I was home schooled from childhood through highschool. I got a GED before I joined the military, then used the GI bill to go to university and took placement tests for everything, which put me at the same level as everyone else except for trigonometry, which I had to take a remedial class in.

Yeah, the US grade system up to highschool. I haven’t done those grades at all.

Never have I ever gone to school in grades K-12.

Bonus fucked

Going meta is always allowed. Just say you’re dumbing it down, that you don’t mean to be condescending, and invite them to interrupt if they already understand.

Yeah, I’ve messed around with water sensors before. I just thought it would be neat to measure it via stress on the plant itself.

It would be really neat if someone made a sensor that could tell you whether your plant needs to be watered.

I have butchered squirrels, deer, turkey, snakes, catfish, goats, pigs, and rabbits. Went vegetarian two years ago for ethical reasons though, so I guess I don’t get to raise my hand lol

I like it. Now I want to block off a street to make a plaza with seating like they have in some neighborhoods in NYC.

I’m probably going to get some hate for this one, but Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse. The story wasn’t as tight as the first movie, they introduced too many new characters to keep up with, and it ended with a setup for the next movie.

I heard a story about a guy doing something similar, but it was his internet connection speed and instead of submitting a noise complaint it tweeted at his service provider.

Type up fake email discussing it, leave it in the break room. Deniability.

Same

I’ve thought about this some, and I don’t think there’s a clean line between authentic and inauthentic verbalization. There’s sort of a feedback loop between yourself and your partner when you verbalize. Verbalizing to some degree often encourages your partner, makes the entire experience more heightened, and leads to the verbalization becoming more authentic.

Yep.

I can bend the last joint in my fingers independently. I also have a small nub on the tip of my tongue, which is only useful in one situation.

But I’ve also seen some articles suggesting that there isn’t an inherent physical strength advantage between men and women to begin with. Basically men typically start with more muscle but men and women typically build muscle similarly.

Men have something like 20x more testosterone than women, and testosterone has a massive impact on strength and endurance.

We’re providing review assistance and some types of automated replication to publishers for a yearly rate, and planning to sell subscriptions to individual researchers for $50 /mo.

I started a business with a friend to automatically identify things like this, fraud like what happened with Alzheimer’s research, and mistakes like missing citations. If anyone is interested, has contacts or expertise in relevant domains or just wants to talk about it, hit me up.