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50% of people are below average intelligence.

(Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it's still funny.)

Try to take deep breaths. If it's low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.

Alternative if your brain/body won't allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.

The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you're in an altered state of consciousness.

Meanwhile in another universe "No one voted on my comment, therefore they're ignoring me because I'm right"

And in another "wow that's a lot of upvotes, I knew I was right!"

Your logic elsewhere may or may not be sound but your diagnosis on why people are voting the way they are is clearly not.

Self burns are rare. You just admitted you're no better than someone from a group you hate.

Actually, the British beat the French to it. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the guillotine by about 100 years.

Yet another case where another nation somehow becomes better at a sport the British invented.

The southern English are trapped between a rock and a hard place with the whole thing. They do like the idea of stealing culture from the French, but they want to appear to be separate at the same time. And appearing northern would be even worse.

Immediately not trust it and assume I'm too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.

And next I'd be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.

Even if there's truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.

UKGOV haven't started on things like Wikipedia yet. They know kids use it for school and blinded by ideology though they are, even they can see there'd be an enormous backlash if they blocked it any time soon.

If that's going to happen at all, I doubt it would be before the next election. That's whether Labour get re-elected or the Tories make an unexpected comeback. You can tell how far Labour have fallen in the eyes of their party faithful when they've taken a Tory-drafted policy and made it their own.

Ironically, the up and coming third option fascist party, have said they're going to repeal the Online Safety Act. They have other fish to fry if they get in, and they'll want to keep their preferred demographic(s) happy while they do it.

I assume that eventually something like the OSA would come back to "protect the children". They love the current US President.

None of this is hopeful. Take this as more of a rant.

Spiderman can definitely be pluralised that way if it's a surname. I'm conflicted otherwise.

Spider-matopodes?

This actually got me to check something.

I used to spend a lot of time in a location where all of the satellite dishes seemed to point towards a major non-satellite broadcast mast. People in the area were, and probably still are, somewhat suspicious, because that's where their regular roof aerials also point.

However, that mast happens to be largely south, or, you might say equator-wards of there. In the same direction as a ring of satellites orbiting above the equator, perhaps.

So I've just been on street view to check for satellite dishes roughly an equal distance south of the mast. They also point south. Regular TV aerials point the other way, to the regular broadcast tower.

Suspicion debunked!

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Are you sure? They're both unvoiced th, which is what thorn is for if you intend to distinguish.

I can't tell whether Old English used eth for those words early on - though the unvoiced quality in modern English makes that seem unlikely. Did we also devoice them? Eth died out fairly quickly in favour of thorn in all cases, voiced or not. Possibly because its name is "eþ" not "eð". It doesn't even use itself. (Though, ironically, 'w' also doesn't and it replaced ƿynn, which does.)

There was another commenter - actually might have been the same guy, I'm not all that sure - who did use eth for voiced instances, to similar controversial effect in comment sections.

We have a diacritic in English text already. Rather than above or below, it goes to the right of the letter it modifies and looks an awful lot like a letter h.

And if you don't quite buy that, remember that a lot of diacritics started life as letters that were eventually moved above a preceding letter and then simplified. The tilde on ñ was an n itself; the ring on å was another a; and in at least some cases the umlaut was an e.

Modifying-h may only be stuck where it is because technology did away with the need for economical scribes before they had a chance to start messing with it.

Are we really going to compare video game "difficult" with real life "difficult"?

"deal with it all" is the falling on your behind repeatedly and not being discouraged by it. If that requires being a one in a million athlete, sure, that's what I'm saying.

People who find difficult things fun are unicorns in my book.

I'm also old and neurodivergent. Kids sound as much a nightmare as going out and partying.

With a statement like that, there's no middle ground. Either you're a unicorn of a parent who can deal with it all or you're leaving someone else with most of the burden.

... so tell us, precious, which is it?

Beard gives me a chin, which is otherwise weak. (This is apparently a common problem in modern humans. Too much utensil use and not enough flesh tearing begets a reduced jaw.)

Even so, I take it off occasionally because, even when washed well, it will begin to literally irritate me.

It's my own hair. It's not supposed to do that. And yet...

aaand now I'm itchy.

Once I've been through the recommended deep breathing exercises, I lay still for as long as possible, and then, if I've not fallen asleep, I get up, turn on the computer and do something mindless in Minecraft until I'm tired. I might watch videos online. I have Redshift installed which reddens the screen at night, so I don't get too much blue light.

It usually takes an hour or three and then I'm ready to try sleeping again.

Or at least, that was the case until I got on new medication which helps with falling and staying asleep. Now, if I do wake up with mind spinning, it's usually three or four hours before I get up anyway, so I do all the above but don't go back to bed at the end of it. I just have something for breakfast and then carry on a normal day.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've felt the need for a depression nap since I've been on them. Doesn't mean my depression is cured, but I'm almost never tired enough during the day to want to take one.

Not sure there's any scientific basis behind the time of day a person is born and their preferred wakefulness hours in later life, but hey maybe it's the case in some circumstances.

Not so in mine. I was a morning birth, but my preferred rising time for as long as I've had a choice has always been closer to noon. 10am is my 6am, you might say.

I would not be surprised if there's a genetic link. One of my parents is also a late riser (at least, preferentially), and I've inherited that.