I find it tricky to just meet people with no shared topic to discuss, like at parties. I love clubs because everyone is there for a shared reason, whether it be board games, video games, a sport, a craft, etc. This means there’s always something to talk about when breaking the ice and I find that much more comfortable. Highly recommend clubs
Learning from others’ mistakes is real. I’ve learned a lot from my dad that way—I say that I’ve learned to so basically the opposite of what my dad does
I understand empathy when it comes to harmless remedies like homeopathy and rescue remedy, that kind of thing, but when it gets to not getting your kids vaccinated because you think they’re poison or taking homemade colloidal silver instead of your prescribed antibiotics, that’s where I have trouble empathising.
My rule is that as long as something isn’t replacing some other medical treatment recommended by their doctor (assuming they even saw a doctor), then I don’t mind. My dad has gotten into grounding pillows, which don’t have good evidence behind them that they work, but he finds he gets better sleep. Could be placebo, I don’t care! If it works for him, that’s great. But if it’s replacing a treatment recommended by a doctor or something then I would have an issue.
I think I’m more worked up about this kind of thing than most people because I have familial connections to conspiracy theories 😂 but I guess that’s one or many steps beyond pseudoscience, which is what the article is talking about
I’m not American, and it took me a while to figure out what POTUS, SCOTUS, and GOP were
I agree that’s a great acronym
What does MAP stand for in this context?
EDIT: oh, I read another thread and it stands for “Minor Attracted Person” so it’s a pedophilia thing. Yikes
I always read that as “Shaking My Head”
My work involves a streaming service and we use VOD to refer to normal TV shows. It’s not dead!
Is there a way to say OPQRST that isn’t just reading each letter? Because if not then that is a mouthful
What does WOMBAT stand for?
I do the same thing. My brain kept misinterpreting ACAB for a while and usually slotted in “cat” for some reason until I figured out what it meant
Yikes, I’ve never seen these ones before but I hope they’re confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don’t see them too much
That is an… unwise abbreviation
Valid!
“Accessibility.” It mainly refers to computer accessibility (like websites and apps). Ironic that a common word for accessibility is inaccessible to people who don’t know what it means
It’s a numeronym!
I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn’t figured out yet. “‘eye-eighteen-ehn’ isn’t too far from ‘internationalization’, I guess”
I agree, most fin acronym to say
if you know, you missed it
I think they’re referring to video games. AAA games refer to games made by large companies with huge budgets: think Assassin’s Creed, GTA, Call of Duty, etc.
They’ve been pumping out some trash games for the last while