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harrysgucciteam:

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biggest-goldiest-fish:

Bottom left

 

aliaitee:

top right

 

rainbow-mcgee:

I’m not even an adult, but top left

 

aliaitee:

i’m not an adult either

 

chicken-burrito-official:

bottom left

 

chicken-burrito-official:

i’m looking through the notes and generally what i see:

top left and bottom left: mellow, fun, think this is kinda interesting

top right: very rare, mysterious folk who don’t explain their opinion much

bottom right: “FUCC You All!! bottom right is the one true god!!! AAaah let’s Fight over this!” kinda responses.

no opinion really: yeah they didn’t know this was such a thing

 

bundleofnervousenergy:

Bottom left

 

toomuchdickfort:

I’m just bottom right Bc right hand and also left is for put things out of the way…

 

awkward-scarfy-boi:

Bottom right

 

dreamhunterwolf:

i’m not an adult but bottom right

 

justasheepinwolfsclothing:

Bottom left

 

coffiero:

top right (i’m not an adult)

 

thnksfrthmania:

Bottom left, it gets hotter fastest on my stove

 

thetimeoftheoath1777:

Mine has only 2, but I like the left burner

 

het-cats-mustaches:

Bottom left. It’s in perfect placement

 

somepretty-things:

In my old house it was bottom right… but my apartment now it’s bottom left because of the layout of my kitchen for some reason. Idk why it changed for me, but the bottom right just doesn’t feel right now. 

 

delightfully-thomi-posts:

Top Left!

 

belindapendragon:

Bottom right

 

sufficientlylargen:

Flamethrower by the stove.

 

fermatas-theorem:

bottom left because it’s the one that changes size so I never have to change any of my habits for cooking different things

Bottom-right is clearly the best burner, because you don’t have to reach as far and the larger burner size heats the pot more evenly. Bottom-left is okay for boiling pasta and stuff like that, but I’ve *tried* making popcorn on the bottom-left burner and it *doesn’t cook right* because that burner is too small.

(results not applicable to stove designs in which the burners are not of different sizes, or designs where the sizes have a different pattern; possibly also not applicable to people significantly taller than 5′3″ or equivalently shorter stoves)

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little-brisk:

i’m sorry but it is insane to look at david tennant and think that of any possible pair of men or indeed people of any gender he is not the aziraphale

My reaction to this post was “wait, you mean he *isn’t* playing Aziraphale?”, so I think that means I agree.

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cryptovexillologist:

In middle school I was really into RuneScape, and weirdly terrified of any of my friends finding out, even though I’m sure none of them would have given a damn

In hindsight, this looks like really clunky thematic foreshadowing of me realizing I was gay in high school

God is a hack writer

It takes practice to learn how to keep secrets, and the best practice material is secrets that don’t actually matter, so that if you fail it’s not a big deal.

(I say this as a person who also kept her Runescape-playing secret for a while as a kid. I managed four months before anyone found out, which is not bad for a ten-year-old.)

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gasmaskaesthetic:

honeywives:

people who slander dandelions are so boring. oh you don’t like weeds?? you don’t want to see my yard absolutely covered in fairy pom moms motherfucker??? get bent 

as a small child I used to argue vehemently that dandelions weren’t weeds, because “weeds are plants you DON’T want!”

I know, right?!

On the bright side, nobody else caring about “”weeds”” means they don’t mind if you pick them and make a beautiful bouquet for your mommy. Or try to see if you can figure out this “flower crown” concept you’ve vaguely heard about. Or dissect them and test their various liquids on a piece of tree bark to see if any of them dye it an interesting colour.

(*Looking* at flowers is one of the most boring things to do with them, and it’s a shame that roses and the like are reserved for such boring purposes.)

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mkfshard asked: I've recently begun reading Pact, after finishing Worm, mostly because of yours and others' recommendations! Do you have any other reading recommendations past wildbow, be it serial novels or full-on publications? :D

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itsbenedict:

Ooh, hm. If you liked Worm, you’d probably also like @walterlw​‘s The Fifth Defiance, which is in the same vein of realistic and/or clever superhero worldbuilding and has some great characters. Uh, what else, though, going off knowing you liked Worm, and also I know you were into Homestuck back in the day… hm. 

  • nostalgebraist’s The Northern Caves is a fun sort of psychological horror-y thing told through mocked-up message board posts, plus his other stuff (Almost Nowhere, freaky sci-fi psychodrama involving weird time shit, and Floornight, his previous freaky sci-fi psychodrama involving weird time shit) is great. 
  • Do you like Danganronpa? KinuNishimura has a really good fanganronpa called Operation V.K. that goes in its own direction and does some cool shit with robots. 
  • I was about to recommend Floating Point by Stefan Gagne, which is this thing about like, the internet as a self-contained world inhabited by digital people who have no idea a real world ever existed, but for some reason his site is impossible to find- I don’t know if he took it down to sell the physical books directly or what.
  • I wrote some stuff, but you’ve been following me for a while so I figure you probably already know about Cordyceps and my Overwatch fic.
  • The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer is pretty cool- really elaborate sci-fi worldbuilding for a future Earth where high-speed transportation has rendered geographical nations obsolete, which really gets into the wild political ramifications of everything.
  • One thing I relate to very much like I relate to Homestuck- in that it was super formative for me and remains really funny and compelling and I continue to recommend it, despite a lackluster ending, being kind of off-putting and hard to get into at the beginning, and most people who were really into it back in the day claiming to have outgrown it- is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Say what you will about it being didactic or unrealistic or condescending or whatever, but that shit is still fun.

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I’m partway through Floating Point and the website still seems to be working fine for me [link].

(I was worried for a moment there when you said that, but then I remembered I kept local copies of those pages, so even if it *had* gone down I could make do)

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yesterdaysprint:

The Evening World, New York, March 24, 1904

 

rustingbridges:

Has anyone tried this? I feel compelled to at least take the idea seriously

 

brin-bellway:

The trouble with *holding* it upside-down is that gravity works against you, and some or all of the butter may fall off.

I generally compromise by holding it butter-side-up, then using my tongue to flip each bite over inside my mouth.

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*looks up “voluble”* Wait, hang on, is this a joke about oiling your tongue in order to make your speech-producing mechanisms work better? I thought we were talking about how to best enjoy the flavour.

 

rustingbridges:

So having tried this, here are my findings:

1) I didn’t have any trouble with the butter coming off, it was all pretty well into the bread. If you used a lot more butter than I did though perhaps that could become a problem?

2) The flavor profile is definitely a little different. I get the butter first and then later the flip side (my test was performed with end pieces of a wonderbread style loaf, I do have some dough rising so maybe I’ll see with some normal bread).

3) However the butter flavor is still very available eating it butter side up. It’s more of an accent though. I didn’t find it made a big difference, although if you wanted to maximize the butter flavor (to skimp on butter, maybe, or if you just really love butter) butter side down might be worthwhile.

4) The actual inconvenience to me was that I had to hold my slice in a nonstandard configuration.

My conclusion is that this approach is probably not, generally speaking, for me, but I think it’s a reasonable preference.

 

brin-bellway:

It may be worth noting that in many cases my buttered bread has room-temperature bread, and butter partway between refrigerator-temperature and room-temperature. In these cases the butter does not melt into the bread at all, and is often not even that firmly attached.

(I *try* to bring butter up to room temperature before spreading it, but I don’t always get enough advance notice.)

 

rustingbridges:

Ah, my butter is almost always up to room temperature (which is relatively easy for me, since the only other person to regularly use my butter is my girlfriend, who is, of all the people in the world, uniquely willing to my opinions on butter handling). And also if it was not quite room temperature I would almost definitely toast the bread in question.

Cold butter on cool bread would be less amenable.

#I don’t know exactly how long butter takes to go bad at room temperature but it really does take a while  #I keep mine in a small airtight container and I’ve never had it go bad even if the temperature cycles up to over 90f most days  #well it did go bad when I was out of town for six weeks but I don’t think it’s ever taken me more than three to use a stick of butter  #if warm butter but is reaching it’s EOL I bake with it  #measuring butter that’s never deformed is much easier though

Might also be relevant that most Canadian butter is sold in blocks the size of four sticks. (Usually with markings along the side of the (paper-lined foil) wrapper to indicate things like “slice here to get ¼ cup”.)

(I used to think it was *all* Canadian butter, but I recently discovered that President’s Choice brand butter is in stick format.)

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rustingbridges:

brin-bellway:

rustingbridges:

yesterdaysprint:

The Evening World, New York, March 24, 1904

Has anyone tried this? I feel compelled to at least take the idea seriously

The trouble with *holding* it upside-down is that gravity works against you, and some or all of the butter may fall off.

I generally compromise by holding it butter-side-up, then using my tongue to flip each bite over inside my mouth.

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*looks up “voluble”* Wait, hang on, is this a joke about oiling your tongue in order to make your speech-producing mechanisms work better? I thought we were talking about how to best enjoy the flavour.

So having tried this, here are my findings:

1) I didn’t have any trouble with the butter coming off, it was all pretty well into the bread. If you used a lot more butter than I did though perhaps that could become a problem?

2) The flavor profile is definitely a little different. I get the butter first and then later the flip side (my test was performed with end pieces of a wonderbread style loaf, I do have some dough rising so maybe I’ll see with some normal bread).

3) However the butter flavor is still very available eating it butter side up. It’s more of an accent though. I didn’t find it made a big difference, although if you wanted to maximize the butter flavor (to skimp on butter, maybe, or if you just really love butter) butter side down might be worthwhile.

4) The actual inconvenience to me was that I had to hold my slice in a nonstandard configuration.

My conclusion is that this approach is probably not, generally speaking, for me, but I think it’s a reasonable preference.

It may be worth noting that in many cases my buttered bread has room-temperature bread, and butter partway between refrigerator-temperature and room-temperature. In these cases the butter does not melt into the bread at all, and is often not even that firmly attached.

(I *try* to bring butter up to room temperature before spreading it, but I don’t always get enough advance notice.)

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rustingbridges:

yesterdaysprint:

The Evening World, New York, March 24, 1904

Has anyone tried this? I feel compelled to at least take the idea seriously

The trouble with *holding* it upside-down is that gravity works against you, and some or all of the butter may fall off.

I generally compromise by holding it butter-side-up, then using my tongue to flip each bite over inside my mouth.

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*looks up “voluble”* Wait, hang on, is this a joke about oiling your tongue in order to make your speech-producing mechanisms work better? I thought we were talking about how to best enjoy the flavour.

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sigmaleph:

@brin-bellway not reblogging the whole post but

The method of addition described in the OP [adding 7+6 by observing that 7+3=10, 6=3+3, so 7+3+3=10+3= 13] is implicitly being contrasted with some “normal” way, and I’m curious what that normal way actually is. Anyone know?

I don’t know if this is the “normal” way, but I do mental arithmetic by having all the single-digit additions cached (so 7+6=13 is a one-step result of the method), and doing stuff similar to the OP if I am unsure/forgot/dealing with longer numbers I don’t want to do digit-by-digit. Note that OP is implicitly doing some results caching of their own to remember that 7+3=10 and 3+3=6

[previously on]

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I find 3+3=6 much more intuitive and cache-y than 7+6=13, because the first one isn’t overflowing into another digit.

The way you echo back the description of the method, while not wrong really, makes it sound a lot more abstract than it feels in my brain. It feels more like the numbers are made of something with the consistency of dough or soft clay, and I tear a chunk off of one number and stick it onto the other one, then look at the sizes of the resulting two piles of number. Or maybe pouring water from one jug to another until it’s full and then looking at the amount leftover in the first jug, kind of like that puzzle in Die Hard with a Vengeance†. (I always did like that movie as a child, though I would tend to forget that not all of the movie was puzzles and end up unpleasantly surprised by the beginning and end.)

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Quite possibly caching everything is the normal way, yeah. I know it’s the normal way to do 1×1-digit multiplication. The kids in my Girl Scout troop made fun of me for not having the times tables memorised: I never bothered and just worked them out on the fly as needed. Some of them have ended up ingrained through sheer use, but I never did put any deliberate effort into ingraining them.

(ingrained-through-sheer-use rather than through any deliberate effort is also how I learned to touch-type [link])

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†For those of you unfamiliar: you get a 3-gallon jug, a 5-gallon jug, and a fountain (from/to which you may both take and give water). Measure out 4 gallons. (also do it in two minutes or a bomb goes off, because supposedly this is an action movie and not edutainment)

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naxzella:

finding out people dont usually add numbers by first adding something to make a ten (for example 7+6= 7 plus 3 is 10 plus another 3 is 13) & that its actually an adhd thing is the WILDEST shit literally ive lived like 10 years (or however old i was when i learned to add and stuff) thinking thats how everyone does it. what the fuck

 

cabronallorona:

What

 

overherewiththequeers:

It’s also an autism thing, apparently.

 

teaboot:

W H A T

 

leap-yeap:

Oh yeah! This is also part of why autistic people/people with adhd struggle in math classes. Our brains process math and numbers in a totally different way. Many people on the spectrum struggle with the “show your work” part of math because we can’t exactly tell you why it works/how it works. We just kinda do it

 

black-infinity-parked-outside:

It’s also a maths dyslexia thing!

 

maryellencarter:

So I don’t innately do this but I was taught to do it? Now I’m really confused.

(I wonder if a disproportionate number of people who homeschool for primarily religious reasons, and/or of the people who create curricula marketed to that audience, are autistic or ADHD or otherwise neurodivergent. It would sure explain the absolute scathing scorn for the idea that children need “socialization”, and possibly the popularity of theme-integrated “unit studies” and self-directed “unschooling”… and it could evolve pretty easily by those originally being the kids who did a *lot* better homeschooled than in public schools… hmm.)

(Every so often I circle back around to the question of whether any of the things that make me think I’m autistic are inborn or whether they all come from my upbringing. Because my sperm donor is definitely autistic and also an abusive asshole, and my bio-incubator may be autistic or ADHD or something else along those lines but by *god* does she have the executive dysfunction in spades. And they’re both controlling as fuck. So the only way to socialize Correctly was his way, and the only way to get anything done was her way, and given childhood neuroplasticity… does it really matter if I was born autistic or whatever I am? Am I just irreversibly whatever-it-is now and I should be learning to work with it, or am I accidentally meandering back toward neurotypicality (and what does that mean for my online friendships if so), or was I actually neurodivergent all along and it’s just the extroversion confusing me? :P)

Not sure about fundies as such, but FWIW I was in secular homeschool groups (though this included a fair number of relatively laid-back religious types who didn’t mind hanging out with the rest of us) and they were very autistic. And they got distilled to increasingly high concentrations of autism the older they got, because allistics were a lot more likely to leave for public school. Groups of homeschooled teenagers tended to be upwards of 50% autistic, and a lot of the rest had autistic siblings.

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The method of addition described in the OP is implicitly being contrasted with some “normal” way, and I’m curious what that normal way actually is. Anyone know?

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