I’ve avoided wooden pencils my entire life because of it. I love the ultra-fine 0.3mm graphite with a retractable sleeve, like you suggested. It’s funny that I’m fine with scratchy graphite on paper, but hate scratchy wood on paper.

It’s a typo but the intended group still fits! Love it.

I just talked about this topic with a few friends and family members and they all cringed in response. Every. Single. One.

If you’re writing with a wooden pencil, the graphite snaps out, and the wood of the pencil drags across the paper.

Just writing this made my skin crawl.

You and I both. I have nostalgia from years of using it in grad school for R. I found Kate is pretty close, but NPP runs fine in Bottles.

This is the same argument made about efficiency gains from transitioning to computers in the workplace. It was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now.

As someone with ADHD, the only thing I’d ever want is an executive function aid to help keep me on track by comically berating me when I get off task. Something more adaptive and persistent than current programs, which I can simply ignore.

This guy is insane.

Considering this is a meme, I’m not sure which non-real numbers you’re referring to. Here are some real numbers about why you should let a doctor jam a camera up your ass.

It the United States, the lifetime frequency of colon cancer is 1 in 25 (4%) for men and 1 in 26 (3.8%) in women^{[1](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html)}. Frequencies are similar for most Western European countries. It’s one of the most common cancers, being third in the US and second in western Europe as an aggregate ^{[1](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html), [2](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11905646/)} In the US, colon cancer frequency is increasing amongst those under 55 by 3% each year and is the leading cause of cancer-related death in that group^{[3](https://www.cancerresearch.org/blog/colorectal-cancer-awareness-month)}.

It’s highly preventable. The majority of colon cancers begin as slow-growing polyps which are easily detected and removed. Doctors snip them off while in there. Easy as that.

If you do skip screening and get colon cancer, it’s fucking terrible to deal with, as are all cancers of the GI tract. If gone undetected, it will have slowly proliferated throughout your colon. You’ll experience bouts of severe cramping, constipation, and painful, uncontrollable, bloody diarrhea that prompt you to see a doctor. The affected length of colon will then be surgically removed. If you’re lucky, they’ll reattach what’s left to your anus. If not, they’ll route it out through a hole in your abdomen, called a stoma. Either way, you now have diarrhea for life, possibly in a bag you have to tape to your stomach and periodically empty, and you’ll have to shit much more frequently since your body can no longer effectively remove the water from your feces.

You’ll likely need chemotherapy, which will make you sick and miserable throughout its course as it often severely affects the gastrointestinal system. You’ll spend a lot of time in the bathroom, vomiting and emptying the even more rapidly filling shit bag on your stomach. At that point, you’d give anything to go back in time and let a doctor probe your asshole. If you’re lucky, you go into remission but will require increased screening for the rest of your life in case it returns. If you’re unlucky, you’ll die painfully, shitting and vomiting on your way to the grave.

Aww, thanks!

Go to Settings>User Tags and ensure “Enable User Tags” is enabled.

You can. Tap on their username to view their profile, click the three dots menu in the upper left, then tap “edit tag”.

Alternately and much faster, long press on a username and the resultant menu also has the option. I didn’t know that until today!

My thoughts exactly. Why bother? They’re hopeless if they haven’t figured it out by now, so you’re just antagonizing an idiot. I’d rather spend my limited capacity doing something productive, though antagonizing idiots might be productive for some.

Back in my day, you could buy a single McDonald’s cheeseburger for 39¢ on sale or 75¢ regular price. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 77¢/$1.48 now. Now they average at nearly $4.

Figs. Straight figs. They’re delicious, they sell for a decent price because finding ripe figs at the supermarket is practically impossible, and they’re easily propagated by cuttings, which sell for a decent amount of money.

I love figs so much.

Next is corn, but not sweet corn. Field corn , what’s used to make corn flour, masa, grits, etc. there are many varieties, like Blue corn, purple corn, and red corn, all of which are healthy and taste fantastic. You can use purple corn to make chicha morada, a Peruvian drink. Just keep in mind the kernels are seeds and therefore representative of the two parent plants. If you plant different types together, like blue and red, and they cross pollinate, the resultant corn kernels will be a variety of blue, red, and hybrid blue/red.

These are the same people that believed in spontaneous generation - that life just popped into existence from nonliving matter, such as dirt, grain, or dirty clothing. It wasn’t considered fully disproven until the 19th century.

As uneducated as many people are now, they’re practically savants compared to your average person just 200 years ago.

I did a quick scan of your comment history and you seem like a nice, reasonable person. I’m baffled.

Lemcyclopedia Dramatica!

Can confirm. I’ve spent several hours the last few weeks teaching a friend’s 24 year old daughter basic computer literacy on a W11 system. None of her friend group could help because they know just as little. When we started, she didn’t know how to shut down or reset the system.

Same, but their hair is so dense it can rot if it gets too wet. Maybe quarter density chinchilla hair.

Chimp fur is quite coarse and awfully similar to thick, dense human body hair. I’d prefer something softer, like cat hair, but not chinchilla hair. That is too high maintenance.