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.

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.

Doctors HATE this simple fifth lesson!

This.

I hear where you’re coming from. I can’t even begin to imagine how tired you are after all these hardships. The fact that you’re still writing civil replies to the other person is commendable.

I would like to respectfully say that universal healthcare would have eliminated the need to navigate insurance denials and out of pocket maximums. If we add a more robust social safety net to the equation, you may also not have to worry about childcare and having to stretch yourself thin with work… Would eliminating these battles really not have brought qualitative changes (for the better) for your family?

What is the best way to get the latest Flash player is required for video playback of the day of the day of the day

… I have never written anything about Flash player or video playback, what the hell autocomplete?!

Ok so teaspoons are a thing, of course, and they’re found in every household, but I’ve never seen… teaforks? before. 🤣

Before kid: Reading, astronomy, cross-fit, nail polish, coloring, playing the Sims, cross-stitching, DnD.

After kid: Sleeping, DnD, cross-stitching, and a little tiny bit of astronomy (involves bargaining with spouse).

Physical Chemistry. First semester of first year of university. I couldn’t understand anything that our 80+ year old professor was mumbling, and the slides he used were terrible (full of abréviations, diagrams missing steps, etc.) Although I was getting solid grades in all my other courses, I failed the first PhysChem midterm with something like 23%. I resigned myself to my fate and sheepishly told my mom (I was still living home at the time and parents were paying for my studies). She got a mad glint in her eyes, and asked for all the course materials. By next week, she had completely reworked the material and came up with new tables and diagrams to help explain the concepts. I was amazed at how simple it all really was. For example, atomic bonds aren’t static but can “wiggle” around in several ways, and we can even calculate fairly easily the amount of energy required for each wiggle.