The reasoning behind the API changes, the CEO’s entitlement, the ever-more-annoying interface changes (I hate the “More Posts You May Like”, the algorithm is pathetically shitty).

I refuse to install apps to navigate websites. If your site is decent, it should work in a browser. If not, I’ll just go elsewhere.

Ok but just for the sake of being annoying, you had specifically excluded AND as an option. ;)

1 - And/Or is redundant: Just use OR

So, whenever we are tempted to say “and/or” it is kinda definitive that just OR should suffice.

As a public servant, government policy is full of situations where ‘and/or’ means something distinct from ‘or’.

“You can apply for benefits for yourself, your spouse, and/or your children.” VS “You can apply for benefits for yourself, your spouse, or your children.”

Which formulation clearly conveys you can apply for benefits for all 3 persons?

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?

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.

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?

Doctors HATE this simple fifth lesson!

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.

*longer

*upside

(Sorry? Lol)