I could also go on about what I think is harder or easier to read, but that’s neither here nor there. The post claims there is/are a font or fonts that were specifically created with the intention to be harder to read for the disabled, and I want to know whether that’s true.
Quite interesting, but doesn’t speak to the creation of fonts specifically to make reading harder for the disabled. It even says evidence that Calibri is easier isn’t conclusive. Doesn’t say anything about whether any font was created to make reading easier or harder for anyone.
Ya got a source on that? Sounds interesting
Oh absolutely, I’m glad we’re not doing that. I don’t get why there’s so few statistical studies, like ‘people who have been using (e.g.) chewing tobacco have x health stat compared to y in the general population’. It’s frustrating, especially with how many young people are using snus and vapes in recent years. It’s tough to make informed health decisions when the information is hard to come by.
Btw for the capsaicin thing. It’s one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.
(I know spicy plants don’t grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)
Just curious, is this true for smokeless tobacco too? I mean not the tar bit obviously, just the paralysing.
I literally have that book at home because of how much I agree with this. A friend highly recommended it and borrowed it to me when I was ~15. I never gave it back purely to avoid having to tell them how eye roll inducingly fake deep I found it. To be fair though, I don’t remember much of it either.
Sometimes, a piece of fiction does not want you to understand every part of the fictional world from the get go. It’s part of the art. For Dune in particular, it’s a hard vs. soft world building distinction. Some fiction, harry potter comes to mind, builds up the world slowly and eases you into it, explaining every little thing that makes it different from our own. Some just dumps you into it and lets you experience it as an outsider slowly gaining understanding.
From what I gather, most people nowadays are much more used to the first method, to the point of expecting it and thinking they’re missing something when the second method is used. I think stuff like that, including Dune, would be more enjoyable to many if they realised they aren’t, in fact, missing anything and that’s how the experience of consuming that piece of media was intended to be like.
Yes, because of US exceptionalism. That’s a bad thing, and we can try to not play into it.
Basically there’s a rapid response cognitive process that you don’t even have to consciously decide to apply that’ll give you a quick answer to posed questions. Anything where the answer is something you’ve mostly memorised and don’t need to calculate or deduce, such as ‘what’s your name?’ or 2+2. That’s system 1.
System 2 is anything you have to consciously apply a thought process to find it. Brains are lazy and like to conserve energy, so you need to decide to do it.
Obviously, what falls into which system depends on your personal habits and experience. Someone who works with numbers a lot, such as a waiter or a bookkeeper, might have the post question fall into category 1, but the average person will have to decide to solve it consciously, even if it only takes a split second.
They said that to point out you said ‘America’ when there’s a north America and a south America and your statement is only true for one country within one of those. We all know what you meant, but let’s stop playing into US exceptionalism by using the name for two whole continents as a synonym for it.
I love my cork one. It’s been holding up for many years now. Metal is ofc the only choice if you care about RFID protection though.
You use a different towel every day?
Perfectly cleaned with soap does not equal sterile. I don’t want e. coli in my eye.
(Lil ETA. You also think people who recommend those with a vulva wipe back to front even when peeing to avoid a UTI are all gross? No, e. coli is there even if you’re fully clean.)
Protip, you don’t HAVE to do smalltalk. I mean, it can be a helpful way to get a real convo started. But you can just text people a picture of your favourite dinosaur and explain why they’re your favourite. You can even text them ‘do you believe objective moraliy exists’ if that’s your cup of tea. Nothing bad will happen to you. If they still git you with the idk, at least you’ll know you don’t share that interest. Yes I’m autistic, how did you know.
Edit: I officially work to much. My phone autocorrected hit to git.
Yeah I’m so fascinated by the apparent 3d printing of some sort of construction product that I’m barely noticing the Shrek. I want to learn what that is
You know, I keep wondering this, because it genuinely is a similar amount of work. It’s just putting two dry and one wet thing in a pot. It takes me maybe 3 minutes. You don’t even have to do the ‘bring to a boil, then turn the heat down’ bit the other person described. Just turn on medium heat and leave it be. I’d probably take longer reading the package instructions and following them correctly on something ready made.
That said, I’ve gotten ready made meals for lunch when my work only had a microwave and no real kitchen.
Ok but absolutely slaying in terms of your look intimidates people and makes them leave you alone
Oh yeah I do that already!
That’s true but not at all what you said in the post. But thanks for clarifying here!