My boss is the worst for this. We’ll be sitting on a call in our conference room and he’ll start clicking his pen. Or playing with his water bottle. Or slapping his lips. After seven years I haven’t committed murder yet, though.

Yeah, more or less.

So…what are you supposed to take at this point? Because you’re not supposed to take the “nighttime” branded decongestants long term, and phenylephrine was recommended as an alternative to that.

It makes me kind of sad to see so many people happy that the accent is going away. It’s good to have diversity, and the thought of my “native” accent becoming extinct makes me sad. I don’t want bad people to have a claim to an entire accent and culture, especially since the death of the accent won’t do anything about the bad takes. There’s a lot that good about southern culture - taking things slow, being laid-back in a world that wants you to run around like a chicken with your head cut off, and forming tight communities with the people around you. I just wish there was a way to reclaim that without feeling afraid that people would assume I support the bad parts, too.

Why would you use an accent when it actively gets you associated with idiots / racists / conservatives?

There’s a lot of people who have been hurt by Southern culture, so naturally they reject that accent. A lot of decent people reject the accent because they don’t want people to assume they’re one of those Southerners. There’s also the aspect that you end up talking to people outside your region a lot more often than in the old days, so you learn to switch it off because people outside your region might not understand you well.

All y’all is broader, but I’m not sure how to characterize it. Like if you’re talking to someone who is part of a team, saying y’all could ambiguously refer to the whole team, but all y’all unambiguously refers to the whole team.

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How well does this work? Like is glare / not being able to see an issue? How much of the wall color shows through, or do you have to have a special screen?

Related: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

I can’t imagine the pain of having your sight taken away, getting it partially back, and then having it taken away again purely by corporate greed.

This is really neat! How much did everything cost in the end, and are you going to get some kind of case for it?

Oh no, CrImInAlS. We’d better make sure only big corps can use this tech and legislate against individual use. /s

I wonder how this also plays into other dopamine-related diseases such as Restless Leg Syndrome.

There was literally an article either yesterday or the day before with the headline “AI being used to ban books in Iowa” or something to that effect.

• The world: At war, on fire, collapsing before our eyes
• The world’s governments: Falling to fascism and right-wing insanity
• People’s rights: Slowly disappearing
• Capitalism level: Late-stage
• The future: Only going to get worse

But yeah, technology is why adolescents are unhappy.

WTF did I just see, lol

The article says that a lot of people catch fibers from their clothes, but like…I don’t feel like my shirt gets into my belly button? I wonder if the survey from 2002 also took into account weight.

This is lovely! An upgrades system would be really neat - like buying more cores, or bigger memory, or shooting users in the head when they don’t log out after completing five tasks

Is it really safe to be standing that close to that thing?

Cool find! +1 on your identification - looks spot on.

“Why is our marriage rate so low?!”