I don’t have experience with Twitter or Mastodon but it reminds me of time when I quit drinking.
When I quit drinking and tried to stay around people I used to drink with, I realized really fast how pointless this “engagement” (really just two people speaking past each other, and feeling like they have deep conversation) is. It’s almost insulting what a waste of effort such an “engagement” can be.
What’s even worse that the stolen comment got much more engagement than the original.
I’ve seen her comments all around YouTube, and this always seems to happen to her. (I’m assuming it’s because they are the most insightful, informative yet still on point.) Don’t give up Barbara, some of us are seeing through the scam and rooting for you!
but no pepersplaining please
Do you “discard” the water by… just letting it into the sink? How long before aresnic is everywhere?
Skeleton:
“like this comment if you think this post is especially good”
“everything has pros and cons”
I usually give the CGP Grey’s legendary answer: “…but it’s hardly ever the case that all the pros and all the cons all PERFECTLY balance each other out, right?”
It doesn’t matter if I understand how the alien antigravity socks work -if they’re tech, they’re tech.
See? That’s what I like about the quote. It points to the fact that the difference is in the eye of the beholder.
from our perspective is implied in every sentence ever.
And no, you can’t expect phrases to “say what they mean”----that would just require them to include more phrases, etc…
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Stand-up meeting: “to be frank, Frank is starting his holiday in Frankfurt next week so…”
Does it count as reliable if I only have sample size of 1?
Beyerdynamic. Had DT770 pro for 8 years before they “broke” (cable connection failed, I think it’s still fixable–making them last for many more years—by someone with skills I don’t have, and they could have lasted more if I handled them a tad better.)
Recently I replaced them with DT770 pro X and they sound perfect to me.
I mean, imagine enabling a trial and then suddenly finding yourself screaming and pooping all day, waaah, waah. 👼
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Amt. Unit Item
1 pc Star Trek-style system
does not seem that tall to me…
So THAT’s why Minecraft is so popular
Dude, you just made this no doubt question far, far more interesting!
…and what if it was running AWAY from the sun!
Here, Fixed it for ya.
I see, it has to be cultural. I’m from Czech Republic, but born close to Slovakian/Hungarian border. Where I come from, the spinach would be the suspicious ingredient. (I was like, “are you out of wipes or something?”)
Cucumbers, Balkan cheese, tomatoes, pepper, maybe onion would make it much easier to blend in the crowd.
There’s no justification, it’s part of a broken culture.
As a Czech citizen living in a city, I see it happening all around me. By far not for everyone, but for a lot of people treating trash properly is considered a fool’s errand, virtual signalling, try-hard, you name it. This toxicity is unfortunately too common in the culture, and lot of people (including me) are just afraid or tired of being seen as a try-hard. It’s especially “awkward” to clean up.
Obvious littering is one thing but I recon most of the trash floating around is due to “practical littering”, where people, if trash cans are full, will just “neatly” place their beloved trash next to the can, kiss it goodbye and walk around as if wind does not exist. I’m probably too cynical but sometimes I imagine the same people going judgemental when they see trash caught up in bushes.
As for cigarette butts, that’s just dumb. I don’t think I’ve seen someone toss something like a plastic bottle or a bag on the ground, just like that, more than 5 times in my life, but with cigarette butts I see them all the time – most often just before they jump on a tram or a bus. (I’m strongly against violence and bullying, but rationality aside, to be honest, there’s a part of me that is wishing they had to pick it up and chew it.)
(Goddamn, about 2 weeks ago, someone must have left some balls of yarn outside, next to a trashcan, on straight street. I was walking to grocery shop and some kind of thread was unrolled along the pavement for, i kid you not, like 150m. It was bizarre. Could have been some serious TikTok/YTShorts material if someone wanted to make a “goody PSA”.)
wait, why spinach? (text-only answer, please)
Along with other things said here, people tend to “forget” that there’s a real person on the other end.
I vaguely recall Nicholas Christakis talking about a study they made, where they created a bot which would simply remind people of the fact that there’s a real person on the other end, and they found that it would help. (That study was done in some university platform and is centuries old in internet time, though. I think he spoke about it about 6 years ago on podcast with Sam Harris.)