At first, you had my attention, but now you have my interest.
Refugee from another, less-friendly instance. Please forgive the youth of my account— I’ve actually been around here for a while. Still, glad to be here!
At first, you had my attention, but now you have my interest.
Trump‘s latest Cabinet picks
How excruciatingly precious
Same for me, except for it’s Star Trek facts
Dr. Frankenstein had an assistant for that.
If toddlers and small children possessed a better understanding of Newtonian physics, there would be far fewer child injuries, I’d bet.
We Gen Xers had Mr. Wizard back in the 80s. No lovable Billy Nye, this guy taught you shit while also calling you out ON your shit. Kinda like if Red Foreman hosted a science show on Nickelodeon.
Spider-Man rendered as a forever chemical? How fun!
Having made pumpkin pies for decades, this is true. Pumpkin is a squash.
I appreciate the skittles reference
As the user experience designer, this “singing“ of electronics, and other such devices has been prevalent for the last decade or so. It’s an attempt to humanize the electronic devices we interact with every day. I question its effectiveness or validity, but, nonetheless, it has become extremely popular in both the medical device field and the field of home appliances. Buying an LG or a Samsung appliance, and it will, very annoyingly, play little songs when it’s done doing whatever it does.
I find this a particularly interesting emergent cultural application of anthropomorphism to everyday objects. I wonder how it will progress over the next decade or so.
Ok, “shield toad”?
I wonder if speakers of other languages also find English words kind of ridiculous
“They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.
Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…
It was getting a bit too sciency and not enough shitposty around here
Boiling water is a natural humidifier
it’s the word “finite” with de- in the beginning and -ly at the end. That’s how I remember.