Yes, but it is sourced very far away and gets refined into a different product for consumer use that is always available (except during a local crisis) so therefore it’s not something to worry about and is naturally occurring.

Short-sighted concerns.

Exactly. “Go to my house dot Com” would probably trip some people up because they weren’t expecting to be given a website name by audio, instead initially thinking they should go to my house, then being unsure if they missed prior info. Now, it’s the default. For a similar cue reason, I still say things like “Vin number” if I’m trying to be clear as possible, particularly by phone. “can you give me the Vin” is sometimes misunderstood or misheard because “Vin” is a very mumbly word. “Vin number” gives an obvious retroactive explanation.

Humans use context in audio constantly and have to work backwards often to find the full meaning. It’s just natural and smoothpy accomplished. If you’ve ever said “what” and then answered the question when it was being asked the second time, you worked backwards and figured it out

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I went to a 10th anniversary playthrough. Regrettably, my tracklist sequence was alphabetical from a flash drive in the car :( still, very enjoyable to hear just a single slice of time rather than a spotty “greatest hits” collection that don’t align with my opinion. 12/12 would do again

Because making jokes about “foreign” cuisine is easy and doesn’t need context when the whole herd has a general xenophobic understanding. See: Westernised Chinese food and headaches from MSG (a total myth)

Quoted "foreign because no, , Taco Bell is not actually Mexican, but ask your nearest “taco bell shits” joker if there’s a difference and they’ll say it’s the same end result. Shit, ask the joker if they even eat Taco Bell and half will say no or give some “only when I’m drunk” explanation.

My mexican+beer shits are the same as my wings+beer shits, brat+beer shits, and steak+whiskey shits. AKA my weekend shits, where I tend to have less vegetables and more alcohol.

Add in variability with the gen pop for probably adding more hot sauce and having more dairy than their usual diet.

I’m familiar with looking at lights. Usually, what you’re describing is more of a blind spot that develops where the light lingered. I’m not looking at the light directly, either. It’s usually noticed when looking at a street normally with a streetlight above.

Instead, this is like a bright streak that flashes across my sight. Not a lingering streak, not a burn, not a blindspot. Just like a repeat of the streak. Due to the flick nature of humans changing eye targets, the streak isn’t even perceived at first when I move my eyes. They snap to the next target. But the repeat streak has some motion to it, though very fast. I considered mechanical means of triggering receptors, but it matches the placement and direction of the source. If I turn my head and do the same exact eye movement, the repeat streak moves as well.

I spend a lot of time in the dark. I’ve tried, but I can’t find a pattern. I initially thought it was a rhodopsin artifact (the chemical that dopes your receptors for dark adaptation over ~20 minutes without blue/UV), but I’ve had it happen immediately when going into darkness. Maybe my home isn’t as bright as I think it is? But still, it’s not a permanent feature and only works for a few minutes once I notice it.

Guess I don’t need to do that because my vision already streaks! Seriously though, I haven’t met anyone else that experiences what I do. At night, sometimes when looking around lights in the dark like a streetlight, moving my eyes will trigger a delayed streak 1 second later, like a lightning bug shooting across my vision in the same path the streetlight just took. It’s inconsistent.

For a phone? Waistband tuck in the bikini bridge gets me by most of the time. But really, the solution for me is just keep some gym shorts handy.

Blurry deliberations are typical. As time goes on, “millennial” will become more accurate as the differences between xennial and zillennial become smaller and smaller in comparison to differences between _ennial and alpha or beta or delta. I just take issue with acting like direct url interface was the experience of a generation, and not a short-lived blip for the gen pop that has already been forgotten, especially as full url purpose has shifted to something arguably evil.

Sample the people around you in real life. They don’t know any better, regardless of age. The group that experienced it has already largely forgotten it because the link purpose got obfuscated and the need became obsolete in everyday use

I don’t see how it’s a generational thing. I remember when every link included the page type at the end, meaning there was nothing that could be truncated. If you don’t know what si stands for or don’t know that anything after a ? Is tracking bullshit, then you simply don’t know. It’s a “knowledgeable person” thing that can be learned at any time. I’ve pointed it out and many people I know still don’t care

Their gas prices probably are an extra 0.009 or 0.0099 higher than the “advertised” price. It’s not an exponent, just an abuse of tiny numbers to shove 9/10 of a penny into the price.

There are plenty of studies and self reports that show many people, not just OP, do a lot less thinking and observing when following directions. It’s a thing. It has been for over a decade

Because when both adults work, it’s mean to leave a living creature home, alone, and enclosed for 9 hours. Pets are domesticated for companionship. It goes both ways

Eh, the recent trend in my culture has been to get lots of flash (like the Clipart of an artist). There’s no meaning besides appreciating an artist’s style or making a reference to something with a logo/symbol/figurehead

Dozens of different satire writers do this daily

Turns out, most of the globe is still charging out the ass for texting. It throws me off when hotels still closely guard their wifi and/or use access tokens.

That’s a misunderstanding of the bernoulli effect. It does not say moving fluid has lower pressure as some universal law. It applies to when fluid is moving through the same exact route, as in, inside a pipe or around an object. It does not have anything to do with pressure inside the car vs outside., as it’s a massive, chaotic ball of turbulence where you get both inbound and outbound airflow at the same window or can do tricks to make one window inbound (rear windows) and one window outbound (front). If it were that simple, it’d still be hard to breathe on a motorcycle because your torso is somewhat shielded by the aerodynamics of the headlight/gauge area on a naked. Sport bikes often shield your torso as well, throwing air all at your head, which would cause the same “pressure differential” as the car example. But it doesn’t, because that’s not how it works.

The classic example of this misunderstanding is things like pump pressure/flow rate charts. Flow rate goes up, pressure goes down in the chart. Nothing to do with this principle, everything to do with the pump being a fixed-power device putting out a certain amount of work. It’s more of a power vs torque thing than a fluid principle.

And no, air does not move around a wing/airfoil, speed up on the longer side, and reunute its former molecular siblings at the tail of the airfoil. That’s a mythunderstanding, too. Nothing makes them meet up again.

I get the hype about traveling to and living on Mars/Luna/Space Stations, I think. It’s that most people are not dedicated to understanding it, they just see cool scifi/scifantasy settings. Star Trek finding neat planets everywhere and some hot women, Star Wars being full of cooperative lifeforms and beautiful high tech worlds, Guardians of the Galaxy slinging through another rainbow nebula with a killer Playlist, and Stargate bringing us to beautiful British Columbian pine forests every week. Even stellar dramas and tragedies all follow the one successful main character(s) that survives, thrives, and entertains us even in the worst of situations. Interstellar, The Martian, Ad Astra, Mission to Mars, The Red Planet, Space Cowboys, Total Recall, Project Hail Mary, and Gravity come to mind.

The key thing, to me, is that all of this feels like someone else already made the situation survivable and the person can always return home. Mars is “right there” in solar system terms. And so often, even when a dire earthly situation is what triggered the movie events in the first place, they tend to be solved by time the protagonist returns. There’s no ultimate feeling of loss. It all works out. And I think that’s the extent of thought by the gen pop when it comes to space travel. It’s survivable and earth is always fixable, because SomeoneElse^TM made it work.

I play a game called Elite: Dangerous. I’m currently 20,000 lightyears from home. It’s lonely and empty. For reference, I could make it to a large colony (Colonia, for the 3 ED players) in about 2 hours of game play and make it back to Earth in probably 8. But I don’t do that because I want to scan and search each system I jump to, looking for valuable plant life and valuable planets to scan. 90% of the time there’s nothing of value. Thats a lot of time looking into an empty bag. And even when I do find something, it’s often a long flight to the POI. I generally enjoy it for being a calm game out “in the black”, but I absolutely get space madness like Tommy Lee Jones’ character in Ad Astra. I keep looking and keep finding nothing. The irony there being one of the movie’s “extrasolar planets” was just a normal picture of enceladus, a local moon. The game has many planets that look similar. Nothing! Nothing here! Nothing there!

We are not representative of the common understanding of stellar travel. It looks cool, but you and I know nothing about it will be cool from a living experience. All that’s cool is knowing the first people out will provide a ton of feedback to improve the next trip. The next trip, performed by someone else, as the trips will be one-way death sentences for quite some time to come.

The ones I’ve heard on personal EVs (and hybrids) are nowhere near a siren. They’re quieter and a steady tone/sound. I’m struggling to remember which are low speed forward sounds and which are reverse sounds because they’re similar.