That narwhals are real. Partner thought they were mythological like unicorns.
Honestly, it was funny but somewhat understandable.
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Not 100% applicable but today I was catching up on Handmaids Tale and googled a bit of plot I couldn't remember and Google's little auto generated Q&A bit had stuff like
"Why did June kill Commander (spoiler)"
And
"Why do women dislike Serene Joy"
The fuck? People don't understand? Or just another reason to fear dumbass AIs?
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Just before the US election, I had to explain to a coworker that JD Vance was not going to be Kamala Harris’ VP and vice versa. I knew this person for 9 years, never thought they were a genius or anything but damn, I was dumbfounded when she asked if I could believe it, I think she has always thought whichever side wins has to take the other sides VP. I immediately lost a lot of hope for us that day.
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I didn't have to explain it, but I found myself in a situation where I was informing a grown woman that fish are indeed animals.
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Convincing my doctor that I had an inguinal hernia and not varicoceles when I had a half-apple sized lump in my left groin. I'm with a new doctor now.
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How to make a call using a land line phone. That made me feel very old.
I've also heard that kids have difficulties with reading analog clocks.
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I've had to explain tariffs a lot lately...
I work for a wine importer. I literally have to sign legal documents attesting to the payment of tariffs before containers are taken off of ships. The amount of times this week I have had to explain that I do understand how tariffs work is too many.
Ooh actually could you type out that explanation cuz having a like, concrete “here’s a persons job who deals with this” way to explain it may be handy. (But also you don’t gotta if you’re super tired of it.)
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Haha I had to ask about them in ELI5
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Something explained to me...
I was 41 when I realised that people actually see things in their minds eye. It is not just a metaphor.
Blew my mind, like it is some kind of superpower, you can just imagine stuff, and you see an image of it....
My partner is such a good cook, partly because she can combine flavours in her mind, to check if they will taste good together, that is just fucken cheating.
When people "get a song stuck in their head" they can literally hear it.... How the fuck do you get anything done, you crazy bastards.
I think more what I’ve had to explain is the opposite. Aphantasia exists, so there are people out there (like me and assumingly you) who CANNOT picture stuff in their head.
But yeah I also had to learn people could actually do this as an adult. Boy did that make me not caring to read books make way more sense.
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That’s how I compose music. My brain plays it to me before I can try and put it on paper. Also when I sing I can hear the instrumental on my brain without actually playing it.
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My partner is such a good cook, partly because she can combine flavours in her mind, to check if they will taste good together, that is just fucken cheating.
Okay I can do the other stuff (as can most people; you probably have aphantasia) but this? This either is fucking cheating or I have atonguasia
I cannot combine two flavors I've never tasted together in my mind, but I can recall what I did taste before and make an educated guess as to how to reproduce it based on how the individual parts taste. Apart from that it's trial and error - I'd say 65% of the time it works, 25% of the time the result is forgettable, and 1/10 times it's a "what was I thinking??" situation.
I have multi-sensory aphantasia.
I may be biased since I'm also able to do this (and have gotten pretty good), but I'm reasonably sure it's a skill you can learn. Just take two things, make a prediction how they'd taste together, then try it and see how correct you were. If you keep doing this, you'll eventually be pretty good at predicting new things.
I've done this since I was a child (because it was always interesting to me), so it might take some time, but humans are very good at learning such patterns!
If you want something to start with, take a slice of banana and add mustard. It doesn't taste great (also not terrible), and the flavors mostly stay separate, but they combine a bit in an interesting way.
I don't think I could even do my job without this. I mean, I know not everyone can do it as well as Zi can, but I guess I never thought that there are people that can't do it at all.
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That wood glue used to be made from horse bones and that, yes, the horse dies. Another I had to explain the correlation between 1 cube meter, 1000 liters and 1 ton.
And one calorie is the energy needed to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius. God I hate the Imperial system.
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That clouds don't come from cloud machines and that the earth is round.
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