Practically every email I’ve received in maybe the past year has started with “I hope you are well”. I even had an LLM draft a placeholder email for me and it started with the same thing. This has not always been the case and it’s strange to me that everyone I interact with begins their emails with this line. Frankly,...
I have this and have often wondered if it works against me. I have also been weirded out that it’s normal for people to actually “see” pictures in their head ever since I found out about this.
Anyways yes. This must be why I am not great at chess. Let’s blame it!
Edit: To those downvoting, could please comment the reason as to why you are downvoting? The comments that are there right now do not explain the reason for the downvotes. I am genuinely curious as to what the thinking behind disliking the post is....
I do not like Jurassic Park. I have never liked Jurassic Park. It has great special effects and Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, but that does not make it a good movie. I don’t care if it made a billion dollars at the box office. I don’t care how many awards it won....
The prize should hit a limit and be divided into another prize drawing. For example, make $300 million the limit. Still a massively life-changing sum after taxes. When the prize reaches $300 million a new drawing is established alongside the existing one and gets its own numbers for drawing. So now you have twice as many chances...
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?
Man dies after setting himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse (www.theguardian.com)
Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse...
When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?
Practically every email I’ve received in maybe the past year has started with “I hope you are well”. I even had an LLM draft a placeholder email for me and it started with the same thing. This has not always been the case and it’s strange to me that everyone I interact with begins their emails with this line. Frankly,...
How do people with aphantasia play chess? (lemmy.world)
Black Flag - TV Party (www.youtube.com)
Red Flag > Black Flag
My shoe is old and wise (lemmy.world)
Fox News, Newsmax Sued for Falsely Linking Man to Neo-Nazi Killer (www.thedailybeast.com)
These mods on their power-trips really need to stop
I just got banned from linux@lemmy.ml, which seems to be the biggest Linux community out there....
I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 [51:53] (youtu.be)
Sit back and relax. Let it all hang out. (lemmy.world)
We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children
Edit: To those downvoting, could please comment the reason as to why you are downvoting? The comments that are there right now do not explain the reason for the downvotes. I am genuinely curious as to what the thinking behind disliking the post is....
O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76. (abcnews.go.com)
Jurassic Park is 6/10 at best
I do not like Jurassic Park. I have never liked Jurassic Park. It has great special effects and Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, but that does not make it a good movie. I don’t care if it made a billion dollars at the box office. I don’t care how many awards it won....
Trump demands 'no more funding' after NPR scandal: 'Not one dollar!' (www.foxnews.com)
Michael Rapaport rips progressive lawmakers, Democrats: ‘I will not vote for Joe Biden’ (nypost.com)
Went from left to realizing it’s all BS
Omigod. (lemmy.world)
You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website.
::shakes fist::
Have you ever devoted a significant amount of time to something only to later feel it was pointless?
The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.
Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.
Large lottery prizes like the $1 billion + we just had shouldn't happen.
The prize should hit a limit and be divided into another prize drawing. For example, make $300 million the limit. Still a massively life-changing sum after taxes. When the prize reaches $300 million a new drawing is established alongside the existing one and gets its own numbers for drawing. So now you have twice as many chances...
Packing insert looks like a temple carving (ioc.exchange)
image...
What's the worst thing you've ever done to someone?
Biden administration imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on toxic PFAS (apnews.com)
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers (www.cnn.com)
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
Do you correlate dates with times on a digital clock?
I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?