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  • That’s 100% Headology.

    First, you vent your pain and rage on the hex objects. Then, instead of fearing and avoiding them, you now face them, looking for the cracks. When they have a setback you know it’s working.

    If they don’t, you can always get another jar for a booster dose.

    Meanwhile, instead of circling the drain of despair, you have freed up some braincells for advancing positive aspects of your own life.






  • Well, I have to say I think it’s okay because generally we do capitalize the first letter of a sentence. But my phone of course autocorrected it. And since it’s a name, we should defer to the preference of the person or thing being named. If I said “e e cummings was a poet perhaps best known for his rejection of capitalisation and punctuation,” it would be stupid and perhaps rude of me to type it as “E. E. Cummings,” and yet that’s how he appears in Wikipedia. So I guess I come down on the side of, “I’ll allow it.”




  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzMitosis
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    Okay I’ll be that guy. Not literally.

    It’s still a funny visual joke, and loses nothing by being simply

    iPhone went through mitosis

    Or if you’re even more pedantic than I,

    iPhone camera went through mitosis

    Are there many more urgent problems in the world than proliferation of misused "literally"s?

    Absolutely. And I do my tiny part. But focusing for a moment on something small like this helps me step away from the abyss.



  • Bikes could pretty easily get out of the way, buses less so. If we’re talking about physical-barrier lanes. Painted-stripe lanes, sure.

    As someone who drives a wheelchair-modified minivan, I have to note that the design of the physical-barrier bike lanes I’ve encountered has turned streets that were “park anywhere legal, don’t feed the meter” to “there’s only one blue space, it’s at the far end of the street, and someone else is already in it, the other six spaces don’t allow you to drop your ramp.” Oh, and the sidewalk is now narrowed, with signposts making passage difficult. So I think the whole design process needs to be rethought. But that’s a whole nother thing.






  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.workstoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldCar owners in NY are devastated!
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    For me, a brisk walk is 5.2 km/h (at 8% grade, 135 strides/minute, and I’m totally sweaty after 30 minutes, it would take me about 45 to go 2 miles) because I’m short and 65. With my husband, we would take over an hour because he can only drive his wheelchair so fast before the vibrations make him lose control of his lip-joystick. Add in crappy curbcuts for another 10 minutes. I (or we) would take the bus because I’m not a privileged idiot like him, (and the subway is still not wheelchair accessible) but you should also be aware of your own privilege of youth, stride length, and health.