For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
I guess some people are really bad drivers
Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.
Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)
Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line
That’s “parent” not “adult”
I with no kids at home have excellent sleep
Teens are the ones (after new mothers) who suffer the most, with natural sleep cycles starting around midnight or in the early morning and wake times in the late morning or early afternoon, but school schedules that force them to be active at school from 9am
My sister got told off regularly for reading after lights out
As adults my mother told me that after they found books for me I liked they pretended to never notice the light leaking through my doona, they were just happy to see I was reading
It’s not like the US manufacturers anything anymore, and Hollywood has forgotten how to make movies
It’s like you don’t even try to export your culture anymore, when I was a kid everyone watched Sesame Street, now all the kids in all the English speaking world are watching Bluey
Occasionally my phone recommends an article to read that I find interesting, I click it and it opens in the built in chrome based browser and is a sea of ads. Fortunately there’s an “open in Firefox” button so I actually can read the article
The Flynn effect makes that a time sensitive achievement
Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only
Usenet is the best for piracy
Is that a deliberately 3d image pair?
They seem 3d with the cross eye technique
I’m seeing cats planning how to get off those sticks so they can knock the baked goods to the floor
European law says you need to identify paid content, it’s up to the channel to decide how, it’s usually “AD” written in a moderately contrasty color in the top right of the screen
It’s more than that. You need a chance for your body to recoup. People exercising hard more than 3 times in six days are doing themselves damage
People since ancient times have lived as long as modern people
More of us make it to the very old ages than twenty thousand years ago, but even back then those who survived childhood had a good chance of making it to old age
It’s not very true. Our bodies work fine for a good long time. It may be the cause of some of the problems we get as we age though
Incidentally I have heard (no idea whether it was folk stories or science) that kids who don’t crawl (some roll and drag themselves and learn to walk very early) get bad backs young
Most of the great apes are more or less upright much of the time
Removed by mod
I think in 2001 I was making a Linux from scratch system having not gotten enough from red hat and Debian with home configured and compiled kernels
Fun times and no, nothing like the commercial home operating systems back then
I used to really like an apple turnover. Warm, with cream
ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”