I vomited in the exam room and passed out. I think they finally realized I wasn’t kidding.

It’s far too late for an early death for me.

Perhaps your body is that way, but that is not true for all of us by any means.

Aktshully, I’m pretty sure it’s 20 metrics.

Just grabbed the first one searching for “Brett Flight of the Conchords,” but you get the idea. Great New Zealand comedy.

He looks a little like Bret from Flight of the Conchords in that photo. Still agree with your comment though.

Oh! I thought 20m = 20 minutes or 20 miles! Neither of which is notably close.

I’m confused. WTF is she talking about? A daycare?

I see it more about the level of curiosity one has, rather than a typical / atypical division.

Yes, as a NT personally, both options are available depending on what I need to accomplish. For my brain to have no thoughts I have to actively meditate, and that’s really hard and has taken a lot of training and practice.

As for what I like or not, there’s some degree of control over it, but what’s key for me is an awareness of why I have likes / dislikes and the level of tolerance for them along a spectrum.

I’m NT, and “thinking about thinking” is how my brain works. A lot of “normal” brains do, but there’s a HUGE spectrum of how introspective people are.

When you said video game you brought to mind a broader context for me. We often associate “a name” (musician, CEO, comedian, etc.) with a brand. But when you truly think of the number of people and entire industry involved in producing said art, it becomes a somewhat different question. Not necessarily easier to answer, and I really like your health bar analogy. I think to some extent it depends on what you personally are getting out of your interaction with the product.

Always a fascinating philosophical question to ponder.

That looks fascinating. I’m not able to delve into it right now, but I absolutely will on Thursday! Thank you.

A first edition of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. I’m not even sure how I ended up with it, but it looks cool.

Never having done a hunger strike myself, I thought the following was interesting. It sounds like there’s kind of a medical protocol to it and I wonder what measures are taken when it’s deemed “dangerous.” Under these conditions I’m guessing some folks could last physically (no judgement on the mental toughness it takes!) for quite some time:

“The students have been drinking water with electrolytes and having their vitals tested twice a day.”

Most foreign language apps teach in bite sized pieces. I use Mango, but there are a bunch.

My library (Denver) also offers Mango, an online / apps language learning program.

They looked totally normal to me. I thought the “instructions” meant the actual face wasn’t going to change, so I was very confused. They all change, but just look like normal faces to me.

I’ve never seen it, but I’m already sure their flag sucks.

Pope Francis was from S. America, so technically this is not the first American pope.