Showerthoughts
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We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.
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All the cult leaders who claim to be God/Jesus never have any powers. If I join your cult, and you claim to be Jesus, you'd be better be ready to do some magic.
Anyone see the HBO documentary "Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God"?
All the woman did was drink and turn blue and couldn't even heal herself.
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When I was a kid in the 80s, "computers will teach your kids in school" was one of those future utopia predictions. Now the thought of a computer teaching kids is horrifying to me.
It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.
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Underrated benefit of lemmy is like minded people will tend to join the same instances and if I don't want to interact with those groups I can just filter the whole instance.
A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user
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Our society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.
See, I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it's perfect example of something impossible today.
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Most if any shower thoughts probably never actually occured in the shower
They probably happened in the bedroom, so therefore should be called bedroom thoughts 🙂
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Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000".
Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It's absolutely mental illness!
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NeiR: Automata is the sequel to NeiR: Replicant
if you think about it Automata came out before but there is times it happened after. Near Reptile came out after btu is is it really that It came Before Never Automobile?
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Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.
This is especially true with luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada. People are either trying to impress others with fakes, or they’ve actually paid full price to become walking billboards.
Similar thing with iPhone cases that have a cutout for the Apple logo. That's just hilarious.
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We should have elections with no candidates.
All us WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) countries seem to spend a really embarrassing amount of time talking about the pointless minutiae surrounding our candidates for office and their personal lives.
We are also prone to backing very crap candidates based on personality, rhetoric, appearance ie: things that have nothing to do with being a good executive or legislator.
I think we should ban names from the election process and just have each party submit their ideas in writing and let people vote based on those submissions.
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People who think the past is better would probably be racist against the past if time travel were invented
Imagine that time travel is invented. Not now, it's invented in the year 2875. The future people came back in time to this period to give us knowledge of how to build time machines so we could explore time freely. They also gave it to every other time period. Ancient egypt, the roman empire, alpha centauri, the 1960s, the reign of king arthur, victorian england, they're now all places you can just go. Time travel is as cheap as a plane ticket.
If that happened, then the sorts of people who currently claim that the 1960s were the greatest period in human history would probably change their minds. Not because of any sensible reason, but because the 1960s are now a Foreign Place. They'd start being xenophobic and complaining about all the immigrants from the 1960s stealing jobs and living on welfare. They'd be racist against the past. They'd keep on listening to Beatles and Pink Floyd like it's the only good music ever written, but they'd scoff at all the hippies on the other side of the time portal.
And not just the 1900s, either! The romaboos would probably call roman empire immigrants racist slurs. Those neo nazis who wear norse runes would go back in time to do hate crimes to actual vikings. Weebs would say the Edo period just "doesn't get it". Science fiction fans would accuse the future of being woke SJW trash.
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Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess
Posts would describe bizarre situations people have found themselves in, and commenters would take a stab at what put them there.
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Couscous is the glitter of foods.
Couscous gets everywhere, no matter how hard you try to keep it contained.
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"Boner" is a good word for a reanimated skeleton or a decoration of such.
It's crazy how popular those twelve foot boners are.
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In the 1988 film Big, the character Susan takes part in child grooming, when she pursues a relationship with Josh.
It's also implied that she engages in statutory rape.
She's unaware of Josh's real age though, so I don't know the legal or moral implications.
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Metal is plastic.
In materials science, "plastic" refers to the ability of a material to undergo permanent deformation under stress without breaking. Metals exhibit plasticity when they are subjected to stress beyond their elastic limit, allowing them to be shaped or formed. This property is distinct from the common use of the word "plastic" to describe synthetic polymers.
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Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish
Keep posting them, but we should just copy the text and link to the source instead of screenshooting a couple of sentences like my mom, no? This would save some disk space and power consumption as well.
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After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.
There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It's filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.
Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.
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AI are like shitty palm readers/fortune tellers
You willingly give them key points of information about yourself, directly or indirectly. They then read those signals and use your own information against you to convince you they have answers. And they are often wrong, but you walk around repeating their "insights" as if they are true.
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The universe is bottle-necked at processor speed
The universe is humongous.
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The hard drive space is practically limited to the Big Bang on one end and the heat death of the universe on the other, but it contains all of the data for everything that exists. That's massive.
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The RAM is massive because it's handling all the variables and changes of the present.
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The cache is much smaller as established by the study that found the universe is not locally real. Things only happen once they are observed, but it happens almost instantaneously. Still, the cache is massive because it is handling everything that is being observed at the same time. That's a lot of things.
All of the above are massive extremes. However,
- The processing speed is limited at the speed of light. In comparison to the others, the speed of light is soooooo ridiculously slow, causing a bottle neck.
PS - Massive because it's mass I've observed. Not really tho, you silly goat. Big bang while I swig Tang and watch a twig hang.
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Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo
Please correct me if I'm wrong, might have breathed in too many soap fumes.
Token Ring sends the packets to every node by passing it from one node and if that node is not the recipient it passes it on to the next node.
Memos were created the day before with a list of recipients then it was passed around till everyone on the list had read it.
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"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - Archimedes
"...and filament. Lots of filament."