I envy people that can sleep like that. According to my watch, I managed just shy of a combined 90mins of sleep on a 16h flight and I was trying to sleep for most of it. This after I knew I’d struggle so sleep starved myself to four hours of sleep the night before 🫤

Meanwhile my friend successfully opted to nap in the car while I did a quick grocery shop…

If I’m not lateral, it ain’t happening. I’m open to any tips, but I’ve probably tried them all besides dosing.

Wow. Just in time.

PwC strikes again.

I’ve only seen this expressed in single statement messages, rarely emails or more complex message communication. Periods tend to only be useful for separating standalone statements with sentence complexity, so people may not use them when there is just one statement containing a small word count.

In fact, this is a grammatically consistent behaviour in formal English. As an example, the proper use of a period in bullet points is that they are not used unless the bullet point contained other punctuation marks earlier which increase their reading complexity to a more formal sentence rather than a quick statement. When we message people, we are often just speaking in an exchange of single bullet points due to the inefficiencies of soft keyboards.

If we go into further detail, periods come into play—though, some times we just switch to voice for a more robust and regular style of communication. Similarly, when we use physical keyboards, the speed and ease of them tends to have our spoken complexity go up and subsequently so does the requirement for periods to be used, and they are.

Placing other statement stoppers that are not periods are simply voluntary markers to underscore sentiment of that statement. They honestly have more place in such context as they’re providing actual purpose without the need to expand into multiple sentences or explanation on the slow soft key medium. In that sense, it is also not too dissimilar to and old timer complaining about telegrams using broken English.

I am starting to see individuals as how dependent they are on society.

The good news is that I don’t think we need to worry about a “,World War”. The bad news is that when WW3 inevitably happens, it’ll be the worst waste of lives yet.

I don’t know where I was going with that, but that’s where we’re going.

I had some teachers when I was in school that would just hand you a paper, hand you a book, and that was it.

Couldn’t do that if I even tried. I’d be so bored, I’d have to teach just to pass the time quicker lol

I was educated in Australia for quite some time and we kind of formed friendships with our teachers. Always ceremonious thank yous, gifts, and hugs from the class as we’d finish up the year and move onto new teachers.

Will never forget Mr Schwartz, Mr Hornby, and Ms Chamberlain. Teachers that lit up our worlds and had massive respect from all the kids.

56% of them are partially illiterate or worse.

It is many things. Institutional misogyny can be a cause for some.

per se “by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.”

My female friend had a female doctor try to talk her out of a contraceptives prescription; that she was 28 and should be having babies…

It’s not a misogyny thing, per se, rather just people that define their lives by the templates supplied by societal stereotypes. Never take advice from a person that doesn’t think for themself.

More than that. Planes are just fancy flying cattle trucks. A lot of the time I’m in one it’s so I can get to a destination I’ll be hiking for several days lol. I’m all for Team Pilgrimage.

I’m sure it’s fine. Most Christians aren’t Christians anyway, especially if this takes place in the States.

It is. Humans aren’t forbidden and we’d be considered a clean animal.

“When I grow up, I want to be a stereotype!”

I thought this wasn’t a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it’s a state thing.

My head says stuff in other languages all the time because a word’s easier or funner to say.

Yeah. Personality is big for me. There’s a big difference in unintelligent and unknowledgable; most people are intelligent enough, just lacking knowledge or information.

I’ve learned anything involving animals doing unusual things through night vision video or image is AI slop, aimed at a Facebook trend surging in 2024-2025, possibly still going.

Usually it’s something stupid like kangaroos or rabbits on a trampoline, a racoon riding on a dog’s back, or a bear and cat snuggling.

It’s a 365 instance on a small partition for work. I use PowerQuery a lot and found a VM slows down ETL times too much. I work at a university and can use our powerful VMs for remote researchers, but they reset workspace each day, so it’s a hassle.

There’s no other reason why I have a local copy still and it’s always a relief to be done with it for the day.

Dogs are incredible at reading facial and body language. It’s why they tend to go into their submissive, “Oh shit, I’ve fucked up.” sit and stare when they see your reaction. Most of the time they’re not sure what the specific thing was that they’ve done to upset you, just that they can tell by your stern face that they’ve done something you’re unimpressed by. This is why it’s important to catch them in the act, rather than getting mad later. They won’t know if it was the pot plant, the slipper, where they were sleeping, their bark, etc. just that one of the many thing was not good.