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Business-Emu-6923 t1_jbncujw wrote
Reply to comment by JonPButter in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
You have to follow the arrow, and look at everything. Shortcuts just lead you further into the store, or back in time, I’m not sure how IKEA works.
Business-Emu-6923 t1_jbncp48 wrote
Reply to comment by DblClickyourupvote in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
Its… exactly this. Like, not even just a funny parallel, this is exactly what they are doing.
We are NPCs, trapped in their rollercoaster park.
I used to play Theme Park way back in time. I did the same thing, also made zig zag paths that went past the same burger joint four times so the peeps would eventually buy one. Mmm, Mc Donald’s…
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Reply to comment by cruel_delusion in TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
I bet there is a long list…
In a related bit of Trivia, the Beastie Boys hated Fight For Your Right to Party.
They wrote it as a parody of “brat rock” which they saw as whiney boys complaining that they want to party but “mom said no”. It was their biggest hit, and the song they will be remembered for.
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Reply to comment by byllz in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice
Did they solve this problem?
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Reply to comment by Ground2ChairMissile in Why is your pig missing a leg? by EganaU
Rare Charlotte’s Web reference seen in the wild, it pleases me.
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Reply to comment by DankFeces in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
My sister worked once with an old white lady who developed this and could (in her words) “only talk like a paki”.
It was genuinely traumatic for her that the only way she could speak was by doing a racist impersonation.
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Reply to comment by tvieno in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
No it is genuinely a foreign accent, like if you were doing a funny voice as a kind of racist impersonation or something.
Don’t laugh - it can be genuinely traumatic for people with this who can only talk in a fake voice.
The brain processes language differently if you are doing a funny voice as an impersonation. Sometimes brain injury, like aphasia after a stroke, can stop the usual speech pathways from functioning. The brain finds a work-around by sending your speech via the “funny foreign voice” processing centres. Weird, rare, but it happens.
Business-Emu-6923 t1_j672r2f wrote
Reply to comment by Pharius in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
This is actually the same thing.
Your brain processes language differently when “doing a funny voice”. After trauma to the brain such as a stroke, the usual pathways for language processing can get blocked. The brain finds a work-around by sending your speech via the funny-voice neurones.
Weird, but it can keep you talking after brain injury.
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Reply to comment by sysadminbj in TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report. by iamveryDerp
This isn’t true though.
Spending a lot of one man’s time figuring out it would be too much effort ultimately saves everyone the hassle. A lot of government work involves researching, in painful detail, exactly how much of a ball-ache a change will be, and often the answer is “don’t do it”, so the government don’t do it. It’s time we’ll spent.
Why they got the President to do the research I have no idea!
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Reply to TIL that World War II Spitfires only had about 20 seconds of 'gun time' before running out of ammo, making most movie depictions wildly inaccurate by TimmyIsBaller
Ok, my one bit of fighter plane knowledge.
The Harrier VTOL can hover, but only for like 30 seconds. While hovering the outlet ducts have to be cooled with water, and the plane only carries enough in its tanks for 30s of hovering. Movies, however…
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Reply to comment by Bob_Juan_Santos in TIL that World War II Spitfires only had about 20 seconds of 'gun time' before running out of ammo, making most movie depictions wildly inaccurate by TimmyIsBaller
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to guns.
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Reply to comment by PorlockLife in What do you get if you put a thousand school shooters in the same room? by wils_152
1000 people who’s Dads are gun lovers.