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  • Always wear cool sunglasses.

    Oh, you meant temperature wise? Silly me...

    Clothes that leave plenty of breathing room, and avoid wearing clothes that are too dark.

    As water is abundant where I live, I sometimes leave the tap running into a bucket in the sink and let any excess drain the normal way. That way I always have 10L of fresh mountain water as a heat sink. It's not as effective as ice, but it does work.

  • Yeah, I was tempted to write that myself, as it fits at least a few of their songs. I decided against it because I feel that I haven't listened to enough of their discography to have an informed opinion on the matter.

  • I think it's a "glitch". Our brains are wired towards pattern recognitions, and this often manifests itself in recognizing seemingly random shapes as faces because of a vague resemblance.

    It is my belief that music is a similar trait where we recognize patterns in rhythm, sound, and motifs as something pleasant because we are built to recognize and categorize so many things to the point where a series of sounds can give a pleasant feeling once we're able to "parse" it.

    Source: None, really. Just me having given this a lot of thought in the past, as I'm very musically interested myself.

  • Yeah, I cannot recall ever hearing U2 referred to under a specific subgenre of rock, especially not grunge. Personally, if I had to choose, I think classifying them as generic rock is more accurate.

  • I don't think we'll be able to upload knowledge any time soon, as we're a long way from properly mapping how the brain handles this.

    But visual inputs for VR/AR is much closer, as there is already some functional implants for something similar: having cameras produce neural stimuli has been a thing for a few decades now, and it's now at the stage where some blind people have been able to regain a limited form of vision despite not having functioning eyes. The tech is only going to get better, so at some point it can be used to augment normal vision.

  • People of Venice! The time has come to show the world what you're made of, and more importantly, what you've got inside.

    Let the canals bear witness to your courage. Not with arms, but with... offerings. I want to see a million floating turds on that sacred day. Let this wedding be remembered. Not for love, but for sheer intestinal audacity.

    Take a stand, take a squat, and defecate for dignity.

    Fate la storia. Fate galleggiare la gloria.

  • Due to DOGE cutbacks there hasn't been an available crypt keeper for a while. Don't worry, the ghoul in question will make an appearance once the next crypt keeper is available for leading him to the senate floor.

    Seriously, I think Mitch is laying low. Too much toxic BS going on these days, even by his standards, and he has nothing to gain by getting in the middle of it. I think he just wants to ride out his term unless explicitly needed on the senate floor, since he's not seeking reelection.

    Do nothing: Preserve status quo.
    Do something: Risk angering the clown car he helped start

  • I'm curious about how CO2 emissions from road construction in the US compares to that of Europe (adjusted for scale, obviously).

    Concrete creates A LOT of CO2, and after driving a lot in both US and EU roads I can say that US roads involve a lot more concrete.

    EDIT: Autocomplete and autocorrect is even worse at this than I am..

  • Never been, but I'm sure their tap water is great for the same reason mine is: Plenty of mountainous lakes, and not that many people around them.

    I generally don't drink nk bottled water... It tastes... stale.

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  • 1996, It was magnificent in its simplicity. Very few walled gardens, no cookie-pop-ups, and very few ads.

    And the best search engine was HotBot. Fight me.

    It took until early 1998 before I got my own modem and could start to really enjoy it. For those of us who enjoyed "testing stuff with telnet", it was scary how much sensitive stuff was unencrypted and openly available. Anyone who knew how CGI worked could bypass a lot of stuff and craft custom headers to retrieve things they weren't supposed to.