I think the experience of novelty has a huge role here in the perception of passing time, too. As you age there's just definitionally less novelty in your life, and brains perceive everything more keenly in the presence of novelty.

I've heard a lot about it, but I haven't chased it down. I didn't know it got bad like that, though.

I don't think I have a reliable cry, but when anyone asks about one I always suggest We Were Here, the documentary. I cried so hard that when I need a cry most of the time just remembering that cry is enough.

Yeah, it's an elephant from front and back so I guess you need to rotate it 180 but damn that's odd

That's it!

I almost never have a visceral not-ok reaction to a person, and I struggled for a while trying to figure out if it was some kind of alopecia uncanny valley thing with him, but no. He ain't right.

Happy birthday, I hope there were copious oysters!

Fascinating.

I don't know for sure that this will go badly for you, but I'm pretty sure it won't go well.

It's from some murder mystery, I think. Generally it means something like "a thing that's playing a role that nobody's accounted for yet". In the original the final clue as to who killed the victim was that a guard dog hadn't barked when it absolutely would have if their alibi was good. I think.

I mean, I did say it was a jump scare, no shame in jumping 🙂

Oh yeah, just like how the average number of arms is ever so slightly less than one if anybody is missing one, sometimes people are pregnant, so...

My favorite bone-related science jump scare is that the average number of skeletons in the human body is more than one.

I do the same thing, but I put a positive spin on it and say I have "Reliability Brain".