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?
Video games are one of the few places where failure motivates us to get back up. It's a temporary setback that allows you to keep going, teaching us resilience and the power of a second chance.
i swer i’m not high…
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?
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!
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
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.
Gundam has actually always been weirdly leftist?
So I’m a kid who grew up with Gundam Wing and only came to the UC as an adult. Always loved those troubled boys in mech suits and grown to understand how horrifying Gundams are as I have rewatched shows as an adult. Bog standard...
Architects who design and propose glass buildings may have increased carbon emissions for decades
Oh god, we're about 10 years away from Zoomers grumbling that "kids these days wont know what Tweeting is!"
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.
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"
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...
Swimming...
…is just flying in the water.
There have probably been fortune cookies opened that had that day's winning lottery numbers
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.
The youngest picture of you is actually your oldest picture.
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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Starting any sentence with 'how come' makes you sound like a tattle tale.
Soon, Deep fakes might be used in Biopics, so the main actor might look exactly like the person the film is based of.
The birthday that separates having spent more time in this century than the last should be adressed specifically
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....
Every culture has a future as history.
Is the Fediverse (or thrediverse specifically) going to follow the way of the old web?
People using their communities to link to like communities because the fediverse/thrediverse is so vast and it’s not as easy to navigate? Maybe, eventually finding a way to consistently open links to other instances/services in a way that opens it in your preferred instance/service (some sort of protocol or extension). Our...