Showerthoughts

Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.

You would think someone would have thought to encase two shells in like a cage in headphones so you can listen to the ocean while you sleep. It’s like a sound machine, but no battery required.

A cheese grater wearing centurion armor.

I could probably eat better…

Renewable energy technologies (and solar especially) are about as important as oil was in the 20th century. America literally went to war multiple times internationally to get access to that sweet juice. It makes absolutely no sense that America would not want to have access to excessive amounts of cheap energy today, and that’s why it is straightforward that America will do a 180° turn-around and start calling the Chinese their “best friend” for providing them with ample amounts of solar energy panels.

Twintails are the wintails.

The social environments most people call “echo chambers” map entirely incorrectly to the metaphor of acoustic physics, whereas true “echo chambers” have the structure of something like a large cathedral…

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Except for your mom doing the laundry, maybe.

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Hear me out:

Watch for this behavior and you will see it often. If a Lemmy user can call out the age of an account he or she will use that as a way to dismiss and degrade the post that he or she does not agree with.

I thought of this after reading the first example in the comm sidebar.

996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week

There was a time when people didn’t have a choice for what they watched on tv. They had to watch whatever was on or nothing. Now you can watch almost anything. Some things you can only watch if you’re willing to pay for it but still, you have a lot of options. You have endless options, more than you probably have time to watch. And yet there are still people who throw a fit that shows and movies are made that don’t appeal to them. It’s so easy to not watch the thing you dislike and pick something else, but some people still want everything made with them in mind. Some people are never happy with anything they watch.

404media, The Intercept, Status Coup News, Where’s Your Ed At, Andrew Callahan’s Channel 5, Defector, the smattering of True Crime podcasts and journals… increasingly, it feels like if you want to know what the hell is going on in the world, you have to go to some indie website or YouTube channel with six substack reporters in a trench coat.

…and they assume that the pointing device is a mouse.

Also that there’s a conspiracy from the atheist tech elites to ruin Christmas by making electricity so expensive no one wants to put up Christmas lights

There’s a financial ‘sweet spot’ for my kids regarding when i pass. Before retirement we’re still adding to savings. After retirement it gets tricky with health and lifestyle.

This randomly came into my head first thing in the morning, apropos of nothing.

Context, then answer… instead of having everything ride on the first character (e.g. we make it pick “Y” or “N” first in response to a yes-or-no question, it usually picks “Y” even if it later talks itself out of it).

This is a Nazi’s wet dream, because they have always been enemies of thought, and now they have a machine that eloquently sells their animalistic ideas.

Okay I had enough of this ride, where is the exit button? Hello, customer support? How do I exit this program?

Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.

Like who the fuck is this guy and why the fuck he is so weird and he talks weird…

Exhibit A:

I don’t know if I’m high or not. It usually takes me more than one edible to get high.

In terms of popular baby names, how long before “Rudolph” makes a comeback?

TLDs like .google and .microsoft really makes me think about how ridiculously gigantic those companies really are. They’re so big they got their own freaking TLD.

I mean why are people entering this world by passing through a tiny hole?

Pigs are just 4 legged humans that are dumber. Since most of their organs are similar to ours. Heck! Human meat tastes like pork

I was rewatching the TV show Superman & Lois. In that show, Clark and Lois have twin boys who are 16. Their son Jonathan Kent was taking an illegal super drug called “X-Kryptonite”, and Lois and Clark blew up at him. I wonder if they have this energy for abortion because I know damn well Clark and Lois are pro-choice.

Screaming youngsters can have some lungs on them.

That was a fun moment in the dotard’s first term.

As I was thinking about how fun it would be to have a job where you solve puzzles in the world, it struct me that media never depicts archeology in a real light. My short search seemed to confirm my thoughts. Most ancient sites are not guarded by elaborate traps or secret riddles to get in. From what I’ve found there were some crossbows here and there. Some rare hidden rooms with a lot treasure, but again, no traps.

That’s such a small number. I bet there might be one or two near you even. You can just Google it!

And if it is a group mind, like a Social Media Community, then it is a thousand people arguing all the time (not so much packed into the girl like a clowncar as livestreaming her senses and flesh from hell or whatever). Smart, dumb, strong and weak as communities tend to be. And utterly dependent upon language to operate, which explains that. And what you are speaking to is just a gestalt. Maybe the end product of a messy political process.

The seven deadly sins are all things that have a serious negative impact on you and your life if you give into them too much. They’re all very general habits/feelings/desires that most people feel/experience which can lead you to hurt yourself and/or others, and haste/impatience checks both those boxes.

I’m taking a shower at someone else’s house and I noticed they have 1 bottle that says “3-in-1, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash”.

Ok hear me out, you have an extension on your browser, if you see some ai slop website, you can flag it. Then, like sponsorblock it doesn’t appear and gets just zapped. It could also work on youtube and other major websites, you flag some post, then it doesn’t appear for other users.

We really need a community where you can just post about anything that you’re really passionate about, which you’re currently researching/thinking about, sothat others can learn something about it as well and maybe discuss about it.

You can use high value materials to pay the cost to make it taste good or give up a little bit of your soul to it.

When you are a penny stock trader, you basically are doing stocks for poor and low-income people. Imagine trying to break into the finance world, and all you do is penny stocks for fucking poor people.

I travel pretty regularly for work and where I’m at right now is beyond pathetic. It would be nice to compare users experience with internet speed when making a booking decision.

“When a man and woman love each other very much…”. Love is NOT a necessary prerequisite to sex

Any time you talk about people such as celebrities or politicians, even if it’s negative, you are giving them power. Talk about your ideas, and you give your ideas power.

Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

Now with whiteboards we switched to light mode

Ricky Gervais is kind of a dick. “What if I made a whole show out of making fun of my friend for being stupid?”

I rest my case. I won’t listen to to any other copes but here’s your proof pretty privilege exists.

Luigi is called a ‘hero’ because he killed a bad person, while Frank Castle and Dexter both kill bad people (literally all they do is kill bad people), yet no one calls them ‘heroes.

I normally don’t mind the smell of my own farts. Sometimes I enjoy the smell, and at worst it smells “interesting”.

We’re outta here!

To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

And I say this as someone who dedicates hours each day reading a variety of local, national, and world news outlets in order to stay informed.

Most reviews are boring, corporate friendly platitudes and a 5-star rating, but that really doesn’t tell you anything about the product. Hell, it may just be a bot regurgitating the products marketing sheet!

Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.

Look, if you’re the only one texting your so-called “friends” to check in, make plans, or just say what’s up, then let’s be real—they’re not actually your friends. Friendship is supposed to be a two-way street, but if you’re the only one driving, what’s even the point?

I have when a comment makes multiple good points then there’s one part where was terrible so I’m torn in whether or not to upvote or downvote it.