I have an online handle (not this one) that is kinda close to my real name. Two letters change it from “10% of white girls born in North America between 1975 and 2000 have this name” to a name I’ve only seen attached to one real person before.
Yep, Minnesota had some of the best I’ve seen in the US. But it took just one person who didn’t know or didn’t care to jam things up.
Any traffic design that relies on drivers simply “knowing” the unwritten/unposted way of doing things is going to fail. There will always be a new driver, an out of towner, etc, who will react in surprising ways when faced with a new situation.
What makes Jaden’s face punchable that is separate from his and his family’s weird behaviors?
I don’t know how to separate the punchability of Musk’s face from his actions. His weird smirks, his awful attempts to get the audience on his side, his “lame midlife crisis dad trying to look cool in a leather jacket” style. It’s all annoying but he’s elevated to punchable because of his fame and his fame is due to his actions. Without his actions, he’s just like every other middle aged person trying to be younger/cooler than they are.
Ah, I hope you find it to be fertile grounds for a new hobby. Some passionate people into hoyas, they can even rival rose aficionados at times.
Houseplants. Equipment for various methods of brewing coffee. Ebooks.
During the time after a car accident, not doing great financially, in a new place where I had no family and hadn’t built much of a support network/community yet.
I made it through and I hope you do too. SAD is very treatable, I found a combo of hot yoga and indoor rock climbing did wonders:
A pure meritocracy is not possible with humans. Not everyone agrees on what “success” and “merit” look like. Whatever person or group of people doing the “choosing” will be corrupted, it’s just a question of how long it takes. And even before intentional abuse of their power, humans have their own biases that will prevent them from being perfect judges of merit and success.
And no, not a job for AI. Someone has to program the thing and teach it what “merit” and “success” mean, so same problem there.
I’ve lived in countries that have traffic on the left and countries with traffic on the right. So now I panic, shift back and forth confusing the person heading towards me, then quick step to avoid collision in a way that would make Reggie Bush proud.
Currently in the US and would expect most people to shift to their right.
Discord and Facebook. I put minimal information up and don’t install FB on my phone. I keep them to maintain contact with friends and family and hobby forums who won’t move to fediverse.
I watched some trailers on YouTube for upcoming movies. That is probably the most intentional consumption of advertisements I make; I even search them out specifically.
Each instance of an ad has to make a fraction of a penny, right? IDK who would pay anything more than that.
Raycon did finally get me today. I’m in the market for new earbuds. I was looking at consumer reviews and wondered why the buds I hear about ALL THE TIME from YouTubers weren’t on any list I was reading. I did NOT click on a Raycon ad, but did a websearch to find their site and a pile of review sites directly.
Turns out they’re low quality compared to similarly priced alternatives. Almost like they put a substantial amount of their money into content creator endorsements. Color me shocked.
😐 <— my not-shocked face
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Firefox
LibreOffice
VLC
Calibre
Blender (Maybe weekly rather than daily)
Bitwarden
In which case the newspapers brought back would tell me that and I could strategize for what sort of non-capitalist future it is.
Headed towards a Star Trekkian post-scarcity economy? Or a post-doomsday device anarchist hellscape? Anything in between? I would still like to know.
Omg, how did you guess? Is that you, Wilhelm?
Now I have to nuke this account to protect my privacy. So long, Lemmy karma…