I don’t know if brain eating amoebae are a common occurrence in tap water, but it woud explain a lot about Texas.

Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive

Sorry what, by whom?

Apply directly to forehead!

I have, and it is basically exactly that same thing. Being able to switch contexts quickly can sometimes be a superpower.

Similarly, being suddenly interested in learning a new skill very often but always only for a brief amount of time, has allowed me to get a little bit of knowledge of many things. I’m not an expert on anything but I have had so many hobbies and interests that I can easily pick up new things because there’s always some base knowledge to link it to.

Honestly grateful too for everyone here for validating my feelings and making me feel more okay about myself. It has been quite confrontational to realise that what I thought was my identity was actually a disorder, but at the same time quite comforting to know that my struggles are something I can learn to deal with

Samesies! (Sort of, am still on the waiting list.) I used to think: “these stupid “adhd” memes are not specific to ADHD at all, I’m normal and I experience life exactly like this!” Only to realise that not everyone experiences life like this and I am not normal.

Glad you’re alright, MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING 🙏

Yes, but not because of guns. While the adverse effects of leaded gasoline were known in the 60s and leaded gasoline got banned in most countries, the US only phased it out in 1996. Which means that millions of people alive today are exposed as a child. This has a huge impact on IQ:

The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015. This amounted to a total loss of 824,097,690 IQ points, disproportionately endured by those born between 1951 and 1980.

LLMs are Large Language Models and generate text, not images.

(ok, LLMs can’t count either but still)

Other victims include 2 women, a man, and… a lawyer?

Then edit the less *fewer as well

Albeit, caveat, awry, segue, haphazard, and facsimile are all pronounced weirdly and incorrectly for those who learned a lot of English by reading.

with *whom

I suspect Trump is not really orange. I think he is white and he paints himself orange. I don’t know why he’d do that, but it is very, very weird.

Where is Findland? I can’t fin it.

_I’m an alien I’m a Lithuanian I’m an Englishman in New York _

And if I catch it coming back my way I’m gonna smurf it to you 🎶

Thought for a long time it was "I guess it rains down in Africa 🤷🏻‍♂️

The website literally says:

Dutch kids learn it from parents & in school. It’s taught in drivers’ ed, and used to pass their driving test. It’s been Dutch commonsense for 50 years.

I don’t know how or why this is always attributed to the Dutch. I’m Dutch. We definitely did not learn this. Not in school, not from parents, not in driver’s ed. We do not open our doors this way.

The thing is that all Dutch drivers are also cyclists, that helps a lot. Also, our infrastructure is very very very VERY accommodating to cyclists. Often bicycle paths are separated from roads,which helps a lot.

When opening doors, we simply look. There’s a mirror very conveniently placed for the sole purpose of looking behind you. Use it. If you open your doors without looking and thinking, you’re an idiot. None of that has to do with being Dutch.