I do this a lot also, especially with animals in tv shows/youtube videos. No idea why my brain goes down that road.

If this lady is in her early 20s in this picture, she has to be in her mid to late 40s now. I wonder how she’s doing too.

she is so freaking cute. i love her name!

yep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given

isn’t this the one that got stuck in the suez canal?

do you wear earrings or glasses?

someone further down linked a paper, and I think I found the answer?

‘For example, the reason for this tendency toward directional walking is diversely attributable to (1) an inapt spiraling mechanism in the nervous system that is used in the absence of vision (Guldberg, 1897; Schaeffer, 1928), (2) biomechanicsand sensorial asymmetries, particularly hand and foot laterality (Day & Goins, 1999; Scharine & McBeath, 2002), (3) otolith system asymmetry from the fetal position (Previc & Saucedo, 1992), (4) hemispheric asymmetry of the dopaminergic system (Mohr, Landis, Bracha, Fathi, & Brugger, 2003; Mohr, Brugger, Bracha, Landis, & Viaud-Delmon, 2004; Mohr & Lievesley, 2007), and (5) sensorial signal interference, in which acoustic signals, such as unpredictable noises, and postural signals can lead to greater directional deviance (Millar, 1999).’

so you are partially right. also sorry for the way that pasted, I have no idea why. I’ll add a screenshot.

holy memories unlocked batman

That article is super interesting. Thanks for linking it.

I remember as a kid I would sit and watch that pipes screensaver too! I never saw the teapot though, and so I was a bit disappointed and confused when I saw your comment. Turns out I wasn’t inattentive! The teapot only showed up in versions prior to windows xp apparently, and I am of the age that xp was one of the first OSes I used.

Looks like it actually is a thing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relations)

I was thinking more about the ‘reality’ which politicians present to people than states interacting with one another, but this is interesting too.

I am half awake and my brain for some reason decided that you had written ‘political realism.’ I literally read it and was like ‘huh, makes sense,’ before moving on and then abruptly stopping when my actual processing finally caught up, like ‘wait, what?’

The more I sit here considering, the more it feels like political realism should really be a thing.

It means more than just excessive fear. I have agoraphobia. It doesn’t cause panic attacks, it causes a shutdown for me and stresses me out if I know I have to go somewhere. I won’t be hyperventilating, but I will be struggling for force myself to Do The Thing.

For me, the agoraphobia is closer to the second meaning here.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phobia

Something about his expression cracked me up so badly that I couldn’t resist. 😆

happy cake day!

the only way i could be happy with the fact i can be a good friend is to have someone who is nice and nice and kind and kind and kind.

she was 16. a person cannot meaningfully consent at that age. in many jurisdictions it is illegal for someone to engage with a person that age, and it would be considered statutory rape.

thank you!!

Is there an option for iOS?