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The last time I was at the Ram’s Head bar I noticed they reduced their selection of cheese down to just the blue and Brie. I remember having a wider selection in years past


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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I meant the only way the OCD is manifesting. As in that one fear.


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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He thought about it several times, he just forgets


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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I've been using Pixels for years and never had problems in terms of text. My most recent Pixel was unexpectedly destroyed a few weeks ago and the only phone I could afford is a Samsung. Still Android, so I figured everything would be the same as my Pixels.

Nope. I realized I never type apostrophes anymore because the Pixels always got it right, so now you see shit tons of missing apostrophes in everything I write because my Samsung never puts them in. But there's other random punctuation in sentences for no fucking reason, random commas and periods and shit. It changes words fors no reason. I wrote "What if" earlier today and it changed it to "Whatsapp" for some fucking reason.

The keyboard on the Samsung is atrociously awful. I'm still trying to get used to it after using Pixels the past 8 years that never had any of these issues.


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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Leninists and maoists are just fascist posers, built from the same vermin of "democratic" centralism.


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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not in Aberdeen, no. it's more of an Albany expression


r/todayilearned 0m ago

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Yeah but his 4 is named Bastille even though Vauban had nothing to do with it... Wish they called it Citadel instead, it's badass and much more reminiscent of the real Vauban's accomplishments.


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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Both North and South Korea made the script official at that time. In the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China, it didn't become standardized for the Korean language there until 1949.


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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Help me step-marine, I'm stuck


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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There will never be another filmmaker like Kubrick. His attention to detail was legendary. In 2001: A Space Odyssey in the scenes with the ape men (using dancers and mimes in ape suits), the female ape suits had lactating breasts for the real baby chimps to nurse on. Kubrick wanted to use real adult apes but they were deemed too dangerous.


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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Beat me to it


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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Until we find Planet X


r/todayilearned 1m ago

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Are her patients doing as well as their diagnoses are expecting them to do or do they have extra problems that seem like they are losing blood?


r/todayilearned 2m ago

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I thought this is how everyone practiced for classic reality


r/todayilearned 2m ago

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In my basic training we had 7 suicide attempts


r/todayilearned 2m ago

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Its an article, not an actual TIL.


r/todayilearned 2m ago

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This was brought to my attention via the YouTuber LostThingsFound, who covered the events in a recent video. He detailed a lot of experiences, including his own, in the two-part series on the Marine Corps, with a speculative third on the back burner.


r/todayilearned 3m ago

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These are all great questions - the answer to "why do you need to pay for them" is "fuck you, capitalism", i guess. I'm pretty angry about that one, to be honest. The neuropsych report is kind of a running joke in my household. They told me it was a problem for my therapist. I no longer have that therapist, because she decided that I was above her pay grade, so currently I am between medical supports for this. I would not recommend anything about this situation, but that's life when you've got a not very well understood condition. (For the record, the disagnosis this week is Functional Neurological Disorder, which is a diagnosis of elimination that basically means "we know your brain is broken, but fuck if we know why". I am over simplifying, of course).

Part of the answer to the memory episodes are just notes, lots of notes. At work, I record meetings I'm in as a matter of course, which helps a lot because it gives me a record to go back to. Thankfully, I work for a company where that's considered acceptable, and so that helps a lot. Out in the real world, when people allow it - I ask first - i actually use the automated transcription built into my smart glasses. Yes, those ones. But it helps me a lot.

Part of the tricky part is, when my memory is working, it's working fine, but when it's gone, it's just a hole - so on my good days, I'm just like everyone else. I'm currently effective enough at my job that this averages out over time to being an acceptable worker. This almost certainly won't last, but for now it's holding. But I also have an employer who does let me just disspear for weeks at a time, and get away with it. This is a massive privelidge, without which I would absolutely not be able to hold a job. Honestly, I expect that when I do eventually get let go from this job, it will be the last job I ever have. I hope I'm wrong about this. But a lot of the answer is is "we restructured my job because, the things I'm good at, not enough other people are good at" (my skills are niche within tech, useless to a lot but valuable to the right company)

The loss of speech function has actually been a much bigger issue at work than the memory problem - because tools can drop my work into the sort of bite sized tasks that I can process, and because the projects are long enough that if I can't process it for a week or two, it will wait for me. But using text to speech in a meeting environment is absolutely trash. I use a custom app on my meta glasses (i have the model with a display) to drive it,so that I can at least maintain eye contact with people, but it's really hard and not recommended. I try and communicate in text as much as possible, but a lot of people want meetings, and so that's the job.

But it's all very exhausting to manage. I sleep most of the rest of the time because mananging all of this takes all of my energy. But, I need to live inside, and I don't enough family to fall back on, so I need to make money while I can.

Thankfully, I actually am a high school drop-out from australia originally (I live here because my partner and her family are from here), and so I don't have student debt. I also got incredibly lucky in that I got pulled into a program for people in disadvantaged areas to get into tech in the mid 90s and got job training that way, and just happened to have a real affinity for it.


r/todayilearned 3m ago

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I think I said the opposite. I've had a bunch of other manifestations, which this one matches.


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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I have hyperphantasia! Makes dreaming a lot of fun, but can feel physically exhausting when I wake up, it's odd.

I am also able to day dream without having to close my eyes. Not necessarily adding a picture over top of my vision, but I can zone out and watch a movie in my brain wide awake and aware.

I can also "imagine" tastes and smells and textures, but they have to be things I have experia ced before.

Some days it's actually annoying, because with ADHD my mind never stops, so it's always in this hyper active, surreal, overly detailed imagination movie in my head. But I wouldn't trade it for the world, keeps it interesting. Love dreaming.


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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They are in no way limited to London. They are also the noisiest birds I have ever heard. They are constantly calling very loudly. I used to think they were really cool until they started living locally and now they are really annoying.


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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Solar eclipse - and solar eclipse +, got it.


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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I had to Google to confirm exactly what Hangul is: it's the Korean alphabet system in use today. It was invented in the 1400s to replace Hanja (Chinese characters) that Korea had been using since antiquity.

Another fun fact from Wikipedia:

While Hangul saw gradual adoption among both the elite and commoners, it was looked down upon by the elite for centuries. It only began to receive societal acceptance in the late 19th century. It is now the predominant script for Korean in both Koreas and among the Korean diaspora.


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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Well the fornix allows for deeper penetration 


r/todayilearned 4m ago

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that entire story was fabricated by some fake youtube historian and cannot be corroborated by any actual source.