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  • Lots of upvotes, but that's simply not true. It is true that people can be gifted in one area and not in others, but those people can excel in those areas more than someone even more passionately interested could ever hope to.

    I knew a guy named Joe Rohde. You can look him up, he ended up being a head of imagineering at Disney. When I knew him, he was a high school art teacher, and then just starting at Disney. His aptitude for art was off the charts, and his mom said that was true when he was four and able to draw 3D renderings when his peers couldn't do stick figures. Sure, he practiced and developed skills, but his ability to hold a 3D image in his mind, tweak and rotate it, and then put it on paper, is something innate. He was absolute crap at math.

    I spent 40 years at a company that mostly made rocket engines for NASA and the DoD, working with literal rocket scientists. I met all sorts of very smart people. Some were the stereotypical scientist that were geniuses in a particular area but had no skills outside of it, but others were just simply brilliant at anything they turned their mind to. Many of them defied the stereotype and also has great social skills.

    It might be nice to think that anyone can be truly great at anything they put their mind to, but I've seen too many people who are truly great at things to believe it. Some people are just wired differently.

    Edit: and none of the above mentions gender because gender doesn't factor into it.

  • I had that same physics lesson. Young me was so excited bringing the end of the hose, covered by my hand, to the bottom of the pool. I was almost out of breath when I got down there because swimming down while covering the hose was hard, but I figured it wasn't a problem because I was about to be able to breathe through it. I was pretty panicked when I quickly jammed the hose end into my mouth and it tried so suck the air out of me harder than I could suck it in.

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  • Oh, they're SO painful. Really unnecessarily nasty.

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  • They're fun to watch because they often grab caterpillars from plants and take them away or eat them nearby. Great for gardens.

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  • Ugh, sounds awful, but glad you found a solution. I don't remember what I put down the hole they had at the base of a tree. Wasn't dawn, I don't think.

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  • I don't know, they're not all created the same. When I'm in the pool, I let bees land on me, or will fish them out of the water with my hands. Paper wasps look super frightening, but they're even more docile than honey bees. Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it. Like not anyone close to the nest or anything, just someone on the patio chilling. I would leave a beehive, but I eradicated the yellow jacket nest.

  • That's why you never see cows jogging

  • With a Satyr, the whole lower half from the waist down is a goat.

  • So instead of half human and half horse, it's 3/4 human 1/4 horse. I'm going with human except the two legs are horse legs.

  • Is a husband-brother something they have in the South?

  • Sounds appropriate

  • Seems like it would think of it as more of a litter box

  • That swamp being drained some more?

  • I like the M&Ms a lot better, but this year when I did my annual binge of 75% off, post-Easter candy, I got some Reese's pieces eggs. They were like Reese's pieces, but much larger - maybe the size of peanut butter M&Ms. They were actually really good; a better inside to outside ratio.

    Similarly, one of my favorite candies are the Cadbury mini eggs they sell at Easter, which are a similar size. They're like large plain M&Ms, with better quality chocolate and candy. I like the dark chocolate version best.

  • Not really a "food" but I find peanut butter M&Ms the most addictive thing in the world.

  • My wife loves cottage cheese with crushed BBQ potato chips mixed in, which I imagine is similar.

  • Being paid to read books? Sounds great.

    The nuts and bolts are this: an agent, executive, or producer sends Clarke a book or manuscript, blind. He reads it and writes a detailed beat-by-beat synopsis of the core scenes, settings, conflicts, and characters. Here, he quotes essential dialogue and, if any sentence-level writing stands out, includes excerpts. He then steps back to evaluate how the book might actually function on screen, that is, which elements are inherently cinematic, what can and can’t be rendered visually or dramatized, and what kind of movie or series the material wants to be.

    Uh, okay, that sounds like work...

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  • When she made that announcement, there were lots of folks saying "Oh, I wonder what's about to come out..."