"And later Nemesis ran the right man to earth for once." From Commando by Deneys Reitz

Ideal for coffee without milk Ideal for coffee with milk Ideal for espresso machines Ideal for drip coffee Ideal for moka pots Ideal for French press Ideal

The algorithm will hide this from you because of the naughty word

My dad once posted a comment on Facebook about spanking kids "my first child I hit once, and the next not at all" which was news to us three siblings He genuinely seems to have blocked out that he spanked all three kids, and the spankings coalesced in his mind to a single event

I fucking love this city I love fucking this city I love this fucking city I love this city fucking

ChatGPT is great for recipes And not only because you can give it the quantities you have to work with but because it doesn't preface its response with: "as a child growing up in the Tuscan hills, my nonna..."

Sentient wool

Babies are born worshiping unknown gods

Great effort AI summary

"how would I feel if I didn't have breakfast? I'd always have breakfast. I reject your framing. If there was a scenario where I was not going to have breakfast I'd eat a rat instead. I'd chew the table. I'd munch the crockery. I'd chew off my own tongue and I would be fed"

Okay. What have I done so that the targeted ad leads with freeze dried pork testicle followed by toy trains

The meme originates from the "Norvid heuristic," a posting strategy defined by user @dave.9000ish.uk. The heuristic states: "mine posts, if post has claim, quote with 'claim'. If post doesn't have a claim, then repost (I found this. Look at it)."

Caught the train today and was scrolling Instagram as one does. Clip from Criminal minds plays. Two distraught parents, a kid tells them he knew their son, and how their son had protected this other little girl. The dad breaks down and says, "he was alive yesterday?!" Go to the comments ...

The original version of The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" used a sample from Sheila Chandra Great to see what goes into a song, and also introduced me to her music. She didn't appreciate the sampling though and the subsequent versions used a different sample

We have tried to replicate the classic optimist/pessimist experiment but everyone we've asked has so far refused to categorise it as either half empty or half full Instead they say things like "who are you? What are you doing in my house? What is that liquid?" We propose a third personality type

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Free pretentious art idea: Take 10,000 photos of the same thing every day for 27 years. Still life through time.

If you're living in a time loop and manage to break out I reckon your life expectancy has got to be severely diminished You'll have developed some pretty awful habits wrt risk

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods at them and says "Morning, boys how’s the atproto?" The two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is atproto?"

Infodump? You should be Inforeducing, inforeusing and inforecycling

I have some go-to lyrics for you if you ever need to use lyrics in a reply for some reason:

"it's a johnny cash lyric" is just a new version of adding "in minecraft" to discussions of crime like it's a magic get out of jail free card

Much like the problem with condom sizing, when you want to pick the LLM intelligence best suited for you ... Wonder if there's a point where the model is "too smart" and people don't like interacting with it and would prefer a dumber model. But you can't say "give me the model as dumb as me"

Amusing that you can track my travel by changes in VO2 max (altitude and/or heat)

Assuming the calcs are correct, 500ppm in the dishwater. Once it's a residue on a plate? If you add food it'll dissolve in the food moisture quickly and you're left with parts per billion (apparently not trillion per my guess) Detection level range of 10-50ppm based off other surfactants

I often think about this passage from On the Origin of Species, where Darwin cites a black bear “…catching, like a whale, insects in the water” and under selection could become “as monstrous as a whale” I think about it from the POV of an animal not having a fully formed adaptation yet but ...

Man desperately looks for gas leak, depressed when none found

Guy who's feeling pretty good about his body God: You shall live and die in this prison

I'll repost this at peak hour to show you the kind of quality content you miss out on at 06:00 GMT

I have wanted this so badly for practicing presenting There's nothing that recreates the feeling of being called on to present your section. Nothing Practicing speaking up in meetings? Trivial Practicing your presentation in a mirror? Nothing simpler

Introducing buy now pay later burritos with a 15 year term

I will write smatterings of 300 characters and one day collect them all together and reorder them and you will be amazed when you see that it was always going to be so, with each post exactly in its correct place even this one What was inane will be made ane

Preteen - teen - adult Pretentious - tentious - ?

In case you were wondering

My guess is if you did a blind taste test between rinsed vs unrinsed dishes the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference

Android is still my preference but got to admit the seamless switching of airpods between Macbook, iPhone and iPad is pretty neat Transfer teams call to iPad to walk around the house? Great stuff

"They say the recipe for piss is just ammonia and bleach. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that."

Pluribus: why are they wiping a virus on to agar plates?

Symptoms of a Stroke The easiest way to remember the symptoms of a stroke is the word FAST. This stands for: face, arms, speech and time to call 999

Love travelators at airports Like wearing thousand league boots

"the other was white, and though the script was clear, its lesson could not be deciphered" Many such books (to me)

On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Altman, if you put into the model right figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question

Growing old is watching your memes lose potency

10,000 hours 10,000 steps 10,000 mistakes 10,000 missteps

Work would cease forthwith were I a man of independent means

That's odd. Mine gave me plans unprompted

Them's drivin' words

I got 99 Blogs and a bsky ain't one

There's something about these stories that makes me think about how generalisable this effect is Obviously most people don't fall for it, but given just the right set of circumstances if you get hooked it seems you can get dragged down a path where the final outcome is you saying "how?"