This may set the groundwork for an uncomfortable discussion of your parents’ personal life these days.

[Said, obviously, not knowing the condition of your parents]

QUIET

Oh fuck they said it, HIT THE DECK!!!

IMO It’s some pretty dubious stuff, but you may find stuff about The Global Consciousness Project interesting.

Well that’s the point, you’re not supposed to, no matter how well it’s crafted or warm it is.

Gotta keep your comfy q***ts on the d/l.

There’s a word - starts with Q, ends with T. It is never to be uttered with regard to work conditions, ever.

Yes. One person in particular comes to mind - very nice guy, but has some obvious learning disabilities. He mispronounces words very often and mistates stuff frequently (a lot of ‘hims is’, that kind of thing). He doesn’t seem to have much of an inner life, though perhaps its more that he doesn’t have the facility with language to express himself well. He also doesn’t seem to understand a lot of things that people around him talk about.

But he’s a kind dude - frankly, that’s the important bit imo.

Most of the other folks I’ve met and considered dumb were seen only for limited duration and in specific contexts. They might indeed be, on the whole, dumb. But I’ve always felt those small interactions aren’t enough evidence of that - after all, I’ve met objectively brilliant people that, in certain contexts, have done phenomenally dumb things. Heck, we all do (or rather, I sure as fuck have).

For demonstration of this theory, see Pink Flamingos

I think the unspoken part here is the frame of reference used when defining what the norm actually is. Something your family does that you also do can be considered normal in that context, but abnormal in your wider community. Something people in your community do (Mennonites driving horse and buggies comes to mind) might be considered normal in that context, but abnormal within the broader society that community exists in relation with.

So someone could be doing something they consider to be normal that, from a broader or different perspective, would be abnormal. And it’s usually exposure to that outside/broader position that characterizes behaviour you’d consider normal as abnormal - it’s exposure to a different frame of reference for normalcy.

Yay semantics!

Careful now. First couple hits of photography are cheap. Then you’ll want new lenses, and eventually find yourself becoming semi-pro to feed your new addiction.

THANK YOU.

You know another fun thing that can happen? A doctor moves practices and changes fax numbers, and the old number gets assigned to a new, completely unrelated non-medical group. But no one told the medical entity that sends faxes, and no one updated the relevant records. All of a sudden several months worth of PHI has been getting sent to a women’s clothing store.

Fax in the medical field needs to die. Between the possibility of this happening, higher probability of transmission failure, paper (where offices are still using physical faxes) getting misplaced before getting filed in charts, etc., it’s just a plain bad way to send medical information in 2026.

Edit: OH, and don’t get me started on fancy, marketing-designed lab reports that use colored indicators to communicate treatment-critical information that no one checked for legibility in black and white, yet still get sent by fax. Like, fucking WHAT??

Yep, that’d be them! Always forget your display name and user id can be different (know there’s someone who uses this to hilarious [to giant nerds like me] effect by having it be [x]@threads.com or something)

For what it’s worth, the recognition is “they seem to have a good head on their shoulders”

Oh man, lots. Ada, Kolanki, WorldsDumbestMan, SatansMaggottyCumFart, Neidu, LadyButterfly, CaptainLezbian, CptAggravated, that one guy with the Chinese symbols whose mom is a piece of work, Stamets when he’s posting, Sunshine, Blaze, DistantSounds, Sodalite - the list goes on and on.

I may spend too much time here, lol.

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Wasting time on the internet

looks at long list, reflexively scrolls to the last point

Well, I’m sold.

As a young teen, I arranged irl meets with people from band guestbooks and friends-of-friends-of-friends from MSN pretty frequently.

Dumb, looking back, but all turned out to be who they said they were and good times were had. Would be super concerned if my kid did the same and he’s literally an adult now, so idk.

Yet you still can’t smoke a THC rich joint legally (yet, unless you’re participating in the pilot), and women didn’t have full voting rights until the 90s.

Not judging, just thought (as an outsider) this was an odd contrast when most of what I knew about Switzerland until recently was how permissive they were about piracy. Beautiful and interesting place, would love to visit again but it’s so f’ing expensive.

I convert from singing to whistling, then back to singing once strangers are out of earshot.

Never looked up the spelling, so I’ve been calling this ‘sauce for cowards’ for years now: