adespoton

We used to start with random objects; usually something nobody would want.

Yes, but then you’re not comprehending all the numbers. There’s no difference between imagining 5 googolplex and 5 dragons.

As an average, I usually see the number 7 bandied around. After that we start “chunking” where each group becomes its own conceptual object.

This is why phone numbers without the area code have 7 digits in North America.

Well, I fail to see what makes it better than Freenet. Which ended up becoming exactly that.

The reason most marital problems are money related though doesn’t have to do with the amount of money; it has to do with both partners’ priorities and skill in handling it. If they aren’t compatible, it’ll become painfully obvious a lot faster than other incompatibilities in the relationship.

Not for a full house, but there are per-room solutions on the market today.

The problem is the rule of squares… for the field to be strong enough to charge devices at the edge of its range in a house, it would have to be strong enough to scramble all electronics and possibly cook your food at the emitter.

But one per moderately sized room? Yeah; very energy inefficient, but you can get it installed today.

The problem is that your joke is exactly what a proportion of the population would write in all seriousness. And when called on it, they’d respond with “it’s just a joke! Don’t be so uptight!”

But if NOT called on it (because everyone thinks it’s just a joke), they’ll run with it in all seriousness.

So better just to downvote, signalling to people that the PoV isn’t considered OK.

If the /s makes it no longer funny, then it’s probably a good idea to think about whose expense you’re finding it funny at.

Hey; congratulations on a follow-up! I thought this news item was going to get dropped off the news cycle.

Why do they still get to call themselves settlers? Imagine what they’d be called elsewhere if they crossed a border to live in land that belonged by international treaty to someone else, and then burned the resident’s cars and wrote threatening graffiti and threw things at people’s houses?

Really, it depends where you live; Canada has all the same types of people as the US. The difference is that so far, we have stuck with neo-liberals in power instead of neo-conservatives.

Outside the cities is more conservative, but only in some ways. We like our social services for the most part, even if healthcare is a shadow of what it was 50 years ago — but again, healthcare is now administered at a provincial level, so different provinces will have emphasis on different levels of care.

On the education side, expect the college of teachers to be without a contract 2 years out of every 10 — which results in strikes. Also, a lot of “extra” programs like the arts are massively underfunded at the elementary level. Teachers often go above and beyond to provide equipment and programs out of their own pockets because the government no longer provides the funding.

All that said, I feel a lot safer living north of 49, and feel like even if there still are things like systemic racism, at least it gets called out and doesn’t usually lead to violence.

Oh yeah, and school shootings are VERY rare.

Yeah; free export of soft wood lumber.

Some re-assembly required.

I hope there’s Epstein banners everywhere.