Showerthoughts

Like there be one for Covid then another one for ebola. Generic ribbons for each mass shooting.

They both nominally have 5 7, but I'm guessing there's at least one person choking on a fish or chicken bone at any given time to slightly skew the average.

Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕

Who needs straight roads anyway. We would have 3 way intersections instead plus the wind would have less of a impact

LED lights are great, but I miss having a mini hot plate on my desk to mindlessly touch and burn my hand.

Because knowing about something means starting to see its limits, its constraints, thus rendering said something into a finite 'chamber,' and my chamber feels like it's growing smaller the more I know of other chambers.

Therefore it's important to swirl the pot before pouring.

wiki Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is an alteration of tip for tap "blow for blow", first recorded in 1558. Tit-for-tat has been very successfully used as a strategy for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategy was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. Notably, it was (on both occasions) both the simplest strategy and the most successful in direct competition. Few have extended the game theoretical approach to other applications such as finance. In that context the tit for tat strategy was shown to be associated to the trend following strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat I'm abstracting and expanding how I interact and analyse other people in this thought. Like if a person, business, or boss takes actions that are not in line with Tit 4 Tat, I expect them to be unsuccessful and counterproductive in the long term. It is an implied strike on their part and therefore requires an equivocal response or else I am not maintaining my own requirements for success under said strategy.

Gift vouchers can be nice presents, but if you think about it, you're paying for the opportunity to lock in your money forcing the recipient to shop at that particular company. And more often than not, the recipient will then spent a little more than the value of the voucher in order to use it all. If you'd given them money instead, the outcome would have been the same, but this way the company gets your cash in advance. I have to hand it to whoever came up with the idea, it's a capitalist's wet dream!

That's why hot sauce makes it taste better.

Like you're ashamed of your own poo baby. Be proud of that loaf bro... You made that with your own body.

Why is it so hard?

But not so much government getting out of the way so businesses can make money. It should be businesses getting out of the way so people can have good lives.

The joke is that Cisco network switches never die

If someone were to record a flawless, 4K video of an actual alien walking around or a spaceship flying overhead, people would just think it's a deep fake.

This likely isn’t an original thought. At all.

We settled for wax or pine sap and we were darn glad to get it.

As far as I know, the purpose of yawning isn't really understood, but it's present in nearly all land vertebrae. Maybe it's a universal bug in the breathing animation code.

Especially not having ads.

At the current price of donuts, the phrase "I'll bet you dollars to donuts..." Means the opposite of what it once did.

Literally a shower thought, as I was hanging my shaving mirror.

AI chuds are literally just Syndrome

edit: An example of mixed use:

updated maxim

Probably. The sample size of this showerthough is pretty small.

Seriously, why are they so small? It's like they're inviting my cellphone to fall out.

And the list goes on and on...

Every call I've ever had that was a wrong number, misdailed number, pocket dial or whatever that wasn't supposed to be for me turned out to be a spam call or marketing call for something. Most of the time, it was a way for me to confirm my number to some dumb marketer.

Sure, playing chess needs intelligence, dedication, and good chess players are smarter than an average person. But it's waaaay exaggerated in movies. I'm a math researcher, and in any movie, my department will be full of chess geniuses. But in reality, only about 10% of them even play chess.

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

This thread is as popular as the 2003 comedy central show, "I'm with busey."

They just raised the bar!

Willing to bet the people evolved with the word

Or vice versa.

This is my apocryphal theory: The Devil never really betrayed God, he is just pantomiming being his adversary to make God look more benevolent and the only alternative for salvation.

Either because they think it's true, or because they think it isn't true.

Am I doing it right?

I wonder if (assuming things get better) future generations would be like "I hate this boring and lifeless AI art that we have today, I wish I was born in the 2010s!" Or will the shit show that has been going for the last few years be so vivid that they would be happy not to have been born now.

I realize it won't be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it's a perfect signal that I've done more than enough scrolling for the day

Are you fucking reading this, Wizards? You could have a Yawning Portal sitcom and millions of nerds would eat it the fuck up.

More times than I thought likely. 4:20 has happened a few times too.

"How many toilets do you possess?" This interview question works both ways in many cases.

The LGBTQ community should abandon multicolour rainbow flags and adopt blue, beige, black and white colors to confuse their haters.

For example if the Betelgeuze system had a planet, with a theoretical large telescope on that planet and looked back at earth. It would see life and civilizations from the 15th century a.d. (~500 light years distance)

Not the way it should be, but cool I guess

I was binging the pc building vids the other day, and also listen to one of the old profs talking about their car hobby. The parallels are striking.