This is why I have tunnel endpoints installed in several of my out-of-state relatives’ houses. 😄 Not for porn, just general “why is the entire /12 block containing my public IP marked as a spam risk everywhere? STOP GIVING ME CAPTCHAS ARGGG!”
I mean hey, it’s in our constitution: the three unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—brought to you by Shell, Jeep, and the open stroad, respectively.
20/20 is average, should have named it 20/10. Also in conversation people would assume Vision 20/20 was something to do with learning from COVID.
Idk, it almost looks like yellow is his favorite colon.
I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)
This week on the No Duh podcast… 😅
For me it’s usually a case of “That would require explaining so much context that by the time I’m done I will have forgotten the original thought.”
All dice are quantum dice!
I just use regular ol’ ed for jotting my thoughts on the AI-related news I see each day. After all, it is the standard text editor.
…was that not the question?
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If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.
Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.
125% times
…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏
…your former ethnic group? How does that work, exactly? 🤔😄
Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.
I like to say “cooking with magnets” because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.
Okay cool, but what about reconsidering streets from a pedestrian’s perspective?
Wouldn’t it be nice if they were narrower, had raised crosswalks, a rough surface that’s uncomfortable to drive on too quickly, and lines of trees/bollards/gargoyles/^(trees carved to look like gargoyles holding bollards) between the road and the sidewalk to protect pedestrians and provide a better speed reference for drivers?
…come to think of it, the pedestrians (a.k.a. voting taxpayers) would probably rather not pay the taxes needed to finance all these upgrades, and would prefer the much cheaper solution of simply disallowing private automobiles on any street where that is possible. Though, more trees are always welcome. Just about everyone prefers more trees. (As long as the city plants trees of both sexes! Squirrels and allergy sufferers ^(including gargoyles) will thank you!)
If the fish and the birds can doo it, you can too! Fly, my pretties!
Idk, something tells me misery might be his kink…
I saved a comment a while ago that put it perfectly. The switch from “climate change is a hoax” to “climate change is real but we’ve created the perfect solution” will happen so fast your head will spin.