Was it a payphone?

Jas

Gas is a state of matter

Make your homemade PC fit inside the Steam Box profile, then tell me the price of ingredients

What you are paying for is a standardised experience.

There is a reason people visit Rome or Vietnam and still go to McDonalds: predictable, reliable experience.

Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent

It’s funny and a great read as Bryson always is, but I noticed for the first time that my values have changed since I first read it.

He pretty regularly comments on how overweight people are, and doesn’t mind describing exactly what he finds unattractive in older or overweight women.

I guess I just got fat friends and find that distasteful now.

I am sneezing just looking at it.

Great picture though

Music communities/discussion is not the same as spotify music discovery.

Communities can recommend you music that is the same genre as the music you like.

Algorithms can recommend music that you will like as much as your input taste.

Harvey Danger - You will die by what you live by

At Home: A short history of home life by Bill Bryson. A history of houses, and just history relating to houses.

Most back cover reviews exaggerate, but it really has made me laugh out loud, at least most chapters.

Even better, it gives me a constant stream of interesting facts to throw at my partner. Did you know they had locks on doors and underfloor heating back in the neolithic?

The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.

Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?

The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?

Anyone who gives a LLM that level of access deserves what they get, but clearly the AI comments he posted have been prompted to sound like a confession.

“Write an apology explaining how you made a catastrophic error of judgement. Do not mention that I gave you privileges to do so.”

I know you’re right about this

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Whipper-Snipper (Australia)

Although its a meme, its based on truth: Touch grass.

Go for a walk somewhere green, burn off some of the adrenaline your anxiety is producing.

todayIlearned?

Once a year, $10 or so

Tumeric paprika and cumin on potatoes.

Paprika garlic and chilli on chicken.

Coriander/cilantro on everything asian.

And a tiny bit of salt and sugar on all.