#CW sex/masturbation-related thought experiment.
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@alice in the hypothetical situation you described, the person had a vivid hallucination and then maybe also experienced an involuntary philological response to it while unconscious. that is very different than actually having sex with someone
@aeva maybe, but is it substantially different from having sex with yourself while fantasizing about someone?
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@alice in the hypothetical situation you described, the person had a vivid hallucination and then maybe also experienced an involuntary philological response to it while unconscious. that is very different than actually having sex with someone
@alice let's put it differently, if you had a dream where you believed quite vividly that you had died, and woke up abruptly in cold sweat and an elevated pulse and whatever other such physiological reactions one tends to have in reaction to those circumstances, would it be accurate to say "I died last night"?
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@aeva maybe, but is it substantially different from having sex with yourself while fantasizing about someone?
@alice yes
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@alice let's put it differently, if you had a dream where you believed quite vividly that you had died, and woke up abruptly in cold sweat and an elevated pulse and whatever other such physiological reactions one tends to have in reaction to those circumstances, would it be accurate to say "I died last night"?
@aeva when you play a video game is it accurate to say "I died" when your character dies in game?
I think most people would use the phrase, and if pressed, admit "I died in game" rather than that no death occurred.
I think that "I had sex in my dream" is still "I had sex", it just comes with an asterisk—much the way "I died" does.
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@aeva when you play a video game is it accurate to say "I died" when your character dies in game?
I think most people would use the phrase, and if pressed, admit "I died in game" rather than that no death occurred.
I think that "I had sex in my dream" is still "I had sex", it just comes with an asterisk—much the way "I died" does.
@alice I would expect saying "I died" in the context of playing a video game to be a widely understood colloquial usage of the phrase "I died", whereas if I went around claiming I had sex with someone I never had sex with in a context free statement that would maybe at best come off as being a gross lie to tell and at worst libelous statement.
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@alice I would expect saying "I died" in the context of playing a video game to be a widely understood colloquial usage of the phrase "I died", whereas if I went around claiming I had sex with someone I never had sex with in a context free statement that would maybe at best come off as being a gross lie to tell and at worst libelous statement.
@alice if the poll options were "You had sex in a dream last night" and "You masturbated in a dream last night", I'd have voted for the first option, but a wet dream is not sex or masturbation
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@alice I would expect saying "I died" in the context of playing a video game to be a widely understood colloquial usage of the phrase "I died", whereas if I went around claiming I had sex with someone I never had sex with in a context free statement that would maybe at best come off as being a gross lie to tell and at worst libelous statement.
@aeva I'd agree that saying you had sex *with* someone would be incorrect, as no one besides you was actually involved.
But to combine with the video game analogy, I think people in the Matrix were having sex, even if the person they were having sex with was a program. Their brains thought it was sex, their bodies thought it was sex, they had no control over their situation, but they thought they were consenting to sex*.
*I'm putting aside rape here, because this topic is already perilous enough for now.
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@aeva I'd agree that saying you had sex *with* someone would be incorrect, as no one besides you was actually involved.
But to combine with the video game analogy, I think people in the Matrix were having sex, even if the person they were having sex with was a program. Their brains thought it was sex, their bodies thought it was sex, they had no control over their situation, but they thought they were consenting to sex*.
*I'm putting aside rape here, because this topic is already perilous enough for now.
@alice right, but if you die in the matrix you also die in real life. being a work of fiction, many exciting things are possible.
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@alice right, but if you die in the matrix you also die in real life. being a work of fiction, many exciting things are possible.
@alice it seems probable to me that people have probably figured out how to have sex in vr chat by now though. that is above my pay grade to speculate on the ontological ramifications of, but it would be fascinating to read about
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@alice it seems probable to me that people have probably figured out how to have sex in vr chat by now though. that is above my pay grade to speculate on the ontological ramifications of, but it would be fascinating to read about
@aeva oh, people have been doing that since it was invented 😅
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@aeva oh, people have been doing that since it was invented 😅
@alice and there is plenty of prior art
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@stefan @andypiper @docpop awesome idea! A Fediverse zine (based on my video script) was supposed to be my project of the summer… but didn’t have time (yet). I say the more the merrier! It would be fantastic to have all these resources available for raising awareness
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@jwildeboer OMG Jan, I just read the whole thread. That’s terrible. I hope you managed to sleep ok… Take care and wishing you a speedy recovery
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@ju ottimo lavoro di squadra! (o qualcosa del genere)
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ESP32 Invades Old TV Box: Forecast More Than Just Channels
Obsolete hardware is all around us, and some of it has some pretty interesting tech buried within. One such device is an old Belgacom TV Box. Instead of using the ubiquitous LCD screen, it uses a VFD display for its user interface, and [Jean] has taken control of it with the ESPTimeCastVFD project.
Inside this box is a mix of two different 7-segment displays, which he uses to show the time and date, and 12 VFD displays, which are used to show weather data. To get the display working, the box was taken apart, and there were a few different areas [Jean] had to tap into: power for the soon-to-be-embedded ESP32-WROOM-32, as well as tying into the SPI lines to control the VFD. [Jean] also needed a 3.3V to 5V level shifter, and for this he used a 74LS125N dating all the way back to 1978.
The ESPTimeCast project, which we’ve featured here before, handles a lot of the time display and weather forecast shown on the front panel. However, [Jean] did have to add support for the VFD display, as well as adding wind speed to the display—as one of his uses for this is to judge the day’s suitability for flying RC planes. Once powered up, the ESP32 hosts a WiFi access point, allowing you to connect to it and set the configuration of the device, such as location, WiFi credentials, what displays you want to see, and many more. Thank you [Jean] for sending in your hack, saving this device from a landfill by turning it into a personalized display! Be sure to check out some of our other weather displays we’ve featured!
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no, no, io se mai ho il problema opposto: ci penso troppo poco.
Mente vede problema, mente fa tutti dei ragionamenti suoi a velocità luce, mente prende decisione.
Ho imparato a chiedere a mente di fermarsi un attimo tra problema e decisione e spiegarmi esattamente i ragionamenti a velocità luce prima che andiamo a sbattere contro l'inevitabile muro.
L'overthinking e la procrastinazione sono un problema di marito e meno male almeno ci compensiamo. 😄
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@suricrasia good birthday to you!
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@root thank you ☺️
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@craige thank you! 🙏 @Cheeseness
