Ah, touché! Clearly I should have looked this up first. Good on you for being civil about this, despite being wrongfully disciplined by trigger-happy lemmings like me (sorry about that), though.
Anyway, the Australian custom audio-driver sector is saved!
The text by itself, sure. Combined with the image and the community, no. Take into account that girl A claims that she is straight but also clearly seems interested in girl B and that this is a shitpost, so it's not meant to be taken literally.
Edit: see Naich’s reply to my comment. Neodymium magnets as a whole are not, indeed, banned; thanks for the correction!
Neodymium magnets are extremely important for many sectors. It is ridiculous to ban them.
Australia has, for example, shot itself in the foot vis-a-vis the small-audio company market with this, as neodymium magnets are widely used in speakers, headphones, IEMs, and even microphones. Many a legendary audio company has started out of someone's garage, see KLH — this becomes exceedingly difficult when essential resources like neodymium magnets are not available.
I had to double take at neodymium — wtf!!!! Neodymium is completely standard for audio drivers, where the choice of the magnet is actually very important! My good old Philips 2XHR literally proudly advertise on the shell that they have a 50mm neodymium dynamic driver inside them... banning them is ridiculous
The question is rather What is "reality": the dream (et al.) or the physical world (what you describe as reality). See Descartes first two meditations (and note that he relies fully on the existence of God to prove the existence of reality later). In this case, us experiencing a "dream" just serves to outline the point; Descartes, for example, also suggests that we are being fooled by an evil daemon. If it's a dream or an evil daemon — doesn't matter; it would likely be something entirely beyond our comprehension anyway. But genuinely proving the physical world as being reality is very difficult.
The problem you describe is very real, and not just in the US or the UK, but in most of Europe as well. A big part of writing is how to actually write, not just the letters et al.
I mean the literal way you move you arm, the angle you write at, how you hold you pen, etc.
I didn't learn any of that, and as an intensely dyslexic and left-handed individual, writing was extremely painful to me. That is, until 10th grade where I taught myself calligraphy.
It turns out that, when learning calligraphy, you do learn how to write properly.
After that, my handwriting in school (and for the rest of my life) became much better: I didn't have hand-pain anymore, I didn't smudge the ink, and, of course, my handwriting was very orderly and neat. Teachers even started commenting on it!
Most notably for me though: writing became fun. For me, as a dyslexic, this literally felt revolutionary.
Anyway, that is what I think they should teach in schools.
I was 99% unconvinced by him until some family persuaded me to listen to the interview (I don't usually listen to Pod Save America). Now—if I lived in Maine, which I don't—I would definitely vote for him. He is the second politician I have ever heard to sound really, genuinely authentic, right after Mamdani. I can only recommend listening to the interview, even if one isn't a fan of the podcast in general.
My understanding of the situation vis-a-vis the skull is that he was drunk in Croacia with some other Marines on leave and got the scariest skull tattoo he could find, not being aware of the symbolizism. He also said in the interview that until now he was not aware of that meaning and no one had ever pointed it out (it's not obviously an SS tattoo to the layman).
Honestly, I believe him. His reddit history, years and years before he was publicly engaged, serms pretty progressive (calling himself a communist, etc — not the earlier mimimizing sexual abuse towards women in the military). And, like I said, he seems exceedingly authentic and sympathetic to me. This whole thing feels a lot like your typical Republican smear campaign to me, as well.
But I hold no stake in this whatsoever, so my opinion isn't particularly important. I just wanted to express my surprise at him seeming really genuine to me.
I learned as a kid to deal with nightmares. I would be scared, and then wonder if this was a dream, and poof. I was free.
Can't do it anymore though :(. I think, as a kid, it just kinda started happening. It wasn't intentional at all; a natural solution to recurring nightmares I guess. It made for some cool times.
This is 100% true, and the reason I left Spotify. Back to buying records and CDs online and in niche record stores (I live in a metropolis, so that works even for obscure music). I also got a tidal subscription, and I like the recommendations from there much more. Bandcamp & SoundCloud newsletters are also great for suggestions.
But now, since collecting records and CDs, I find myself spending much more time with individual albums and critical listening, and relying less on playlists and suggestions. Anyway, Spotify is just garbage now...
Ah, touché! Clearly I should have looked this up first. Good on you for being civil about this, despite being wrongfully disciplined by trigger-happy lemmings like me (sorry about that), though.
Anyway, the Australian custom audio-driver sector is saved!