I feel this way but about people identifying dogs
It’s ginger.
only a ginger can call another ginger ginger… :)
So orange. (I don’t actually know if ginger is part of the orange family)
Ginger is actually white, they dye it. Big Ginger is a lie.
Boo! Dog hater! /s
I unironically hate dogs
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?
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.
What makes you think they’re envious?
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.
My dad can look up and tell a 767 from an a330 passing over at 37,000ft. I work as a commercial pilot and tell the difference when ones parked at the terminal still. It must be some spicy brain shit
Basic reading skills and a not completely non-functioning memory is beyond people’s abilities?
I ran into someone and I said “How’s the Corolla Cross?” and she looked at me shocked and said “No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?” I was like “Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla.”
Basically, I would’ve written autistic guide books on local ferns if I’d been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain’t found a new bird in a while.
Saw a presentation of someone visting remote islands and discovering new types of ferns. Talked about contributing to the the open database of ferns: https://fernphy.github.io/ Never too late!
Half of them say what make and model they are on the back. That’s what those plastic words glued to them are. 🤷♂️
Exactly, and you can usually guess the model year within a few years, simply by looking at the styling characteristics of the vehicle. It’s not too difficult to tell if a car came from the first half or second half of the 90s, for example.
I do notice a lot more made in the last couple years not having any identifying markings. So many EVs that don’t even have a company logo on them (sometimes even Teslas don’t due to how they are made; it really depends on the day the car was built).
Every car comes with badging.
It’s not hard to take them off. I’m fairly certain the Tesla’s are being removed by the owners or haters
There are also the times the worker didn’t put it on or put it on wrong during assembly and it fell off before even going out to the customer. I worked at the Fremont plant; this was pretty common. It’s also why I would not own one even if Musk wasn’t a huge douche nozzle; they’re put together like shit by underpaid contractors and robots that break down every minute and a half.
All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it’s stuck with me ever since.
I never knew one school bus from another, they were all just big yellow boxes. Then I started looking to buy a used one and somehow I can now tell make, model and year of every single one I see. I know what engines and transmissions they all have. I can even tell my district’s buses apart from the neighboring district’s buses although they’re exactly the same buses, even if I can’t see the lettering or numbers on the sides. And yet somehow I’m still single!
Ill marry you and we can ride off into the sunset in your skoolie.
About that: my skoolie only has a single bed. You could have the hammock, I suppose.
Sounds like bad planning.
Or good planning if you hate company.
buddy hammock? :3
Weird, I have been looking to buy a smartphone and I can still not tell them apart.
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jk I am not on the looking for a new smartphone. Just been thinking of getting one.
I live to go walking with my friend who knows a lot about botany. Where I see ‘field’ or ‘shoulder of road’ she sees all different kind of flowers and showers me with their Latin names.
In cities in like that but with history and architecture. It’s such a treat to hear people with a differently tuned set of goggles and a passion about a particular topic.
I dated a girl whose dad owned an antiques store. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a fucking trip. She knew what everything was and almost exactly what they would be valued at.
The only downside to dating her was that she would do things like hanging up an authentic “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer” poster from the 1930s over her mantel. It was hard to convince her that people wouldn’t really appreciate the historicity of such artifacts.
Maybe she had secret sympathies…
I think the only way to display something like that is alongside allied propaganda from the era. It does all have a very striking aesthetic, so I can understand wanting to display it, but there are limits
Yeah oof. Nazi memorabilia should just be donated to a museum in almost every case.
OOP can tell a truck from a sedan.
vs 
They are both HPV.
That’s all I know. :P
Ooh fancy pants over here, able to distinguish colors from each other. Capable of describing things. Having the capacity to tell objects apart.
When I used to watch commercials1, this shit would just register itself in my brain, lurking silently for when/if it comes up. I’m not even a “car guy” by any stretch of the imagination, and credit this mostly to the insidious and brain-worm-like quality of car advertising. For a while there, I could identify most cars just by seeing the shape and position of the headlamps at night. It is/was the most useless superpower, and I’m still a little spooked that one can be low-key programmed like this.
I suppose it’s possible to come by this while racking up commuter hours, since the make/model is usually right there on the back of most cars, but that doesn’t explain the headlamp thing.
1 - I will leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how one might dispose of most advertising when watching shows.
Sedan? Yeah no. Brown car. Saying sedan makes you sound like some kind of car expert.
Do you know why a chicken coop has two doors? If it had four, it’d be a chicken sedan
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
My partner is like this with birds xD
me: “Oh look, a starling!”
him: “Yep, it’s a bird.”
(though to be fair, he’s getting better at it :P)
It’s the Merlin app, isn’t it? They were all just “birds” to me before I started identifying their calls… and it’s a fast pipeline from there to borderline “birdwatching”. What has my life become?
Look, Raymond. A yellow crested warbler.
Used a bird call app over in western Melbourne and it insisted we could hear a starling. Bloody things are everywhere in England and I don’t know one when i hear it.
To be fair, almost no one is excited to see a starling.
Id be very sad to see a single starling. They always travel in groups.
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
That’s a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn’t need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it’s due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
Oh shit. I forgot about the 2018 mid quarter decade refresh. They don’t usually get that much attention. I’m glad people like you are here to track those changes.
I admit I only know what a Stigmata is because the commercial with the guy with the bleeding hands was cool. Killer ad campaign to release them on Halloween too!
