If a phrase conveys the opposite of their literal meaning, and the speaker and the audience both know it, then it is pedantic. Choosing to derail whatever the topic is in favor of criticizing someone’s understandability when everyone did understand them is pedantic.

I get it, I hate the way people use “literally”. It’s terrible, it’s usually unneeded, and it just makes any actual correct use of literally have less impact. But I’m not gonna correct people who say it wrong, because I do know what they meant.

If they said “I could care less” and you’re comfortable enough in your understanding of the conversation to know for a fact they actually mean they do not care about it, then they did make sense and you did understand them.

Too specific. Needed at least a quick refresher on all ocean life first. Gotta let them get warmed up before you hit them with the good stuff.

Have Ukrainians been making cat noises at the Russians as a taunt of some kind?

All the things here.

The method I’ve been having most success with lately is a severe restriction of myself.

Part of that is because if I don’t wanna do the Thing, it’s so incredibly easy to forget the Thing, my mind doesn’t wanna hold it.

Currently, the routine I follow when I fail to self-motivate is

1. Drop my kid off
2. Maybe remember pills
3. Maybe remember caffeine (coffee is my goto)
4. Sit on the couch, think about my day
5. The remote is close, do a YouTube on my TV.
6. 4 YouTubes in, now understand the Chinese role in ww2 and the life cycle of 2 different moths, realize I have things to do.
7. Get up, forget the things, make too much food.
8. Watch things on my phone/scroll Lemmy/play mobile games
9. Oh crap I have to get my kid

I have found that removing individual parts, like telling myself “no YouTube today”, only works temporarily, until I get distracted by something else, then I forget the new rule. So all it really does is reorder the schedule above.

BUT, I have found that removing all of the distractions, even the important ones like food, until I have begun the important task, helps.

So based on what I typed above, my rule for the day looks like No YouTube, no social media, no mobile games, no breakfast, no sitting on the couch I have to spell out each thing, I can’t just say “no distractions”, because the me in the moment thinks it’s a break or I’m warming up to doing the thing, some nonsense.

After an hour of doing the Thing, I get a break for breakfast, it is important. But once ive put that time into doing the Thing, it’s a lot easier to get back to it.

So the new schedule is

1. Drop my kid off
2. Know I need to do something, but the Thing has slipped my mind.
3. Mentally run through a list of things I could do. Because so much is banned, and the Thing is forgotten, this turns up nothing.
4. Realize I haven’t taken my pills or made coffee, do those
5. After those, I remember why those are all I’m allowed to do, and therefore remember the Thing.
6. Delay a bit because the Thing is boring or hard, but still can’t do anything else
7. Do. The. THING. (For an hour)
8. Breakfast, which feels so good, and dopamines the brain, hopefully making the Thing easier in the future.
9. Do more Thing.

I hope this helps. This is only possible because of my prescribed Meth, caffeine, and because I’m actually a lot better at telling myself what not to do than to just do something. Good luck, we all need it.

It feels like forgetting a semicolon, I created the exact same design, except I output both rocks with the same inserter and had half a lane of mixed until it got to the output chest, where I proceeded to use circuits and overflow chests to only need to sort everything once.

Mine works, so whenever I restart, i know how to improve it using a technique I already use in a bunch of other things

Disease-light might be the best medieval equivalent, actually.

I’d personally translate it to the closest word they have.

If I decided they didn’t have a word that was directly equivalent, in this case I’d use the closest word, “light-emitting”.

There’s a law that you have to be dead first.

Obviously that’s not a hard barrier to him, but it means he needs to take more effort. He’ll get to it, I’m sure.

I kinda like it. Makes me slow down to really understand the text.

Yes but that doesn’t seem connected directly.

Tweet was from last year. It’s saying “it’s time”

The tweet was from last year.

So they’re doing pretty good, all things considered.

The canary is very dead.

I never used them that often. A standard “-” tends to do me just fine.

But it’s always a shame to be able to convey less in the same amount of characters.

Definitely it’s best attempt to match Donald trump.

Well, its best given the shitty prompt I’m sure it was given. “Be Donald trump, but make sure you’re understandable and don’t start unnecessary fights”, or something like that.

Right? He doesn’t even know what they are, and while an Em Dash isn’t a guarantee of AI, anyone who is at all concerned about people thinking their writing is AI now avoid them.

So if this isn’t AI, its someone who failed to think things through. (But its AI.)

Sidenote: wouldn’t be surprised at all if Em Dashes leave our human lexicon altogether, given the negative association they’ve received. Like spelling changes, AI might just make our writing drift away from them altogether, until AI does get exclusive use of it.

The green area isn’t defined there’s room for everyone

Being willing to pay extra for extra sounds fine in my book, he even knew the owner might not be able to do it all and asked at the end for a list of anything he wouldn’t be able to provide.

But the biggest thing is he didn’t demand it, he requested it, and then asked what it would cost.

Cool thanks for the info.

Also didn’t know bjs was donating lije that. Terrible.

BJs offered us a deal so we took it.

Almost every product there (all name brand) costs the same as buying the generic brand at Walmart. Cereal, yogurt, Mac and cheese, toilet paper, I have compared all of it while we have the one year membership.

Sure, I get name brand, and Jif is better than great value, but I have saved nothing. Won’t be renewing when they actually expect me to pay the membership. Sam’s club beats Walmart by a little bit but not a lot, and I dont have a Costco or Aldi’s near me. How does Aldi’s stack compared to BJ’s?

Augment my spaghetti first base with resources from far out, usually by daisy-chaining bot hubs and then having them build 1000-tile conveyors.

Eventually I switch to trains but I make one of the abandoned mines the train hub to reuse the conveyors, since my spaghetti doesn’t fit trains well.

Now that space age is released, the other planets get proper trains and efficient layouts, while I slowly move to supply nauvis with materials from off-world. I basically use nauvis as a depot and research planet once I have a good foothold on another…