What about this button is anti-vandal? What kind of vandalism does this prevent?

Relevant xkcd (kind of)

A lot of people don’t realize how much of a lifestyle change and commitment it takes to even begin to look kind of like a bodybuilder. A lot of genuinely smart people think going to the gym twice a week would give them more muscle than they know what to do with. Yeah it’s stupid, but it’s a common misconception.

Edit: here’s a post I found about it: https://www.girlsgonestrong.com/blog/articles/big-and-bulky/ it’s about women, who worry about this a lot more than men, but I’ll bet a lot of it applies to both genders.

Interesting questions. It would also remove eyebrows and eyelashes, which serve to protect eyes from dust and things like that. Armpit and pubic hair serve to reduce friction in those areas and prevent chafing. Nostril hair, assuming it would also be gone, is part of the filtering system of the air we breathe. Considering all those health implications, being fully informed before doing it would be really important.

But if someone still wants to do that to themselves, and is an adult capable of making their own decisions, I say let them!

Whether it’s possible or not (the core of your question), I have no idea but the other comments seem to have some theories about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaPijamot

I’ll also point out that in the first 3 seasons, it also stars Alona Tal, who later moved to the US and there’s a chance you’ve seen her in some of her roles.

Israel: HaPijamot (literally: The Pajamas). It’s a sitcom for kids (but really more for their parents IMO) about a mediocre band that’s trying to make it big in Tel Aviv. The show often breaks the fourth wall in a way that’s really hard for me to explain. It’s kind of like a mockumentary, but it plays with it a lot. For example, there’s a “white screen” sometimes where the cast pauses the show to explain something to the audience. It’s clearly an abstract place that doesn’t canonically exist in the world. But occasionally it plays a role in the plot, e.g. a character goes there to hide from everyone else, or someone would abuse the system and activate the white screen to get out of a sticky situation.

The original premise of the band quickly becomes secondary, it’s just a great show with excellent writing and a great cast. It even has a few spin-offs, including a great one where the fast food shop owner becomes a detective.

I think you may have triggered a rewatch for me, it’s been years since I last saw it!

Israel

Strange weather this time of year. Frequent missile showers. Good thing there’s bomb shelters.

I never learned cursive (can’t even read it most of the time) but I don’t think my answer would be helpful to you. But it might be interesting.

My signature isn’t my full name, it’s just an arrangement of 3 alphanumeric symbols that has meaning to me but to anyone else probably looks like a meaningless scribble. If someone ever tries to forge my signature, they’ll almost definitely do it wrong.

But the reason my answer isn’t useful is that English isn’t my native tongue, and neither is the Latin alphabet. My native tongue is Hebrew. Hebrew cursive is very different from Latin cursive, in that the letters don’t flow into each other. It’s still “block letters”, just a different variant of them. I’ve never looked at many signatures but I think a lot of people just write their name quickly, and that inevitably involves lifting the pen from the paper between letters multiple times.

In a lot of less important contexts that require signature (e.g. receiving a package), many people just make a really quick meaningless scribble, which might look like α or φ or whatever to just get on with it. Workers asking for these signatures often humorously say “give me a scribble here” in those scenarios.

You woke up and chose violence

Appears empty to me, apparently you have to enable NSFW content for it to show. Just letting everyone know.

Too true :(

I highly doubt they were talking about gaming.

Yeah, you’re right, and that sucks. Mastodon is much better at this.

The Fediverse’s biggest onboarding problem is having too many choices that seem important but don’t really matter. Namely, which instance to sign up on. Listing two different platforms that do the same thing and even federate with each other would only make it worse. I’m guessing that’s why they only listed one.

As for why choose one over the other, I don’t have a horse in this race, I’m sure they had their reasons.

Any job to do with food. Restaurant, bar, cafe, pizzeria, whatever. I just feel utterly incompetent there.

And it’s not just cooking, even being a cashier or delivery guy is impossible for me. I can’t put it into words, but I am just incapable of doing it.

The way you write and the way your friend speaks, I’m having trouble picturing this scenario.

Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have filmed glass cracking and calculated its speed many times. Very lovely channel that I recommend!

I’m going to have to say OpenStreetMap, it’s always going to have a place in my heart.

When I visited the US I was excited to see squirrels running around. We don’t have squirrels where I’m from. We took pictures.

It must have looked like we were excited to witness a cloud in the sky.