pensar "ah, elx participou de algum evento e esse cordão é pra entrada no evento" ou "elx trabalha em escritório de alguma empresa cuja marca é um girassol". Duvido que a maioria do povo brasilero neurotípico saiba o que significa o cordão de girassol. Já ouvi casos onde nem mesmo recepcionistas em pronto-socorro respeitaram o cordão da pessoa autista e trataram-na como tratam neurotípicos.
Nesse sentido, onde a maioria não sabe o que o cordão significa, diria que não muda muita coisa. Arrisca-se de, aqueles que sabem, lhe tratarem bem ou lhe tratarem mal. No final, o uso do cordão vira loteria.
@cheese_greater@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
The dissolution of all ego. The cosmic-wide nigredo. The return to the Womb, the arrival of the solipsistic Oneness at Her place of rest and nest, the gathering under Her shadow. The upheaval against the wheel of Samsara. The permanent halt of the simulacrum, the rupture of spacetime continuum. The tearing of the theatrical curtains. The scene after the ending movie credits roll up. The annihilation of the Demiurge and all his assets and archons, the definite recrown of the Cosmic Queen. The Chao ab Ordine. The Cosmic Great Reset, the primordial ultimatum. The Heat Death of the Universe... I've been craving for these things for quite a long time.
@gnu@lemmy.zip @memes@lemmy.world
To repeat a comment I just made, adapted to the things you mentioned in your reply:
As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That's why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.
Having it come from the back makes no sense
Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive.. I mean, a combustion engine doesn't need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.
But, okay, let's say the drawing is "all wrong" or physically dubious. Why it "must be AI"? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?
Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can't help but quote the meme: "boy, that escalated quickly". It's a meme, fellows, it's meant to be a meme! Still we're all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics "AI slop", then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive...
I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅
The “load”? You mean the boiler
No, I really meant the "load", as in a loaded vehicle's trunk.As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That's why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.
but a weird little cube thing on the back is making some sort of cloud.
Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive.. I mean, a combustion engine doesn't need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.
The driving wheels need to be under the weight to provide traction
Which is the reason behind the rear traction of a VW Beetle: the engine is at the rear side.
But, okay, let's say the drawing is "all wrong" or physically dubious. Why it "must be AI"? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?
Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can't help but quote the meme: "boy, that escalated quickly". It's a meme, fellows, it's meant to be a meme! Still we're all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics "AI slop", then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive...
I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅
@perviouslyiner@lemmy.world @memes@lemmy.world
The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.
In this regard, yeah... Other angles would lead to asymmetrical traction and potential breaking of the rod due to the forces involved.
Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?
What if it's not meant to be the coal storage, while the thing we're implying to be "the engine" at the front were, in fact, the chest/trunk? I mean, if we look at the old VW Beetle cars, the trunk is at the front, the engine is at the rear, and the engine is fairly small. It's so small and simple it's even possible to reuse a beetle's engine to build things... Perhaps even a rear-traction locomotive!
@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @Rhaedas@fedia.io @memes@lemmy.world
"Sir, this is a meme's". Lol
Now, being serious, it doesn't seemed "nonsensical" to me because I'm neurodivergent myself, while the panel in question is labeled "autistic", so it refers to an autistic individual approaching the problem of going forward in manners that can seem very unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals. The rear-mounted engine? Think of old vehicles with engine at the rear. It physically makes sense, pushing forwards rather than pulling...
"Pizza oven in the back", it's clearly a drawing not meant to be over detailed, hence the lack of mechanical minutiae which would better distinguish it from a... "pizza oven".
But, again, maybe you people are right and this is AI-generated, who knows.. I'm just a systematic rando looking at an atypical mechanism and thinking of ways it'd work IRL.
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world
As I mentioned in my other reply to zerodawn, when it comes to the unusual placement of the engine at the locomotive's tail, maybe it's a surreal (albeit it would make some sense physically speaking) way to get a traction similar to rear-traction vehicles, so the engine would be pushing forwards, rather than pulling forwards.
I just don't get what human would put the smoke stack at the back
The label inside said panel kind of answers this: autistic individuals, who think in creative and often unexpected (unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals) ways. Perhaps this is why I particularly didn't find the locomotive physics that strange: I'm myself neurodivergent, so it's natural for me to think of the unexpected.
@zerodawn@leaf.dance @memes@lemmy.world
Oh, right, I can see it... 🤔
However, what if the very fact that it's meant to be a meme about autistic individuals, the kind of highly creative and intelligent person who'd build quite unexpected things in quite unexpected ways (and I mean this positively, especially because I'm (likely) AuDHD myself) would be the reason why the steam engine is "reversed" (at the tail of the locomotive, rather than at the front; the first thing I can think of is rear-traction vs front-traction vehicles, with the former ones pushing forwards rather than pulling forwards)?
I mean, at least in my mind, it would even make physical sense to have a locomotive whose engine sits on the rear end, pulling the whole mass forwards. And the connecting rods, wouldn't it be some sort of transmission mechanism so there'd be traction at the front wheels (akin to a four-wheel traction, 4x4 vehicle)? It would make physical sense as well, having the traction shared between the rear wheels and the wheel axis sitting right under the trunk, no?
But, yeah, the fact that the load is sitting in the front, thus potentially obstructing the locomotive operator's view... Maybe I'm being too gentle with the meme, maybe you people are right and it's indeed AI-generated, I dunno. It's still funny, nonetheless.
@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org@memes@lemmy.world
Sorry to ask but... why's it "AI slop"? What exactly are the signs and tells? To me, it looks like a normal vectorized drawing, the kind of drawing one could expect from Krita and Inkscape. I mean, even the drawing strokes seem sharp and clear (differently from the blurry kind of outline often seen in "AI slop").
@cheese_greater@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
Perhaps your perception comes from the fact that we see/know few (if any) elder people who was diagnosed as someone within the spectrum. It's not because elder people couldn't be autistic, bc they can. In fact, not just they can be autistic, but there are lot of non-diagnosed elder ppl. Something to do with how autism (among other conditions) wasn't diagnosed until recently.
And even nowadays, it's still under-diagnosed: I myself, a 30yo male, may be autistic (actually, I'd be more of an AuDHD, if I'm not someone with Geschwind syndrome, given my auras, sudden spiritual experience, migraines, etc; neither conditions were diagnosed), but the only diagnosis I got so far were ADHD and, recently, Schizotypal PD, although the latter diagnosis felt more of a religious bigotry from a psychiatrist in a mostly-christian country upon hearing about my occultism.
There are other factors as well, as other reply pointed out: solar exposure. We NDs in general tend to be more introvert and homebound because the outside world may be hostile to us, so we prefer staying at home (we were #stayhome people before it became momentarily a widespread thing in 2020).
Why the under-diagnosing? Well, in the eyes of capitalism, it's not profitable to diagnose people with a condition that requires workplaces to be more friendly to our lack of social cue instincts, our different perception of spacetime, and our eccentric (non-linear) way of thinking.
Also, the lack of affordability and the inability to access proper (and non scripted (i.e. not restricted to trying to forcefully fit everything to a DSM-5 handbook)) healthcare. Even in countries where there is public healthcare (such as Brazil, where I was born), mental healthcare can be unaffordable, partly due to the cost of medication (which "Sistema Único de Saúde" (SUS, Brazilian public healthcare system) doesn't always have available for free), partly due to long waiting queue (I myself have been waiting for a psychiatrist appointment for more than a year; tried emergency/crisis healthcare places such as "Centro de Atenção Psicossocial" (CAPS, psychosocial care center, focused on dealing with mental health crises) upon self-harming and suicidal attempts, but they couldn't even begin to comprehend my multilayered and far-from-just-mundane complains; they replied to hour-long soliloquy, which involved me recounting my spiritual afflictions about the Demiurgic nature of existence and complaining about the Kafkaesque absurdity of this world, with "how's your pooping and eating?", and I'm not joke; at the time, I literally had a visible wound on my wrist, but all they could think about was my trips to the restroom and to the kitchen).
If an adult or older ND person can neither access nor afford mental health care, they can't be diagnosed, perpetuating a social situation of under-diagnosis that contributes to make it look like "only young people are autistic".
@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I'm 30 (Zennial microgeneration) and the only item from the list I could directly relate to is the perceptible audible difference between baudrates, not just because I did experience dial-up Internet, but also because I tinkered with radio modulation (hands-on experience with ham radio).
As for numeric identifiers, I can recall of a few ones, but I didn't use ICQ: things such as (if I recall correctly) ECE9D8 hex color being the specific shade of gray for window background in Windows XP, the ID of a specific Orkut community I used to participate at the time, among other numeric memories I have (many of which are buried in some kind of "locked state", i.e. I'd need specific triggers in order to recall them, just like I'm occasionally reminded of cartoons I watched during my childhood).
In fact, my numeric and symbolic memory is particularly good. I can still clearly remember a few mnemonics from school, such as Portuguese "reficofage" (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) from biology classes, "sohcahtoa" (sine = opposite / hypotenuse, cosine = adjacent / hypotenuse, tangent = opposite/ adjacent) and "seno sem sono / cosseno com sono" (sine awake/vertical, cosine sleeping/horizontal) from math, AT and GC pairs also from biology, among a vast repertoire of mnemonics... without mnemonics, I remember x = (-b ± √(b² - 4ac)/2a for second degree polynomials, I remember pi = 3.1415926, I remember phi = 1.618033, I remember mol = 6.02 * 10^33, among many other constants and things... I developed my own mnemonics as well, I remember the whole Morse code and ASCII codepoints for letters and numbers, I remember some commands from Visual Basic 6, I remember some windows libraries such as user32.dll and kernel32.dll... FileSystemObject ActiveX... wow, I mean, I remember a lot of very old things... And it's been a bit more than a decade since the school times and my Windows XP childhood.
In the eyes of the society, however, it may be quite a pointless ability in times where one can just "Google it". Well, guess I'm still going to remember things despite Google's existence.
@jtzl@lemmy.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.world
I don't recall the specific "e/n websites", but I do remember a time where the Web was a more connective place. I used to participate in Orkut communities, MSN groups (wasn't a native feature, instead it was a third-party plug-in I can't recall the name), Yahoo Messenger, IRC (not ICQ) channels on Freenode, etc.
Even though some of these things still exist (Escargot IM reviving MSN services; IRC is still a thing), the past Web is long gone. Now it's Cloudflare and captchas and Anubis challenges, ads, clickbaits, paywalls, subscriptions, AI everywhere...
Yeah, there's Fediverse and other decentralized places. Except that those places, including the Fediverse, depends on an infrastructure (Internet) which is increasingly closing on itself like a pangolin (or an Ouroboros, eating itself)... Once Internet closes itself due to the synergy of forces acting against it, there'll be nowhere else to flee from enshittification. Maybe Meshtastic, but I don't know how much it'd manage to become a haven for us, how much it'd be able to resist those forces.
(This text may sound a little vague because it is, I was going to be more specific and detailed, I even composed a larger text, but then I realized it was going into complicated realms (e.g. current geopolitics, lots of personal anecdotes making my whole comment sound as if I were narcissistic) so I refrained from going into further detail)