I once lost my glasses and used an ordinary drinking glass as a monocle as substitute. It wasn’t perfect, but good enough for me to find my glasses. (This was before cell phones had cameras).

Having been very near sighted for most of my life, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really that big of a handicap. It’s mostly an issue for reading things, and even that can be done when putting it close enough.

I can’t really think of anything in a hypothetical apocalypse where 20/20 vision would be absolutely necessary.

It’s just salt water.

what difference does it make if it’s through a web browser on the work desktop or my personal tablet.

Yeah what difference does it make? Why don’t you use your own device?

Maybe that would be funny of it was somebody else.

He gave up his career at his peak to become a full time family man.

They just make a bank transfer. The real issue is the taxation.

Every country has a threshold for how much someone can receive without paying taxes.

I think it’s impossible to assume anything at all. With cultural, age and gender differences, it’s difficult to figure out what the intentions of another person are, unless they state them clearly. Neither you or he did that.

As a guy, I can assure you that guys do not understand subtle hints or can even logically deduce where this casual acquaintance is going from what you have already described.

You’ll need to be very clear. Maybe then he will also tell or show you his own intentions more clearly.

But first you need to know yourself what you actually want to hang out with this guy for and if it’s worthwhile maintaining the friendship for whatever reason. It makes sense if you have mutual interests or benefits from keeping in touch. However, my best guess based on your description of him offering a back massage is that he might have more romantic intentions than you. In that case it’s best for both of you to be brutally clear and end his hopes instead of “friend-zoning” him. It might feel unpleasant, but it’s crucial to be clear. If he reacts negatively, well, there’s your answer.

A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn’t bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven’t bothered learning the law. If they can’t be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.

The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don’t think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.

Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can’t.

If you’re a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?

Less than? Hell no.

5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn’t and never will be.

Without 5 you wouldn’t even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.

Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it’s also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn’t name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody, that’s who.

Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That’s right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.

You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.

25 is a shitty composite number. It’s shitty because it’s not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors: One, itself and 5 (of all things, duh…)

That’s because it’s square and boring. Does it even look square to you? This uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What’s the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I’d definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They’re so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.

So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.

Art has always had that issue. Is a potato print worse than a hand drawn figure?

Sometimes you need to know the material or technique to appreciate the effort.

It also applies outside of art. It’s not always the end product that is important. We can appreciate things for being more difficult than necessary. Like the game Roller Coaster Tycoon being impressive because it was coded in assembly, or the Olympic guy who no-scoped in the shooting competition etc.

If the AI prompt is the effort, it should be appreciated as such, instead of comparing the end product against other techniques. We also don’t compare airbrushed grafitti artwork to oil paintings, because even if the end product of both is a neat picture, it’s impossible to judge against each other.

People do that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSBFN7vK7P/

we’re essentially removing them from the gene pool

I don’t think Downs works like that.

It’s already being removed, since people choose abortion over downs and since people with Downs don’t have children (normally).

It is not hereditary. It’s an error or mutation that can occur for anyone. The chances are higher the older the parents are.

It would be interesting to follow them. Find out where they live or where they go in their off time. Then call the ICE on them.

My best guess judging by the visible letters is that it either says “I like your mom” or “Bukakke Soccer Mom”.

The birds are watching you.

Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.

If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.

it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

Well… how’s that going?

Apps or NFC tags are used where I live.

I charge at home myself, but in the odd case where I’ve used public chargers I’ve had to install an app from whatever charging company it is, because I can never find one that takes cards directly, though they all ought to do that by now.

For people who use public chargers a lot, it makes most sense to get some subscription and get a tag for that. Some of them works across different networks. It’s a bit of jungle.

The apps probably do require a card to setup, unless you get it through some company where you already have direct debit (f.i. your electricity provider or gas station monthly billing etc.)

It’s not that different from gas stations. It’s not possible to pay those in cash anymore anyway.

I disagree. The pointlessness creates a liminal space.

It’s called “popliteal” in English, sometimes but uncommonly shortened to “poplit”.

The correct sentence is “what does it mean?”

As far as I know, Russian doesn’t use the auxillary verb “do/does”.

In many languages, the “do” is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word “mean”, as also suggested by the usage of “means” instead of “does mean”.

I suppose another construction could be “It means what?”

Shit dissolves better. Food (generally) has more fats and oils that will stick and clog the pipes…

It’s the same pipe.