Understanding something eventually isn’t the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don’t have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.

I’m not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can’t help it. That’s ok. I’ll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won’t mind at all.

But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won’t give you the time of day forever.

Idk what you’re talking about, used clothing is both the most affordable and the gaudiest. I love it.

Where’s it listed though? I’ve never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have ‘price last changed dd.mm.yy’ written on the price tags, but it’s far from universal, and doesn’t say how much it was before.

Knowing the template, this actually does make sense. The first three are ones where it’s super clear that you’d have to be quite stupid to fall for it. Then the fourth one, a lot of people wouldn’t immediately realise you have to be stupid to fall for them, but it’s stupid to fall for them nonetheless.

True to the meme format, the point isn’t that it isn’t stupid to fall for the first three. It clearly is. But falling for the fourth one is stupid, too.

(though I must admit, the selection of some of the examples is pretty weird)

And honestly, this is just as encouraging. Some of this is stuff you cant exactly list on a CV for a job application. A lot of people have interesting experiences, hobbies and special interests under their belt and still feel bad about themselves because their unique skills/knowledge isn’t exactly marketable or something your mum would brag about to other parents. And the stuff that actually does fall under the category of classic success (being in academia, working on the dictionary) isn’t at all what he’s famous for. If it’s cool when Tolkien has a life like this, your unique experiences and skills are cool, too.

That’s pi/100 still. Didn’t say it was a rational number, just that it was a fraction. Though I don’t see a context where it’d make sense.

Yeah stuff like that really ain’t it. It works in a few use cases, but is objectively wrong and detracts from understanding the topic properly. That’s why I teach percentages as the fractions they are. By the time you learn percentages, you already know multiplying fractions is commutative, so the trick still works, and you also understand why.

With how unessecarily smug you were being, I honestly wasn’t sure.

A brand written on a product is an ad. Let alone the ads everywhere in public. Acknowledgimg that you’re seeing an ad makes you less likely to be sub consciously influenced (‘brand awareness’). Pretending you’re immune might make you more susceptible.

Yup, that’s what we’re saying. Some sites don’t work in EU because they don’t want to comply with GDPR, so it’s likely some sites will stop working in UK because they don’t want to comply with their anti privacy laws.

This already happens occasionally with the EU’s GDPR.

Happy to be here :)

Whether it’s a significant amount really depends on the spring! It’s just one of many minerals in water. Ever hear of hard water? We call water hard when there’s a lot of calcium in it. If you drink tap water, you can usually look up how much of what mineral is it. If you have to rely on bottled, it’s sometimes listed on the label, or you could check the brands website.

I am so comfy cosy in my ‘somewhat computer’ area of the curve. Ubuntu or Mint just work in a way that neither windows nor, like, arch ever could and I’m so comfy sticking with them. I love not fiddling with them too much. It’s nice here. :3

I use non fortified soy milk and gety calcium from water, can I join

I really hope that’s how most people read it, even though it doesn’t read like that to me at all. If the way it comes off to me is a common way to read it, that’d be pretty harmful. So I really hope your reading is the more common one.

Not to be a buzzkill but this makes autism sound like some singular random quirky trait rather than a complex and profound difference in how you process the world around you as well as your own thoughts. Really rubs me the wrong way as an autist.

Usually when an unpleasant, inconvenient, non-optional ‘feature’ like this comes out, it’s at least obvious how that’d generate the culprit company more profits. But with this one, Im genuinely befuddled as to how it benefits YouTube shareholders. Anyone have a guess?

I used to be in a relationship where my partner pressured me out of making my body look exactly how I wanted it to look. Didn’t end well for my mental health.

Yeah. I think it must be partially covered, otherwise Id expect a higher price. Wifi is extra though (unless you have eduroam hehe)