Yeah! Why should Ben have all the gay‽

Look, gravity sucks, guys.

doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced.

Sounds like medical PTSD. I’ve fucked my liver taking OTC meds in very high dozes cuz I don’t trust doctors. Had to have an emergency hysterectomy at 28 because they wouldn’t listen. That kind of pain is indescribable.

Had a cardiologist come into my room with a team of students to prove I only had anxietyand hypochondria a few years ago. Shortly after, Was diagnosed with Dysautonomia shortly after and I now have a pacemaker.

I’m done with doctors and would rather just die at home at this point. Fuck them.

Sorry for your spouse. ‘Womanly’ pain is the worst pain there is, imo.

Yeah, it seems very likely to be their weight.

Master understatement.

Uhh…

Turns out fish are self aware and way smarter than once thought.

So maybe they’re critiquing your masturbation technique.

I did.

I dunno – if someone said these exact words to me but sarcastically, that might actually work. Like, we might wind up having a conversation about how cringe this is, and so this line might work in a way.

I didn’t call you one. I was just saying that your comments may be taken that way.

Are you serious about your question? In that case I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. That’s all.

Lion: What’s a banana, and why do I care?

Teacher: It’s this thing prey sometimes eats and….

Lion: Mmm. Prey.

Teacher: Aargh! No! Grglgl!

I think you’re getting downvoted because you sound like a troll, but perhaps you just don’t understand something that most of us learn in primary school. Did you grow up homeschooled or in a country without basic education?

If you’re not trolling, this isn’t your fault and people shouldn’t be downvoting you for asking questions.

So long as you’re willing to learn, ignore the downvotes. You need to understand that your views on this are misinformed, though, and they sound based in religious fundamentalism.

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Yes exactly, thanks.

And something many of them can’t understand is that ‘species’ is a very fluid thing. There are no clear boundaries, and it’s just a term we use to wrap our heads round things.

Like with chickens and eggs, there was never a single point where an avian dinosaur gave birth to a bird – it’s not a clear delineation. Something mostly an avian theropod gave birth to something slightly more bird, and this happened over and over, with the slightly more accumulating for millions of years, and you finally get ‘bird’. But there’s no way to point at one generation and say ‘see, it’s now a bird’.

The process is so gradual, you could never point at a thing and say This Is Where Speciation Happened. It doesn’t work that way. Just like you can’t point to a drop of water in the ocean and say This Is Where The Wave Started.

“Kind” is a meaningless word here.

Humans (Sapiens) were a different species of Homo than Neanderthals (Neanderthalensis); both are in the genus Homo.
Thus: Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis.

This is exactly like lions (Leo) and tigers (Tigris) being different species, but in the same genus (Panthera).
Thus: Panthera Leo and Panthera Tigris.

And just like with lions and tigers, offspring are often either infertile or only fertile in one direction – IIRC, human/neanderthal couplings only produced fertile offspring if the human was female and the neanderthal male (we can see this in our own DNA).

My 18 month old son was having respiratory and stomach symptoms that seemed worse than a standard cold to me, but his doctors said not to worry, all kids have a bad cold sometimes. Even after apples came out exactly as they went in, points and all, and the top of his head had become sunken.

I insisted on taking him to hospital despite being told I was overreacting, and they admitted him immediately without even asking our name. His blood was thick like pudding, and it took a while before they could even do tests, because they couldn’t take blood.

It was rotavirus, and he was in intensive care for 2 weeks.
It was one of the few times I’d decided I wasn’t listening to people telling me to be quiet, and I’m so glad I did. That was like 30 years ago.

I think two major things are understanding platform standards and that what users say they want is often not what they need or what will work best for them.

Innovation is fine, but IUE and usability are often better served by following common platform standards (for general apps on the OS, not necessarily trying to match existing and often shitty enterprise software).

Also, it’s important to look for root causes when people ask for a specific feature. Many users focus on specific UI elements when they’re having issues, and in a complex system, it’s easy to wind up with bloat by solving the wrong problem. This is often how enterprise software becomes so unwieldy, with options and elements seemingly vomited all over the UI. What users think they want and what they need can be very different things.

Sorry if this is too general or basic. It’s hard to design a system that works for beginners and experts, and A/B testing a mix of users early with lofi prototypes helps a lot. For existing software, just watching users interact with it is massively helpful.

Is this what you meant? Happy to be more specific if I missed the mark.

Yeah, sometimes it really hurt.

Nothing that techy. I did include power users in tests, but their requests were usually for specific hotkeys or to have their favourite (and lesser used by most users) feature front and centre.

It can be difficult to balance a UI for inexperienced and power users, but watching them interact with prototypes and the actual software does help.

As part of my career in software design, I used to run A/B testing and usability tests. This meant sitting with users and watching them use the software. Since IUE (initial user experience) was very important, this often included inexperienced users.

The data was absolutely worth it, and definitely improved my designs, but it took a lot of patience to watch people struggle and fail without intervening or saying anything that would affect the results. It was rewarding, but sometimes excruciating.