Yeah, I know when I get complete sleep I'm fine. But it just sucks that other people can go without much sleep and be fine but I can't. It's like that actually prevents me from being awake for as many hours at night than other people can.

Use case example: You're busy doing something, but you send a message to someone and leave the chat open because you can't close it at that second. You look away from your phone and continue what you were doing. A message comes through but because the chat is open, you don't hear a sound. Then you get back to your phone 30 minutes later, and find that the person had already replied to you 27 minutes ago. If the sound still played even while the chat was open, you would have stopped what you were doing and responded to them as soon as you got their message.

But I enjoy those mobile-only games 😅 How would I play them otherwise? And I think touch interfaces allow for some gameplay you wouldn't ever get anywhere else, like swipe actions and multi-finger gestures, which you can see in games like Infinity Blade or Fruit Ninja (or even True Skate, which seems to have quite a following, not my fave personally but I can't imagine that on any other device)

I'm down with grinding and killing bad guys on loop actually. I wish "Free Guy" was a game because that looked fun to play.

"Even if the choice is only illusory, it's indistinguishable from free will in every other respect... So we will treat it as such"

I like that!

I think quote-unquote can have the same implications, unfortunately, but good one I hadn't thought of. Maybe there's more.

I've always wondered what stomach sleepers do with their face. Like don't you end up being unable to breathe or rubbing your nose and mouth on the blankets? Also is your neck not crooked to compensate for that?

I wish I were able to sleep on stomach or back so that I could sleep symmetrically, I think it would be better for me if I could fall asleep that way. But the sleep just doesn't come... unless I'm sideways in a fetal position, and only on one side (left side).

But the Australian people already voted in Anthony Albanese, so whatever he does as the democratically elected leader is basically democratic isn't it? Why would we need a separate vote for each decision when he could just make those decisions as the elected head of parliament?

(Also I would add that when people chose Anthony Albanese as PM, they would have known he intended to strengthen indigenous representation and rights, so a Yes vote for Anthony was already a yes vote for Indigenous Voice, in my view).

I'm sorry you were going through that, I take it by your use of past tense you no longer have that issue? If so I don't suppose you know what could have fixed it? Hope you're doing better now :)

I have a friend who moved to America for a short time then when they returned, they had an American accent. But people didn't believe it and mocked them saying "that's not your real accent". I'm kind of worried the same will happen for me..

I did read about a long-sleeper gene and a short-sleeper gene, which made me curious if I could be a long-sleeper

Very interesting, I really would like to know more about why that happens. A few people here said their migraines went away as they got older.

Thanks, but how silly is that!. I only noticed it recently but the idea is bugging me. It feels like I have to close the chat as soon as I look away from it. I don't need that kind of "stress".

Fair enough, but then why did Albanese suggest he had the ability to override the vote but was opting not to?

We're all just choosing to spend our time staring at pixels on a screen.

So true lol. Slightly unrelated but I had an epiphany once that we use our touch devices so frequently, and of course we're interacting with data in different ways, but physically we're just sliding our fingers around on a pane of glass with lights behind it all the time. Must look so weird to monkeys 😂

Lol, I don't even know how to respond to this tbh. Pretty sure those aren't even remotely the same thing. Effective Altruists(?) seek to use reasoning and evidence based action to improve the state of the world or ethical issues they perceive. Zizians are a murderous cult that happen to claim to be "effective altruists" as well as "vegan" (arguably they aren't either), but also hold a host of other ideas and philosophies, and vegans and veganism entirely disagree with them. (Yes I support trans rights). And I wouldn't identify as either of those categories/labels you said. But thanks for reading anyway.

So then I have a different question:

Could a child learn everything they need to know just from watching YouTube without any other sources of education?

I actually don't use any pillow (I just prefer lying flat on a mattress), could that be a problem?

To be honest, I think when it happens it's too painful for any pain meds to work unless they were super strong like opiates, and even then. Basic pain meds do nothing. Sleep really is the only fix I've discovered... also it's always localised on the right side of my head, never the left.

I never drink caffeine, maybe I should :)

Appreciate your advice, but sometimes I'd actually rather go on little sleep if I were able to function properly. The pursuit of actually getting proper sleep is sort of a whole different ball game hahah, but sometimes I'd rather not try to if that makes sense, so that I have more hours to get things done.