You just don’t put a cotton swab in your ears. If you’re already overdoing it and you’re trapped in the vicious cycle, you’re probably going to have to gradually reduce the amount you do it so your body can ratchet down production to normal levels.
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Water
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that cant be effective
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if something that was expected to happen at 6 PM, but happens at 5 PM, one would say that it happened “ahead of time” or “ahead of schedule”. If it happened at 7 PM, one would say it was “behind schedule”. I think that it’s certainly a consistent English idiomatic way of describing it.
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The opposite of ahead is ‘behind’. Ahead is “forward in linear space”. So to push time forward, in a liner sense, is to push it to the next hour. I do think Ahead is the wrong word to use
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“Push it an hour earlier” and “push it an hour later” are the best tho imho (besides just saying the time)
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If you’re second in line at a store, the first person in line is ahead of you and you are behind them. From the perspective of the clerk at the counter, it is also true that the first person in line is ahead of you and you are behind them. To push something an hour ahead to push it forward in line (the sequence). It makes sense if you view as a sequence that’s approaching the current moment in time rather from the perspective of the moment in time itself.
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my argument is that this is silly
some people may naturally view things in that way but I very much do not
If someone says “push” it sorta has the connotation that you’re moving something BACK. So in this case I think it matters which of “push” and “ahead” your mind prioritizes, and the phrasing itself is bad
Tbh I also don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say they’ll “push something ahead an hour” - it’s always “move,” which is so much easier to follow logically imo
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Like “pull” is towards you, and “push” is away from you
Why would you say you’re pushing something towards you thats dumb
Got my fourth one! (One by one… We will get there eventually!)
I understood from context here that they wanted it an hour later cause I said I might be late to the match b/c traffic. But. Still unclear
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Yeah I think this is the confusing word choice here more than “ahead” is.
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same reason why 100% of them were wrong for the liar one
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the may bias is real
I ANSWERED “I DON’T KNOW”
Honestly I can’t deduce why I think it’s 5 pm
MAY
BIAS
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