As a lifelong Magic player, I’ve reached a point where I’ve accepted that my strengths are more in drafting, deckbuilding, and card evaluation, not in reading complicated board states. I play more aggressively now and do better because of it. My new motto is “math is for blockers”.

No, that’s definitely not how it works. It would never be worded this way to begin with, but this “effect” is just a homonym of the word you’re referring to.

I think he was on his way to come tell us something, then he got tired and fell back to sleep. He’s three.

Most of the time it’s right in front of me, but my brain is just shortcutting over it.

It’s become a running gag in my house that my wife will set something down on the floor so that I can’t possibly miss it, like a laundry basket that needs to go downstairs, and I step over it without thinking.

One time, late at night, I went to my son’s bedroom to make sure he was asleep. His bed was empty. As I was leaving, I saw him asleep on the floor in the middle of the hall, which means I’d stepped over him.

Sometimes I just don’t see things.

And if Trump had been president in 1801, how do you think he’d have treated his slaves? If he’d been president in 1830, do you think the Trail of Tears would have been any less than an overt genocide?

Come on. This isn’t a real discussion if we’re just going to make up hypotheticals about what different presidents would do in different contexts. But even if we do base this on such speculation, Trump is still by a wide margin the worst president in American history, because it’s hard to imagine him not committing those same crimes but worse.

The other presidents left the system intact so their mistakes could be corrected. They left the ability for the US to have decent presidents after them.

I’ve always said that having ADHD is like being a superhero’s alter ego.

You’re always late, falling behind, or not mentally present, and you can never tell people the real reason.

“Um… There was a disturbance.”

Except instead of the real reason being that you were saving someone, it’s that your brain sucks.