As near as I can tell from talking to some, they mostly see things... in a way that I really can't for more than a second or so. They think "inner monologue" is a metaphor the way I used to think "mind's eye" was. These were very smart, successful scientists and engineers, so both ways work.

I learned this when talking to a senior engineer at my research lab 30 years ago, when he said something about how "of course 'inner monologue' is just a metaphor". We were both floored to learn what goes on in the others' head.

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It looks as though they reopened in Santa Clara.

We need to standardize emojis for this. Maybe something like “🙅‍♂️❓🙅‍♂️”.

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I do love the projection of the person (I presume one of many) who said, paraphrasing, that she was "just a boy who wanted to sneak into the girls' locker room" juxtaposed with the reality of her teammate saying "nobody ever used the locker room".

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Bread bandit, you say? That's our Babka, also named (because she looked like one) before we learned she would grab a slice…or a roll of a loaf…and run.