Reading aloud is for me the surefire way to not retaining a single word after done.
Maybe the default settings are too high
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you start thinking about books in terms of opportunity cost, you’re the kind who needs to slow down the most.
Oh no (Would elaborate, but, y'know. Opportunity cost)
I slowed myself down to savour this comment for a full 20s. Enough time to linger on each word for a long moment. Just like parent was asking for.
I pictured it spoken with a heavy Californian surfer accent. He wanted elaborate but a huge wave was breaking and he really didn’t want to miss the next one. Was in far too much of a rush to even leave punctuation behind.
So long, dude, I hope the waves keep coming for you.
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#323Zooming in on the 4th dimension
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oral transmission of complex culture is one of the things that separates us from "the state of nature". As we lose it, we move further away from the beasts that conquered the planet and closer to the squirrel.
Transmission of complex culture is what separates us (and enables this complex culture in the first place); oral medium is merely one way to do it. Being the first one, it's probably not the best.
Considering it's the only medium that needs literally nothing but ourselves to work, I disagree with your statement. But to each its own.
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#325My dad was a busy construction contractor. One summer he tore himself away from work and took the family to a week long boat camp out next to a big beautiful lake. It turned out that our campsite was actually in the lake by a few inches at high water, but dad saw a way to dam it off and keep it dry, so he grabs the shovel and starts digging trenches and building walls and ordering us around. About an hour into that,…
Your Dad is a beaver, he heard running water and instinctively began to build a dam.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess the term "tent" is pretty broad, this is what I see: [0], the cotton does not take being in water very well. But I guess a synthetic ultra light tent will do better. I also assumed the tents were already there when he arrived (complete assumption, but the term campsite conjures up a place with tents already there), and so must be of the more heavy more stationary kind. Anyway, the point is, I also had this qu…
Natural fiber canvas tents take to water about the same as your tee shirt does. Which is to say perfectly fine. Soaking them for a few days or even weeks shouldn't really bother them if the water is not warm and stagnant (like a nice clean lake). The biggest killer is storing them still wet.
That's a dangerous conspiracy theory.
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#327My default reading speed has always been slow AF. I've always wished I could read faster. But now I'm going to look at it more as a feature, not a bug. Thanks!!
If only I could eat as slowly as I read...
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh no (Would elaborate, but, y'know. Opportunity cost)
I slowed myself down to savour this comment for a full 20s. Enough time to linger on each word for a long moment. Just like parent was asking for. I pictured it spoken with a heavy Californian surfer accent. He wanted elaborate but a huge wave was breaking and he really didn’t want to miss the next one. Was in far too much of a rush to even leave punctuation behind. So long, dude, I hope the waves keep coming for you…
sick
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
Camping is just the bit about sleeping at night. I’d call your version hiking/walking/backpacking depending where I am.
Of course it's not. "A campsite is a designated area where individuals can set up bedding, sleeping bags, or cooking equipment, such as stoves or fires. This definition encompasses any location that allows for sleeping or cooking, regardless of whether it includes a tent, lean-to, shack, or other structures." I would note that camping also involves sitting in campchairs talking, reading, singing, etc. And > I’d call…
Of course what's not what? If you're going to attempt to be a pedant, you need to also be precise.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been camping, on trips that ranged from “park on the side of the road and set up a tent” to “hike four days carrying everything” and also “drive to campsite, walk into permanent managed tent”. Sounds like you’ve only done a more limited range of camping trips.
No, it doesn't sound like that at all, and you have offered no reason to think so. It's the other person who clearly has an extremely limited notion of camping: "the term campsite conjures up a place with tents already there" -- perhaps you have the two of us mixed up. And the OP said that they moved the tents , so ass-u-me ing that they were fixed structures is not rational.
Why would noticing that someone had "an extremely limited notion of camping" make you suggest that they had no experience at all? And if you are familiar with the form they mentioned, why would you act like you aren't?