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Or, more specifically, "allistic".

The words are English words, but many would argue it's not an English sentence.

> The experience to writing this blog entry is very similar to using a dedicated word processor

Except for the fact that a word processor does more than break lines. For example, when you type ", your word processor will convert this to a left opening quote or a right closing quote based on context. But the " in this article are still ". I guess they could have used a word processor after all.

Example?

This is a proposed gender-neutral alternative to latino/latina. According to native Spanish speaking comedian Tom Segura, a Spanish speaker would laugh in your face if you tried to say such a thing to them. The whole language has a masculine/feminine distinction.

Spanish/latin culture also doesn't have the whole politically correct thing that we do.

Right before he was banned from Twitter, didn't several of his tweets specifically and emphatically urge protesters to avoid violence and respect the police presence?

Only because much of what emacs does is cumbersome or impossible as regular software.

Or you can blur faces etc.

How is it a walled garden if it's free, open-source software?

We teach children how to do paperwork starting at age 5. How necessary is that?

Cedant arma togae: the man in the wig is not powerless. The man in the wig simply doesn't care about slaves. The man in the wig does, however, care about the opinions of the electorate (in a democracy), and so Westerner guilt may actually be useful.

I did a high school math project that was like this but with dice. After thousands of die rolls, I found out that dice with pips are not very fair, but dice with engraved numbers are better.

> One of the defining traits of an introvert is avoiding conflict.

No it's not. That's one of the defining traits of disagreeableness, which is known to be independent from introversion.

Or just use tldr, which already does what you want.

Yeah, but then you start getting ads for skinny capris and pumpkin spice frappuccinos.

No

Another warning: I discovered that lying down for too long during the day was a trigger for my depression (independent of my level of exercise).

Yeah, but it's also only counting pedestrian deaths.

Yeah I think blurring is more aesthetic, and until recently was seemingly just as secure. It reminds me of how people have used the Photoshop swirl tool to obscure faces, but you could just use the swirl tool in the other direction to undo the effect.

How is it different than the word "function"?

There is already a disincentive: you don't get your degree until you finish.

"Driving a car will result in you getting in a car accident" is pretty accurate given that the average person will be in an accident.

A better solution is just to use the word 'lambda', and let your text editor render it as a lambda symbol if you want (my emacs does this).

Some smart TVs will scan for open wifi networks and connect to one they find.

> humans' physical evolution is vastly dominated by their cultural/technological/societal evolution

Statements like these only make sense in a narrow context. Unless you're suggesting a dog raised like a human would act more like a human than a dog.

The problem with this is that then the legitimate ADHD students are then at a disadvantage to the other students, as they can't use the time as effectively as the other students.

Imagine everyone in a group of people gifting everyone else in the group $20. Everyone ends up with the exact same amount of money they started with. How is that a good idea? If we're just going to get each other cash, why bother gifting at all at that point?

I had a lot of mental health issues and I registered with my school's accessibility services. I was surprised I could get extra time on tests, extensions, etc. so easily. Unfortunately, none of those accommodations were even helpful for me. An extension would just make me fall further behind on other work, and I didn't have test anxiety or a disability which would prevent me from taking tests quickly (though I was offered this accommodation anyway).

The only accommodation that I took once or twice was having a teacher re-weight marks from a missed assignment to other assignments, which was only good for me if I was going to do well on those other assignments. I think for mental health, the most important things my school did for me weren't even accommodations. They were: letting me reattempt courses any number of times, letting me take a year off without even having to notify them, letting me take a reduced course load, and stuff like that. These things give no advantage to students who utilize them, but can make a world of a difference to students who need them. Without them I'd have failed my degree, but now I'm mentally healthy and I'm going to graduate soon.

Anyway, it's shitty that some people abuse accommodations, but most of them don't give them an advantage over other students, and some students do need them, so getting rid of them is not really a solution. The main one that would give an advantage is increased test time (the solution to which is to write exams where students already have plenty of time -- the majority of my profs already do this).

As for the whole system being put at risk, I think the whole system is going down the shitter anyway. Why do I need to pay thousands and thousands of dollars a year for an education which could easily be delivered for less than a tenth of that price? Prestige? I don't think universities will survive the modern Internet outside of programs which need hands-on lab experience.

Small doses of melatonin shift your sleep cycle. In the morning if you want to delay your cycle, and in the evening if you want to advance it.

People use larger doses of melatonin as a hypnotic to make them fall asleep right away, but that's not the only use.