🌌 we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
Jumping in bodies of water and letting the water carry me away. It's a weird mix of "appel du vide" and the urge to be cleansed.
What is your professional opinion on decimal feet? I had to use such a measuring tape at work, it took me half a day to figure out what was going on with that abomination.
Edit: to clarify, feet were divided in 10 units, not 12, so one and a half feet was at the "5" mark between 1 and 2 ft, not the "6" mark.
Not just on the internet, on Lemmy of all places!
getting a call from their son calling to say that he is ok and not to worry with zero context
So, funny/sad story, I did the exact same thing during the shooting at the college I was attending. (We don't live in the States, so this is definitely not a common occurrence here!) My family only had one cell phone, and as luck would have it, I had it that day. I called my mom at work to tell her I was ok and in a safe place. My mom was very confused during the call. She later told me that after we hung up and she processed what I had just told her (and heard the news on the radio) she almost went hysterical.
If I had time and money I would invent dressy clothes that are practical, long-lasting and comfortable!
The problem was that I adopted the trend without thinking about my poor college student lifestyle (LOTS of bus-metro-walk and carrying heavy books). By the end of that day, the tights had runs, the heels were dirty and scuffed, and my feet were killing me. I looked and felt like crap.
Aw, thank you. I appreciate it but let's be real: I know it was stupid. Like, I thought that dressing smart means I'm smart. I did enjoy the feeling of being put together, but wearing my heavy backpack with heels was atrociously stupid.
Wearing super preppy clothes to school/college. I was mistaken for a teacher in 11th grade. In college, I once wore a pencil skirt, black tights, white sweater, and high heels... to a regular Tuesday afternoon class, just because I wanted to.
I think that fear is just one of the many responses humans like to stimulate. Spicy foods and deep massages? Fancy pain. Fireworks and laser shows? Fancy lights and colors. I wonder if it ties into the ability to remember that we survived the painful stimulus long enough to enjoy the aftermath, so we're more likely to seek out that stimulus in the future? High risk = high reward kind of thing.
Also brings this to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
Also, if you have any tricks for teaching percentages, ratios and basic statistics PLEASE SHARE. My partner has a new job and while he shines at the field work aspect, he has trouble with the mathier parts. He's had godawful terrible teachers his whole life. I've tried coaching him in math but my methods don't click with him. We also don't have the time to wade through dozens of YouTube videos hoping to hit the holy grail...
Thank you for taking the time to write it out! Funnily enough I'm not too bad at math (I tapped out at around linear algebra level) but I was taught in a very rigid way. Useful concepts like commutativity were just... read out loud to kids to be remembered as a Law Of Nature, instead of allowing kids to play with numbers and develop our numbers intuition. So while I have a decent theoretical knowledge, I'm terrible at applying what I know to real life. If that makes any sense?
She was sad that visiting family left, then happy to lick our dinner plates, then stressed out by thunder and lightning. She climbed on the couch and curled up tight next to me and actually calmed down! Usually she's a scared panting mess for hours.
This is the third time this year that I have come across this. I am pissed that it was never taught in school... and that apparently I keep forgetting it every time.
My first brush with the internet was in 2000. We had our family computer in the living room. Our dial-up ISP was Funcow. The local newspaper had a little section where they talked about fun websites to visit (family-friendly of course) and we would check them out in the evening. I know that Google existed but we didn't use it - we had AltaVista, then Yahoo. These were also website directories - basically lists of websites grouped by topics. So if you didn't find what you were looking for on one website, you'd try the next one, and so on. And the websites themselves were basically made by hand in html. To stand out some people threw in lots of little animated icons garish colors, weird website layouts, background music that couldn't be turned off... It was 100% amateur and unpolished, and much much MUCH more diverse than today's internet. But slowly, massively popular websites and tools started to dominate. Microsoft had a huge presence through Hotmail, MSN.com, and MSN Messenger. But Yahoo Messenger had video chatting first (IIRC). There were fansites about everything under the sun but no Wikipedia so researching any given topic in depth was a mammoth, tedious task. In 7th grade I wrote a research paper on ferrets and referenced about half a dozen websites but only collected about two sentences worth of useful information from each - so research was still heavily reliant on books and libraries. Speaking of libraries: that's where almost everyone went for free internet. Schools and colleges also had computer labs with free internet and woefully inadequate content filters. It was crazy. It was awesome.
These sets of concentric shells contain a thin layer of positive mass tucked inside an outer layer of negative mass.
So how much evidence is there for negative mass, then? Sounds like just replacing one unknown with another.
I hope no mad scientist ever plays with that gene 😅
No mad scientists, just regular scientists working on regular fruit flies. What could go wrong?
It would be kind of nostalgic. Like the discussion forums of yore, where signatures were the place to shove quotes, statistics, awards, maybe a gif or two.
The boycott is "organized crime" in their eyes.