Oh god, we're about 10 years away from Zoomers grumbling that "kids these days wont know what Tweeting is!"
We don't know what our boogers smell like - it's the default smell for us.
Title, basically. Enjoy trying to sniff your own snot!
Wireless Shower Head
If you were to make a wireless shower head, would it have hydrogen molecules and suck in the oxygen from the air to create water? Would you have to recharge it with hydrogen?
If the mind can break and bend, then the mind is an object
Gonna be a whole generation of artists and musicians who think their art isn't good because of the way algorithms work online
Used to be that great art attracts great attention. However I see many bands who are amazing who get something like 2 plays on youtube, or their tweets sink without a trace. I wonder how many of these young kids are gonna give up their artform because of this?
You can't burn water, because it's already burnt
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material. Water is 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen. Every molecule is fully oxidized. It’s also a common byproduct of fire. Therefore, you can’t burn it, because it’s already burnt
Are we teaching AI to destroy humanity?
With all these massive amounts of articles about AI that’s gonna destroy humanity, aren’t we putting the idea out there for AI?
If the sausage Bologna is pronounced "Balloney" in english, how is the city of Bologna pronounced?
Side note: It’s also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.
Soon, Deep fakes might be used in Biopics, so the main actor might look exactly like the person the film is based of.
It is quite easy to ask a great question. To give a great answer — really tricky, mostly extremely hard, often impossible.
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Architects who design and propose glass buildings may have increased carbon emissions for decades
Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great
If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the...
Delicate Balance
A person that lives without any rules like an animal, a person that stictly follws rules without exceptions is like a machine. Neither is desirable. Wisdom is having the experience and judgement to know when to do which.
After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
The opposite of "Ladies and Gentlemen" would be "Whores and Scoundrels".
Which sounds rad as fuck. Like how you’d open a speech for the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
All episodes of The Twilight Zone boil down to "man wouldn't that be fucked up"
A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't.
Explanation: Random walk in 2D has a unity probability of making it back to the starting point as the number of steps approach infinity but random walk in 3D only has ~0.34.
Swimming...
…is just flying in the water.
The youngest picture of you is actually your oldest picture.
There have probably been fortune cookies opened that had that day's winning lottery numbers
Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
Starting any sentence with 'how come' makes you sound like a tattle tale.
Public Libraries were the original Freemium model.
Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card....
I know where outer space is, but where is inner space?
I know I’m not the first one to wonder, but really…