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721.
by smeej 3y ago
Why is the comparison to "sitting behind a computer stating at a screen" and not "going outside"? If these only replace desk work, I might agree with you. My fear is that wearing them full-time becomes normalized.
722.
by smeej 3y ago
> It's bad enough we have the things in our pockets. I'm sticking with this line of reasoning. This is already bad enough. I do not think more of it will make things better.
723.
by smeej 3y ago
Am I the only weirdo who does not want, under any circumstance, to move to a world where head-mounted computer systems are normal? It's bad enough we have the things in our pockets. I don't want mine mounted in front of my eyes. I
724.
by smeej 3y ago
Am I the only person who still calls "ASCII emoji" "emoticons"?
725.
by smeej 3y ago
Plus, it's common for me to meet someone on a first-name basis and not find out their last name right away. And people's last names change more often than their first names. Phone sorting by first name is the way to go.
726.
by smeej 3y ago
I moved states and schools midway through 3rd grade and was seated alphabetically, in the back, for the first time in my life. The teachers in my previous school knew me to be a model student, so would sit me up front "to set an exampl
727.
by smeej 3y ago
My mom made the critical mistake of marrying from first five letters down to last five letters during the police academy, only later to be released from the "we have to expose you to tear gas so you know how it feels and only use it ju
728.
by smeej 3y ago
Hmm. I actually still find I'm subjectively freer when I can peacefully face the reality in front of me, even when it's not something I would want. My mom is a good example to me. The first time she got diagnosed with cancer (12
729.
by smeej 3y ago
Does maximizing options maximize empowerment? I've found I feel much more empowered in a situation where I've already deeply committed to some specific thing than when I have dozens of options but haven't chosen one. Inte
730.
by smeej 3y ago
Psychosomatic, and(/or) psychogenic. There comes a point where the influence of the mind actually makes things physiologically wrong, which becomes even harder to untangle.
731.
by smeej 3y ago
I tried to do this when I joined a new company. Problem was there were four other guys on the team, all of whom thought the correct process was different, not just from what was documented, but from each other's, and would go back and
732.
by smeej 3y ago
This really puts the two years my UC and I could only eat one meal for every meal in perspective. I eventually got used to being the weirdo who brought my own food, or just declined everything if we made spontaneous plans while we were alre
733.
by smeej 3y ago
The Doctor Who fan in me is just glad it sounds like a Cyberman when it walks.
734.
by smeej 3y ago
My sister died very suddenly, apparently fine one minute and irrecoverably dead the next. I know I'm never completely safe. Maybe the better term in this case is "protected," but I'm not sure. "This person, here w
735.
by smeej 3y ago
Every time I hear this (my dad is a firm believer, for example, not you, parent commenter), I just ask if we have the same definition of "fine," because we're talking about whether it's OK to hit a child with a stick a
736.
by smeej 3y ago
Why add dangers, though? Even just perceived ones? It's perfectly possible to teach children to swim without giving them the experience of fearing for their lives.
737.
by smeej 3y ago
And if their parents aren't safe people, they remember that too. I experienced feeling truly, deeply, completely safe for the first time in my thirties. It rocked my world. Things almost didn't seem real immediately afterward, l
738.
by smeej 3y ago
I'd recommend reading Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score. The conscious mind is far from the only place the body stores memory that can impact us later in life.
739.
by smeej 3y ago
One of my earliest vivid memories is specifically of my 2nd birthday party, so I'm confident I wasn't actually 3 or 4. I might not quite have been 2, or I might have been a few days older than 2, but I can pinpoint my age within a
740.
by smeej 3y ago
You can change up the emotions on the topic pretty quickly if you change the framing to "intentional sex only" rather than "intentional children only," even though the former accomplishes the latter. It's fun, b
741.
by smeej 3y ago
I don't speak for your society, but this isn't true of mine.
742.
by smeej 3y ago
> Waite was separately convicted of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence after he was accused of striking a deputy with his elbow when they arrived to arrest him on the wiretapping charges. > Waite s
743.
by smeej 3y ago
> Waite disputed that he was a sovereign citizen. “Totally false,” he said. “The only time I ever used the word ‘sovereign’ was to claim my private property is not state sovereignty land.” Good news! It's not.
744.
by smeej 3y ago
My car insurance company actually refused to talk to me when I called them after my accident, knowing their phone line would tell me the call may be recorded, and therefore I would record it. They would only talk to me if they called me, so
745.
by smeej 3y ago
Google Voice can record calls if you press 4. A voice comes on and says so. Only a couple times have I used it on purpose, but it has triggered on me accidentally a handful of times over the years, usually in weird situations like in my car
746.
by smeej 3y ago
Their line helpfully tells you in advance "this call may be recorded." Great! Looks like permission to me! Record I shall! If they object to the call's being recorded, they ought to take that up with whomever controls their p
747.
by smeej 3y ago
This is funny to me because mine just died unceremoniously during a snowstorm and it made me realize there should really be a testing cycle built in.
748.
by smeej 3y ago
I really don't want to be rude here, but I live in a place where we constantly throw the frozen stuff outside into the snow when the power goes out, so I'm genuinely confused. If it was an ice event, why would you have to travel t
749.
by smeej 3y ago
I get individual people being like this, but enough for someone to assume it's the norm? That's what surprised me.
750.
by smeej 3y ago
You already don't have to turn your phone's Bluetooth off during takeoff, so, no, it shouldn't.

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