There's no copyright date on this one. If it's the normal 80's/early 90's I wonder how many readers would have known what a futon was
Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It's making my tongue feel funny.
You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.
directus→derecho from "straight" to "right"
So that's why "straight on" and "on the right" are the maddeningly confusable "a derecha" and "en derecho". Such a pain when following directions.
I'm using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I'd prefer a smaller screen
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I think they're regional. I don't remember seeing one either, but I don't know if that's because I haven't encountered it, or because I didn't notice.
Depends if you're testing a mad hypothesis
Your original intent was to not need to replace tyres. If you still need to replace other parts just as often, you haven't really improved on the problem.
It's a mobile client for Lemmy
I would say "it's on backorder". You could verb it as "it's been backordered", but that feels a bit clunky somehow.
If you put a ! In front of the link, like this;
It should show inline
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Placebo buttons.
Some appliances like elevators or traffic crossings cycle automatically, but they still have (non-functional) buttons. If the buttons are removed, people complain that the wait is too long. Let them push a button while they wait, and they'll think it's much quicker.
I meant accessibility in the sense of, how difficult/messy/undignified is it to eat. But yes that too. I thought coconuts were brittle, and grapefruit were inedibly sour until I tried some in their country of origin.
Mangos are S tier on taste, but D at best on accessibility. Fruits that I rate highly for both taste and convenience are clementines, seedless green grapes, and those flying-saucer shaped peaches.
Aha! But you won't be affected until time restarts. And since time has stopped for presumably the whole universe, nothing can happen to restart it.
You have the power to stop time.
🐵🐾 It stops for you, too.
I just sent you a message, then deleted it. Check if you can see it in your mailbox.
The ideal microwave would have
Start/stop? Use the door. Clear? Turn back the dial. Power settings? Full power, wait, repeat. Everything else? Nobody uses it, nobody knows what it does, nobody kept the instructions. Get rid of it.
Let's Play AQ-10 • results
Thanks to everybody who took part. Now it's time to see the results. I've counted up everyone's agreements and disagreements (using some amount of reading between the lines. I didn't count any that were unclear). The 'autistic' answer for each statement is indicated with bold type:
| statement | agree | disagree |
|---|---|---|
| I often notice small sounds when others do not. | 23 | 0 |
| When I’m reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions. | 5 | 1 |
| I find it easy to "read between the lines" when someone is talking to me. | 0 | 6 |
| I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details. | 0 | 4 |
| I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored. | 2 | 4 |
| I find it easy to do more than one thing at once. | 1 | 4 |
| I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face. | 1 | 5 |
| If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I w |
oral • björk ft. rosalía
Björk and Rosalía are donating all their rights to income generated by this song to the AEGIS non-profit organisation to combat open pen fish farming in Iceland. Their record companies have agreed to do the same. All funds raised will support legal fees for protesters, taking action to stop the development of intensive farms that harm wildlife, deform fish, and pose risks to salmon's DNA and survival. Immediate action is crucial.
donate directly at: https://www.bjork.com/aegis
Let's Play AQ-10 • I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
First post in this series
next post (conclusion and results)
How do you copy+paste a user handle?
There is (as far as I know) no easy way to copy a user handle to mention them in a post or comment. There isn't a UI element or menu option on a post to do this. I can go to their just page and use the share button, but then I get (for example):
https://lemmy.guide/link?target=@[email protected]
That's not Zach's instance, it's mine. To get the user handle I'd have to edit out the URL part, and change to the correct instance @[email protected].
Is that how it's supposed to work? Is the instance change thing a bug? Is there a better way I don't know about?
Let's Play AQ-10 • I like to collect information about categories of things
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • I find it easy to do more than one thing at once
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
I had a thought about "me Fern Brady me Fern Brady"
In Fern Brady's song, she says John Kearns is obsequious and Dara is an imbecile. But, then when they talk about it in the studio she says John isn't obsequious but Dara is. So then why did she write the song that way?
My thought was: if she calls Dara obsequious, then she has to call John an imbecile*. At the time she still didn't know that John had been purposefully trying to lose in the team task. Maybe she suspected he had genuine cognitive impairments, and it wouldn't be ok to joke about it?
(*There were also 2 other teammates, and the 2 hosts that she could have substituted into that line. My thinking here is that, since she had already worked with 2 of the teammates, she felt it was right for the song that they were the ones to get dissed individually.)
Let's Play AQ-10 • I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • I find it easy to "read between the lines" when someone is talking to me
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • When I’m reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions
This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can take the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Let's Play AQ-10 • I often notice small sounds when others do not
I thought it could be fun/interesting to go through an autism test question by question, and see what resonates with people, and how we approach thinking about the questions. So to start, here's question 1 of the AQ-10.
Is this statement true for you? Can you think of any examples? Is it an easy or difficult question for you to answer?
You can find the full AQ-10 test here. Note this test is intended as a quick screener, and cannot diagnose or rule out any condition on its own.
Culture Starship spotter thread
You know The Culture novels by Iain M Banks, right? How it has sentient starships that choose ironic names for themselves like these;
Well, if you pay attention, you can notice starships hiding in plain sight all around you. Here's a few from recent years;
In this thread I want to know; what starship names have you spotted in the wild?
Do you need an adult autism diagnosis? The professionals say "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ iunno? U tell me"
My doctor ordered me a pack of forms and questionnaires to request an assessment for adult autism. In amongst the medical histories and self assessments, this question stuck out;
it is important to know that not everyone who is referred to our service will have a diagnosis of autism confirmed. In the space below, tell us how you think having an autism diagnosis confirmed, or not, might impact on you and your life
What's going on here? Do you get asked this for other conditions? We're a community that typically struggles to read between the lines, so I could be way off, but this feels grudging to me. It's a question that says - what's the point of us even offering this service, and why are you so special that we should waste our time on you?
Icelandic Singer-songwriter Björk discusses her recent conservation efforts to protect native salmon
The singer is releasing a single with Rosalía to support action against intensive salmon farming. She talks about being a guardian of Iceland’s wilderness and how young people will make real change
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7829540
is hard to think of anyone as symbolic of their nation as Björk. The singer has lived away from Iceland over the years – in London and New York, and is often on tour – but when she’s been away she has always felt, she says, like she is “holding her breath”, both in anticipation of return and in memory of purer air. In recent years, since her relationship with the artist Matthew Barney ended in 2013, she has lived pretty much full-time near Reykjavik, where she has witnessed the great surge in tourism to the island, which has risen from a few hundred thousand annual visitors 20 years ago to almost 2 million now.
You couldn’t quantify exactly what proportion of that interest in volcano and glacier is down to Björk’s own one-woman nation branding, but there is no doubt that her wild and whirling music, with its operatic cutting edges of trance and techno, has done much to establish the unique cool of her native island in the ec
Do you want Björk to talk to you about fungi?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7446003
Of course you want Björk to talk to you about fungi. That's like, a basic human need.
The film will be trickling into IMAX cinemas across Europe and North America in the coming weeks / months, and may already be playing at a theatre near you. Please contact your local IMAX cinema for more information.
Björk shows you the inside of her TV
A very famous and important video.
Björk often works with an Icelandic poet called Sjón for her lyrics. Could he be the culprit? Has he ever lied to you?