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Is that screeching noise coming from a furry goblin or from a crotch goblin?
(I read somewhere that cats mimic infants noise. I often surprised how a cat can sound like a baby, or noises I thought are cats are from a baby).

The Kardashians and most of Australia's wildlife.

How some red lights last two seconds while others last two years

So, I once read about this experiment about some NLP or something. They told random people that they will touch their hands with with a hot iron rod while they are blindfolded. The people were blind folded, the experimenters played some heating sound or something and made the area hot. And then, they touched the people with a cold rod instead.

Guess what? Most of those guys got burn marks! Like what? Why? Wtf happened there?!

Pick Up Artists
Why do they think that harassing women will make them more attractive?

heyy im not medical professional, but it doesn't really know, painkiller is being sent to pretty much every part of your body, but works only on inflamated one, so nerves will pick it up and numb pain.
There is probably "smarter" answer but oh well

The whole "not like other girls" , like pretty much everyone was one at some point ( congrats if you weren't) but we were like 12 or 13. I see young adult women (17 and up) doing that.... like no one cares if you don't do make up, no one cares how many people you were with ( they usually shame both sides of the spectrum), etc.

English. Like, I know how to speak it but when you sit to think about it there's so many things about this language that doesn't make sense... But I guess is the same in spanish (my native language) and any other language.

GRASS.

Why in the everliving world does anyone have grass in their yards? Cows and horses and goats aren't using it to graze. It requires a bunch of water. Everyone also cuts their grass super short, so it's not even nice, long flowing grass you can frolic in since the reality is that attracts ticks--but that means it's just stub grass. And to keep it stub grass you have to maintain it with noisy devices. You can't even roll around in the grass like a kid without the stubs poking and stabbing you everywhere and making you itchy. Why do people have it? Why? I don't get it.

Cover the yard in chips and plant a bunch of green bushes that bees will like or something. Grass has uses in the world but it does not belong in people's yards. :expressionless: :expressionless: :expressionless: :expressionless:

I know this one!

Lawns used to be a status symbol! Beginning as far back as the 16th century in France and England, the very wealthy would show off how wealthy they were by maintaining huge areas of their land covered by useless grass that wasn't being used for grazing, nor were the patches covered with lawn being used for food production or other such 'normal person' concerns. And it cost a lot of time, money, and manpower to maintain those useless stretches of grass, so that was another way to flaunt wealth.

And of course everyone started trying to emulate the rich folks...

I think the whole "I'm not like other girls" thing is to help the individual find something that is unique about themselves. They're trying to get attention because no one really bothered to care about them before. I went through this phase when I about 8-10. And honestly just wanted people to treat me like I'm special- Not some random girl you can find anywhere. They want to be considered "cool and popular"- so why not just let them find out on their own that it's not going to work.

But it can be different for everyone. :blush:

I am confusion!....Why is this one Kansas, but this one is not Arkansas?! America, explain!!

Some of the worst norms start out this way, don't they >_________>.

Thank you though! I guess the question is, why has it stuck for so long, especially when most wouldn't know of the history behind grass... :confused:

@thecrystalrook
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Yes. I never went through this phase when I was a kid, but I only think that's owed to my odd circumstances. Had I been exposed to society earlier, I likely would have been a "Not like other girls" kid, too. I still had a version of it, which was more broad. "I'm not like other people". :joy:

From what I've observed, the behavior is one that's guaranteed to happen because of how much 1) society hates teenagers, and especially girls. Literally everything girls do is "annoying" or "girl drama" or "childish", but when a boy does it, it can be charming or funny (This is not to say boys "have it easier". Both genders have it insanely hard in very different ways), and then 2) how much society values "being unique". They want special stand-out people. They want everyone to be creative enough to still be within their confining box but at the border between acceptable and way-too-out-there. So society tells everyone, "Be unique, because being normal is boring!", then mocks girls for trying.

In all seriousness. Kansas and Arkansas are named after two Native American words from two different groups. American dialect from each area may have also altered the pronunciation of each over time.

another thing that confuses me:

those cart things they use at grocery stores to bring the carts back into the store like

how the heck
magics???

Magnets??/?

It was actually more of a rhetorical question really, thank you :smile: unfortunately French doesn't cut it, it's not in the same league :grin:

In all honesty, bigots. Like, I can read about and comprehend their backgrounds, but it still escapes me how a person can make a choice to be a piece of sh*t to other people basing solely on their existence.

Almost everything haha

I feel like every day I learn something new.

To do something more specific. Almost half the tools in CSP. That program can do so much, and I use a LOT of tools in it very smoothly and without issue, but there's also so much more I have not even touched yet and sometimes when I try to check them out I get overwhelmed and really confused.

Why are popular songs for adults from the 1890s to 1910s now considered music for toddlers? Including ones that came from minstrel shows? I know in recent years people have been trying to remove some of the more racist ones from American public schools, but it is sort of weird that they were there in the first place.

Even when I was in school, we had a song book with Little Brown Jug, which is not really a song appropriate for kids.

I don't have a definite answer for this, but I think the question I would ask to someone who might know better is this: If, somehow, there was an invisible mint that magically put extra dollars into people's pockets, and we somehow managed to collectively keep that a secret from the world's governments...what would happen?

I'm pretty sure the concept of 'inflation' is purely arbitrary: if value/currency exists that the powers that be simply aren't aware of, there's no way they can factor it into their make-believe money games. This is why counterfeiting works perfectly fine on the small scale. ^^
The only issue that remains is whether or not the system can make them aware of it at some point...which is what the 'invisible mint' question should clear up. I think one of these things would happen:

A) No one notices/cares. Business owners would see their profits going up and decide not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Economists would see the increase in spending per capita, but chalk it up to some BS 'trickle down' program finally kicking in and call it good. =/ Everything will be hunky-dory until inflation slowly creeps back into the economy over time.

B) Somehow, people's increase in spending power would force a new level of capitalist evil to kick in and 'rebalance' the system. Maybe CEO's would collectively raise the price of literally everything so they can go back to bleeding people dry, or politicians would suddenly decide that taxes are good and we need a LOT more of them.

I'd bet on B. ^^; Although I'd love to hear an expert opinion.

Maybe it's because I've been exposed to Japanese for a while, but I don't see anything that strange about it. We do it in English too, actually...like when we say "Off we go", or "United we stand". It's not the normal word order, but no one blinks an eye when they hear those phrases.

Syntax is generally very flexible; I don't know of any languages (yet) where a little word order switching isn't allowed at least some of the time. ^^;

I think it's just cultural evolution of at work. When a song becomes so old that its original context, or even the meaning of the words themselves fall out of the collective memory...we'll take it if it sounds cute. That's all. ^^;

To be honest, I think a lot of popular/folk songs of that age and older tend to be "cuter" in composition because they were meant to be sung and interacted with...before the age of radio and records made passive listening more accessible to the public.
They are designed to be fun and catchy and easy to learn, and so it kinda makes sense that they get resurrected to be marketed to children.

Records were invented in 1877 and even then sound recordings predate that. Even movies would have a record playing in place of it's music. Thanks to YouTube and internet archives, we had the ability to listen to original records of some of these songs. And it is debatable if their are cuter. You are My Sunshine is about a depressed person loser their lover and crying, yet is has been appropriated into a love song. Or really weird ones like Go Tell Aunt Rhody.

And then you have stuff that is a bit more recent like This Land Is Your Land which was a protest song.

I can explain......and avoid using too many fancy words to overcomplicate the explanation :sweat_smile:

Is kinda crazy, because economics looks like pure math, but is a mix of sociology, psychology and math to understand the behavior of people trading and getting stuff.

Why people care about money?:

The value of money is the ability to make trading stuff and services easier, so instead of wasting hours trading chickens for pigs and pigs for cellphones and cellphones for a computer, we use the money represents value itself that can be traded for stuff.

Money itself is only useful as long as people are willing to accept it. When nobody cares about your money:

You only have to offer a bunch of pieces of paper.....

Differents currencies like dollars, yens and euros, between others are valued based on the perception of the world of their use and the credibility of the country when it comes to business.....

What is inflation: inflation is when money loses it's value. The value of things vary naturally based on how useful it is in the short and long term, how easy or hard is to get something, and the needs of the people buying.

When something becomes easier to get, it becomes less valuable. Maybe one dollar used to get you an apple, but now that getting dollars is easier, you may want more in exchange of the same apple.

Hope this helps, and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

When I said "cute", I meant...well, what I said: in composition. When it comes to people's enjoyment of music, the subject matter or even the lyrics are secondary, even when it comes to modern songs. What matters most is the sound.

Maybe it's composed in a major key, so it just sounds 'happy'. Or maybe the rhythm is bouncy, or the syllables are arranged in a fun way. Or maybe (especially when it comes to folk songs) there are lots of open, sustained vowels that just make you sound good when you sing them. Those are the things that attract people to songs long before they realize what they're about.

And this is a little beside the point, but the point at which something is invented and the point at which it becomes ubiquitous are two different things. Computers were invented decades before they were even available for the average person to buy, let alone a staple in everyone's homes.