Interesting observation:
Almost all "relaxing vistas" wallpapers have a storm coming. I get that painting clouds is more interesting than a clear sky, but I have a hard time finding it relaxing when there is clearly a hell of a storm coming within one to two hours to where my viewpoint is.
The true reason why Threads hasn't been made officially available in Europe is because French people can't pronounce its name!
"Frrred", "Srred", "Trrred" 😔
Why, when you go to the gym as a bigger person, to get fit and loose weight are you then mocked by other (thinner) gym goers?
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been told “go to the gym fatty!” and yet when I do, I get told “go home and eat a burger.”
If your goal is to encourage people to be healthy and exercise, maybe be less of a turd to those attempting to do just that. #randomthoughts#healthy#gym#gatekeeping
Over the course of my adult life I have seen a steady decrease of actual choice in the tech world, accompanied by a steady increase of the illusion of choice.
And then our kids just accept that this is how it’s always been, because it’s all they know.
The Megacorporate Order planned this from the start, of course. Acclimate everyone to the new normal, slowly. Deprecate the idea of “owning” anything, much less customizing it. Usher in the new feudal age.
Just realized that some of my struggle to comprehend Masto posts is that this place attracts a LOT of tech type folks speaking secrete code dialects. It's like I'm hovering around these wizard circles, listening to ancient secrets I can't understand but they frighten me anyway.
It seems contradictory to me that at many schools, you can get a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of science in the same field. Which is it? Is the field an art or science? #RandomThoughts#Linguistics#Academia
I kind of miss sometimes how in the old place, random celebrities would sometimes pop up in my mentions (even some of the ones I didn't know were celebrities and had to look up) 🤪 #RandomThoughts
Idea: A service that supplies people to sit with rich people in their home theaters and hog their arm rests, talk during the movie, and place and receive phone calls on their mobile devices during the movie. #RandomThoughts
I think I charge my phone more often than I used to. I used to let it get all the way to single digits before recharging. Lately, I've been recharging when it's still over 75%. #RandomThoughts#Technology
If it's a two canvas painting, it's a diptych.
If it's three, it's a triptych.
Is there an analogous term for a single canvas? A tych?
What about four, five, six, or more?
The worst password idea I ever had was to actually write a script to generate 256 random characters, including special characters, to use for my WiFi password. I didn't realize that in the near future, I would have devices that needed WiFi but couldn't accept a cut and paste of the password because they had no USB ports or GUI that would allow it.
Manually entering WiFi passwords on "Smart TVs" and other devices sucks by the way.
Our thumbs moving across screens. Day in. Day out. Our energy devoted to serving the machines and their overlords. Reality itself being distorted by virtual, augmented and generated alternatives.
The overlords don't even have to hide their ambitions anymore. Whatever they speak is gospel.
The Matrix was not a warning of a future to come where we are hooked up to machines, emptied of our energy to serve the desired immortality of our own oppressors.