Oh man, could you imagine if THAT was how Trump ran for another term?
Democrats: Surely our fellow americans wouldn't repeat-repeat-repeat vote for him! We can compromise to pass the "We Can Keep The Best Presidents As Long As We Want And It Is Temporarily Legal To Drink Water Without Asking Nestle" bill!
I have the opposite reaction when I see these memes. To me it's a reminder of how inclusive some of my favorite nerdy communities are, on top of being a fun little in-joke like any meme should be. And I'm an old beardy middle aged dad too for whatever that's worth.
However, that doesn't mean the image itself is innocent or appropriate for most audiences. I'm not going to be asking the family's opinion on this one, lol. But I don't see it as a manga fetish thing at all. More empowerment than exploitation for the owners of the legs shown.
I'm a couple years older and didn't even get to start trying medications until my 40s.
And sure enough, gifted student and high scores on standardized tests and IQ and stuff, right here. Looking back it can be pretty frustrating to see how much of my childhood was shaped by it, but it's harder to blame the adults in my life the further back I go.
What really frustrates me is that I went to a psych practice as an adult looking for some kind of help with my extremely stressful issues that I noticed exactly matched every description of ADHD I could find. There were questionnaires and a small battery of neuropsych type questions to evaluate things like short term memory and processing speed. I did well. It did not lead to a diagnosis.
So yeah, when I am sitting in a room 1:1 with somebody and I am in performance anxiety hyperfocus mode, I can do good on some fucking word problems. And that meant I DON'T have ADHD? Thanks, fuckers.
Thanks for posting this, because I started getting bummed thinking about how much of a great resource the full reddit history would be to just have online, were that whole thing not ruined gut bad reasons by bad people.
I love this post. You are on the other side of the world yet you've envisioned an optimistic and plausible path for this country to start not just rebuilding but to find some redemption and even inspire people again. Eventually.
I'm not in NY, but am in the US within a several hour drive of there.
It's funny how often I see a headline like this, then think to myself "now, now, let's be reasonable and give them the benefit of the doubt because crazy situations happen every day..."
aside: You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them. I have those neural pathways pretty safely contained, but it's important to do maintenance.
Anyways, I often think to myself oh hey they aren't just mind numbingly stupid and surely there's something else going on. Then I read the details and it's like every sentence pushes my face closer to my silly optimistic assumptions bellowing "search your feelings, you know it to be true" like some really heavy-handed metaphor about feeling the call of the dark side.
Nah, I guess I do know how stupid they are. But their stupidity isn't gonna frustrate me into being like them again.
When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said "I'm too old for this shit." I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I've spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.
I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you're ready)
Well now I absolutely expect to read a future story about somebody working their way into ICE to do some good. But then before they knew it they were hauled out into the desert and told by masked men to execute a Mexican detainee like some kind of fucked up gang initiation ritual, to prove their true loyalty.
That's right about observation events. They are often called interactions instead.
But the wave-particle duality applies to literally everything at the quantum level, per the standard model and quantum field theory anyway. And that's a model with an incredible track record.
Looking at a particle as a wave is usually in the context of that particle by itself moving in a straight line through a vacuum. There isn't really vibration and temperature; there aren't even atoms! You just have the particle's energy in eV.
Whether we can subjectively compare the packets of energy in quantum fields with the waves of energy through matter, I have no idea. The math is solid though.
With "bears" being plural, I think it's very possible you score one pet on one bear but do not find time in your remaining days on earth to get your hand(s)/stump(s)/organ(s) into some scritches on the second one.
Therefore I must, with the utmost politeness, disagree with your assertion!
And I just know this is a great metaphor for some manufacturing defect or race condition I've investigated at work, lol.
Speaking of which, in that analogy the "remaining days on earth" would definitely be stored as a double precision floating point and not an integer. I mean obviously, lol.
I think it was only like 6 billion, right?
A huge number on its own, but in this context it's nothing.