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Pac-Man is the Square in Flatland. The player is the Sphere from Spaceland who can see through the walls.

There's probably a support group for people whos rise from mediocrity was fueled entirely by zealous 10 year olds.

DGNWSAAS

“Deep Geological Nuclear Waste Storage As a Service”...

Companies can be known as high risk/high reward but people are just called assholes.

During the time of star trek the 10,000 year clock will still be in its infancy

It will be about 3% of the way though its expected life time

"YOLO" and "Memento Mori" mean pretty much the same thing

Nobody ever calls or refers to pooh bear by his name

Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal

Playing through the latest Yazuka game about the death of the Yakuza, similar to the last of the outlaws in RDR2....

We could not stop Gary Thuerk and subsequent followers, so why do we think we can contain AI?

The first recorded instance of spam, not yet referred to as ‘email,’ was sent on May 3, 1978, to several hundred ARPANET users. It was an advertisement for a Digital Equipment Corporation presentation showcasing their DECSYSTEM-20 products, sent by Gary Thuerk, one of their marketers. The Air Force, outraged by the misuse of...

GOP ain't above dirt so can't fall

Edited from :GOP can’t fall : it ain’t anywhere above dirt...

If someone's wearing a smart-watch and you scare them, you can measure your scare efficiency by their heartrate. Go for a highscore!

People who are lucky (never get sick etc.) shouldn't be the ones to buy lottery tickets

If you’re lucky in one area, what’s the chance that you’ll be lucky in another?Instead, it should be those who are really unlucky, the lottery might balance out their luck 💀...

Do kids talk like cartoons or do cartoons try to talk like kids?

There are certain action phrases in cartoons that kids imitate. There’s also a kind of children’s books writer tone to many programs, simplified language, certain ways of explaining things slowly or expressing emotions

Everything isn't as far away when you use a Pluto year for your light year measurement (lemmy.world)

So Alpha Centauri is now only .016 light years away....

Rob Base is in fact internationally known (www.youtube.com)

I wanna rock right now

All fans are technically heated fans because of the waste heat from the motor

Airports would be a great place for advertisements trying to raise awareness of anti-homeless architecture

I feel like airports might not like it considering it would be the one of the first things tourists see but I feel like it be effective against snowbird boomers with extended layovers who are upset the airport lounge chairs aren’t positioned next to electrical outlets.

With the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Earhart disappearance in the 1930s, aviation must have seemed like a cursed avocation. I'll bet the papers were crazy with similar airplane news.

Snitches get stitches

is actually a rather nice promise to give someone in the USA: “we’ll treat your wounds, you’ll receive basic health care services from us”

Idea: government funded parties with attendees selected by sortition: "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Party" "Lincoln County Party"

Every week or every month each level of government throws a party funded with taxpayer dollars, and attendees are selected at random from the residents and given advance notice of the party schedule.

Keep This Under Wraps For Now

I want to know what was running through the mind of the first guy who thought up mummies. Some guy just came along and said "You know what we need? Dead bodies to last longer! C’mon, who’s with me?”...

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