“Out of sight, out of mind” really does ring true for people with aphantasia in my experience.

But from what I have heard and seen people with aphantasia are very good at memorizing lists.

It’s not really a how good of your memory it is but how you choose to store it. Are you going to pull up an image to remember, or are you just going to “know” it. Some things easier with images, some with just facts.

Like how many arches are on the Eiffel tower. Someone with really good image memory might pull up the image in their mind and count. Someone like me would have to know it as a fact and since “How many arches are on the Eiffel tower” isn’t common knowledge or I haven’t heard/memorized it then knowing it as a fact isn’t possible.

But images also tend to be wrong so you can’t always trust them.

In an experiment where people had to memorize a table set up. People with aphantasia got a total of less items on the table but placement and everything was more true. Someone with a true “photographic” memory could get everything right.

How would you attempt to store these three things in your memory?

If someone said:

1. Go to grocery store and pick up half gallon orange juice
2. Go to auto parts store pick up gallon motor oil
3. Do laundry when you get home

I’d remember “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”

I can infer where to get the stuff for example, but aslong as I remember certain details I could remember what I needed to do.

As long as I can repeat “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry” in my inner voice I won’t forget what I need to do.

There will be times where I will forget and then have to think. There was something I needed at the auto store…oh oil. Because I don’t break everything down into a perfect list like “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”.

I feel like it’s easier for me to remember if the tasks are related or if the things are in one task. But that is probably for everyone

Not really. For example I cannot pull up an image of the gieco gecko in my mind. I think gieco gecko car insurance, I would have to think deeper to think more. Like does my car need insurance, would the gecko save me money, etc… And I’m just not going to do that for a commercial I’m actively trying to avoid.

Commercials are more for imagers. The ones that need to see the cheeseburger before they buy it. The ones where a gecko seems like a great thing to do business with.

I’m not immune to their propaganda though.

Probably because it causes people to touch near their nose to adjust the mask.

It’s like the people in super markets wearing gloves only to reach into their pocket to get their phone. Covid gets on gloves, gloves touch phone, person touches phone with no gloves when they get outside. Gloves did basically nothing but it doesn’t mean gloves cannot help.

Sounds like you might have aphantasia or a very limited visual memory.

Definitely contributes to your decision making processes

Most people can visualize well so you aren’t the norm

Very vague. I would have said my “images” were very vague before I learned I had it. It’s almost like I can see them but they just aren’t there.

Like when you picture an apple does it have color?

Do you read a book and imagine it playing out in your mind? Do you get disappointed when watching a movie based on a book you read that the visuals do not match what you had imagined?

Do you get random imagines popping into your mind that you don’t control?

Do you have aphantasia?

I have it and assume people get an image of Wicked Wings from KFC that pops into their head and now that they “see” it they crave it. Just like seeing it in a commercial.

Average human mind. But hers isn’t the norm.

I have aphantasia and it still boggles my mind that people see pictures in their head, or can even replay events visually.

Because of my aphantasia I believe it gives me SDAM, Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory

In a way I have the opposite of her. The only way I’d remember what I did on July 19th 2002 was if I memorized it as a fact. Then I could just repeat to you that fact.

I would assume that she has a very visual memory and when she makes a connection her brain shows her the pictures and she can tell you what it shows her.

Painful for sure. I would like to remember more of my life, but I am almost immune to PTSD. Not because I do not remember something but because the way I recall it in my memory is not visually vivid.

Like I would just remember my war experience as details. I’d currently miss my friend if he died beside me in battle. But I’m never going to ever relive or see it in my memory. I might drive myself crazy going over the scenarios and thinking about things I could have done differently. But I couldn’t imagine eating a bowl of cereal and your mind randomly goes “Here watch your buddy die again”

Having rich people pay into a system and then die is just beneficial. Even if their withdrawal rates are based on contributions. They will leave money behind or they with be neutral.

Someone making $36k a year pays $4,464 dollars for SS.

12.4% is a good retirement fund.

So government takes what could be your good retirement fund so you can save another 12.4%?

If someone really could save 24.8% they would have a great retirement. Yet the retirement for someone making $36K a year is looking grim.

A unskilled laborer makes about $18 or $36k a year.

They have to pay 12.4% to social security.

36k×.124=4,464

$4,464

Income Tax

$36k-12,400=23,600

12,400×.1=$1,240

23,600×.12=$2,832

$1,240+$2,832=$4072

$4072

$4,464+$4072=$8,536

These unskilled laborers have to pay nearly a quarter of their pay in SS tax and Income Tax.

$8,536/$1,000,000=.0085

That’s less than 1% to them.

Yes the rich do not need safety nets but they should help build them

If you were making a $1m salary. You could give up less than a precent of that and make one unskilled laborer’s life 25% better.

It’s crazy how much $8,536 more would help someone making $36,000

Yet the system is designed so it takes your $8,536 selling you a safety net

Social Security is capped at $184,500

SS tax is 6.2% for individual and 6.2% for employer.

Employee A makes $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.

22,878/184500=.124 or 12.4% tax.

Employee B makes $1,000,000. SS is capped at $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.

22,878/1,000,000=.022 or 2.2% tax.

So someone making a million dollars would only have to give up 1.1% to SS tax and their employer 1.1% SS tax.

They will both pay the exact same amount into SS but the percentage isn’t as high because $815,500 of the million is not getting taxed.

You can make a perfect rock way easier than you can make a perfect stick.

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So half your house is in one time zone and the other half is in another?

Yes it could be. But having half a city in one time zone and the other half in another causes logistical problems. Does the same thing with states. That’s why they are like that.

Best solution would be creating all new states designed around the time zones.

This would be the best way to split up the time zones with current states and counties

North/West vs South/East in each time zone

There are 4 time zones in the US

The more North/West you live in a time zone the more you hate DST. The more South/East you live the more you like DST.

If you live in blue you probably hate DST, yellow probably like DST

All stems from states like Michigan should be in CST not EST. If Michigan was in CST then permanent DST would make it EST and they would be in “standard” time still.

North/West vs South/East in each time zone

There are 4 time zones in the US

The more North/West you live in a time zone the more you hate DST. The more South/East you live the more you like DST.

If you live in blue you probably hate DST, yellow probably like DST

All stems from states like Michigan should be in CST not EST. If Michigan was in CST then permanent DST would make it EST and they would be in “standard” time still.

And that’s just as a percentage of registered voters

The 33.4% is out of every 18+ adult in America that has registered or could register to vote.

174 million are registered

57 million are unregistered

231 million total.

77.3/231=33.4%

340.1 million Americans in 2024

77.3/340.1=22.7%

So 22.7% of total Americans voted for trump. But that’s counting babies, children, and young adults.

Also trump won the popular vote in 2024 so the electoral system wasn’t the cause. Rigged or poor system yes but he would have won without the electoral college.

77.3 million votes for trump. Wikipedia

73.6% of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote 174 million, 65.3% voted. 154 million. Census.gov

About 231 million people could have voted.

77.3/231= 33.4% or 1/3

To put it in perspective if you walked up to an American adult that could have voted in 2024. You are twice as likely to hear that they didn’t vote for trump or didn’t vote than they voted for trump.

My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked “Do you have any?”. No I don’t.

I’ve been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say “Yeah I have a little calf tattoo”

My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend’s favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.