Mildly interesting

[Horace]

Difficult to say how particularly special that is.

[George K]

https://gizmodo.com/the-mathematical-explanation-for-why-you-cant-catch-a-f-1776551693

[Rainman]

@George-K

OK, everyone check out George's link, and see if you can catch a dollar bill.
I could. Every time.
And I think anyone that plays piano reasonably well, can do the same.
That's my hypothesis. Eye/hand coordination is developed to be much faster for pianists.

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me. It always started out as a game, but he would get mad after losing over and over. He'd finally hiss, and run away, with me giggling like a little kid. Everyone now needs to go find their cat. If you don't have a cat, just walk down the street calling "kitty-kitty." Cats may be slower so that everyone can play that game and win. Not sure.

[Horace]

I couldn't catch the dollar but when it was increased to 20, I caught it every time. As they say, every man has his price.

[George K]

@Rainman said in Mildly interesting:

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me.

Def the post of the day.

[taiwan_girl]

Thought this was "mildly interesting"

-QUOTE-
When the Great Plague of London ravaged through the British city beginning in 1665, Issac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. As described in Gale Christianson's Isaac Newton, a few months after acquiring his undergraduate degree in the spring of that year, the 23-year-old retreated to his family farm of Woolsthorpe Manor, some 60 miles northwest of Cambridge. Along with being located a safe distance from the carriers of the horrific disease that was wiping out the population of the city, Woolsthorpe provided the sort of quiet, serene environment that allowed a mind like Newton's to journey, uninterrupted, to the farthest reaches of the imagination. This period is now known as annus mirabilis – the "year of wonders."
-UNQUOTE-

Newton quarantined during pandemic

So, good things can happen during a "stay at home" 555555

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

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Wow. That's pretty cool.

[jon-nyc]

How couples meet. 1940-2020

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Interesting graph. I would not have expect the "college" meeting to decrease so much after the last 15 years or so.

[jon-nyc]

It’s all zero sum. Those online meetings had to come from somewhere.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.

Read The Vanishing Neighbor or Bowling Alone. (What is it with me and book reccos today?)

Anyway, they explain it pretty well.

[LuFins Dad]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.

Because in the 80’s and 90’s we knew better than to become couples with the people we met at bars.

[taiwan_girl]

@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc Good point, but I guess I would have expected the "meeting in bar/restaurant" to have decreased also. Not sure why that is so much more popular now than in 1980 or 1990.

Because in the 80’s and 90’s we knew better than to become couples with the people we met at bars.

LOL So, maybe the graph is just looking at people STILL married.

maybe the "meeting in bar/restaurant" line will decrease after a few more years? LOL

[jon-nyc]

How did you meet your significant others?

Limiting to those I was with 1yr or more, and using their categories:

1 in college
1 in a bar (old fiancé in Chicago)
3 at work or a work event (conference)
1 through a friend (Rachel)

I did meet some girls online but nothing long term came from it. That was just taking off when I met a Rachel.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

How couples meet. 1940-2020

What a lonely bunch of people.

[jon-nyc]

Why do you say that? These are all people with an SO?

[LuFins Dad]

Based on your 1 year standard

1. Work - Karla worked for a finance company we used, and she andI talked on the phone often to go over credit apps. I started flirting over the phone...

2. College

3. High school

Now if we relaxed the requirements from 1 year to 24 hours, it would look more like
Work
Bar
Bar
Work
Work
Work (at bar)
Bar
Bar
Work
And so on.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Why do you say that? These are all people with an SO?

Most people (or at least over half) who marry, tend to marry someone who lives fairly close to them. Fairly close being within twenty or thirty miles in rural areas or maybe just four or five miles in urban areas. Couple this online surge with the fact that less people are getting married today, and I'd say that social skills are waning.