toynbee

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like blame can be applied at least three ways at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even better than a cart of apples⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What, like some kind of toynbee tiles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/Zh3Yz3PiXZw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even better than a cart of apples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even better than a cart of apples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was young, my mother showed me an educational book that had things like riddles, puzzles, and mental exercises in it. One of these entries had a short, mundane paragraph, followed by some form of “what was wrong with that text?”

  It then explained that I had missed the word “the” being on the end of one line but also the start of the next line which, indeed, I did miss. It suggested that the human mind couldn’t see duplicate words split in such a way, at least in English, unless actively looking for them.

  I now know that, while it did trick me, its theory was incorrect … Because I can’t not see “from from.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can they??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the beginning of a commercial catchphrase, as referenced in this other comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can they??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

  Until I read your comment, the best interpretation I could come up with was some joke about letters that I didn’t understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, my pleasure.

  I don’t much like horror, but every once in a while I get into a mood to binge a bunch of it. I don’t have many recommendations in the genre, but one I genuinely enjoyed was The Awakening. Hope you enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a cluster of fish and the water was so clear that you could see them from the surface, which I thought was cool. Some of them were even jumping out of the water, which I’d never seen in person before! Because of that, I worked my way to around the middle of the cluster and crouched, then just kind of settled down to watch. Eventually, I guess I had been still long enough that they forgot I was there and started jumping around me. When I was done surveiling them, I stood up and turned around, only to receive a fish directly to the face.

  It was so unexpected (to me and, I presume, to the fish) that my first thought was that someone had thrown a rock at me, but my newly minted wife clarified that it was, in fact, a fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinosaurs Still Live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha.

  I was familiar with the concept but not the phrasing. Thanks for the edification!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinosaurs Still Live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “ringed” mean in this context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while, I lived in Havre de Grace, MD. In that timeframe, I experienced several fourths of July. One of those times, for some reason, my then-girlfriend and I got in a mood to watch horror movies.

  We opened Netflix (then our only streaming service) and looked in the horror category, eventually settling on The Bay. We’d never heard of that movie before and selected it pretty much at random.

  Turns out that movie is implicitly set in HdG and explicitly on the fourth of July. Kinda freaked us out for a bit.

  After that, we looked up movies set in HdG and that’s how I found From Within, a mediocre movie featuring Bruce Willis’ daughter; and also how I found out that House of Cards filmed Kevin Spacey’s home town there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The ocean is indeed beyond beautiful. I’m not a marine biologist, but I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon and truly appreciated it there. A lot of my time was spent just … Admiring the water.

  I remember a Jamaican local commenting that she’d seen the ocean around the USA in movies and wouldn’t swim in the ocean around the country based on that.

  Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.

  Beautiful, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Better not let it talk to Cyclops or it will fly itself into the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have the best shaped states, don't we folks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, like Yahtzee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covfefe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t drink coffee, so maybe I’m too tired to count properly, but don’t most people only have five fingers per hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that NSW means New South Wales, but I can only read it as North South West. Before I learned what it actually meant, that was very confusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We three were on the same page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Entomologists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, basically, that episode about the moon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Beneath The Forests⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like someone quoting the movie Phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relationship goals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jim Jefferies has an entire routine on this, but I don’t really want that in my search history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New album just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what happens when Nine Inch Nails loses their nail budget?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New song just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Force⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If only bash.org still existed or bash-org-archive had a search function, I’d have a perfect quote for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’s only required during the pairing process, but as the other observer pointed out, I don’t know much about it. If you’re able to circumvent the process, more power to you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, removing your network from the equation is definitely a more secure option; just make sure the app isn’t using those granted permissions in the background when you’re done using it and log back into your network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that someone would try to convince me. You won’t convince me.

  … Though your argument is pretty compelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when Bluetooth started demanding location permissions. You’ll never convince me that it’s functionally required or provides any benefit other than furthering efforts to spy on the user.

  When it started being rolled out, I avoided any app or hardware that made that demand. Sadly, that’s no longer an option if I want any Bluetooth at all.