I would be happy for it to switch places with Chartreuse, which feels strongly like a red word and is definitely not a bright yellow-green

One that bugs me a lot that I noticed just in the last 5 years or so is over pronouncing the T in words like celebrity and community - yes it’s spelled with a T but it’s not fully voiced like you’re saying the word Tea. I noticed it first on YouTube and now in some audiobooks and even the occasional coworker.

“outlaws” also being a verb makes this title difficult to understand

I just finished reading “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt on how hard it is for parents to police kids self-destructive phone use and tech companies aren’t willing to do anything to help because it’s so profitable to advertise to them and sell their data, this feels like another step down that road.

I’m amused there’s a GMC model called the “Terrain”, not all terrain or off road or anything, just “this vehicle drives on surfaces”

When I think of growing up female again, but in the current time, it sounds terrible, but then I think of growing up male inbhe current times and it seems awful too, so I think I have to tick the “neither box” and accept I’m too old for this modern shit in any gender form.

Comparing things of dissimilar proportions is confusing?

A sofa height turtle, sofa width turtle and sofa length turtle are all different things!

The most recent interesting ones have been The Age of Deer(all about deer in North America from a social perspective), scarcity brain(how our brains seem rigged for gambling and how it affects our lives) and WordSlut(gender politics and how it interacts with language).

I’ve never been much into reading fiction, but would love good human-adjacent(ie not particle physics) nonfic recommendations.

I think people’s looks and personality correspond in a few different ways.

One is that people’s choices for style and personal care reflect their personality, so having fancy clothes indicate a person who cares enough about looks to put in the effort.

People also can choose to associate themselves visually with different groups, and if they identify with that group they likely have similar values, including those around personality.

Even things someone can’t control, such as height, probably affect their personality because it changes the way others interact with them in society.

(back before the days of smartphones & internet everywhere)

I once was sick in a foreign country and bought some chewable vitamin C that turned out to be those fizzing tabs you put in water - cue foaming at the mouth and utter confusion.

Happy it was still edible, just not in the way I tried to consume it.

I work for a company that specializes in ergonomic work setups and the OTs recommend Ergocentric chairs at least 90% of the time.

They’re expensive, but if you are having health issues due to sitting then your employer has a “duty to accommodate” to get you a better setup.

We also often recommend sit-stand desks because too comfy of a chair can just cause different problems from lack of movement.

I get these often and I wouldn’t define them as third person but more “non-person”. To me first person dreams are where I’m watching it through my eyes and Thurs person would be watching myself as I do things (like third person video games). Not even being in the dream, just a mind movie as you called it, seems like another level removed.

I wonder how much the amount of movies and video games around these days has changed this - whether dreams in the past would have only been first person because that’s the only thing people had experienced.

You got me there, my brain did just jump to high O2

I do the same and even though I’m still in the store I question if it’s worth doubling back for that one forgotten item…

I wish that our store layouts were consistent enough for this to work, I have to change my list order if I’m going to a different store, and remember idiosyncrasies like in one the condiments are at the entrance before produce…maddening!

But does he copy?

Putting the shopping list in store-order before I go into the store; saves so much time and fuss in the store and makes me feel like a hyper-efficient grocery god.

Giant insects and way more fires! It’s happened a few times in the history of our planet.

Way back around 2000 there was a creator who did this and called them unfortunate animals, she liked to make like a 3 eyes teddy bear with a crocodile tail and 9 arms. I think she also combined stuffed animal chimeras and taxidermy.

It depends whether I can somehow go back to the body of a 20 year old but keep my current 40 year old brain. I’m not going to pretend the majority of my improvements in patience, empathy, humility, work ethic and dgaf-ness are me consciously maturing instead of improvements in brain chemistry.