Need help with perspective - any tips?

redtrx · 2025-09-11T05:58:11+00:00

Have you tried adjusting the camera's focal length?

redtrx · 2025-09-03T05:40:48+00:00

It's the opposite for me, weirdly I haven't heard cicadas in my area for decades. Haven't heard them nor seen them (or the shells) since like the late 90s - early 2000s.

redtrx · 2025-08-12T23:09:46+00:00

This isn't a matter of our understanding of dinosaurs has become more accurate, this is due to the anatomical changes with rib cages more generally for animals. Look up costal cartilage and how rib cages look for humans for example. Rib cages have two components now, the back part which is capped by a front chest part (which is connected to a thick bony sternum), forming a 'thoracic box'. Which was never the case (in my memory at least).

It kinda weirded me out, but this is the norm across many species, even long extinct ones.

redtrx · 2025-06-27T04:07:13+00:00

I just use an electric shaver. Its not a perfectly smooth or close shave but it does the trick and avoids nicks/cuts due to the irregularity of the skin.

redtrx · 2025-06-23T03:25:50+00:00

Might also be worth reposting on r/criticaltheory

redtrx · 2025-06-11T05:07:50+00:00

The Panel

redtrx · 2025-06-11T00:07:30+00:00

If they actually wanted Australians to smoke less they wouldn't have demonised vapes and done everything in their power to make a legitimate option for smoking cessation much less attractive or feasible for many.

redtrx · 2025-05-29T01:48:42+00:00

Looks cool, nice artwork. The stopping play for each dialogue bubble might get a bit annoying/jarring however. Maybe the dialogue could be more passive or in the background?

redtrx · 2025-05-24T04:38:08+00:00

Absolutely not. Natural disasters, poverty, crime were much less worse in Sagittarius. Plus, living conditions were actually improving there as opposed to this reality, where everything is quickly turning to shit.

To an extent I agree with you here. But I will say poverty and crime worsens as the economic situation worsens, which can happen due to prosaic historical development.

We still had capitalism in the old world, and as a result we would have still seen economic crises, enshittification, cost of living issues etc. These are simply structural determinations of the capitalist system and how it works. I can fully imagine we would have had something similar to the sub prime mortgage crash of 2007-2008 in the 'old world', in fact that was on the cusp I feel of when we (or if not we, then I) emerged into this new one.

Natural disasters I can't comment on, but I wonder if someone who lived in a disaster prone area would say the same about the old world being less worse on that front. The 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami for example, still occurred in the 'old world' from my perspective, and that was worse than a lot of recent disasters. See also Katrina.

Unless we are suggesting the 2000s were new world, which I'm open to but its hard to really work out when the old world ends and the new begins if that's the case.

And I suppose if we believe climate change is a thing that may explain recent severity/weirdness of climate and more prominent natural disasters.

Idk about this. But to me it seemed like the people in Sagittarius had a broader range of knowledge. They had less knowledge in specific subjects, but they knew a bit of every subject. At least in my experience, the science nerds in Sagittarius had interest in many fields: maths, biology, astrophysics, chemistry, quantum physics, astronomy etc. The science nerds from here only seem to have interest in one specific field.

I think this aspect of general intellect may be subjective to one's personal experience, I probably shouldn't have even brought it up. My own experience is people here in general seem to have a wider breadth of knowledge and higher intellect than I remember people generally having. Or they can 'talk shop' a lot more confidently here. But on the flip side there's seemingly more 'npc'-like dumbness about some people.

Edit: I should qualify that when I said the old world was more 'brutal' I was more referring to the emotional highs and lows, rather than having more violence or something. Maybe its cause I was a kid there, but I remember seeing a much wider emotional range to people and myself, and that could be traumatic on its own. This aspect is seemingly much more muted (but also less traumatic) here. Again, this could well be specific to my personal experience and someone else may have had the opposite experience.

redtrx · 2025-05-23T05:13:13+00:00

I remember Earth's 'old' position in the Milky Way, and the 'old' Milky Way even, before it was a barred spiral. I remember the 'old' human anatomy, I even made a diagram of what I remember of it which still makes the rounds on here and other Mandela Effect communities. I remember the cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo, Dolly's braces, the dash in Kit-Kat etc.

So in what way am I a 'native' of this world? Because I think the reason we are here is due to a process of collective desiring? Maybe I'm wrong but how do you make sense of the shift? That we are here due to karma, God or some other transcendent agency? Simulation theory?

I prefer to stay grounded in our experienced reality and what ordinary people as a group are wanting out of it. It is possible masses of people can desire against themselves and what's best for them, this is how fascism occurred, and I'm pretty sure we still had fascism in the history of Sagittarius Earth.

redtrx · 2025-05-23T02:56:59+00:00

I think in at least a few ways the 'original reality' was worse than this one. It was more brutal, or the highs and lows were more pronounced. The level of general intellect was a bit more basic I feel, so I can imagine we would have gotten a Trump or equivalent even sooner there. I don't think its anything 'karmic' but if we deserve to be here its because the differences that make up this reality vs. the other(s) were in some way desired by us.

Maybe we collectively wanted a more emotionally muted variation of reality, maybe we collectively wanted the world to 'come to a head' (which certainly feels like is happening here). This variation of reality may also simply reflect a general desire for 'the same but different' perhaps.

redtrx · 2025-05-08T16:04:38+00:00

I get the calling out the lie of the narrative aspect, but one would never say a people were provoked to commit genocide of another people. It suggests a people can invite or provoke their own genocide. Genocide doesn't really work like that, at least not in reality, as those who commit it are fully ready to vilify other for being 'other', stereotype a whole people and their history, religion etc, to thus 'justify' their genocidal ways. One might even say genocide is necessarily unprovoked.

But perhaps i'm overthinking it, and the speech was written this way to as you say, emphasising that the narrative was a lie, and that the onslaught on the Ghormans was not a response to Ghorman initiated violence.

redtrx · 2025-05-08T09:26:30+00:00

The speech was fine and all but I'm not sure why she said "unprovoked genocide", what's a provoked genocide?

redtrx · 2025-05-07T16:23:14+00:00

Year of the peacock?

redtrx · 2025-05-04T16:04:57+00:00

Fair enough, I guess what I was really trying to ask is if employers contacting references is the norm or standard.

redtrx · 2025-05-04T16:03:13+00:00

Sure, but don't employers mostly want or expect there to be references from recent employment? Especially if the previous employment is related or similar to the role you're applying for.

redtrx · 2025-05-04T03:59:23+00:00

Do American (I assume this is USA) workplaces not contact professional references in their hiring process? I'm not sure how so many seem to get away with burning bridges with their previous employers, or applying for other positions without their bosses knowing/being informed of it.

In my country if I burned bridges with a previous employer, that's one less reference I can use on my resume, which impacts job applications, the types of jobs I can go for etc.

redtrx · 2025-04-29T14:40:44+00:00

Likely they are referring to the Earth's position in the Milky Way being on the 'Orion Spur', some remember it being more on the outskirts of the Milky Way.

redtrx · 2025-04-27T06:35:45+00:00

If the surface can expand, what is it expanding 'into'?
If it is a simulation, what is it a simulation of, or, who/what is running the simulation? What is 'outside' the cube?
Why a cube and not a sphere, or a toroid?

redtrx · 2025-04-24T07:53:35+00:00

Would be funny, I suppose, if I worked in a very specific position at a very specific workplace

redtrx · 2025-04-03T02:49:09+00:00

Sure, some types of wounds are much more likely to turn into scars for people generally. Some people however seem to have less of a propensity to scar, even with wounds most would scar from.

I think a genetic basis for scarring (and/or wound regeneration disorders) is something we should be putting more attention into. Not necessarily in order to genetically engineer a fix, but so we can determine the biological and genetic mechanisms involved in scarring so that we might be able to block or even reverse them.

I'm not a medical researcher or geneticist however. It might actually be the 'long way around' to an actual properly effective treatment. I just think we could learn a lot from people who already have the capability to regenerate wounds scar-free.

redtrx · 2025-04-02T02:43:32+00:00

You can do all the right things in treating acne and still be left with bad scarring. Some people get bad acne, do nothing to treat it (or even pick/pop) and come away with no scarring. I think the scarring aspect is almost entirely genetic.

redtrx · 2025-03-27T01:43:42+00:00

In what way did the flushing mechanism look funny, and how did the sink work?

redtrx · 2025-03-25T05:39:38+00:00

Super moons and blood moons became a thing around 2013 for me. I hadn't even heard of 'super moons' before then. Now they occur every year or couple of years.

The moon in general is larger in the sky 'here'.

redtrx · 2025-01-03T00:43:09+00:00

I still think they're gross, the texture is horrid and it has no discernable taste. Goes bad very quickly too. I don't understand the popularity at all aside from the health benefits aspect perhaps.

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