SheDiceToday

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

I remember one of the tidbits I picked up from a psychology textbook was that people who were worse at knowing if their partner was lying were in happier relationships. Turns out that white lies are important.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think the superhearing power is going to be different than you think. You can already hear your clothes rubbing against skin, the air conditioning blowing, etc. Your brain is pretty good at filtering those out. Now, the conversations will be more difficult, but think about your experiences at a party. Most of the time you can hear another group's conversation if you listened and focused on them, but you can tune them out (most of the time, ignoring the cocktail party effect stuff for now). Unless you have focus issues already, it wouldn't be a big deal. The issue would be the initial period where your brain has to learn what exactly to filter out. Right now, a rustle to my right would be a bad sign, and hearing a rat crawling through the wall would freak me out. After a few weeks though, I bet I'd have adjusted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Insert: >Superman is actually a psychokinetic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wait, there was a second movie?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Damn. You hit the nail on the head with that one. I don't remember when I started referring to adults by their first names, but it was such an odd feeling. Now I call everyone from the 89 year old neighbor to the 9 year old across the street by their first name, and they're okay with it, gack!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hey, you can't just point out my tiny ear canals like that! There are people that love how they feel!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But what's wrong with crystal meth? It always helps me to focus when I'm trying to brush my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

They finally got Hands?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

As someone with wax issues in the ears, no, q-tips suck at cleaning ears. You'll end up pushing the wax into your eardrum and causing the impacted wax that you were trying to avoid in the first place. That's why I use those tiny screwdrivers. /shrug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'd add simple soldering. It's amazing how many little gadgets go bad because a little wire inside broke loose when it was dropped. I've fixed headphones, a temperature sensor, and even done things with the vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I love that website. The surgical knots were nice to have in place to reference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

No, there are plenty that do it. Not weekly, but most do it yearly. I've known nondenominational places, lutheran, baptist, episcopalian, and methodists that do.

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