I’ve run out of excuses.
I have to start mudding drywall again.
:’(
But…the chickens will be angry
I don’t know any chickens, but the goats were a trifle miffed that I didn’t spend the whole day finding choice greens and shoving them through the fence.
You should be careful about upsetting the goats…You may come home and find they’ve eaten your house…
rest rest REST REST REST REST REST REST
WHY IS THERE A CRESCENDO UNDER A REST?!?
I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS OH MY GOD
*rest intensifies*
rest rest REST REST REST REST REST REST
WHY IS THERE A CRESCENDO UNDER A REST?!?
I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS OH MY GOD
*rest intensifies*
Tesseract is delighted that someone has finally recognized her rightful role as a fashion leader! All these long and weary years she has been living with people who think Pants With A Loop You Can Hang Fencing Pliers On are a good clothing decision. None of them know the proper way to model a delightful Vintage Mid-Eighties Nautical-Themed Beach Towel.
Her first act after she is finally appointed as a member of the Fashion Police is going to be to make all Pockets With Snaps Or Zippers That Exclude Nosy Goats From The Delicious And Fragile Contents Of Said Pockets illegal.
(With bonus my very fashionable pyjama pants.)
Tesseract is delighted that someone has finally recognized her rightful role as a fashion leader! All these long and weary years she has been living with people who think Pants With A Loop You Can Hang Fencing Pliers On are a good clothing decision. None of them know the proper way to model a delightful Vintage Mid-Eighties Nautical-Themed Beach Towel.
Her first act after she is finally appointed as a member of the Fashion Police is going to be to make all Pockets With Snaps Or Zippers That Exclude Nosy Goats From The Delicious And Fragile Contents Of Said Pockets illegal.
(With bonus my very fashionable pyjama pants.)
I’ve run out of excuses.
I have to start mudding drywall again.
:’(
But…the chickens will be angry
Is there a spectrum of some sort for faceblindness? It seems like I catch mild spells of it which have become more prominent as I get older.
Yes, there is.
Anyone interested in to what degree they are faceblind can take an online study! This won’t help identify if you have spells of faceblindness, but it’s definitely on a spectrum.
The average score is 80%; the average score for faceblind people is 51%.
i got 44%
lol
i have so much trouble recognizing people. half of the time when people say hi to me i honestly don’t know who they are.
I got 74% but I would’ve gotten higher… that last test was some serious bullshit
if you get too many right it just becomes a blur of red and green pixels which are pretty much completely indistinguishable, there are no identifiable traits of the faces, maybe if you, like, memorized the exact edge of the face – but no, they change that too… at the end there’s pretty much NO level of detail and if you get a few right in a row it’s pretty much guesswork
sometimes psych tests involve a certain level of bs… at that point i just kinda gave up and was like lol ‘1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1’
i got 79%, and at the end i could still distinguish a bit of detail in the faces
80% is the average, so i dont think youre supposed to be able to be able to make out much of the last ones normally. theyre probably there to see who’s better than average at it
Fun little test, got 60% right. Is it an accurate test or a just-for-fun thing?
I got “Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/index.php
on this server.”The question is whether that means your score is 0%… (kidding)
Anyway I’ve no idea why you can’t access it, sorry. Anyone know?
Welp, 49%.
On the pixellation part, the thing is, your visual cortex has regions that are optimized to just do faces, and in fact it seems we compress faced down according to major features. According to the theory, this is why caricature works. In caricature, the artist is turning up exactly those aspects of a face that trigger our facial recognition faculties, which means that in caricature, you see a “more like the real person” version of the image.
At least in a sense “more like the real person.” It is a distillation of that person’s features, an optimization.
So by pixellating they are testing those regions of the brain. Can you recognize according to gross structure?
I cannot.
Interesting, thanks for explaining! And yeah I couldn’t, but I kinda assumed that would be really hard for anyone tbh? I do know I’m bad with faces though. I’ve had instances of old acquaintances walking up to me and asking how life has been, we have a whole catching up conversation in which I just wing it, and afterwards having to ask someone else who the heck that was. xD
I heard about this test a while ago – after reading about Oliver Sacks, who apart from writing fascinating books has really severe face blindness (he doesn’t recognise his own face) – and it explained so much. I finally understood why I can walk straight past friends I’ve known for years – or not be able to find them when they’re right near me. Why I look at virtually everyone and go ‘Err, do I know you’. Why I can’t recall people’s faces in my mind at all. Why hearing people’s voices is way more useful for me putting a name to them than seeing their face (although I kinda screwed my hearing in my teens (loud, loud music) and then more when I DJ’d at Uni – which doesn’t help with that side of things.
I score right on the line for potential diagnosis, but it was one of those ‘oh this is a thing, and I probably have it’ moments. Which was kinda cool and kinda frustrating.
In contrast, one of my friends got 90something%…
Accounts all finally balanced, and now I can do the tax part!
o/
Note to readers: If you want your US taxes to be quick and easy, do not
– rent rooms in your house
– occasionally operate a minuscule businessOr if you do, don’t report it. FFS. I am an upstanding near-socialist who is happy to pay taxes, but the US tax code is so complex that the process of doing so is ridiculous.
Also, a note to the IRS: Renting portions of the property you live in is a really common thing, now. Please acknowledge that somewhere – even just a FAQ – because the mental gymnastics of trying to be as honest as possible while recording my rentable room as a separate property that accounts for 20% of house expenses is… tiring. That, and not tax evasion, are why most people who do this don’t report – and why I wish I hadn’t.
I don’t want to talk to the IRS. The last time I did I spent two hours on hold just trying to return someone else’s $2000. The time before that I was a teen accused of tax fraud because a data entry person made a mistake (and THIS is why we e-file, kids!).
I’m going to sacrifice a chicken and chant the Ward To Keep Away the IRS: I do not have enough money to be worth your notice. I do not have enough money to be worth your notice.
Between you and Kathryn I’m finding myself slightly unnerved by this part of moving to the USA. I mean, anything that gives me warm fuzzies about filling in the UK tax forms (which are, it must be said, positively a delight compared to the US ones I’ve seen)… well, let’s just say it’s not good.
Mind you, I still remember the one and only company tax return I did for my abortive music studio. Crying, a severe (near migraneous) headache, and days of playing balance the figures, and multiple phonecalls to the tax office to which their answer was, invariably, ‘We don’t know’… and all to end at ‘we owe you nothing, you owe us nothing’…
In your case, I strongly recommend you find a good accountant as soon as you touch down, explain what all you are planning on doing, and do whatever they tell you!
Calling the tax office for clarity is… not something people do. For starters, you’d be on hold for an hour or more just waiting…
Yeah, I don’t think its a thing people do much here, either. Mainly because when you ring and say “Does this mean X or Y” they say “Err, we don’t know”. And both Kathryn and I are very pro-accountant. Frankly I wanted one for the business I attempted to run before, but the partnership didn’t make enough to make it viable.
And my business partner liked to order things using the company card, but not keep receipts. Which made things quite exciting.
At death in the United States we are faced with two options: burial or cremation.
While some outliers select donating their remains to
science or green funerals, as of 2015, according to statistics
from the National Funeral Directors Association, the rate of burial is
at 45.8% and cremation at 48.2%. Architect Katrina Spade is proposing an
alternative, where through natural decomposition humans are transformed
into soil.“There’s a lot of meaning for me that my body, when I die, could
become part of the natural ecosystem again,” she told Hyperallergic. The
Urban Death Project is currently fundrasing on Kickstarter after three years of planning, including the support of an Echoing Green
fellowship.As Spade explains, it “investigates the problem of our
current funeral history from a design perspective” and “from a human
experience perspective,” with a three-story core where bodies are placed
on woodchips and sawdust and the composted soil containing their energy
could be used to grow trees, flowers, fields of waving grass, or be
returned to their urban environment to remain part of the community in
gardens or parks.
