I consider the arbitrary rules that we call formal English to just be the set of rules that lead to the most widely understood texts, so if you want to reach a broad audience, both across the world and across time, then keeping to those formal rules makes sense.

To me, “hello” communicates that you would like a verbal interaction and gives the opportunity to mentally switch gears for it before it actually begins. I appreciate that it exists.

I’ve always just used them where natural breaks would be if the sentence was spoken. I know how it’s supposed to be used and I’ll do it correctly when writing papers, but it hurts inside to see it that way. I don’t understand how it improves comprehension.

I don’t know if my autism has anything to do with it, but this is also my preferred dating format.

The presence of delicious garlic bread prompted you to reach for it.

How many bits is a /s mask?

I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to chew them. I don’t know how you’re supposed to get any of the oyster flavour otherwise.

What’s wrong with the chargers? We have one of those brushes here and it just lives on the charger when not in use. We’ve never had any issues.

Only if you eat it under your umbrella

Sounds like we need instance level karma where instances can upvote/downvote other instances, and user karma is scaled based on that number. I don’t know if it’ll be healthy, but it does sound like fun, especially if users get a say in the instance’s vote.

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

If you’re interested in AR, you should pay attention to AI too since it looks like the two fields will be intersecting very soon, if not already. Meta has been putting a lot of work into dense point tracking models with very impressive results. It’s probably safe to assume AR is their intended application of the tech given their investments in the Meta-verse.

Things are rough, but I’ll have all the time in the world to rest when I’m dead. So why not give it my all and see where it takes us?

This feels like psychologist or neurologist territory.

I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, but here in Canada, I’ve only seen the option to trade in old phones when you’re buying one of the fancier phones with a bunch of bells and whistles I don’t need. There no way they would give me enough for this phone to make up for the price difference.

Also, 40 months is an unusually long time to be holding on to the same phone? What?

I need the knife to cut food at my destination though

Japanese has cute curvy symbols interleaved with some BIG scary symbols.

It would suck extra hard to lie in bed planning out the nice breakfast you’re going to make for your partner and learn afterwards that they’ll never get to enjoy it.

Changing the voting system involves changing the law, doesn’t it? Can’t you just revert the ban in that very same bill?

Edit: Ah, I just saw in another comment that this affects lower levels of government that wouldn’t have the power to make this change.

In what sense “don’t understand”?

In any of the senses you’ve listed or haven’t listed. My point was that the outcome of the situation doesn’t change regardless of the cause of the ignorance. What it does affect is how you address the problem.

Ok, and what should be done about it?

A start would be acknowledging the existence of a problem so that we can start looking for a solution. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and what I think would be nice is if we had something akin to a direct democracy where people could vote on the areas where they are experts. For most people, that would be their own lives and the problems they face, so they essentially vote on what problems to fix rather than how to fix them. Let the experts take care of figuring out how to do the fixing. There’s still the problem of how to find good subject experts in domains where you’re not an expert yourself and keeping them accountable. I don’t have a good answer for those right now.