5too

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on Anger · c/tumblr · 2 pts · 4d

I'm less angry at some individuals because they got mask fatigue after a while.

I'm still pissed that people continue to pretend it was nothing, though.

Yep, still working through this with one of my kids. Lying requires an intent to deceive, to mislead. You can say things that are untrue without meaning to, which is not lying

Hah! I remember the game, but I don't think that was it.

I saw it on a Discovery documentary or something in high school, as I recall. There were a few shots of the test subject playing a sports skiing console game of some sort

I remember a dream study that found if you're working on a skill within something like half an hour of going to sleep, you're markedly faster at learning the skill. I think they measured it using a skiing video game or something like that

If I remember right, the trick that makes sewing machines work came to the inventor in a dream.

The inventor was exploring the jungle or something like that in his dream, and got attacked by spear-wielding savages. The spears all had a hole near the tip. Which was what he was missing to make the sewing machine work - he'd been trying to make it work with the hole in the back, like a regular sewing needle.

on ‘BED TALK’ [OC] · c/comicstrips · 23 pts · 17d

Yeesh, so many people grumbling about poor relationship dynamics. The whole joke is that it was all in his head - she teased him a little, and he put himself into a tailspin by losing an imaginary argument.

I've done that kind of thing a few times myself - my wife says something innocuous, and I read into it until I've gone completely off the rails. Has nothing to do with anything she's done, it's all to do with me misreading what's happening and forecasting wrong without checking anything. That's the joke.

In the interest of addressing stereotypes - I'm Midwestern, and "don't drink the water!" is still something associated with Mexico in my head. Granted, parts of the US could have the same warning apply! Has this improved over the last decade or two? I remember on a recent trip to San Diego, we had to be careful what beaches we visited because the southern beaches periodically got sewage from dumping south of the border.

I also recall stories of white people (especially obvious foreigners) being targeted for kidnappings, with the assumption that they're rich - is this rare, then? Or limited to certain parts of the country?

on Unicorn cake · c/lemmybewholesome · 6 pts · 19d

No, it's about them wanting other people to do good things, and trying to encourage that by example. And I think they have a point - it's hard to model a behavior when nobody is aware of it, and it's hard to normalize a behavior nobody talks about

on Being a woman · c/whitepeopletwitter · 4 pts · 21d

The "door of opportunity closing rapidly" in the upper thirties suggests she's worried she won't be able to afford kids before she'd have trouble with pregnancy.

Which, yeah, adoption or fostering could address part of that - but some people also want to experience the biological part of that process, and it sucks when they don't really get that choice

Nah, if a cop charges her for that, she'd be right to contest it. Maybe it had fallen, and she tucked it in her lap to let her get safely clear of traffic before stowing it properly. Doesn't matter if it's likely or not, the burden of proof is on the accuser, and it's not met here.

Let's not let the police assume lawbreaking without clear proof, and lets especially not let them automate that accusation process!