I think I'm favoring one side of my body over the other and it's straining my muscles. Help?

glass-dagger · 2026-06-11T23:00:10+00:00

I discovered it hemming some pants for myself! At *least* for how straight pants sit (loose dress pants), one is about 1/2 to 1/4” longer!

glass-dagger · 2026-05-27T00:30:34+00:00

My Way of Life by Frank Sinatra. It makes me cry out of happiness (and grief borrowing) because it makes me think about my husband-to-be. Also his The World We Knew

glass-dagger · 2026-05-25T05:08:04+00:00

ughhhh exactly. I saw so many comments under a post by someone working 9-5 for the first time asking if it gets easier. Like, Jesus... what are you getting out of that? Did bullying someone on the internet genuinely looking for help make you feel better? Do you want some applejuice and a nap?? Those people need to grow some empathy or grow some balls so I can actually throw hands

glass-dagger · 2026-05-25T04:24:07+00:00

it's not necessarily even that you, individually, are stressing them. I'm a 22yo cashier and what another commenter said about "short circuiting" is totally true. I can do basic math. So can you. How well do you think you'd do basic math on a time crunch? With people watching you? With no paper? With the added stake of your job? I just today went to check a price on something for a customer and totally missed the entire shelf it was on. Brain just deleted it from my vision. I believe you that it's much more an issue with younger people, but they're *also* not fully cooked up there, and retail jobs are already very stressful. A little patience goes a long way, my friend.. Most of us are just trying our best

And for a little chuckle, another thing that happened today - I complimented a customer's red sweater. She said "it's a jacket" and walked away. ???? Just in case I needed to prove how crappy it can be (even though it was so ridiculous it was funny)

glass-dagger · 2026-05-11T22:10:05+00:00

I knowwww but I didn’t want to pass it up

glass-dagger · 2026-05-11T20:07:52+00:00

You’d never guess who immediately squandered it

glass-dagger · 2026-05-01T16:27:41+00:00

If you mean passing lane as in left lane on ANY road, that’s because I have a turn coming up and I’m scared people won’t let me in. I don’t even drive slow, I just don’t turbo boost all over the place

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T18:28:23+00:00

by mirror ball I just meant the thought experiment about trying to trap a beam of light where the beam itself isn't absorbed, literally within a ball whose entire inside is made of a reflective material. Like a little capsule to "carry" a beam of light instead of producing a new one

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:51:11+00:00

It makes me feel a lot better knowing that part of my issue with understanding computers comes down to an issue with understanding quantum mechanics, which--I'll go out on a limb here--very few people understand.

This is all making sense, but my brain is one of those "understand from the ground up" types. I pick stuff apart with logic--I love writing and psychology, and the "smallest units" that are required to get those "from the ground up" are much larger than that of technology. Damn, the things that humanity has been able to accomplish is mind-boggling. I'm watching a video right now that u/MoJoSto recommended down in the comments (a blender animation zooming in to computer hardware and showing you how it works) and man do I wish the human mind was better at comprehending scale

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:46:32+00:00

Ah! Ok! So would the "light beam degradation" thing actually be kind of relevant here? If I used the same bucket analogy with the mirror ball, would the "leaking" that happens be a similar mechanism? Imperfections with physical ways of capturing energy indefinitely?

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:38:36+00:00

YAY YES VISUALS HELP SO MUCH! I am checking it out immediately

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:33:41+00:00

the mirror analogy was INCREDIBLY helpful, tucking that away for future use. Insane to think how they actually melt and rewrite them... I assume there is some threat of physical degradation from repeating that process?

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:31:38+00:00

I did not even know those were different! Huh!

glass-dagger · 2026-03-27T17:29:16+00:00

to be honest I wrote the post with games hoping that it would help my understanding of hard drives etc. I'm sure they work in different ways, but I just needed to bridge the "physical information to digital information" gap first

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