Imagine being envious of someone with basic memorization skills.
I’m very jealous. My memory sucks.
Where’s the envy? Also it’s more about being interested in the subject matter than inherent ability.
I get what you’re saying in terms of “anyone can do this if they’re willing to devote enough time to a specific / niche subject matter” but I think you’re stating it somewhat reductively (and your tone seems questionable but that could just be a textual communication issue).
I find that I have poor rote memorization skills but that I’m very good at conceptual reasoning using lots of different information from very tangentially related subject matters. So I don’t know too much about chemistry, metalworking, and sewing on their own, but I know enough to pick out the right fabric, thread, jewelry findings, and dye, and what order to use them in to get a pretty cool result.
I think that ability actually somewhat necessarily comes at the expense of my rote memorization capabilities. To put that in plainer language, I think a lot of people can be in love with the world as a whole or deeply in love with just a few parts of it (me being the former). And while the important thing in the end is that you find something out there in the world to love and accept yourself for loving it, it’s also not maladaptive to see someone else do something cool and think,“I might not have time in my life to pick up that skill, but I bet it feels good to be able to do it.” And who knows? Maybe if they’re envious enough they’ll make time in their life to learn how to do the cool thing.
What makes you think they’re envious?
The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
Can’t have nice things
Right? What was it hurting to have some people believe this. Just let people enjoy things, does it really matter whether the shrimp color vision thingy was true or not?
That dress was fucking white and gold, and I’ll go to my grave believing the black and blue one was some sort of conspiracy.
Dammit
Whoa!
Spritz
Wipe
Is that a Supra?!
2jz !!!
My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it’s just a regular looking sedan
There’s an older Toyota sedan called the crown that actually came with the inline 6 cylinder made famous in the supra. Super boring looking, but incredibly cool car. I pointed one out to an Uber passenger the other day and got the same reaction.
There is both a new Crown and an imported 90s S150 Crown in my area and the existence of the new one always makes me sad because my brain sees it more often than the other one…
I can recognize Chargers, Explorers, and Crown Vics pretty easily.
Whee - oooo! Whee - oooo!
last time I was in vancouver they had ~2014 dodge caravans too which are absolute dogshit, my family had one for some time. It looks especially dumb with the ramming thing on the front
If it’s trains or planes on the other hand…
ooh a mazda miata/mx5 na
The distorted perspective made me think rx7 at first.
Reminds me of XKCD 915
Amazing how there really is an XKXD for everything 😘👌
an XKXD for everything
This is the best response of an xkcd comic I’ve ever seen
Meh same with dog, tree, flower, architecture, bird, etc, people.
Spanish Revival
I used to be able to detect a 90s Chrysler/Dodge engine by their sound. It was very distinctive across the whole range.
Not a lot of those survived. Their transmissions sucked ass. I don’t think I could do it anymore.
If you hear a car that sounds like a box of metal shavings dumped in a food processor… That’s a Ford Focus. I know them by the sound of the transmission alone.
The Chrysler/Dodge 5.7L V8 “HEMI” engine has a distinct sound as well. They put that engine in all their cars, trucks, and SUVs from 2000 almost to the current day.
I’m more discerning regarding the model of my first car, or similar models. Got used to finding that car in a parking lot, etc.
Shrimps cant see extra colors though. They are just too dumb to mix basic colors in their brain, instead just evolved extra color receptors
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
The back labels are why cats sniff each other’s bums when they meet.
Always found cats names on their collars myself. Where do you live that they’re putting them on the back? And why is that helpful?
A place where the cats are so ugly, they shave their butts and teach them to walk backwards?
2017 chevy stigmaballs
the stig’s american cousin’s car?
My (who I subsequently learnt very autistic) friend could identify the state of origin of number plates of cars based on their text colour. Some states had number plates written in slightly different shades of blue so this wasn’t that easy.
For them to remember the make and model was easy.
I’m not autistic, but I get this. It pisses me off when states change their designs AND the color palette, and it’s not a huge change. Why not just kick me in the junk while you’re at it?
