While I’ve never seen this, it’s worth noting that driving culture is pretty significantly different across the US even in the same state but different cities.
Merging in Philly? Bring your knife. Merging in Pittsburgh? They’ve already made room.
So it’s possible that this person at least sees more pleasant driving behavior wherever they’re at in the US.
Great book, I still occasionally use its “glass teletypes” when referring to screens
One plus the number of lives she saved each time you save her.
So uh, what. You gonna hold onto that info and not share?
Honestly I think we’re in the radium water phase of the tech: it’s been found to do things we couldn’t before, but nobody’s got a clear idea of what exactly what it can do, so you’ve got everyone throwing it into everything hoping for a big cash-out. Like, y’know, Radithor when people were just figuring out radioactivity was a thing.
Not very hopeful if you have diseases easily managed in a global society, like epilepsy, but for which you are effectively dead if global medicine production stops.
If it helps: I asked my pharmacy and they now send me a text asking if I would like to refill the prescription explicitly shortly before it’s out, so the scheduling is (mostly) no longer my problem. Might be worth seeing if they can do that for you. Good luck!
Huh, me mum was a waitress at one point and taught me to stack for politeness, I didn’t realize it was a preference thing. Now I’m not sure what to do.
I’ll still keep ordering the queso though, that shit’s delicious.
I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Damn, and here I thought I had this locked down because I was salty that so many places struggle with + in the email addy. But my god, there’s comments?
If you’d like, two strategies:
I always keep a book on the John, and will pick it up any time I’m in the room. Gets me through that “first half is dry build” some books have, even if it’s a paragraph at a time.
Other is audiobook+mindless game. I spend a decent chunk of my afternoons when I’m in this mode just playing Peglin or more recently Haste muted while the book goes.
This book on the John I’ve done since childhood, it’s got me through some dense stuff, I’d definitely recommend it. Hope it helps!
From the first episode of The Boondocks, the pivotal moment for main character Huey when he realizes dropping inconvenient truths on the rich won’t upset them in the slightest:
Huey: “Ruin the party? They love me. These people aren’t worried about us. They’re not worried about anything. They’re rich. No matter what happens, these people just keep applauding.”
I’ll bite: I powered on my computer. My bios started which started my init process, which started my daemons, which started my login manager (maybe slim), which started my DE (maybe gnome), which I use to go to my browser in order to watch other people stream video games.
I’m dicey on what the browser is being used for - maybe security software? - but I feel like it’s plausible.
To take a stronger tack on what loonsun has said: IQ tests are bullshit.
Measuring intelligence - that is, the ability to find patterns and integrate experiences to synthesize solutions - is still an unsolved problem, and any psych major will happily tell you that - they’ll have learned it in their first course, even. No one’s figured out a way to do it that isn’t just testing knowledge instead of the actual “intelligence” of someone.
To give you just one reason they’re bullshit: there’s no IQ test in existence where studying for the test does not significantly improve your score. Clearly that means the test is at least in part testing what you know, instead of some “base aspect” of your mind.
Another reason often quoted is that tests made in different cultures produce different results for people who aren’t from that culture. So clearly, again, learned cultural knowledge - not some “base intelligence” - is involved in the test.
So instead of worrying about IQ tests, put them out of your mind. The only people who care about them are charlatans. If you’re having trouble functioning in daily life, you’ll likely go a lot further finding resources that help with the tasks you’re struggling with - which may not be easy, but will help you. A therapist may also be a good person to chat with this about - mine has certainly been a big help to me. Good luck!
…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
He’s exploiting exactly the same weakness that llms exploit to appear so smart: he just sounds confident all the time, and since people use confidence as a shortcut to evaluate accuracy, anyone who isn’t paying attention to the actual substance is going to just nod and smile at the confidence and assume everything is perfect.
This should absolutely coincide with the changing of daylight savings time
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damn I miss r/wordavalanches