It seems strange to me that NHS dentistry requires a 6 monthly check up, but GP appointments for the rest of your body are 'for one problem only' these days.

Maybe we ought to have annual (at least) overhauls to pick up on the things we're ignoring or missing.

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Y'ever look at the whole (hol) and question English's life choices?

#RandomMusings #linguistics

Just watched a cool short (~10 min) video about mental health entitled Why Your Advice Doesn't Work On Yourself.

The video addresses Solomon's paradox, which was a new term to us. It basically means that you find it much easier to give advice to others than to accept it yourself/ves.

This made us amusingly realise that we've kind of attempted to resolve the paradox in an entirely unorthodox way by dissociating into a system with multiple, lovely headmates 🤭  

#MentalHealth #plural #headmates #system #dissociation #SolomonsParadox #RandomMusings #IrreverentThoughts #IrreverentMusings

Occasionally we help a person in some small way(s) and then remember: "Oh yeah: we enjoy helping folks."

We also then remember how many spoons it drains to do so 😅

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I can see the seductive trap of AI stuff like chatgpt, mostly because search engines today are utter shit in delivering what you want.

With things like ChatGPT, you ask in a natural language, there's sometimes context for it to work with to refine what you are looking for.

The problem is the answers make sense 90% of the time and you stop double checking the results, and you stop checking the for alternative or original sources to confirm. (standard human behavior)

With programming simple things, its easy to check, you cut and paste, compile or run, and it either works as expected or not!

It will make you lazy in thinking about edge cases, or even if the method to get the desired result is correct, or maybe a 'better' way.

For me its great as a refresher, a sort of exercise to warm up the brain, but if i can remember that the results are mostly made up to "sound good" then I keep my skepticism and can get what I feel is a good answer.

#ai #chatgpt #RandomMusings

I had a hankering for a cream cheese, salami, and celery sandwich. I needed only one stem of celery but I had to buy half a celery at the supermarket. We don't eat a lot of celery so much of the half stalk it will probably go to waste. Unless of course I make a proper Italian sofrito. Now there's a thought.

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Sigmund Freud once said women have penis envy. That is not actually true, but he wasn't a good enough researcher to figure that out.

However, men DEFINITELY have womb envy

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Silly Idea: Naming a laptop "Mike".

Why? Because Mike and mic (short for microphone) are homophones, and it would be very easy to cause confusion.

"Apologies. I'm having troubles with my laptop, Mike."

Even more chaos if you're having trouble with your mic whilst using your laptop called Mike in a conversation with a person called Mike.

"Apologies. I'm having troubles with the Mike mic, Mike."

#RandomMusings #IrreverentHumour