What about this post starting with the premise that they may be “a very strange person” makes you think they are blaming others for their difficulty?

Should also consider the possibility of ADHD.

Everything has changed except human nature.

Your example shows how far cultural norms have shifted. Reading a paper around others is anti social in a culture where you are expected to interact with and give others your attention.

Each generation may react the same way to the new behaviors of the next generation, but that does mean those new behaviors do not form a consistent trend representing real change in the culture. In this case that trend is increasing individualism and weakening of community norms.

I might be mistaken, but I think a thumb only gesture is offensive in some cultures. Not sure how important the hand orientation is.

This has been going on for generations. The world used to be a much more dyi, less prepackaged place. Each generation does less and less for themselves. I see the difference between my father’s generation and my own as well as between my generation and later ones. Shit, my grandfather built his own fucking house.

That’s never particularly been me, except when I’m sleep deprived. But in recent years I’ve been consistent about my sleep and wake times (including not changing them on weekends) and that seems to help a lot. According to my tracker it usually takes me about 10 min to fall asleep.

Yes, please let’s stop granting this dickhead relevance.

I’m going to have to choose to be the intelligent person. You might think the idiot has it easy…they may even not know they are an idiot. But they could be so stupid they also think all the intelligent people are idiots, so they might get all the frustration of thinking they are the intelligent person on a team of idiots while actually being the opposite.

Bad posture can be the result of muscles holding onto dysfunctional tension. The problem might not be that muscle X is too weak, but that your body (really your motor sensory system) has developed the idea that holding tension in muscle Y is normal.

There are exercises or “movements” geared for this. Try looking up “somatics.” It worked for me.

Wait…the actor from like the 70s? He would be over 100 if he were still alive. How is she herself not 70 or something? Or did you mean granddaughter?

(Nevermind, looked it up and did the math… I guess he was 65 when he had her and she’s 40 or close to it.)

I just use kid3 to check and fix the tags on each album as I get it.

Doesn’t it use whatever the desktop is using? I assume this really means that if the desktop is using Wayland, it directly uses Wayland libraries instead of some x11 adapter?

When in doubt, throw it out, but if a thing looks and smells and tastes fine it probably is.

But this assumes some experience. Like I know from experience that if dairy tastes fine to me, it really is fine. I will taste off flavors in milk long before it bad enough to make me sick. And sometimes dairy can last way beyond its use-by date. How cold your fridge is has a huge effect, but there is also much luck-of-the-dice around microbes getting in.

But something like, say, potato salad which might have flavors that vary and could cover up something going off… I will throw that out if it gets old or I’ve lost track of how old it is.

They probably thought your over apologizing was wholesome, and could tell from your manner that it was sincere. Most people understand how easy a mistake it is to make, and can relate to being embarrassed about it. A few months ago, I stepped into a men’s room just as a woman hurried out apologizing embarrassedly. It happens.

Nah, leave ketchup packets on the window sill with the outward facing end cut off.

I don’t know if this would solve your problem, but I would try getting a pair of replacement foam ear tips for your earbuds of choice. I always buy the Comply foam ear tips. They come in S/M/L sizes and they make them to fit most ear buds.

I don’t have extra small ear canals, I just prefer them.

Are you sure it’s not what other sounds are occurring around the words affecting the sound? How we pronounce t and s can vary quite a bit, even in the same word when it occurs differently, with different sounds right before it after or even different stress placed on the word based on the context.

From an open source perspective, this is how things are supposed to work, humanity making progress by standing on each other’s shoulders… Of course they want the rest of humanity to help them, with government subsidies, investment from our retirement funds, etc.

Putting a piece of tape (perhaps duct tape, or electrical tape) over the holes will probably keep them from unraveling further.

Now they’ll have video proof that Jesus was white. And had 7 fingers.