Dreams are what happens if your brain is able to hallucinate without any feed back from reality.
In reality your phone works because there is a living board and software keeping the interaction confined to it’s inner possibilities. Your brain doesn’t have ways to allow for this internal logic and therefore interactions with software never go well.
Notice that is only slightly better in simulating other people. Faces are never consistent, but generally people logic is easier to stimulate, so other people are more convincing.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Blame Canada”. The creaters, Matt Parker and Trey Stone decided that, “It’s a magical night tonight.”...
That’s because the idea of the middle ages attend from the imagination of people in the nineteenth century. This is when people started theorizing about history.
Cities in the nineteenth century were absolutely filthy, because of industrialization and were busting at the seams.
Now they learned about this ‘dark ages’ when people were backwards and uneducated. For sure conditions were worse and more filthy collar to our current enlightened society, no?
Yeah litigation is no joke. It’s wonderous to see the lengths people go to to get one up over somebody else. I think it has to do with the lack of social security or something.
I was thirteen, visiting Ireland with my parents. We were staying in a hostel somewhere in the area of the cliffs of Moher.
My parents went out for a drink in the pub and met another Dutch couple. They were staying at the same hostel. At breakfast they joined our table and my parents introduced me.
Now I do have a very uncommon first name (the only way I’m part of the 1%). This guy says 'i once met a bit by that name before, it was in Croatia, some ten years ago.
Turns out that was me. The guy had helped dive up one of my swimming shoes that had sank to the bottom of the bay, an act of heroism for the very young me.
So we met this bloke twice, in two very different parts of Europe. The bizarre thing though: if I had a slightly more common name we might never even have known.
Confronted with the likelihood that we cannot achieve climate goals, confront socioeconomic inequality, and ultimately build a better world without significant personal sacrifice: How much are you personally capable and willing to lose? I mean this in the most earnest way possible. Acknowledging the likely possibility of working...
Where is spork? (lemm.ee)
Phone no work (lemmus.org)
Bob the Angry Flower for 13 January, 2023.
Good “Buy for Life” Brands
Some that come to mind are:...
Meat stuffed inside an animal intestine (lemmy.world)
Anyone who recently had a "Yup, it was that kinda day" day. What happened?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, high on acid at the 2000 Oscars. (lemmy.world)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Blame Canada”. The creaters, Matt Parker and Trey Stone decided that, “It’s a magical night tonight.”...
History meme (lemmy.zip)
Love is a 5 letter word (lemmy.world)
Via Chris Hallbeck
If you know, you know. (i.imgur.com)
… and if you don’t know I’m not going to explain it.
What’s your go to driving song?
Science Facts for the Immature: The Ass (lemmus.org)
Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for December 30, 2023
I am astounded that someone made this... (lemmy.world)
The dangers of doing science during a dry spell (startrek.website)
If you could only listen to someone talk about one topic for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?
What is your best story when you were in a foreign country? (kbin.social)
It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?
Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?
Confronted with the likelihood that we cannot achieve climate goals, confront socioeconomic inequality, and ultimately build a better world without significant personal sacrifice: How much are you personally capable and willing to lose? I mean this in the most earnest way possible. Acknowledging the likely possibility of working...
i <3 statistics (mander.xyz)
Disclaimer: This is a joke. Ecofascism is obviously bad, kids. Don’t be that guy....
A handy guide this holiday season. (lemmy.world)
If you ever feel useless (lemmy.today)
Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (lemmy.world)