This reminds me, I want to learn at least high school chemistry at some point. It's a massive blind spot
"Please raise your hand if you have ever been impacted by private health insurance?"
Depends, for me. Instructions I prefer text, cruise entertainment that I don't have to reflect back on immediately, probably other forms
I'm kinda glad that I've found my archetypes and don't feel the need to play a wide variety of characters. It does mean I can't play fantasy much though
I made an automatic truck in Stormworks and it looks kinda like a Ural and it's so fuel efficient. The transmission needs a bit of tuning, but it reliably drives about and has indicators, hazard lights, and a radio!
My friend who went to the US and lived there for three years said Americans driving is something else
Waiting for this mega to end
Japan weirdly high on that list, though Japanese real estate is within reach even for me
I'm hiding a homeless person in my home, which is risking eviction to keep someone off the streets. Here, most tenancies don't allow you to "sublet", the landlord legally gets the final say about who lives in their property.
It's one of my only safe foods atm :( my last two bulk cooks have made me feel really sick
I see it here sometimes, and also in myself. Trying to undo the snobbishness of academia.
To be clear, American illiteracy is something that is done to working class Americans. I'm probably not going to shed a tear if an illiterate fascist gets fucked over by policies they supported, there are better people to focus on, but it is tragic.
The lighter areas of the photo make it really hard to read
I remember getting pretty stressed when my local welfare app (which you need to engage with to get welfare money) used 2FA and my phone network was delaying every message by several hours. Risking eviction for the very low risk that someone was scalping welfare passwords and fraudulently logging job applications or work hours.
I feel like some processing is going on. They understand that the speech is signalling loyalty to interest groups, but they don't actually remember the words said and also mistake the loyalty group being signalled (hence the "leopards ate my face" phenomenon, at least partly). This isn't critical analysis, the belief that "politician is saying that for me!" and "politician is saying what we're all thinking!" is the barest bones of processing. They do engage a bit more energy if a politician says something they openly disagree with.
Some people's stories feel like its just a single cozy bus stop compared to a metro. Not really going anywhere, not even sure why you're at the bus stop. But you're here now.
Someone has a story below about the South Korean President and their coworker just taking the President's statement of North Korea is invading at total face value even though the article was about how he was trying to create the crisis. Just a bonkers level of finding a single sentence in an article that you vibe with and then making the conversation about that (or rather about how you're on that side).
I think people understand allegiances and power much better than they can express it, and in fact struggle to express why they agree with "powerful person on their side" when pressed for a reason. Like, I could say to the same coworker "Trump said that communism rules", and they would immediately be able to engage their critical thinking abilities and disbelieve that or ask for a source.
I really dislike writing a long email that contains in very simple text everything that is required of them, maybe some of the background, and I either get ghosted or only the very last thing (or very first thing) in the email gets responded to. Usually from clients rather than coworkers.
Was it written in legalese? That's a whole can of worms on its own.
My local technical college was pretty cheap and cruisy for anyone with any interest in it. The state subsidised the cost since it was in demand. Pirate solidworks (try to get later versions). FreeCAD is also a thing but isn't used industrially.
I work for a place that does mechanical drawings... I think drawing style comes down to locality and workplace. Australian Standard kinda uses a mix of ANSI and ISO.