I think I’ve slightly frustrated people when they asked me something like “how do you think this chair will look in the corner of the living room?” and all I really could say was “yeah it’s a nice chair, has about the same colour as the sofa”

Now that’s cooking with thermite

People with aphantasia may not realize that most people can “see” images they generate in their minds. Some with aphantasia say they thought using the word “see” in that context was a metaphor.

The evidence just keeps stacking for me

I’ve already solved that by not finding a partner 😎👎

Electrons

Oh yeah, I agree. That is what I meant to meant to say. The payment processors are acting like a cartel here.

It’s the wrong way to go about it though. Private companies should not dictate legality and morality.

Or saying it’s illegal to hang up on telemarketers

Especially when helping your parents living in the middle of nowhere.

Seeing them struggle with the changes happening in the last few decades, makes me worry what I’ll be like when i need some young whippersnapper so that I can pay via personal, irrational, conditional thinking.

I still manage to do that with a job 😎👉

Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type

https://sh.itjust.works/post/42235147

If it is supposed to be a joke, it didn’t stick the landing

Yes, Valve and Visa/MasterCard differ massively in their service. Valve operates a store within a specific industry, Visa/MasterCard process payments across our whole society.

It should be clear to anyone that payment providers must be held to a much stricter standard and have certain requirements of neutrality imposed on them. If not then in the best case you risk destroying the “free market” part of free market capitalism, worst case you’re weakening democracy by letting unelected, unaccountable people decide what is and what isn’t legal.

Why would it be terrible if noon is not when the sun is directly overhead? It’s not like there’s some natural law telling us that it must be 12 o’clock. So what convenience does it provide?

0 might as well be when you wake up and start your day, so you actually sleep during the end of your day, instead of a bit at the end and a bit at the start.

TIL ‘thou’ is second person singular

Can you explain the difference between the two? To me, either case still creates ambiguity and unnecessary confusion in the language.

5 weeks by law in Finland as well

Like anything with hype, it can funnel money

Have you heard about the French hotdog?

The great city of Middelfart ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middelfart