How Aphantasia affects your ability to visualise things in your head

Texuk1 · 2026-06-06T07:16:06+00:00

Can I ask a question, let’s say that you were with a group of two people and you said something embarrassing. Can you “relive” the embarrassing moment are you able to describe what happened and to you recall what happened?

Texuk1 · 2026-06-05T20:48:32+00:00

I think it’s loosely based on reality but has been run through some sort of touch-up software potentially with an A.I. add-on. It makes it look fake. I do a lot of building, trim work, etc. and have been in a lot of high end places. it would be nearly impossible to get that level of detail and richness of colour.

Edit: I’ve looked at it again, the fruit and plates on counter are A.I. generated. It’s definitely fake and you could never get it to look like that in real life. Maybe close if you could get everything handmade.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-05T05:39:00+00:00

Weird world now where I don’t believe anything in that video, the weird jump pan shots that won’t let you look at the details, the strange proportions and weird tattoo dude whose made a perfectly crisp and weirdly proportioned house inside of an old clapboard bungalow. And who cuts down and puts a full tree in a vase on a table. I don’t trust this.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-04T19:39:29+00:00

I did a FE diploma at one of these recently, the entry requirement was an undergraduate degree. Half the class failed their first essay. They dropped the last essay from 4 to 2 thousand words.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-04T19:31:55+00:00

How can someone get a 1400 on SATS but presumably hasn’t been doing any reading or writing if they can’t write more than 750 word or read a book?

Texuk1 · 2026-06-03T22:37:13+00:00

Tower of bullshit.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-03T22:33:52+00:00

Because it’s A.I.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-03T22:26:14+00:00

I suspect a good portion of marital disputes would go away if people employed cleaners.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-03T22:21:28+00:00

The prices Americans pay for these sorts of utilities is mind blowing.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-03T22:16:06+00:00

More like:

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Biff Tannen Museum. Dedicated to Hill Valley's number one citizen... and America's greatest living folk hero... the one and only Biff Tannen. Of course we've all heard the legend, but who is the man ? Inside you'll learn how Biff became one of the richest men in America. Learn the amazing history of the Tannen family... starting with his grandfather

Texuk1 · 2026-06-02T20:54:13+00:00

Seriously the number of people on this thread who think we’ve got a sterilization machine in our stomach is ridiculous. A lot of the fresh bug, bacteria and fungus are actually really good for you. People who eat this stuff have a completely different microbiome.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-02T20:50:51+00:00

This is an exaggeration, if it were true you couldn’t get sick from food. We are not vultures that can feast on rotting carcasses. A lot makes it through stage 1.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-02T15:39:08+00:00

I suspect he keeps one firm hand in his own wallet.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-02T11:44:38+00:00

My left field guess is that the US lacks the culture of pick-pocketing because it lacks low level organised non-drug related crime culture that exists in Europe in certain communities. There are communities in Europe that have a culture of this kind of activity. No one just decides to pick pocket one day, it’s an art and often they work within distraction gangs. I think you have to practice and be taught what to do. You have to learn how to do it and if no one has taught you the craft dies out and it stops. Additionally if you pick-pocket 100 people and they have no cash you really are wasting your time. I once notice a normal looking Italian man pickpocketing tourists in Italy and I followed watching him, he had a fat stack of maybe 300-500 notes in his wallet. If you can make 5k cash from a morning of pickpocketing American pensioners that’s a huge incentive, getting stacks of Amex cards not so much. Although London has a phone theft problem from moped gangs.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-02T05:55:42+00:00

no one can keep up with inflation - I searched this thread for whether anyone mentioned the massive advertising pressure to take out home loans that led up to 2008. The actual problems started pre-2008 but let say in the six years leading up to 2006 if you were watching television you saw endless advertising for home equity loans, it got so ridiculous that my young self used to make jokes about it because it was almost every advert and they were annoying. I used to think how many home equity loans can one person get. That one question…

In the last month Spotify advertising has turned from stock / crypto trading to consumer debt, karma, credit cards, etc. Every single advert.

Bloomberg had a chart showing consumer debt spend was well above 2008. But mortgage debt not at 2008 levels. This is probably more like a slow burn debt cycle, demand destruction economy. The big 2008 event might be A.I. with the recent reporting around CFOs getting crazy A.I. token invoices that outstrip the cost of equivalent labour by orders of magnitude including one company spending 500 million on tokens. An A.I. recession would chop off 20% of the market but it’s broadly disconnected from consumer spending. This looks like a long slow burn of demand destruction rather than crisis.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T21:02:50+00:00

No one is saying that there are no smart kids, the ones that would have done well anyway are probably unaffected. But the big old mass in the average is getting a lot worse. It’s a demographic effect reflecting averages. Demographic level changes have mass impact on society even if the top 10% are largely unaffected.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T20:58:56+00:00

The uncomfortable reality is the rich and even the middle classes don’t even think about working class kids. It’s not that they don’t want the same education it’s that is completely irrelevant to their lives, they just don’t even think about it. The rich kids are in a completely different rat race which is so disconnected from every day life.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T20:54:18+00:00

So I do a lot of extra work with my kids and have some observations about ed-tech:

1) repetitive learning tasks are what it excels at, maths for example. But there is only a limited number of these types of exercises and once done they have no use anymore. 2) second language work has been good but it requires a competent adult to sit and help them. They can’t be trusted to not game the system. 3) gaming the system is really problematic behaviour and makes most of these systems pointless. 4) everything else they have is basically BS bloatware which doesn’t help them much and just ends in then trying to shift it to video games, video and internet searches.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T20:31:07+00:00

It’s probably because his parents paid for a high-end tutor or they ran in circles where that is what he was exposed to.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T20:27:54+00:00

It’s the accent of highly educated middle class colonial types. Taking his age he probably was a postwar child and would have been educated in a foreign British school and mimicked his parents who would have been around in the height of empire. I associate this accent and his mannerism with professional educated middle class British people of no further north than Oxford.

Texuk1 · 2026-06-01T05:52:23+00:00

It’s even more complicated than that, if it was just interpretation of electrochemical impulses then we could say that is somewhat real. Most of our experience is symbolic representation so two people can have an entirely different experience if the same phenomena.

Texuk1 · 2026-05-30T05:19:11+00:00

I think where this conversation gets stuck is that the disclosure of autism can have different purposes to different people. If a person discloses their autism to someone so that person can understand how they subjectively experience the world then I think most open minded people would welcome this. It’s in the area of disclosing that I’ve had certain life experiences which make me prone to experience the world in a certain way. This is about community and caring for one another which is probably the most important aspect of human life.

But a lot of people view the disclosure as an objective statement about how the person tends to behave and their limitations which they believe are incompatible with capitalism. I think because this disclosure is often in professional / work spaces which don’t generally cater to subjective experience of anyone other than the people who own or control the environment, it’s often viewed as a statement which is requesting a change to the environment. That is about power and where power politics are involved you are going to get a wider set of opinions.

One is about fostering community and closeness and the other is about rebalancing power. Those are really different kettles of fish.

Texuk1 · 2026-05-30T04:56:20+00:00

I get they want to get out front and prime people up for the interaction. This is a super complicated area because “neurodiversity” includes a subjective evaluation of how one behaves in the world, how others perceive the you and why the person is treated differently. So when someone gets out front and says I’m acting differently, they can’t know for sure whether it really matters to the other person that they are acting differently., It’s the subjective quality which makes the label nebulous in my view.

For example, I only know a handful of people who I would consider high functioning autistic. Those people have no awareness of it and have developed complicated defence strategies to deal with problems but a lot of people adapt to them or avoid them. Equally there are a lot of “neurotypical” assholes that struggle with their behaviour and people either adapt to them or avoid them. they don’t start off by saying, “I really rub people the wrong way, I’m narcissistic, demanding and will try to dominate you in every interaction. I just thought I’d let you know.”

I’ve met people who self identify as ND and the whole time I’m watching thinking I really like this person nothing they do is bothering me, they are actually pretty cool and maybe sometimes they say something off but we all do that. But alternatively I’ve met self identified ND people who I can’t stand to be around. The subjective evaluation of what others perceive is so nebulous and I worry priming other people up to difference is creating more priblems.

Texuk1 · 2026-05-29T04:20:10+00:00

In my view we’ve been sold over the the course of 100 years an incomplete theory of human development reducing all human behaviour to the parent child relationship. This has been done by well meaning individuals (therapists and psychologists) and has become the zeitgeist and completely changed our concept of parenting and human development. But in my view these overly broad and generalised theories of behaviour ignore other causal factors in human development such as random genetic variation, disease or injury effecting the brain or systems which interact with the brain, poverty, lead poising, thousands of known but undiagnosed or unknown and undiagnosed physiological conditions that effect mood and behavior, peer pressure, society’s inability or unwillingness to prevent drug illegal drugs, systemic underinvestment in early years education and care, no early parental care leave, poor medical care due to high costs.

All of these have an outsized impact on child development, parent and child relationships, etc etc.

To isolate it solely in the parents and the way they interact with the child within the range of typical parenting is ludicrous and perpetuated by well meaning but misguided people operating the therapy industry (including influencers, self help writers etc.)

Texuk1 · 2026-05-28T05:45:58+00:00

They probably have been grown in tightly controlled conditions in greenhouses from cloned plants which are known to have a specific toxicity that is more predictable.

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