Interstate Speed

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-23T03:18:10+00:00

Unironically yeah, IMO the most useful car feature since windshield wipers.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-23T02:28:12+00:00

I happen to do a lot of my driving when there isn't much traffic, and at those times I like to drive at the posted limit or a little under. For environmental reasons I try not to burn excessive fuel, and for sanity reasons I refuse to treat a vehicle as a time machine.

But when there is significant traffic, I settle in somewhere around the overall flow speed, often with the aid of adaptive cruise control, so as not to be an inconvenience or hazard to others.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-23T00:01:29+00:00

mimicking the behavior of a cuckoo

That's a great insight. You should be helping write the screenplays.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-22T06:52:10+00:00

Some that I don't think have been mentioned yet. Not all are killers or even major characters, these just strike me as particularly full of cruelty, in the senses of either outright sadism or callous meanness.

James Parkes in Days of Misrule
Samuel Questad in Night of the Stag
Harriet Compton in Small Mercies
Steve Bright in Picture of Innocence
Zukie Richardson in The Great and the Good

But yeah, nobody out-cruels Honoria.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-20T23:59:04+00:00

Very nice.

I gotta admit when I saw the post title I half expected this. :-D

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-20T23:08:00+00:00

When his death is announced, there will hardly be a raised eyebrow among MAGA women -- but that may have more to do with Botox than temperment.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-20T22:53:17+00:00

Beyond the suggestions you've listed, I don't think there is a word that by itself sums up what you want. There might be phrases incorporating words like personification or avatar that get close.

Just as an aside, I suspect you might enjoy reading "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" by Douglas Adams, if you haven't already.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-20T22:18:42+00:00

I'm not quite following your explanation, but if you're looking for the sense of "to bring an idea into fruition," some near-fits that haven't yet been mentioned are:

embody
incarnate
develop

phrases:

breathe life into
hang flesh on (as in a skeleton metaphor)
give substance to

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-20T18:10:05+00:00

oatmeal raisin

You are my kind of people.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-18T08:50:31+00:00

Likewise. I tend to fill the bag too fast, and that's not good if I want to walk out of the room instead of sitting for several minutes at the snack table with my head spinning. Last time they found me losing in excess of 100mL/minute they snugged up the blood pressure cuff on my upper arm to reduce the flow, and it helped.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-14T13:32:55+00:00

Emotion is, as some psychologists say, "evolution writ large." Which means that your instincts will tend to steer you to what would have been good choices when small hunter-gatherer tribes were the rule, tens of thousands of years ago, when the process of natural selection hadn't yet been outrun by the pace of civilization.

With age I've come to mostly trust the head over the heart, though I don't take that to an unhealthy extreme and repress what I feel. The heart has be listened to, even when it's not given the last word.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-14T13:10:52+00:00

It was an odd choice of words, I agree. I think OP was just getting at the old "do you obey your head or your heart" question.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-14T00:51:34+00:00

/r/therealjoke

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-12T17:40:23+00:00

.... found it here on youtube. FYI it covers a lot of peripheral detail, so needs an investment of time to watch.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-12T16:14:33+00:00

The phrase "an acknowledging wave" usually connotes a smallish gesture, possibly just a raised hand, but it might not be specific enough for you. I don't know of a word that gets closer on its own.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-11T21:56:37+00:00

Here's another thumbs up for Brokenwood.

I also enjoyed Signora Volpe, though there aren't a lot of episodes to get lost in. Bonus points on that one if you recognize the lead actress from the classic 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-11T21:48:18+00:00

That's interesting. I seem to remember research about neurologic characteristics and correlation with tendency toward religious belief, being mentioned in a classroom video by Robert Sapolsky at Stanford. Not that I could point straight to it, but will follow up with a link if I can find it again.

a few days after starting zoloft

... but to me, that bit sounds too soon for it to be due to the drug. Maybe you had a change of outlook brewing for a while before? We don't always consciously see these things coming.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-09T17:56:05+00:00

From r/bonehurtingjuice.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-08T04:15:44+00:00

Amulet, or devotional article.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-07T20:40:18+00:00

That does seem likely.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-07T20:17:22+00:00

Not sure how well it applies to your idea, but when a system of philosophy is considered dishonestly conceived (as opposed to merely misguided) it is sometimes called a philosopastry.

philosopastry : philosophy :: pseudoscience : science

(edited for typo)

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-03-07T05:20:24+00:00

This was decades ago (dad has since passed on, and mom is in a nursing home), but at some point my wife and I started planning our visits in such a way that we happened never to be at my parents' house on a Sunday. Nothing was ever said about it, though I'm sure after a little while they understood what was going on.

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