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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • I don’t have advice but that does just sound like being 13. It’s a rough time. If you can see, or if she asks for, something actionable that would help (like “my homework is really stressing me out, can you help me”) by all means do it. But for me I think I just learnt coping mechanisms the hard way as I grew up. Most people change a lot in the ensuing years after 13, usually for the better. I’m sorry your sister is going through that.

    One thing that does come to mind is to check if there’s any external issues that are causing her to feel so bad. There often are. You might be able to learn something by talking to her more?



  • I know what you mean; I think it would be hurtful to people with Parkinson’s, but whatever, I luckily don’t have Parkinson’s so not much point arguing it.

    Characterising involuntary but normal phenomenon as intentional or artistic is maybe a little less gross, but still asinine.

    That seems like a very bizarre take. Isn’t that a very common artistic device, to find creative interpretations of natural phenomena, and to imagine intention where there is none? I mean, art is subjective so maybe that’s just your personal taste, but it seems like a strange thing to be offended by to me.








  • I would say that’s not comparable. One process (screenshotting or taking a photo as PNG) results in a PNG as the output. The other process results in an image of the same format as the output. I guess at best you could make a philosophical argument as to what is ontologically a PNG: is it something that ends in .png, or is it a file that follows the PNG format? I think most people would say the latter, so if we say the definition of something is just a description of how it’s used, then the former process results in a PNG and the latter process does not.

    Also, how is screenshotting an “entirely new image” in a way that e.g. putting it into GIMP and exporting to PNG isn’t? That’s doing the same thing. You know there isn’t some “canonical” JPEG to PNG algorithm, right?