@slothrop *To unpack that in good faith, rather than just block you: not every conversation is going to be about you When it's not, rather than derail the conversation and center yourself, you can just listen, ponder, and move on. It's a great behaviour to cultivate.
@slothrop Then you fall outside the scope of the question and you don't need to respond. Even if you are a man. lol
It doesn't always work out, but I tend to leave voice notes that correspond to paragraphs, that also have tonal unity -- you can respond to them with a single emoji.
If the tone shifts and more than one reaction emoji is warranted, then I usually break off a new voice note.
(This is largely unconscious and probably due in part to years of writing & editing that inform the rhythms of my speech.)
I have one friend I exchange voice notes with a lot (vs text), and we've both taken to recapping the note we're responding to (in our time-shifted conversation) so we can both follow along, and that works well for us.
We'll also both intersperse some text messages that work as way points for navigating the conversation. For us, it's a great system.
I do best around 3 minutes max and can stretch to up to 5 minutes for receiving, and try not to go beyond that (although I will sometimes).
But I've noticed that I have two friends with whom I regularly exchange voice notes (in both directions) that are 6-8 minutes, and that works for us in context. interesting.
I used to have a friend who regularly sent me 30+ minute voice notes on Signal. It stressed the hell out of me, because there's no way to listen to part of a voice note (at least not that I know of) and bookmark your spot and even turned up to 2x speed, that's 15 minutes of message. I don't always have 30+ minutes of uninterrupted time and focus.
If you send or receive voice notes, what's the optimal length range for notes you send and notes you receive? Is it different? Does it depend on the other parties in the conversation?
I'm really curious how (casual, personal) voice notes work for you.
The poll is because I just heard "licoriSS" with the /s/ as in say pronunciation in the wild for the first time in my life. My voice actor habit when I hear what is to my ear an unusual pronunciation is to look it up and find out if I or the speaker have been making an error or if there are multiple accepted pronunciations. I truly had no idea that anyone said it that way!
If you are familiar with licorice-with-an-"iSS", I'd love to know where you hear it said that way. 2/n
How do you pronounce the last consonant in the English word "licorice"?
You can hear those sounds aloud at this link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/licorice
More about the poll below. 👇 1/n
I looked around last month for 100% cotton sleepwear and I wasn't happy with what I found.
I wound up ordering a couple of 100% cotton ribbed racer back tank tops -- I can pair them up with underpants and in this heat they'll be just fine.
Bonus: I feel more confirmed than ever as the protagonist of a hit 90's scifi movie. 🚀
Are you adjusting your daily sleep / wake / activity schedule to deal with the heat?
Do you every year, or is this year exceptional?
*Northern hemisphere question, seasons are not global, sorry Southern hemisphere friends.
I'd like a gold star for bravery, please.
I was just thinking about a number of friends of the family, whom I haven't spoken to in years, so I sent out a little flurry of emails sending them well wishes.
The problem is my mom stopped telling me about who has and hasn't died several years back, these are older friends, and I'm dreading that the emails will bounce.
Fingers crossed that the notes reach the recipients.
Out of curiosity, how many of your web tools (browsers, email providers, search engines, password managers, etc.) or tech tools (programming tools, etc.) are you in the process of replacing right now (actively replacing or looking for replacements), and which ones are they?
Asking because my own list keeps getting longer not shorter, and I can't believe we live like this.
Dear websites of the world:
I know you build your little phone apps so you can harvest and sell our data, but I'd really like to be able to access the same features from your website for all kinds of accessibility and usability reasons, as well as convenience -- and I hate that you care about me less as a customer than as an exploitable data source.
Please do better. (I know you won't.)
*The pilot got picked up by a kid's network and rewritten so all the leads were 10 years younger, so I was out of a gig, but my job as the lead was to do the best job I could in what we shot and the goal of the spec pilot was to sell the series, so I was glad I could contribute to that.
**They changed the title when it was made, it was a Canadian network, I've never seen it and I'm sure you've never heard of it.
Randomly remembering the time I was cast as the lead in a TV pilot, and one of the crew guys had to wire me up with my mic and made a big deal about sticking his hand up my skirt.
I had the choice to laugh it off or make a big deal and alienate all the crew (all guys, who thought it was great) so yeah, I laughed it off.
Not the end of the world and one incident among many, a long time ago.
I appreciate men who call out other men who pull this stuff. It makes a difference.
I hope that some investigative journalists dig into A) who funded and ran that study, and B) who is behind the publicity around it.
I saw that study going around about microplastics from scientists' gloves contaminating all study samples and invalidating all microplastic research and...
it *could* be legit.
But my god, it sounds just like the disinfo campaigns of Big Oil & Big Tobacco.
I wouldn't be surprised if PR firm Edelman was behind it.
I see eggcorns for these words in the wild a lot; here's what the eggcorns are referring to (with a bonus link for eggcorn). If you know where the terms come from, it's easier to keep them straight.
1. Cut & Dried (past tense)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_and_dried
2. Kid Gloves
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kid_glove#English
3. Bonus link Eggcorns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
The existence of bisuits and triscuits implies the existence of quadscuits.