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Thanks, Jordan.

“Why”, when distinguished from “how”, is asking about the intent of a thinking agent. Neuroscience, psychology, and sociology exist for when thinking agents are involved. When they’re not, that type of “why” makes no sense.

Its strength is generating models of reality that have predictive power, and fine-tuning those models as new information is obtained.

Its weaknesses are a lack of absolute certainty and the inability to model that which has no detectable impact on reality.

OP didn’t say anything about reading time off a digital clock.

What about the opposite scenario of reporting the time you read off an analog clock? Would you translate to digital first?

In your specific scenario, sure, it would require extra work to convert it, so I’d just read it as is.

But when making plans, and especially spans between two different times, my brain thinks of time as portions of a pie chart, and I’d have to translate 3/4 to 45 minutes.

No love for .com files?

Granted they’re the exact opposite of cross-platform.

If your brain works in digital time, this is true.

Us olds have to translate the other direction.

It’s like hearing someone say “why doesn’t everyone just speak English? Why go through the extra effort of speaking Spanish?” because you assume everyone’s internal monologue is in English.

Probably by being anonymous.

Primaries are for pretending we’re a functioning democracy. The general is for acceptance.

Agreed in the general election.

Strong disagree for primaries.

Honestly fine with it as long as any profits aren’t privatized.

OP treating his statement as a correction requires that he’s not using this interpretation. If he were to use this defense, so could the teacher, so he’d just be changing how he’s wrong, not that he is.

“Time Crystal”

She must be a satanist, then. She has negative mass.

That’s me!

The majority of the people I text are non-nerds. To them, it just sounds like “I’m special, so if you want to text me, I need you to download this app you’ve never heard of instead of the feature your phone comes with, that you use for everyone else, and that works with Siri.”

Front end dev here. SublimeText all day eryday.

This was a triumph.

I'm making a note here:

Huge success!

“Root and stem” with one rubber band!

Did they remove your perfectly healthy canines because a bronze-age book said dogs are unclean? If not, get the fuck out of here with your infant penis mutilation apologetics.

“Don’t be evil”