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Everything going on has got me down, I need a break. What's something good that's happened in your life recently?
  • You can 3D print containers that fit all kind of juice/pop/milk lids. They can be any height, but my favorite are the ones that nest almost perfectly inside giving you one bottlecap worth of storage (perfect for pills or sim/sd cards).

    I've had my printer for 6 months and still get a kick out of this.

  • What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
  • One that bugs me a lot that I noticed just in the last 5 years or so is over pronouncing the T in words like celebrity and community - yes it's spelled with a T but it's not fully voiced like you're saying the word Tea. I noticed it first on YouTube and now in some audiobooks and even the occasional coworker.

  • Android 15's Private Space is getting more features to hide your apps and notifications
  • I just finished reading "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt on how hard it is for parents to police kids self-destructive phone use and tech companies aren't willing to do anything to help because it's so profitable to advertise to them and sell their data, this feels like another step down that road.

  • If given a new life would you choose to be born the same sex that you were?
  • When I think of growing up female again, but in the current time, it sounds terrible, but then I think of growing up male inbhe current times and it seems awful too, so I think I have to tick the "neither box" and accept I'm too old for this modern shit in any gender form.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 18 March
  • The most recent interesting ones have been The Age of Deer(all about deer in North America from a social perspective), scarcity brain(how our brains seem rigged for gambling and how it affects our lives) and WordSlut(gender politics and how it interacts with language).

    I've never been much into reading fiction, but would love good human-adjacent(ie not particle physics) nonfic recommendations.

  • Do you think people's personality often times matches their looks?
  • I think people's looks and personality correspond in a few different ways.

    One is that people's choices for style and personal care reflect their personality, so having fancy clothes indicate a person who cares enough about looks to put in the effort.

    People also can choose to associate themselves visually with different groups, and if they identify with that group they likely have similar values, including those around personality.

    Even things someone can't control, such as height, probably affect their personality because it changes the way others interact with them in society.

  • Lies, deception!
  • (back before the days of smartphones & internet everywhere)

    I once was sick in a foreign country and bought some chewable vitamin C that turned out to be those fizzing tabs you put in water - cue foaming at the mouth and utter confusion.

    Happy it was still edible, just not in the way I tried to consume it.

  • Do you sit at a desk and keyboard for multiple hours? If yes, please recommend a good chair.
  • I work for a company that specializes in ergonomic work setups and the OTs recommend Ergocentric chairs at least 90% of the time.

    They're expensive, but if you are having health issues due to sitting then your employer has a "duty to accommodate" to get you a better setup.

    We also often recommend sit-stand desks because too comfy of a chair can just cause different problems from lack of movement.

  • Is attention seeking behavior a personal failing or a societal I'll?

    Some personality problems, like abandonment issues or low IQ, I think of as due to genetics or adverse childhood events not the fault of the person...other traits like being a person who litters or being greedy I think of as personal failings - my questions is where would you put attention seeking behaviors like being super entitled about your wedding or lying about traumatic events?

    Are these caused by social problems, and if so what might they be? Or are they just people wanting attention because it feels good and they feel entitled to do whatever they have to to get it? I have cognitive dissonance on this and am curious to hear other people's take and why.

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    Do you dream in first or third person?
  • I get these often and I wouldn't define them as third person but more "non-person". To me first person dreams are where I'm watching it through my eyes and Thurs person would be watching myself as I do things (like third person video games). Not even being in the dream, just a mind movie as you called it, seems like another level removed.

    I wonder how much the amount of movies and video games around these days has changed this - whether dreams in the past would have only been first person because that's the only thing people had experienced.

  • What improved your life so much, you wished you did sooner?
  • I wish that our store layouts were consistent enough for this to work, I have to change my list order if I'm going to a different store, and remember idiosyncrasies like in one the condiments are at the entrance before produce...maddening!

  • Chimera
  • Way back around 2000 there was a creator who did this and called them unfortunate animals, she liked to make like a 3 eyes teddy bear with a crocodile tail and 9 arms. I think she also combined stuffed animal chimeras and taxidermy.

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