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I feel this so much in the film Happy Feet. Seals are cute. But in Happy Feet, they’re beady-eyed bloodthirsty monsters.
But the j-“ism” creates us. It’s a cycle.
8·1 month agoWe bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.
To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.
Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.
I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.
Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.
Coworker’s story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.
So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 25%
50%duty cycle.
Friend’s desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn’t even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.
She’s a skittish, posh, and skinny as hell greyhound. We live in Seattle. So…Maris.
8th grade Earth Science teacher. I shared a fun little factoid I had just learned: if you’re standing on the North Pole, every direction is south.
She disagreed and spent like 20 minutes explaining why that was wrong. I didn’t understand most of what she was trying to convey, but I do remember hearing “you can go north but in a southerly direction.”
Yeah, I used google for the street view. It’s usually a lot more crowded than pictured, and I’ve never seen those steel barriers put up in real life.
So it’s just a street with like 3000 tourists doing their thing and drivers who thought they’d get curbside parking stuck for 30-40 minutes trying to get through.
Very specific, but driving through Pike Place in Seattle. It’s technically a road, but it’ll take you half an hour to go two blocks.
4·4 months agoThat wasn’t my experience. I usually like to watch these live and avoid spoilers but I couldn’t.
Saw explody images/headlines and assumed it blew up at launch. I was surprised to see the successful catch.
Their Bluesky account has a lot more real content. I wonder if the memes are a way to say goodbye to Twitter.
My secret is playing retro games. Knocking out a few levels of Ecco the Dolphin isn’t nearly as mentally tasking as booting up Cyberpunk.
They’ve been dropping all kinds of memes lately https://x.com/montereyaq
Two Towers ”The Hot One”
Have you never seen Viggo open a doors?
What’s cool is you can actually do this for music, but in a way that humans can’t even detect it.