You kinda have to believe in real magic to study science in-depth
I think this is the biggest problem I see in people trying to understand deeper fields of study, a concept is just too large or out of our perceived reality to even make sense without years of knowledge. I think people fall into the “woo woo” just because it’s easier to not really know versus becoming a doctorate in a...
Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?
I like ballotpedia.org but am very open to other resources or suggestions for how to get good info. Honestly half the reason I’m posting this is to start a solid thread of resources....
When we clean out a vacuum, we become the vacuum cleaner
What if there's a bigger, still unknown reference point?
When we think about teleportation, there’s always someone talking about how you should take into account the earth and the sun moving through space. Let’s step back a little (not so much) what if the galaxy we’re currently in is rotating really really fast around another, bigger, still unknown, spacial object?
In the show *South Park*, Stan/Kyle roughly represent the ideals the writers see themselves as striving for, while Cartman is who they subconsciously want to be
The ending of Mrs Doubtfire was the first drag queen story time
The worst leaders in human history will not be remembered at all. Ashes have no memory.
Viggo Mortensen has be in The Road, On the Road, and about a dozen road genre movies.
Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want.
Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse....
Most people’s responsibilities rely on other people’s responsibilities, so when we tell ourselves “not my job” there’s almost always an “as long as they do what they’re supposed to” addendum. (kbin.social)
If someone else doesn’t do it and it is a precursor for something you need than it is your job.
If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.
Today could be one of those boring ol' happy days I might one day randomly reminisce about in the future.
Sometimes my brain hits me with the most mundane memories, and even those bring comfort & nostalgia at times. Trying to appreciate all the little things and enjoy the moment.
My dream of running away
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Considering the Heavy involvement of CGI in today's action films, shouldn't we consider them to be just hyper realistic cartoon films ?
If you rearrange 2 letters in Queen Latifah's name, it becomes Queef Latinah
I love the sound of a person's voice when I can hear that they're smiling
A large language model trained off of Lemmy would be funny
It probably would be bipolar and have conflicting beliefs
I wonder if the aliens are as amused / shocked by what goes on in Florida as we are
Actually instagram like social media's are a healing for life. The pills to forget many of the problems.
Pooping in the handicap stall in a public bathroom is like taking the corner office in your workplace
Social Security Benefits Futures
How do I sell my rights to social security benefits? How can I buy someone else’s?...
The universe runs on capitalism
Matters are not evenly distributed....
A billionaire could finance some UFO-looking drones to swarm a town, then invest in the real estate and tourism in that town and profit.
I was just thinking about how people still go to Roswell, NM to visit the alien museum and yet those UFO sighting events took place decades ago....
If on average, a person eats 8 spider in their sleep per year and assuming that no one other than one person ever ate a spider in their sleep, someone eats 64 billion spiders in their sleep per year
If they only swallow spiders that are 0.1 mg, they would consume 6400 tons of spiders every year...