Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

this started with someone intentionally, and self-destructively, presenting it in a way where they wanted to hurt other people, so they could hurt themselves.

if you want to genuinely express concern: don't follow in those footsteps.

if you want to genuinely attempt to understand: don't follow in those footsteps.

if you want to do anything other than hurt other folks, and also yourself: don't follow in those footsteps.

before you draw battle lines and decide that the cause is worth tossing around, please remember

this started because someone, in an act of digital self-harm, wanted to post something they know would be controversial - and hurtful - enough to push people away, because that was their coping strategy.

it's a good time to sit and examine if your motivations are significantly different, and what makes them so.

@InspectorCaracal as somebody into lolita fashion i can completely understand the impulse of "all right. fancy dress time, motherfuckers" and i approve

@noelle it kinda has the same connotations but i've always thought of it as "brute forcing", usually because i'm trying over and over again until i get success l m a o

also it makes me sound like a strong and/or cool hacker kid (see illustration below)

@InspectorCaracal JESUS CHRIST I JUST NEARLY FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR OUT OF FEAR

......................................................................................bc my irl name is sharon lol

@maple (honestly to be shady, when i saw the announcement and went 'wait, what's this again? who are these people getting blocked?', my evaluation was more or less 'nothing of value was lost' lol)

@InspectorCaracal *nods* yeah, that's val-

wait. wait shit FUCK

(p.s. yes this joke is Extremely Stupid)

@maenad oh........dear

i am... so sorry

.........well, if you ever need an alibi for definitely not throwing molotov milkshakes,

@maenad i feel like the answer to that question is sadly about 50-50 odds of

1) really cool people who probably smell of patchouli, will party hard with you on major norse pagan holidays, and make some fantastic homebrew mead

2) the negaverse version of #1, which is basically a cruel parody of the above with a crunchy center of fucking odious "white pride" racism

@darksouls hey when did this bot turn into my alarm clock

also some day i'll remember it's spatial and not spacial but Today Is Not That Day

WELL THAT WAS A NICE BIOLOGY JAUNT

where'd i fucken put that textbook tho

it was the sole biology textbook that didn't feel like i was chewing glass when i read it, even as it stepped me through a neuron-by-neuron level of What Happen When Frog See Bug

@BalooUriza error, as it seems most people who are successful at human echolocation were not born blind but rather became blind later in life, usually a bit younger, with that neurological plasticity still there).

but at the end of the day - the echoes are what make *echo*location. the distinction about the ability to register a click off a bug is why the word echolocation *exists*.

the term you are looking for is "auditory spatial processing" for what you describe :)

@BalooUriza it explains how their brains were able to be that plastic to adapt - there was, in essence, space not being used that could be immediately repurposed, that was able to fall into generally the same spot of spacial awareness processing. there's some studies been done here highlighting the neurological differences that have resulted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Neural_substrates_of_echolocation_in_the_blind and showing that a lot of the time it basically is an adaptation of that visual processing area. (though i apologise for above>

@BalooUriza for what a bat processes, not just because a bat has specific neurological structures (that some rare sufficiently plastic human brains have been able to jury-rig something like) for obtaining/processing echolocation information, but also because a bat is going to be able to process that alongside visual input and make it into a whole. the few humans who have developed true echolocation are, to my knowledge, completely blind, and often have been since birth, which makes sense as >

@BalooUriza that is feeding into another and another set of imaging systems directly - like an airport that not only gathers data from radar, but also from satellite images of the weather, radio chatter with the pilots, and even specific variants of that radar system like IFF transponders.

basically it's a sufficiently different kettle of fish.

additionally, i think my point still stands here. the humans that know what it is to 'see' with echolocation are not going to seamlessly substitute >

@BalooUriza it's a bit like saying radar is just listening, and therefore the ancient chinese defense system as explored by the mythbusters http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/chinese-sonar-invasion-alarms/ is radar, and is equal to radar being used in submarine warfare, so the differences are close enough to be the same, despite the supposedly ancient chinese system not using any radio waves in their RAdio Detection And Ranging. there's enough difference there, especially when you consider how radar is one imaging system >