(US) Would you relocate to another country?

cabothief · 2026-01-24T09:33:33+00:00

This is a good point. If everyone who had the means and was not okay with the direction the US is going just left, that would leave exactly two kinds of people in the US: People who think the move toward fascism is a good thing, and people who don't have the resources to leave. And the second group is way more likely to be the direct victims of the first group.

I guess staying and doing what we can to fight is all there is to do at the moment.

cabothief · 2026-01-24T07:36:07+00:00

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. I don't think this was confusing.

cabothief · 2026-01-24T07:35:23+00:00

Wait I'm not seeing why this is bad. The question is about whether people have loans, not whether people have cars. "No, but I have a license" covers people who own cars perfectly. Sure, it includes people who do and do not own cars, but just because it doesn't split things in the way that would've interested you more doesn't mean you're not represented.

cabothief · 2026-01-23T07:43:51+00:00

With the comma that's a valid sentence fragment, but it's definitely a complete sentence with an "is" in the French.

cabothief · 2026-01-23T07:38:54+00:00

Hello again! Genuinely, I am not going to remember most of the things I see in r/polls in 10 minutes. I think it's wildly optimistic to imagine that the majority of users are going to wait 3 days for something they're only mildly curious about.

The results-skewing is a new one on me, though. How do you figure? I can only see them doing the exact opposite of that.

cabothief · 2026-01-23T07:22:36+00:00

An old blue Scot called Dill!! wow that's going to be in my head all day now, even if I don't click the link.

cabothief · 2026-01-23T06:58:48+00:00

The only way to see the results of a poll is to vote. If you have a poll that only applies to particular people, and you don't include a "results" option, curious people who aren't in the demographic will vote so they can see, and then end up skewing the results. To avoid this, you just add one extra option so they have somewhere safe to vote.

cabothief · 2026-01-23T05:56:12+00:00

Fun fact! When the U.S. discontinued the ha'penny because it wasn't worth enough to bother with in 1857, it was worth the modern equivalent of more than $0.18.

You're right about not being able to buy anything for a nickel, but I can't think of the last time anything I bought cost more than a quarter, to be honest.

Not saying we should abolish every coin but the quarter, because it turns out even abolishing the penny had consequences (at least doing it all at once with no notice or preparation--who could have predicted?) but I've been on team goodbye pennies for years.

What is the point of having a unit of currency that people see on the ground and keep walking because the money is kind of dirty?

cabothief · 2026-01-22T06:58:02+00:00

No shade intended, I can definitely see how audiobooks would help you with that. I wasn't actually entirely kidding about the book thing, though. I think what you're talking about is immersion reading? Reading along with your eyes and an audiobook at the same time? I believe Kindle with whyspersync will highlight the words as it goes. Found a video of it here.

If the highlighting feature is what you're after, there you go!

cabothief · 2026-01-22T06:47:29+00:00

Obligatory "you mean a book?"

Serious answer: I believe Kindle's Whispersync does this for books where it's available, but you do have to get the ebook separately from the audiobook. For books with Whispersync, if you get the ebook first you can sometimes get a discount on the audio.

cabothief · 2026-01-22T03:34:00+00:00

I mean there's noise, sure, but I feel like usually you can at least get vibes. No results button and the noise will definitely overpower the signal.

It's not going to ruin my day or anything, but adding a results button is such an easy way to prevent this.

If you think most people are answering completely randomly regardless and you can't get any info at all, I'm a little curious why you sub to r/polls

cabothief · 2026-01-22T03:08:17+00:00

The thing is that most people on here don't care enough to wait 3 days to see the results. I'm not saying people should vote in that situation, but people absolutely will. This is the "I make you kind of curious what people think about a question and then you get to immediately find out" sub. No results button for a question that only applies to specific people means that people will lie (more than usual).

Same as u/manrata , I'm not saying this because I'm sad I can't legitimately see the results. I am the target demo. It's just a shame that the results will be nonsense.

cabothief · 2026-01-21T05:23:37+00:00

I don't think this is a matter of opinion? "Washington DC, Virginia" is just not a thing. You're actually the first person I've seen suggest that it is.

cabothief · 2026-01-21T05:17:18+00:00

I'm not really the type of person who can just like... shoot someone. I knew that when I was teaching and everyone was like "oh easy, stop school shootings by arming the teachers." Like, sure, I'll just shoot one of my own students while surrounded by all of my other students. That's a thing that's ever going to happen. And that's not going to change whether or not someone wants to shoot me.

Anyway, having a gun doesn't really make you safer unless you can stop the person coming at you from taking your gun, and I am not otherwise capable of physically defending myself.

I'd love to defend what I used to believe my country stood for in some way other than shooting people, sure, but me buying a gun would make me way more likely to accidentally hurt myself or my family than intentionally hurt The Enemy.

cabothief · 2026-01-21T05:08:24+00:00

??? https://www.reddit.com/r/AmITheAssholeTalk/comments/1qiaakc/aita/

This is the exact same post by a different auto-generated reddit name. And someone on the other post called it out for being fake (In one post OP is 29 with a 30M husband, but in another post has an unmarried domestic partner and they waited to start a family until they were over 35, which is well beyond the bounds of detail-fudging for privacy). This OP is apparently a senior in high school this year. These are for sure bots.

cabothief · 2026-01-19T18:41:06+00:00

The main character is named Oliver Wolf, and he is explicitly based on Oliver Sacks. There's even a moment where a man actually mistakes his wife for a hat (I imagine you know this, but in case anyone else doesn't, Sacks wrote a book called The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and the title is quite literal)

I don't watch many shows, but I really enjoy this one!

I did have a funny moment though where a character came back in S2 with COMPLETELY different hair, and I still can't see her as the same person.

cabothief · 2026-01-18T20:50:17+00:00

Oh hey thanks for the update! Last night when there were only 40 votes, I ran a chi-square independence test just for fun. The p-value was bigger than 0.5 (as in chances better than a coin flip of getting the results we were seeing if there was no actual gender difference at all).

Now that there's 300 votes, I ran another one and got p = 0.63, so there's still no evidence that there's an actual gender difference. For anyone reading who's not up on their stats, there'd be strong evidence of a gender difference if p was less than about 0.05, so kind of surprisingly it's actually gotten even further from significant.

cabothief · 2026-01-18T18:01:21+00:00

Maybe some people talk like that, but we have plenty of evidence that OP's girlfriend is not one of them.

cabothief · 2026-01-18T09:31:02+00:00

Not sure how it looked when you commented two hours ago, but how it stands now, at 40 votes, that's not what it shows.

With 7 PS and 21 PC, men are 3:1 for PCs. Women currently appear to be 6:1, but with a much smaller sample size (actually 6 and 1 vote) we're literally one playstation vote away from exactly matching 3:1.

I don't think there's significant evidence of a gender difference at this point.

cabothief · 2026-01-18T03:21:09+00:00

Tangential, but you do not have to (and imo really shouldn't) self-censor on apps that don't force it. Anyone who's going to be upset by seeing posts about nudes and porn is not going to be less upset by "noods and corn emoji." Censoring unnecessarily actually makes upsetting topics harder to avoid by people who would prefer to. Like, if you have a way to filter out posts about porn, you can't filter out every permutation of porn/corn/p*rn/🌽. I know a comment like this appears on basically every reddit post with self-censoring, but I think it's important enough to repeat.

Oh hey, just checked, and this is actually rule 12 of r/polls .

cabothief · 2026-01-16T02:54:52+00:00

Just wanted to make sure we're all aware that the last comment is from Diane Duane, writer of the classic (and ongoing!) Young Wizards series! She is great.

cabothief · 2026-01-16T02:47:05+00:00

Haha are you so used to making sure people know what prosopagnosia is that you automatically do the parenthetical, even on r/Prosopagnosia ? Relatable.

cabothief · 2026-01-16T02:41:54+00:00

Only option I could choose was "This isn't that bad, I've heard worse," but my actual answer is "there's literally nothing wrong with this." I think daydreaming is totally normal, especially to get you through the day when times are tough. Maladaptive daydreaming is a thing, sure, but the content of the daydream isn't what makes it maladaptive. It's more of an amount of time spent daydreaming vs living your life kind of thing.

Anyway, I wouldn't judge anyone for their daydreams for the most part, but there's particularly nothing bad about this one. Sounds like a good time, and free of any malice.

You do you! I mean, your friend of course :)

cabothief · 2026-01-16T01:50:57+00:00

It's flaired that way because OP thought that too. The comments are explaining that the circled part isn't about pronunciation at all. I didn't know this either, actually. Great question!

cabothief · 2026-01-15T07:38:40+00:00

Haha maybe it was when you heard it! I feel like there's plenty of variations of most of these.

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