@MonicaMAlmaguer I have never in my life agreed to take out the trash at a particular time on a particular day. Nobody has. You're straw-manning. You don't need to. Just offer an example of a man ACTUALLY failing to keep his word.
@squiggle888@BrianAtlas I absolutely agree that this is frequently her motivation. Women talk to connect; men talk to get shit done.
(I think one of the great barriers to communication is the assumption that what matters to me matters to everyone.)
Phone messages aren't for "connecting".
@BrianAtlas I've seen A LOT of YouTube videos like that. A 15-minute video the written version of which I could have read in four. I've taken to skipping to the "outro" to see if the last minute of a video has all the information. It often does. Maybe it's become a cultural thing.
@Fat_Electrician You don't really need a scale at all, then. You just need "fucking cold" and "fucking hot" and similar flowery descriptions for grades in between.
@tuuu28283 I have a friend who is genetically Taiwanese but was raised in Japan. Her mannerisms and speech are Japanese. I don't know if I can tell that her face doesn't match her voice or if I merely think that because I know her history.
@pureMetatron I was in a crib and had not yet learned to speak or understand speech. Someone was making noises and faces at me and I couldn't understand why. I was REALLY confused and frustrated.
@GuertlerThomas@deaflibertarian It's not just that, though that does matter. What we found at my job was that you can see little changes in your loved ones sooner than even the monitors or tests can. "Something's wrong; they just seem, I don't know, OFF" is a great alarm bell.
@deaflibertarian Former hospital security officer, and former EMT, here: absolutely agree.
Visitors could be a pain for staff at times, but overall they were a huge advantage.
I recently spent a few days in a hospital and had not one visitor, but I prefer it that way.
@LundukeJournal Their appearance aside: from a pragmatics perspective, isn't there a minimum number of attendees necessary for an event to be called a "convention"?
@tuuu28283 He's wrong. Sometimes "foods" is correct.
We have countable and uncountable nouns. "Water" in a glass is uncountable; you can't count how much water is in a glass, so it's always "water". But you can count the number of lakes, oceans, seas, etc. So you can refer to "waters".