Showerthoughts

Occasionally you gotta eat a failed experiment, but it’s still worth it to change it up.

I have a good group of friends and a reasonable sized family. I can’t wrap my head around these weddings with 100-300 guests. Am I a loser or are they inviting mostly tertiary characters.

ok so i’m sorry upfront if this is a sensitive topic that i shouldn’t speak about. however i had this sudden realization like last week and now it’s stuck in my head. you deserve to know it too.

Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.

The Elder Scrolls Arena let you play as a black woman in 1992. Name another game that did that.

He’s a guide dog, so obviously very smart in some ways, but in other ways he’s very much still a dog. He’s still terrified of thunder and fireworks. While he’s normally aloof with occasional fits of cuddliness, when it’s loud outside he tries to climb into my skin.

As an American who uses the 24-hour time, so many people use 12-hour I basically still use 12-hour.

Not like the brand Crocs, but very similar concept. All plastic, weird colors, looks like nobody could be comfortable in them but somehow are, suited to their physiology.

But only people with the same names as famous criminals can join. The conversations on a group like this would be incredible.

Can you imagine if all phones had LoRa radios

We all hate AI slop and what these companies are doing(datacenters, replacing employees, etc) but our most effective move against these companies might actually be using all of their free services as much as possible. Better yet automate their use with a script if you can. Clearly politicians are already bought and payed for here. The entire town can vote no but that data center is still going up.

Like, so many of them were so sure that we could just make anything work and expand wherever we wanted and now its all burning and we can’t even touch anything to try and follow lead of brute force because their spoiled kids are still playing with their toys like it doesnt matter if we all suffer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o

Here’s a photo of a drained canal in the UK which really highlights just how shallow they are.

Can we at least get cocaine back in the soft drinks?

Used to mean “this is fake”, now it means “an actual human was involved in the creation of this, please enjoy”

(irreversibly to the masses, even as it closed-sourced its AI)

A random question !!

I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don’t use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I’ll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don’t own, but if I truly like it I’ll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

Laugh track if you’re unfamiliar with the term.

Kangaroos basically do everything we do better when it comes to endurance running, be it distances, average speed or top speeds. And they still get to be incredibly energy efficient while doing so with their unique locomotion style. They absolutely could hunt the same way our ancestors did by simply wearing out prey over extended hunts.

An actual worthwhile investment.

Since it’s widely accepted that the word “literally” can be used to add emphasis, we need another word that can be used when you want to make it clear that you really mean “literally” in the original sense.

Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…

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

The reason for having so many cooking recipes is hunger and boredom. But maybe that taste boredom comes from our nature telling us “move from here and find other place to live”

A thought I genuinely had in shower. “Huh, the water is basically heated using uranium through a proxy.”

AI

Judge: You have been charged with First Degree Kittenphilia. Several witnesses claim they saw you approaching kittens and acting suspiciously… they’re KITTENS! How do you answer to these charges?

Perhaps his lie only counts for things he knows though. Also, in an alien society he would be the most valuable asset from another world since he can create infinite wood which is the rarest element in our solar system.

At home it would be more accurate to say you sent a poop. You didn’t take a poop. Where are you taking it? And why?

I’m in the middle of breaking down the packaging of a Roland digital piano for recycling, and I’m impressed by how some of it uses intricately-folded cardboard instead of molded styrofoam to hold stuff in place.

Omg my parents and my maternal grandma was like: (about my older brother’s marriage thing) “You have to see out more options (in the same timeframe) in case your first match fails” or something…

Yes, Peter Thiel is an anagram of The Reptile. No, he isn’t literally a lizard man, any more biolgically related to a literal reptile than any other human. Unfortunately, his behavior is human. Psychopaths are human.

I remember seeing someone like this on train. No clue if they were staff, but I would have complied if they asked me to do something.

Well, not celebrities but TV shows and game shows where they appear.

Upvotes can be considered approval on how well the content fits the category.

An old fella I knew long gone now used to say this when ask a question he didn’t know the answer to.

Probably not the best place for this, but I couldn’t think of anywhere else to ponder on this simple, but potentially sublime, reflection. Anyways, all insightful comments as they relate to this thought are welcome.

The phrases “This shit is dope!” and “This dope is shit!” have exact opposite meanings.

Shamelessly stolen from one of this weeks FunFacts episodes (independent German News format)

For example, buy a calendar in June and it should be 50% off

It would be the logical first step in the conquest of humanity by the machine spirits.

In medicine you go from (and excuse my gendering for clarity) Ms/Mr to Dr. to Ms/Mr when you become a high-up consultant.

I don’t assume it would be that much if any, but it’d still seem reasonable if there were a slight measurable difference, right?

Imagine living in 1899. The 1900s are just around the corner, nothing feels the same.

Translation of the Chinese Characters: [It’s such a shame, since I could probably write a whole novel using 200 Chinese Characters! Long ago, there was a wolf. He really wants to eat goats. But he is very clumsy, so every time he tries, he fails to catch any goats. The End.¹]

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so i just had this discussion with a friend whether smartphones should be required to be repairable by law.

Just thinking out loud here. I don’t know too much about starting my own business, but I have a pipe dream about having a side gig building on-site mini servers for clients who want to start their own businesses.

How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.

Oh no! I think I see a Gossip coming this way!

if you think about it, boats can’t go above a certain speed (hull speed) and airplanes can’t go below a certain speed (or they would stall). Really makes you think