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can someone explain how one side of the snowflake knows what the other side of the snowflake is going to do? how do they come out symmetrical?
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people don’t realize this but WALL•E is a straightforward retelling of genesis
the autopilot is god. the captain is adam. EVE is eve. and wall-e is satan
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judas: ok guys. what’s everybody bringing for the last supper
jesus: the what supper
judas: the regular supper. ordinary supper
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remember when we were gonna have slime fridges? how quickly we forgot how to dream
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every letter looks like it was designed by a team in separate offices with no contact
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before 2007, there was no concept of having a rat on your head controlling you. now there is. being ratatouilled. what other concepts are we missing because there’s no language for it
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stop.
in your mind’s eye, think of the video game DOOM. imagine playing it, moving through a level.
DOOM is now running on you
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21-year-old woman with dark hair playing a piano as it drives down the road. cinematic lighting, 35mm film, vivid colors
22 years ago today, vanessa carlton released ‘a thousand miles’. a classic. nitter.app/pcmedia2000s/status/17…
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the concept behind Severance is so chilling. what if you were straight at home but gay at work and had no idea
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they changed the button to say “show probable spam” recently and every time i’ve clicked it it’s been real replies
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if you showed this image to an 1830s carpenter he’d fall to his knees in awe of the modern world’s wealth
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i just saw the boy and the heron
as far as i can tell, it’s an elaborate parable by hayao miyazaki to tell his son to stop making movies
im fully serious on this
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FWIW my wife had this exact experience recently after testing positive for the MTHFR gene mutation
started taking methyl folate. chronic depression symptoms pretty much disappeared
it’s been more effective than SSRIs, which she tried for years
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as a newborn baby, you have one job: drink milk. that is your Survival Objective. so why do they keep barfing it up for no reason
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without looking it up, can you hear this in your head from reading the screenshot?
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the term “bisexual” is so confusing. are you sexual twice a week or once every other week
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you can’t even say you’re moving to canada anymore because they kill depressed people now
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people ask how the egyptians built the pyramids. but keep stacking stuff up and it’s almost impossible not to build a pyramid. that’s one of the few shapes you have to try not to build
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what’s a good job for someone whose greatest strength is being interested in a lot of things
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i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right.
i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.
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stage four. the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever, it is its own pure simulacrum
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here’s a fun fact: almost all modern computer systems depend on a single time zone database that gets updated when local laws change
it’s maintained by two people
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the higher you go up the router price ladder the more they start looking like the crown of sauron
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this is a disgusting thing to do to public property. i don’t care how lonely you are or “how long it’s been”
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denis villenueve has been on a multi-year quest to make the orangest movie
blade runner came close. dune one had its moments. but with dune two, i think he’s done it
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me: makita 18v cordless coffee maker you have to stop. you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you
makita 18v cordless coffee maker:
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thinking about the minecraft movie trailer, and why it feels wrong
i think the issue isn’t just that it’s cringe
it’s that it’s taking something genuine and earnest, and making it self-referential and incredulous about itself
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why do all schizophrenics sound the same?
like yeah i’m jesus christ, the govt is watching me, there’s messages on the radio
are there any schizophrenics doing original work these days
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the main shift in pixar films over the last 30 years is from stories about *being a parent* to stories about *being parented*
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the universal fear of public speaking implies that at some point in human history, there was something that looked like an auditorium full of people, but wasn’t
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i grew up in the tail end of the pre-smartphone world, and something i still don’t understand is: how on earth did we get by without google maps and turn-by-turn directions
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macbook air is listed in price by weight on amazon right now, in case you were wondering
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is “police line do not cross” tape legally binding or just a vibe based thing?
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i think the problem here is the refusal to meet children at their level
kids don’t want to hear lectures on psychology. they want to read funny stories about animals
but you can use stories about animals to teach psychology, if you’re clever
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as a childhood pbs watcher, i have a devil’s advocate take here
at some point haven’t we produced enough educational tv? can’t they just run reruns? are sesame street and arthur really breaking new ground in 2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced it is shutting down operations after the loss of federal funding from the Trump Administration.
PBS Kids programming was funded by the company.
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using twitter in a foreign country is fun because my cell service is bad and images don’t load. so i have to fill in the gaps with my imagination. this tweet could be about anything
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i think some of you are ghibli posers
because there’s a whole plot point in the latest movie about a kingdom of mindless parrots who only consume slop
and nobody’s even mentioned it
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in the end, humanity accepts walle’s gift. they are cast out of paradise, to toil out their lives on a desolate earth
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if you run the numbers, at this point airport security has probably wasted more american life-hours than 9/11 did
Peanut Butter is a liquid. We said what we said.
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Peanut butter is technically a Bingham Plastic (a subset of non-Newtonian fluids), but under ASTM D4359-90 it is classified as a liquid, not a solid. The TSA considers the nut spread a liquid, but is unrestricted if it is a sandwich ingredient.
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wall-e lives alone in a blighted world of trash. his only friend is a cockroach (symbolizing pestilence)
he comes to paradise to tempt EVE with the forbidden fruit - an act that goes against their directive
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Top Gun is a mecha anime
it’s set in “high school”
they pilot giant robots
he has a tsundere gf
he has a comic relief sidekick
there’s a beach scene & a sauna scene
everything is about sex and emotion
Top Gun is a mecha anime
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found out today that ronald reagan had a chief of staff named donald regan. deeply unserious. mario wario energy
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the fixation of fantasy went from falling in love to having your parents apologize to you
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on the axiom, humanity lives in a world without death or pain. they’re attended to by angels (robotic staff)
wall-e leads a rebellion of rogue robots (fallen angels) against AUTO
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just finished evangelion. any of the female characters could have saved shinji by laying on top of him for an hour
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spice depot. it’s running at 80% capacity. it they don’t get production back on track—
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comparing the young, middle-aged, and old harkonnens implies that the baron went through a Twink Death the likes of which the world has never before seen
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if a phone costs $999 in 2017 and $1099 in 2024, what you have to realize is that the price has actually gone down
Report: iPhone 16 Pro may cost more than ever, but for a good reason 9to5mac.com/2024/09/06/repor… by @iryantldr
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more specifically, i think it’s a metaphor for his work and what he’s created
the message perhaps is to not go looking for what you’ve lost in an old man’s dying world
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broke: jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
woke: jet fuel doesn’t exist
I spoke to two pilots at Gatwick Airport yesterday morning. I’ve always been fascinated by planes and flying, so I asked them politely if I could ask a couple of questions and they said “sure.” So I asked where the jet fuel was stored on long flights.
They glanced at each other, the one furthest away from me giving the one I was next to a look which said “you can take this one”, then the one closest to me replied “in the wings.”
I said “I’ve heard this but find it hard to compute. I’ve been looking at the wings of planes and they just don’t seem big enough to store much fuel.”
“They’re bigger than they look,” he countered.
I’d just got off a plane and had been studying the wings as I disembarked from a matter of metres away. I told him that.
He looked a bit uneasy, almost as if he hadn’t really thought about it before.
I then asked how much fuel is actually used during a flight. The pilot said “seven tons an hour.”
I was surprised fuel is measured in tons, but didn’t comment on that as we were walking quickly and I could see they were about to veer off in a different direction to me.
I asked if fuel was only used during take off and landing but not whilst in the air. “Good question,” said the chatty pilot.
I said that, to me, that would make more sense.
He said “we definitely use less fuel while we’re flying.”
I commented that if seven tons of a fuel was used every hour on a long-haul flight, there definitely wouldn’t be enough space in the wings of an average passenger plane to store it.
The pilot smiled. His teeth were perfect. “Nice chatting to you,” he said. “Interesting questions.”
“Nice chatting to you too,” I replied. “Thanks for answering my questions.”
Trouble was, although my questions had been replied to, I didn’t feel they’d been answered. Before I could ask anything else, the pilots quickened their pace and were soon several yards ahead of me.
I’ve since looked up what a tonne of jet fuel is equivalent to in litres. 1 tonne = 1,250 litres. So at seven tonnes an hour an eight hour flight would need around 70,000 litres of fuel.
I still can’t see how that fits into the wings. Can you? aviationbenefits.org/media/1…
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Aircraft fuel is stored inside bladders in the wings and sometimes in the center body of the aircraft.
sheffield.com/2021/where-and…
simpleflying.com/aircraft-fuel-…
The video below provides a look inside the fuel tanks of a 747, in the wings. While a 747 is larger than other aircraft, the same principles apply:
piped.video/4ktqOWgZfEE?si
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it’s tragicomic how blu*sky — an app built by a bunch of techno-optimist decentralist types — got colonized by a user base that hates technology, hates decentralization, and hates optimism
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interesting thread by owen (the nightmare before christmas = secular society trying to understand religion)
on a side note, this is why Home Alone is the most enduring modern christmas movie
it’s not v subtle either. the old man who saves kevin has bloody wounds in his hands
'the nightmare before christmas' was released 31 years ago today.
a strange film: after three decades, its still a feature of the cultural landscape (year round), you see its imagery often - it clearly has a special relationship to us.
this year, i tried to figure out why
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viral ad from the 1400s where a printing press crushes a bunch of monks and scribes and makes a bible
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what i’m talking about here isn’t just the sixfold symmetry but how each branch of the crystal grows the same way
best explanation so far: growth patterns are determined by atmospheric conditions. the shape of a snowflake shows its timeline moving through the clouds
Growth behavior isn't chaotic though. Conditions outside are homogeneous but not stable. The structure represents the unique time history of the snowflake in the clouds rather than the initial state
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