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- Comment on Living the dream 1 day ago:
It’s one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10?
- Comment on Google Docs makes me wanna rip my hair out 1 day ago:
Call me a Google shill all you want, but I always love being able to edit my documents both online and offline on all of my devices, esp when many of these apps come by default.
- Comment on MUCH better 2 days ago:
That blep of the black cat is amazing
- Comment on My favorite board game! 4 days ago:
Gonna play tonight 😊
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah I drive around 3 hours on the highway every several weeks. Sometimes on my drive, there’s obviously traffic. A lot of times it will be something like rush hour traffic, a crash, construction, etc.
But then like…a good portion of the time when I come to the very front of the “clog”, I find that it is just a blockade of multiple people going incredibly slowly and taking up all lanes of traffic, refusing to move over despite the fact that they are going under the speed limit.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
My brother sleeps with his eyes party open. He must be eye oxygenmaxxing. Superior eyeballs.
- Comment on Has a woman ever orgasmed by subwoofer? 1 week ago:
I’ve always been broken in that regard I guess. How do I make vibrations feel good?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh…oh no
- Comment on Bruh 1 week ago:
Funny, I must have been asleep in school the day they taught us about the iollotte sserotgomar cell.
What a horrifying existence.
- Comment on Bruh 1 week ago:
I’ve always wondered if men delivered the baby out of their peehole or butthole.
I guess it’s the peehole. Good luck, guys.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Lmaoo
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Maybe my vision just isn’t good enough, but the individual ticks for the minute hand are so small that I have difficulty without holding the watch closer to my face and studying it for a moment if it’s close to the next minute but not there yet. I don’t have old eyes either lol. It’s just small. Maybe a wall clock would be easier to see quickly.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Yeah it seems like most of the comments here that actually understood my question (many of them seem to think I’m asking for instructions on how to read the hours and minutes) seem to have this kind of attitude. The attitude that analog clocks aren’t necessarily for precision, but for a general “vibe” for lack of a better term at what time it is. I guess having constant connection to Internet clocks with precise minutes and seconds has made me pretty anal about time for whatever reason. I guess maybe I need to learn to chill out more?? Lol
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Yeah it syncs to my phone which is also always constantly connected to the internet.
I have a non internet connected cheapo digital clock in my room and it goes off by a minute or so now and then and it bothers me enough to have to change it lol.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
I get what you mean. I think it might vary by which watch face I am using on my particular watch. I notice that in general the minute hand for the face I am using is very granular…it definitely doesn’t just stop at the minute marks or even just halfway in between the minute marks. The one I am using seems to be more fluid than that. I was watching it closely just now and I see the minute hand ticking away ever so slightly as the second hand moves.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
This isn’t a problem with “the school system”. I know how to read an analog clock. But it’s not something I have ever done daily and so I have never been in practice with it.
Many of the comments here seem to be confused, instead simply instructing me how to read an analog clock in general.
That wasn’t the question or my issue. On a wristwatch, the space between the numbers of the minute hand is pretty small. I am not elderly, but it is difficult for me to see quickly precisely at what tick mark the minute hand is at… especially if it is getting to be toward the next minute and I don’t realize.
One user suggested to briefly also glance at the second hand when I need more precision, which seems to help alleviate part of the problem that I describe.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a super interesting concept! Neat idea, but I don’t think I’d be able to handle that for when I’m getting ready for work in the morning and the minutes count lol.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
I guess there really isn’t a ton of value tbh! I guess it’s just that I’ve basically always had access to the exact time and anything else feels a bit less than. Things like getting ready in the morning and keeping track of the exact minute I know I have to leave by to get to work comfortably, people asking me for the time and giving them a time off by a minute is socially awkward if they double check, or something like knowing that I want to bake something in the oven for exactly 12 minutes without having to set a timer.
“Vibes” is honestly a good way to put it lol
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
Today in the digital age, the bus schedule says “15:17”
Yeah essentially lol. That’s one of the reasons I had never been super into analog clocks beforehand.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
It does have a second hand, but I don’t really look at it much to tell the time.
It’s not that I can’t tell the minutes when it is between numbers, it’s that it will already look like it’s 9:23 because the minute hand has effectively nearly covered the 9:23 minute mark despite it being 9:22. Seems to be a limitation of analog clocks unless I am just not great at discerning these things.
Tbh it’s actually a smartwatch and not technically an actual analog watch, so I’m assuming the exact time is pretty accurate. I just want to start using analog watch faces more on it to make it look nicer haha.
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- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry if I wasn’t clear…they are swim goggles! My whole life I have always been frustrated that I can’t see shit when wearing swim goggles because obviously I can’t wear the goggles and my glasses at the same time. But I’ve been swimming in these goggles and holy shit! It’s obviously not a perfect match, but I can see so well with them as opposed to not being able to see jack shit! I love it! I can finally see what is going on when swimming in the pool!
They didn’t have my exact prescription, so I went with a slightly less powerful prescription so it wouldn’t feel too strong. So like my prescription is -7.5 and I went with -7 because they didn’t have the exact number. Obviously they aren’t going to have any sort of astigmatism correction either if you need that. But I mean since they are basically almost the same price as regular swim goggles, I don’t see a downside to trying them out. I wish I knew about these decades ago lol.
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 2 weeks ago:
I agree it’s a bit silly. One thing I was pleasantly surprised about is that you can get off the shelf prescription goggles for myopia, even for quite strong presriptions! I bought some -7 diopter correction goggles on Amazon for about $17. They work great!
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 weeks ago:
Quite frankly I’m just lazy. I’ve always hated picking up my things and I’ve struggled with organization since I was a child. I think with me…my parents never really got on me about being neat and organized. So I never got into the habit. Still turned out fine! It just means I frantically clean before people come over lol.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 4 weeks ago:
You sound very sweet, OP. Never change. A lot of people are just miserable themselves and want company being miserable.
- Comment on Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment) 4 weeks ago:
Any time! Hope you find something you enjoy!
- Comment on Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment) 4 weeks ago:
Sure thing! I went with the Royal Kludge M75 keyboard in this cool green pattern with their “pale green” tactile switches.
I was looking for these things really:
- Cool yet tasteful aesthetics
- A 75% form factor (no numpad, compact while retaining arrow keys and function row…I want my mouse hand to sit close to my keyboard)
- Tactile key switches (they have a satisfying tactile “bump” sensation when you press down on them, but aren’t insanely loud like “clicky” key switches)
- Something that isn’t breaking the bank
- Wireless capability
It met everything I was looking for and had some pretty good reviews, so I pulled the trigger. Keychron seems to be higher quality than some of these, but it just didn’t have the interesting color schemes I was looking for. It also seems to tend to cost more. My PC case is green so it complements it well. The tactile switches are very satisfying to type on imo!
- Comment on Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment) 4 weeks ago:
Keychron seems to be a pretty decent keyboard brand from my minimal research when I was looking to get a new one, myself! I ultimately went with something else because I couldn’t quite find what I was looking for with them, but they were def on my shortlist.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 4 weeks ago:
This instead reminds me of this classic YouTube video:
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 weeks ago:
So what I suspect happens is that in newer development communities, the people building them just seem to find it easier to level/bulldoze an entire plot of land to build a neighborhood. Then they just don’t feel like putting plants and trees back in out of cost and laziness.
For older neighborhoods in the US, you’ll find a lot more foliage. I love it when I go to an older neighborhood that has large trees that canopy the area. They do exist here…it’s just that they have to be a bit older. My condo complex has some wonderful tall trees and plants everywhere. It’s not a new complex though and they seem to care more about plantife than some others do. They even randomly planted a massive tree last year for some reason lol. Seemed to require some pretty big machinery to haul it and put it in lol.
