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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself
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@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird for a while I lived in a house that was so poorly constructed nearly every door could be opened by the cats; they could reach under the door and tug it open, and the latches would not hold against the strength of a cat!
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyWho uses their foot to scratch their ear? Who thinks that's normal or cooth?
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird me ...
... ow
@dinosaurs.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird I have been told Ukraine recently removed data from Yandex. Maybe just send them money and hope for the best.
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyThere are all these services that claim they can remove you from mailing lists, protect you from data breeches, or alert you when your data are on the dark web. I'm really skeptical of all of them. * Are there any standards or regulations about running such services? * Are there any […]
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird
all through school I was surrounded by teachers who denigrated memorization. Even those who taught little else. But the ones who hated it most were creative writing teachers. They said memorization made creativity impossible.
Eventually (unfortunately I did not arrive at this view […]
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyNear our house is a two-level crossing of major bike paths, where you can't make a turn from one to the other. You have to lift or lower your bike on a rope.
After my repeated suggestions to the municipal road board, they're finally building a ramp!
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy[How to Memorize Anything]
@futurebird
2/2
2 difficulty: it's buried somewhere in the stack of flashcards
3 difficulty: I left the flashcards at home and I've gone to the park, or to the bus stop, and I'm writing it down from memory. I'll have to wait 'till I get home to compare the two.
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy[How to Memorize Anything]
@futurebird
1/2
I don't know the best way, but I would gradually increase the difficulting of fetching the material record of what I was trying to memorize, like so:
0 difficulty: direct copying, with the referenced material still visible, but I need to turn my head […]
@futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy[How to Memorize Anything] I wrote this for my students but I thought I'd share it here too. To memorize vocabulary words, formulas or definitions you should practice *recalling* that information. Just reading or copying the thing you want to memorize over and over may not help you remember it […]
@dinosaurs.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
@nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy#Arachtober 2: checked out the garden wall late last night in the hopes of finding arachnids, found many snout mites (family Bdellidae), including this one feeding on a tiny bristle millipede (family Polyxenidae)!
I have seen very few arthropods preying on […]
@nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy#Arachtober 1: the lights on this pedestrian bridge create giant spider shadows! The casters are the appropriately named bridge spiders, _Larinioides sclopetarius_.
@tjane00artist.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyPinktober 7: Enchantment Inder the Sea. Who doesn’t love “dumbo” octopus? #ink #illustration @culturehustle #MastoArt
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird I am glad there's no such thing. That's too much like Huxley's "rabbits in the precambrian".
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@futurebird I would like to re-read Andy Knoll's _Life on a Young Planet_ , and think about how much has been learned since he wrote the book about a quarter century ago. It wasn't even called the Ediacaran then, and there was still an awful lot of uncertainity about the relative timing of the […]
@nonehitwonder.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyThe part that really bakes my noodle is that the people who tend to argue in defense of billionaires also tend to believe, as billionaires do, that an inability to gain wealth by any means necessary is somehow itself a moral failing. As ever, I maintain that this is the worst and stupidest […]
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy@KanaMauna
for me, a knob is ideal for adjusting almost any parameter that falls within range of values, unless I must operate it with my middle finger alone, but I can't operate a touch screen slider with my middle finger either.
if I didn't know its background and the manufacturing situation […]
@llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gyremember when technology had knobs?
