Post by EllieArroway on May 8, 2018 11:55:46 GMT -5
Early voting has started for our primary. I haven't decided yet if I will vote in R or D. The governor's race is the only one with multiple Democrats running so there isn't much on our ballot. I might go vote for the lesser of evils on the R side since most of those people will end up winning. But then again as I read about the R candidates I'm having a hard time deciding which qualify as "lesser of two evils" so I will probably just vote D so that I'm counter correctly.
The rules changed while you were in school. By your high school years the rule was single space. People just a few years younger than you only ever learned single space (unless their teachers were still using the outdated style rules).
Not really. The "rule" never "changed" and it isn't really a "style" question. And this study doesn't actually prove anything about the 1 space "rule".
With mono-spaced fonts (used on real typewriters and taught by "typing" vs "publishing" teacher through this day), two spaces is the *publishing/printing* rule. If a client requires I use Courier, the rule is still to use 2 spaces (and unfortunately, yes, I still see this requirement). This study, using only a mono-spaced font, proved why that is the standard "publishing/printing" rule--because it is easier to read/understand. Doesn't prove squat about proportional fonts (which is what most people use when not using an old fashioned typewriter).
If this study wanted to prove anything about 2 spaces vs 1 space, it would have to do the same steps using a proportional font. And then round doing a mono-spaced vs a proportional fonts with the two different spacings.
BTW, publishers /printers and ad agencies have done these types of scientific studies for decades and they use 1 space with a proportional font. Probably because their scientific studies told them it was more readable.
As for Oxford comma:
By "rules" I just mean that style guides updated to recommend single space about 10ish years ago. When I was in school the "rule" was whatever the Chicago Manual said it was.
The rest of your post seems to agree with what I said in my first post here. Single space for lyfe (except those first 18 years or so lol).
I am 26 and was taught that way. *shrugs* Obviously they didn’t have us on typewriters in middle school, since this was the early-mid 2000s.
The rules changed while you were in school. By your high school years the rule was single space. People just a few years younger than you only ever learned single space (unless their teachers were still using the outdated style rules).
I learned to type with the double space and I can't reprogram myself.
Is this generational? Some posts seem to be implying that the double space is an older person thing, but I was taught to double space and I'm only 32 (graduated from high school in 2004).
Post by EllieArroway on May 4, 2018 23:16:54 GMT -5
This study's obvious flaw is that they only tested with a fixed-width font. This just proves what we've known for decades. Someone needs to replicate this study with modern fonts.
I already re-trained myself to use a single space, and I'm too old to switch back now, so 🤷
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 19, 2018 12:25:02 GMT -5
We had some required courses that touched on this during onboarding but nothing since.
The best/most educational session on unconscious bias I have attended was when our women's group at work brought in an outside trainer for a session. I wish that specific course would have been required for all of our company.
Post by EllieArroway on Apr 13, 2018 2:38:08 GMT -5
I am a night owl who is chronically sleep-deprived because I live in a world where I have to get up at 6 am five days a week. I'm just fucked. (As I sit here at 2:30 reading articles when my alarm is going to go off in 3.5 hours.)
I can't wait until summer break. My work is actually pretty flexible, so it's usually fine for me to come in later. It's the kids' school schedules that force me to get up so early right now.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 30, 2018 21:49:05 GMT -5
I only listened to Serial, but I remember thinking Adnan was definitely guilty but they didn't have enough evidence & he shouldn't have been convicted. I don't remember enough now to know why I thought that, but I felt like there was no doubt he did it.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 27, 2018 20:15:20 GMT -5
I only use a top sheet in the winter when I have flannel sheets on the bed. When it's warm out I just use a fitted sheet + duvet. The sheets I use now (Parachute) don't even come with a top sheet in the set.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 23, 2018 12:42:47 GMT -5
My 7 yo DS tried to tell me that Andrew Jackson was his favorite president & I think I may have scared him a little bit when I made it clear why Jackson could not be his hero.
Poor kid, all he knew was that Jackson had a scar on his face from a battle and that he was called Old Hickory.
Post by EllieArroway on Mar 12, 2018 11:36:12 GMT -5
I spend a ridiculous amount of money at Amazon, but it's still saving me money compared to b&m stores. First, my subscribe & save stuff is just flat out cheaper than Target. And second, I'm terrible about buying random crap when I walk through Target, and I'm much less likely to browse random stuff at Amazon. (Their website sucks for that.) So any time I walk in Target I'm probably spending an extra $50 or so on stuff that wasn't on my list, whereas my Amazon purchases are basically exactly from my list.
I typically keep stuff in my cart until I have to place an order to try to group it in as few shipments as possible, but I have no illusions that it is more environmentally friendly. It's easier, and better for my wallet, but there's no way that shipping a few items to my house is anywhere near as efficient as shipping truckloads of items to the big box stores.
We don't have Costco here, maybe that will change things if we ever get one. But probably not. I have a fire stick, a Kindle, 3 Alexas... I've already sold my soul to Amazon.
"and my name is f-ing STEFANO DE STEFANO I'm the candidate so nice they named me twice. I am the Texas two-stef. So get your butt out and vote for your next Senator de Senator"
I sometimes thinkknow you guys are just as prone to mass hysteria as the right-wingers are but this is embarassing. Yes, there are TALKS about wantings to arm teachers but the reality is that it would be just as hard as it would be to ban guns altogether.
They are literally arming teachers in my state already (and have been for years).
This is the first story I found on Google but I'm sure there are better sources. I know someone who teaches at this school:
Post by EllieArroway on Jan 31, 2018 13:05:53 GMT -5
At some point my kids will watch it (they are 7 and 5) but I am not wasting money for them to see it in the theater. My son will talk all the way through it to tell me everything that just happened, and my daughter will fall asleep. DH and I will go see it in the theater and the kids can wait until it's at Redbox.
Post by EllieArroway on Jan 30, 2018 13:27:48 GMT -5
I believe that the worker thought it was real. I've assumed that from the beginning, otherwise that same person would have immediately corrected their mistake.
The part that is hard to believe (and maybe this is just my inexperience with government processes) is that they knew it was fake at 8:09 but didn't send out the notification that it was fake until 8:45. Why the delay?
Eta: the tinfoil hat part is that I don't think they knew it was fake at 8:09. I think a lot more than just one worker believed it was a real threat.
Yes. Wasn't the original story that there was no "are you sure?" warning message so oops, it was just a mistake that we ignored for 40 minutes? And now in this story there was that warning message, and it was intentionally sent.
I'm just having a hard time believing that it took 40 minutes to correct the mistake, even if the operator thought it was real. If it was a drill someone else in the building would have known, right? They could have corrected it within minutes.
Idk, it just still feels like they are hiding something.
Yeah, they were hiding that their drill wasn't set up properly.
Why would the day shift supervisor believe that the night shift supervisor left instructions to send out a live emergency alert though? Surely the day shift person would have known that if the threat was real, the night shift worker would have sent the alert instead of leaving instructions for the next shift. To borrow a line from my boss, their excuse just doesn't pass the smell test for me.
Probably because how do they from "he pressed it accidentally" to "oh he totally meant to do that but here's why"?
Yes. Wasn't the original story that there was no "are you sure?" warning message so oops, it was just a mistake that we ignored for 40 minutes? And now in this story there was that warning message, and it was intentionally sent.
I'm just having a hard time believing that it took 40 minutes to correct the mistake, even if the operator thought it was real. If it was a drill someone else in the building would have known, right? They could have corrected it within minutes.
Idk, it just still feels like they are hiding something.
To clarify, I think this is a tapatalk issue. Not sure if our admins can do anything besides deleting the thread.
Ah gotcha, Of Course! Thanks 👍 Sorry EllieArroway; can you please direct me to an email address/ phone number I can better direct this complaint with Tapatalk?
There is a contact button in the Tapatalk app menu. From my quick googling it looks like this has been a known issue with Tapatalk for at least two years.
I have photo previews turned off in the app so I've never noticed this.
Post by EllieArroway on Dec 3, 2017 18:14:41 GMT -5
This thread is fucking weird. I'm from a family of hunters & am married to a hunter. The only reason to buy a license is for the tags. I've never, ever heard of this "ceremonial license" concept. And I grew up in one of those places where the first day of deer season was a school holiday.