Post Amfvn2LfPI40QMCwM4 by dr2chase@ohai.social
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(DIR) Post #Amfv4mRpAEYIMpz6zQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-04T21:26:15Z
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Are some people mechanically cursed in the same way others are gifted?
(DIR) Post #Amfv9p26ymxnpjMUro by wendigo@metalhead.club
2024-10-04T21:27:07Z
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@futurebird Give us an example, if you would.
(DIR) Post #AmfvBow2JZma6nTOc4 by Pagan_Animist@beekeeping.ninja
2024-10-04T21:27:11Z
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@futurebird ✋🏻
(DIR) Post #AmfvCvLvwIu0Io72Q4 by danblondell@masto.nyc
2024-10-04T21:27:11Z
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@futurebird my wife is mechanically indifferent, which may amount to the same thing.
(DIR) Post #AmfvG8hmkfckaCrnbk by GimpyGurl@disabled.social
2024-10-04T21:28:16Z
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@futurebird sure, why not
(DIR) Post #AmfvUoeNb7bcjAGvdg by flying_saucers@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T21:30:56Z
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@futurebird yes, I live with someone like that
(DIR) Post #AmfvWTyTRPsdBJSvlA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-04T21:31:06Z
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@wendigo I use a brand of mechanical pencil that I have tested in many ways with many young people. The person in question broke it in a way that cannot be repaired in *record* time... and NOT by being in any way malicious. Just doing ... exactly the opposite of what seems "obvious" to most. This happens to every object. Great kid in nearly all respects ... but will pull a knob and turn a pulley. Maybe it's a kind of genius. IDK.
(DIR) Post #AmfvZNil9EGMehUvFw by SRLevine@neuromatch.social
2024-10-04T21:31:43Z
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@futurebird Yeah, there are people where if something is going to break spontaneously it will happen preferentially when they are using it. They have been cursed by gremlins.
(DIR) Post #AmfvlTWHPjuw7BQXvk by schratze@todon.nl
2024-10-04T21:31:47Z
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@futurebird I have this curse resting upon me that whenever a tech problem occurs, another different tech problem also occurs at the same time, making the solution much more difficult to find
(DIR) Post #Amfvn2LfPI40QMCwM4 by dr2chase@ohai.social
2024-10-04T21:33:59Z
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@futurebird @wendigo that child has a promising future in QA and red-teaming.
(DIR) Post #Amfvop9RRdEs4aLFD6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-04T21:34:00Z
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@wendigo This gift doesn't extended to computers and coding yet. She's quite good at that. Though I've also met people who have a way of gumming up any computer program in the most creative ways... completely innocently. They should be treasured by UI testers. They are the final bosses.
(DIR) Post #Amfw6IhEqklyd1U1kO by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-04T21:37:42Z
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@futurebird There is a (not at all true) legend told about the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli.Supposedly, he was cursed so that physics experiments would fail in his vicinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
(DIR) Post #AmfwPunJQW9oHzg32O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-04T21:41:15Z
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@toolbear That's more like mechanical obstinance than a curse.
(DIR) Post #AmfwtBc3yUbGqhNBzM by muellerwhh@sueden.social
2024-10-04T21:46:31Z
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@futurebird Of course, why not?
(DIR) Post #Amfx2DDHOVWAQ05J6e by wendigo@metalhead.club
2024-10-04T21:48:09Z
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@futurebird Ha! I get what you mean now. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AmfxMuLoidgQ00wk2S by mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party
2024-10-04T21:51:53Z
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@futurebird my ex husband could break things in ways I never thought possible. I bought him an iPod mini, one of those iPods that you could run over with a car and it would still keep goingBroke it the first month by wedging it between a door and the doorjam ... How? Never did figure it out
(DIR) Post #Amfy0j81rYgsmEU5pY by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2024-10-04T21:59:04Z
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Maybe some people, but I see more people who break things because they're just never present in the moment. Their minds are somewhere else and they have only peripheral awareness of what they're doing.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AmfyijCGyB0zjNS0Bc by JetlagJen@geekdom.social
2024-10-04T22:07:02Z
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@futurebird yes, like my son.Headphones, even "rugged" ones, do not live long near him. Wires spontaneously fray. Screens mysteriously crack.In his case, it's autism. Stimming plus a poor sense of what his body is doing means he fiddles things to destruction.
(DIR) Post #Amfz0c8jwi8b3ZKL9E by DiazCarrete@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T22:10:18Z
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@futurebird mechanical antipathy
(DIR) Post #Amfz5985EZZsWuBHdY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-04T22:11:07Z
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@DiazCarrete Machines whimper and try to escape.
(DIR) Post #Amg0DwrCKcX31o2mno by catselbow@fosstodon.org
2024-10-04T22:23:53Z
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@futurebird @wendigo I've known a few people like that. In our department they're regarded as an important resource for testing things. After you've done your best to foolproof it, and you've stress-tested it and fuzz-tested it to the point where you can't see how ANYTHING could go wrong, you hand it over to one of these people, knowing from long experience that they'll break it in some creative, unexpected way, and within a short time they do. Lather, rinse, repeat.
(DIR) Post #AmgvpIC3f1tFItkU2C by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-05T09:09:20Z
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@futurebird definitely. These days, it's usually called dyspraxia. I encounter it every time I need to anything with my hands.