descriptions of Demons and the arcane rituals required to banish them feverishly relayed by occultists in ghost/horror stories are a direct homomorphism to computers and actually how awful they are
Unironically....
The only way things can get better is by acknowledging that things aren't as good as they could be
True happiness is the intersection of imagination and reality. It's visualizing joy with eyes closed and, upon opening them, finding yourself exactly where you wish to be.
If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site.
Instead of a less than useful search engine.
A true fediverse that is free from data brokers
Reddit sells its api for high and is about to go for an IPO, its economy bases entirely on the data made by the users/communities. It is the work of the public, get robbed by a small group of individuals. A living example of capitalism....
With the web overflowing with garbage, each secret incantation (URL) you learn to trust allows you to access more of the promised perks of the internet
Hoisin sauce is asian sweet baby rays
Had this epiphany last night when we went to an asian fusion place. The similarities are uncanny
Lemmy is...
Half lame 4chan, half decent Linux support group.
The opposite of "product" must be "conduct".
Even if you don't do anything special, you could be the catalyst for someone else to do something special.
Just wondering about how my life could have touched someone else’s and I realized this. Maybe you’re just joking around online and mention something that triggers an idea in someone else that leads to revolutionary new things that impact humans everywhere. Even if you’re forgotten, or uncredited, you had a meaningful...
During the beginning act of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link ends up losing an arm to what is basically a gangrene caused by Ganondorf's "gloom". Which is to say, a "Ganon-grene".
I really hope the developers weren’t thinking about this pun while developing the plot…
Compared to fountain pens and ballpoints, "Sharpies" are actually the least sharp pen type.
Whomever named lisp was extremely cruel because those who have it can't pronounce it.
Whomever named this was extremely cruel because those who have it can’t pronounce it.
The U.S. Constitution is like a legacy piece of software written by hand and published in 1787.
The Bill of Rights was the first patch deployed in 1791 with an Overwhelmingly Positive reception....
"A Boy Named Sue" is the greatest song about accepting your struggles, while also refusing to pass that trauma onto your children.
The greatest song about accepting your struggles as key to making you who you are, while also refusing to pass that generational trauma on to your own children, is Johnny Cash / Shel Silverstein’s “A Boy Named Sue”...
An island is a mountain mostly underwater
Americans' most favorite sport is called football, despite it being played with neither a foot or a ball
I wonder if there's a parallel universe where children are called "childs" and adults are called "adultren"
Hmm.
We are engaged in a mutually beneficial, parasitic relationship with nature
Half shower thought, half stoner thought. It may seem obvious, but I was dwelling on the point for a while, deeper and deeper....
You can't spell "aggressive & hostile" without "asshole".
They should have a trash can outside the type of public restrooms where you have to turn a door handle to get out so you can throw away a paper towel if you use it to open the door.
Even doctor’s offices don’t do it. I get that it could mean double the trash to empty if you have one both inside and outside, but just for the purposes of public health…
Is really possible to understand the magnitude of ones own brain?
Think about it. The more you learned about your brain the more complex it would become. Also I’m not sure we have enough capacity to reflect on ourselves by processing everything. Think about the massive complexity of every connection. Could someone actually process that or are we limited by ourselves?
I've gone to lots of secondhand stores, but I've never once seen a raspberry beret for sale.
At this point, I’m wondering if there is enough of a quantity of raspberry berets in secondhand stores to identify the kind you would find in one.