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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
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This is pretty accurate for me (lemy.lol)

submitted 6 months ago by True@lemy.lol to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Because human brains aren't supposed to be able to do emotional and mental parkour like completely redirecting our focus on a new topic in under a second without prior warning.

For me personally, if it's a call I expect, it drops the anxiety levels by considerable amount. Even better, if I can prepare a plan/scenario for the call, and take notes during it.

Of course, if it's someone from my close family or friends, that also helps. But unexpected calls from unknown numbers (or known, but from like work or distant acquaintances) freak me out.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 6 months ago

I can handle phonecalls from friends and family. Anyone else I just won't pick up. Screw you buddy.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Incoming calls I can handle. But me calling somewhere? Hell naw!

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because human brains aren’t supposed to be able to do emotional and mental parkour like completely redirecting our focus on a new topic in under a second without prior warning.

citation needed lol

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Evolution, last time I checked, selects for stuff that a species regularly does on a very long timescale. We have not had telephones invented for long enough for them to be relevant to the way our brain evolved

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, we haven't had doors much longer relative to how long our brains have been evolving. The time between doors and telephones is a hiccup in comparison.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Doors don't require much brain power to operate, though