Wife has been binging Law and Order SVU recently and I noticed there’s a lot of episodes where they have abused children turn into abusive adults, with the explanation that it’s a natural response of the brain trying to get in a position where it will never be vulnerable again.

No idea if that theory has any merit, but if true I wonder if that can also happen in a larger scale, to an entire society instead of just to an individual.

To get rid of lice

Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.

But they also keep you in your toes. Nobody ever worries about what their fish is doing while they aren’t looking.

Brazil.

If I’m at home and simply unwell, I can walk to the neighborhood clinic (one specific clinic based on my address) and get checked - that usually takes half an hour to a couple hours, but it may not always have a doctor available.

So most people skip the local clinic completely and go to a municipal hospital instead (something doctors often plead people not to do). These should always have a couple doctors available and they’ll see anybody - even if you have no documents. When you get there a nurse will check your pulse and stuff and ask some questions to determine your priority level, then the waiting time can go up to 4 hours if it’s low priority.

If you need specific exams, that will depend on how well equipped the hospital is. Many will do it right there, some will request it from other cities and that may take time, so there’s the option of doing it in private clinics too.

No matter what you may end up needing, if you do it through the public health system you won’t need to pay anything at all. Even experimental treatments and surgeries can get arranged. But there’s always the option of going to private clinics as well. Those can have much shorter waiting times.

Based on my limited experience, this is what people seem to do for each kind of visit:

Emergencies: pretty much everybody go to public hospitals. Most places don’t even have private options for this.

Basic check up: most people will use the public system first, unless it’s something very specific and they are well financially.

Dental care: most people who won’t be financially crippled by it will go private. People tend to stick with the same dentist once they find a good one. On the public system you never know who you might be seeing.

Eye doctor: 50/50. There are nearly as many private options for this as there are for dental care, but a lot of them suck.

Expensive exams and operations: people will try to get them for free at first, or through some Health insurance plan they may have from work. Everybody knows someone who’s been waiting months for something on the public system.

I remember at one point the front-end guys I knew were laughing that it didn’t even support iframes. But I imagine it eventually got decent enough.

Meanwhile in my company the leadership just thinks that we have a messaging problem after the new AI stuff we implemented made absolutely no difference in the sales numbers.

Found it in my history, it’s Neo Atlas 1469.

Neo Atlas 1469

I remember a game I played ~9 years ago where you could send ships to explore the world and when they got back you had the option to reject their findings. If you never rejected anything, the world would be exactly like Earth, but everytime you rejected it would randomize the section that had been explored and over time it would start generating a whole new world.

And you could even make the planet flat by rejecting the discovery of it being round.

I forget what I went to the store for so I browse every aisle until I see something that makes me remember it (usually the thing itself).

I haven’t stayed in that many hotels so I’m not sure what to pick as worst. It’s either the one that was very stingy with the breakfast and I had to order everything individually and request 3 doses of milk for my coffee, or the hotel where right in front of the entrance I got robbed at gunpoint and punched for being too slow to hand over the money.

The second one I was 20 and trying to get the cheapest option I could find. The first one I was 36 and paying premium for comfort.

Windows Vista is Microsoft’s greatest success, because it’s main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.

For comparison: Brazil had to suspend its law that forbids alcohol on stadiums for the 2014 World Cup.

I non-ironically quite like the leek spin song (Ievan Polkka).

I’ve seen a few bands, but only tagging along with friends, never seen anyone I actually like. Tbh I’m not a big fan of live music anyway. There’s something about it not being 100% the same as I’m used to that just makes me not like it as much.

I was gonna edit the comment to add a similar note right after posting but I was already half asleep and apparently I didn’t do it.

Portuguese, we do and we use it in everything. Even something simple like “for my Father” most of us say “for the my Father”.

“Sou filho do meu pai”

Translating literally becomes:

“am son of the my Father”

Autistic people will often do the right thing simply because they were taught it is what they are supposed to do - with no consideration of how they’ll feel about it.

And ADHD people don’t get to feel good about anything they do.

Combine the two and you get the ultimate altruists!

(this comment is meant as a joke)

You’re confusing “normal” with “common”. Pain is never normal.