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I always use Chess boards to describe non-Euclidean spaces when I "need" to (aka when I get even a narrow chance to)

I love this advice. I found someone on YouTube and poorly copied them on a MTG card (just altering it). It was fantastic, and I really am looking forward to the next one already

I appreciate it! I actually painted a little today, while I probably should've been working. It was delightful

I just wanna say that your comment (and the few others here) got me to whip out my mini paints for the first time in a while and paint a MTG card. I'm stoked with how it came out, even though it's not "good" and I think I might invest in a few colors/a pallet (using cardboard now)

Any specific drawing advice? I've always wanted to draw and to paint and have had such difficulty getting off the ground

Not really related, but of a similar vein:

A buddy of mine is an ER surgeon in a rough city in the US. Says that they usually don't take out bullets from people, just leave them unless they're causing a problem specifically. It blows my mind that the human body is just fine with it

You can disable (today, anyway) the internet search, and it gets wildly more useful after that. I wonder if it's trying to be two things: searching your computer like it should, and for the less computer literate it's "help me"

I use VoidTools Everything for searching. It's absolutely lightning fast and super powerful.

The built in Windows search is such garbage

This is fantastic

Okay now's my time to shine. The words "emoji" and "emoticon" are false cognates, as in they aren't actually related. Emoticon is a few-decade old word to describe emotion+icon, like :)

Emoji is Japanese (kanji - 絵文字) for picture-word, basically. It super outdates computers.

They just happen to sound similar; isn't that fun?

That's awesome! I hope it's flat at least

Each way?? Or round trip?