When I was getting a new line for some relatives, I found that when going through the web checkout process you could select your phone number out of 5 choices before completing the purchase. I thought that was pretty bad design as it shows which numbers are most likely going to be new. It would be pretty easy to scrape that page and create a spam list.

Sure enough, it didn’t take long for the new number to start receiving spam.

Article about monkeys not being able to complete the works of Shakespeare has this line in it:

Despite its name, the so-called heat death would actually be slow and cold.

Science reporting is such a weird job.

It certainly looks that way.

I love how this leads to a chain of other comics with the professor.

Yeah, that couch isn’t more than 3 meters, probably 2.5. I’d say it’s a 7 meter wide display.

Top 6h is king. I do scaled when browsing my subscribed only or local, but I don’t often browse local.

I used to use Boost for Reddit so I naturally started using Boost for Lemmy when it came out. But for some reason I wasn’t quite satisfied with it.

I’m currently on Thunder and have been liking it a lot. Don’t really hear it talked about much though.

Oh man I know, right‽ In Canada the run up to the election can be between 37 and 51 days. The US election cycle is for fucking ever and then restarts 2 years after the election, and that’s not counting mid terms. Just exhausting. Campaign advertising must just be a huge industry because they’re never turned off.

OMG that’s so cool!

Strikethrough didn’t seem to work on link text. Great relevant comic though!

Edit: fixed!

1991, but so much more relevant today, especially with the US election coming and the “Did you hear what the Vice President said…” part.

There was a post a little while ago about svg cursors. Might be up your alley. I didn’t look into it too much.

https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2098933

Sounds like a lot of fun! work! Glad you’re having fun with it though.

I love dwarves too. If I had to pick another race it would be the Nac Mac Feegle from Discworld.

I couldn’t even understand the text I was reading at first when they talked, but once I figured out the accent I loved reading them. Plus the only thing they’re afraid of is lawyers.

I’ve done intermittent fasting and found that this is just your body producing hormones telling you its time to eat. These hormones are pretty good at keeping schedules for you. Once you start fasting, you do get jittery and cranky during this time but it goes away rather quickly. After a few days the hormone levels start changing and within a week or two you stop feeling hungry at that time. It’s really weird to teach your body that you don’t need to eat at your usual times. And learning that feeling hungry isn’t the worst thing in the world (if your living conditions are such that you’re not worried about your next meal) is actually very freeing.

From what I’ve learned about LSD and psilocybin in popular science they do sound like effective tools for depression, PTSD and enhancing creativity. I don’t have the means or the will to try and get it or experiment with illegal substances. I think therapies should definitely be developed around their application though. A coming of age right would also be very interesting.

I’d say most people would learn the alphabet and the order together. The order (and song) is a helpful mnemonic to learn the letters faster.

Is it OK to feel sorry for you? The thought of doing this has never even crossed my mind. People would describe me as a very optimistic and happy person though. I guess I just don’t need any drugs for escape, although I do enjoy jumping into a video game and beating up some bad guys. Dynasty Warriors is great therapy.

That’s fascinating how you learned all the letters but never put them into an ordinal system. Definitely presents an alternate thinking mechanism than I think most people use. Must have been very tough on you in school as most schools don’t handle people who think differently very well.

The left/right thing is probably much more common. I think it’s interesting how you use the political compass as your visual reference. I for a long time couldn’t remember which political party was left or right, but found I was very good at just ‘knowing’ left and right, as well as the cardinal directions n/s/e/w. My friend who was horrible at telling left from right would hold up both hands and extend his index and thumb. Whichever hand formed an “L” was his left hand and he used that all the time.

How did you manage this one?