neku

neku wrote

Conferring ownership of rare items in a dead MMO. (E.g. If Runescape died today, minting "partyhat NFTs" for each partyhat owner would actually make sense.)

i mean i understand that some people are into this but like... the party hat is gone. whats the point of possessing some intangible digital certificate denoting the holder as someone who had something once. i just dont understand the thought process here. outside of speculation i dont see why anyone would go to the effort

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neku wrote

i didnt know what imzy was but i read the wikipedia page, which includes the passage

Moreno had stated that some Imzy accounts belonged to people who are known for breaking some of Reddit's rules. She has stated that they were acting in a thoughtful manner on Imzy and attributed this to a culture that rewarded a different type of discourse.

the link is verbatim from the page. the citation doesn't mention broken windows theory. so what the fuck? who would read that and think "wow broken windows improves a community once again"

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neku wrote

it is so funny that it started with

Jason Fried, Basecamp’s chief executive, detailed the policies in a blog post on Monday, calling “societal and political discussions” on company messaging tools “a major distraction.”

and now the cofounder is writing anti-DEI screeds and publishing them to the company blog. no distractions here

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neku wrote (edited )

theres a lot of names in anatomy that are like, some guy looked at this and compared it to x so now it's named after x. the atria of the heart have little appendages that are called auricles (which literally means ear) because the first guy who decided to crack a guy open and look at his heart thought that they looked like dog's ears from the ventral view

something else that is funny is the concept of the motor/somatosensory homunculi. the motor/somatosensory cortices of the brain are disproportionately dedicated to different regions of the body so physiologists decided that the best way to describe that was to make monstrosities where body parts were proportional to their representation in the motor/somatosensory cortices eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensory_and_motor_homunculi.jpg

https://i.natgeofe.com/n/080c5361-c999-4cf9-8fd5-ed59c4c59ae5/homunculus-600_3x2.png

https://64.media.tumblr.com/96eb52f722f9e1f869513392d94928bf/tumblr_ooaw6lNJj41skn1oxo1_500.png

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