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What super power would be impractical in real life?
  • I remember one of the tidbits I picked up from a psychology textbook was that people who were worse at knowing if their partner was lying were in happier relationships. Turns out that white lies are important.

  • What super power would be impractical in real life?
  • I think the superhearing power is going to be different than you think. You can already hear your clothes rubbing against skin, the air conditioning blowing, etc. Your brain is pretty good at filtering those out. Now, the conversations will be more difficult, but think about your experiences at a party. Most of the time you can hear another group's conversation if you listened and focused on them, but you can tune them out (most of the time, ignoring the cocktail party effect stuff for now). Unless you have focus issues already, it wouldn't be a big deal. The issue would be the initial period where your brain has to learn what exactly to filter out. Right now, a rustle to my right would be a bad sign, and hearing a rat crawling through the wall would freak me out. After a few weeks though, I bet I'd have adjusted.

  • Legal definitions aside- what milestone made you think, "I'm an adult now."?
  • Damn. You hit the nail on the head with that one. I don't remember when I started referring to adults by their first names, but it was such an odd feeling. Now I call everyone from the 89 year old neighbor to the 9 year old across the street by their first name, and they're okay with it, gack!

  • Mom fired as sex-ed teacher after being exposed as convicted prostitute, working escort
  • I mean, just my personal opinion, but abstinence does need to be taught as a co-curriculum with a large portion of relationship education (particularly what a good relationship is/has, and what a bad relationship looks like and how to leave it), and stoicism and some other philosophies that demonstrate how forgoing pleasure (for some things, for periods of time) can lead to better outcomes. I don't want my kid thinking they need to refrain from sex because it's somehow immoral, but I also don't want them to jump into every 'relationship' that comes their way in school and start having sex with someone who is just using them for their genitals.

  • Texas abortion case goes before state's highest court, as more women join lawsuit
  • And it was a hilarious one, with some funny subtext. The nature guy with a blowpipe shooting a redneck who was littering from a pickup truck? You can't tell me that isn't oddly reminiscent of some of today's fuck cars stereotypes.

  • The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist
  • I would hope every single high school graduate could remember the simple pictograph of how communication works:

    • Person A has an idea -
    • Person A encodes the idea and transmits it -
    • Person B receives the transmission and decodes it -
    • Person B has the idea-
    • Reverse the process for feedback and confirmation of idea -

    That encoding bit is pretty important...

  • Trump, Who Destroyed Roe, Thinks He Can Run As an Abortion 'Moderate' in 2024
  • There are plenty of racists that are happy to let abortion be a thing. I've heard (and lost count of how many times) repeatedly about planned parenthood being started by a racist, etc. etc. The republicans aren't a complete monomind, they just get along really well at the 'we hate others' party that their leaders throw.

  • People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?
  • As someone with wax issues in the ears, no, q-tips suck at cleaning ears. You'll end up pushing the wax into your eardrum and causing the impacted wax that you were trying to avoid in the first place. That's why I use those tiny screwdrivers. /shrug

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