TranquilTurbulence @ TranquilTurbulence @lemmy.zip

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Learn some of those phrases, and use them to have some fun. Don’t do it all the time though. Just mix and match in a tasteful way. You can also mess around with dialects. Just don’t overdo it, because it can get distasteful very easily.

Ideally, you would find the expressions you consider useful or interesting, and start using them occasionally. For example, the Aussie style “No worries” is pretty good IMO.

Evading work takes a lot of work.

I think there are also some interesting similarities with Mussolini. Just think of the role media played. Trump was really active on Twitter, while Mussolini used Il Popolo d'Italia newspaper to spread his message.

Yeah like force speed. You have that ability, yet you used it only once. Would have been pretty handy like a hundred times in various sticky situations.

It's a skill. You get better with practice.

In reality, people seem to follow these lessons.

Lesson 1: Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?

Lesson 2: Craft your response based solely on the title, preferably in all caps to ensure everyone knows you mean business.

Lesson 3: When engaging with comments, remember that everyone else is always wrong; they are part of a grand conspiracy against your unparalleled wisdom.

Lesson 4: You're not just right; you're a beacon of truth in a sea of misguided souls. Let that light shine, unburdened by facts or logic.

Lesson 5: Insults are the spice of life. Aim for at least two per sentence, and bonus points if you can weave in a creative metaphor involving farm animals.

Lesson 6: Always assume the worst intentions. If someone agrees with you, they're obviously being sarcastic. If they disagree, they're a troll.

Lesson 7: Grammar and spelling are for the weak. Your ideas are so powerful they transcend the need for coherent sentence structure.

I don't see that as a problem. Every possibility co-exists, and every reality is equally real. Every moment and decision forks the universe in infinite ways, but you get to choose the one where you go.

You can save a drowning person, or let them die, but in the big picture, it won't matter. That person will drown infinitely many ways anyway, but there are also infinitely many universes where they get saved. Don't worry about the big picture. What matters, is how you act and how the world acts on you in this universe.

I think the idea of parallel universes solves time travel paradoxes in a pretty clean way.

On the other hand, people pull off some of the crazies stunts and accidents without getting killed.

Let's say you're flying on plane that has bomb onboard. The explosion shreds the plane to a million pieces in mid-air and everyone dies... right? Not necessarily.

Machine learning always felt like a very wasteful way to utilize data. Even with ridiculous quantities of it, and the results are still kinda meh. So just dump in even more data, and you get something that can work.

Yeah. Gotta say, black holes are way cooler—in more than one way.

Today I realized the logo looks like a black hole. Pretty much on brand actually, because they both suck.

Ok, so it seems like the need to shorten messages is an English problem.

On the other hand, there are languages that use conjugations, prefixes and suffixes extensively, and that changes everything. Suddenly, you can just add a few letters to include the equivalent of a few words.

Just look at the kinds of things babies do, and ask yourself: "Is this the kind of stuff you want to remember as an adult?" Remembering my teenage years is embarrassing enough as it is.

Sounds like the kind of thing that could get you a Darwin Award.

Either it happens, or it doesn't. I'd say that's exactly 50/50.

Please elaborate. What does the clean up process look like if you use no paper at all?

Let's say I milk your cows today so that you can take care of other business today, and now you owe me a favor. Next week, I could ask you to repay me by giving me a enough milk, bread and eggs to last two days. What if the value of that favor changes based on supply and demand? What if I can later ask you to repay me with 10 days worth of food instead? What if that value can drop to just a mug of milk, 1 egg and no bread? Could that sort of value fluctuation even happen? Can't really wrap my head around that, but in the crypto world that's exactly what happens all the time.

The human brain really seems to be built for small communities. Once the village you live in is bigger than about 150 people, all sorts of weird things begin to happen. Some people no longer feel like they're a part of the same group as everyone else. They begin to feel like they can get away with anything, maybe even steal something, or hurt other people. Being greedy doesn't feel wrong any more, altruism feels like a weakness etc.

I've been thinking about these things, and I've come to the conclusion that the world we live in is not optimized for the human mind or physiology. We've specifically designed a world that is bad for us in a number of ways.

I like to think of it this way. Plugging in a USB-A connector is like observing a qubit in superposition—once you attempt it, the superposition collapses, and you instantly know if you were in the right orientation or if you need to flip to the opposite one!

And just like conditional probabilities in quantum mechanics, the first try has a 30% chance of being right and a 70% chance of being wrong. But here's the kicker: when the connector isn't touching the port, it resets to a superposition, and the probabilities shift to 60% right and 30% wrong. That's why even the third try isn't guaranteed to be correct. As the number of attempts increases, the cumulative probability of eventually getting it right approaches 100%