monkeyborg

monkeyborg, 1 year ago to random

When I was about 17 I had a bad reaction to a shot at the doctorʼs office. My blood pressure dropped suddenly on the way to the checkout window and I fainted.

I couldnʼt have been out for more than a fraction of a second, because I had gotten out two $20 bills to pay my copay, and the first thing I saw when I came to was one of them still fluttering down to the ground.

But it felt like an eternity. …

monkeyborg, 9 months ago to random

I canʼt believe I have to tell people this, but

• Donʼt buy smart home shit
• Donʼt download an app to get a free smoothie
• Donʼt sign up for something you heard about in a piece of junk mail
• Donʼt create an account with fucking McDonald's or Chipotleʼs or whatever
• Donʼt use a coupon or a discount for something you werenʼt going to buy anyway
• Donʼt sign up for free trials
• Donʼt let the devil in through the front door
• Donʼt let them sell you anything

You will not come out ahead.

monkeyborg, 9 months ago to random

Anybody using #Yunohost for their personal cloud? Is it as easy to use as it claims?

monkeyborg, 3 months ago to random

Everybodyʼs talking about Mileyʼs dress, but Iʼm looking at that hair. Are we about to see a big hair renaissance? About damn time.

monkeyborg, 1 year ago to random

Y’all ever think about what we must have done in a past life to get the karma to end up in this timeline?

monkeyborg, 11 months ago to random

Da fuq out of here, Costco. I wasn't born yesterday

monkeyborg, 10 months ago to random

WELP my bus is 45 minutes late and counting.

My son is out of school and staying with his grandparents so it's just an annoyance.

If this were during the school year, I would get slapped with an outrageous late fee and a rightfully deserved bad reputation by the afterschool people, and risk getting kicked out of the program.

This is why I've never been able to make a permanent switch to public transportation for my commute, despite my good intentions.

monkeyborg, 9 months ago to random

There is rationality, and then there is rationality-as-rhetoric. You can tell the difference by asking: are we calling a theory “rational” (or “logical,” or “scientific”), or are we demonstrating it to be through sound argument from empirical observation? Are we putting in the work to earn our claim of a privileged epistemic position?

Watching how people react to these UAPs is fascinating to me. …

monkeyborg, 4 months ago to random

This is probably an unpopular opinion on here, but I donʼt think weʼre going to get to a sustainable world by asking individuals to give up convenience and comfort.

There will always be small groups of people willing to do that for the greater good, and vast, vast mobs of people who wonʼt ever consider it no matter the messaging. To create a better world, youʼve got to win over both of those groups of people.

monkeyborg, 1 month ago to random

The intro video for the new all-electric Boston Dynamics Atlas uses the language of horror movies, particularly movies featuring a robot or doll, in the way the bot is shown unnaturally rising off the floor and rotating its body parts 365° to face the viewer.

Is BD rubbing it in our faces that they are building robots for the defense and police industries that will become instruments of terror?

Or are they oblivious to the connotations and just thought it looked cool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M

monkeyborg, 7 days ago to random

Keep your brain moist

monkeyborg, 7 months ago to random

Why is it when you hear about College Democrats, they’re always starting LGBTQ centers or trying to create some kind of environmental initiative, but when you hear about College Republicans, they’re always doing something out of sheer contrariness to see how much they can piss off their fellow students, or playing the victim because their deliberately confrontational speaker choices ended up provoking confrontation?

monkeyborg, 5 months ago to random

He drinks a coffee drink
He drinks a coffee drink
He drinks a coffee drink
He drinks a coffee drink

He sings the songs that remind him of the sunny times
He sings the songs that remind him of the sunnier times

monkeyborg, 6 months ago to random

Today my sonʼs middle school announced they raised almost $40K in their annual fundraiser!

They should be able to hire a couple of new full-time teachers with that!

monkeyborg, 4 months ago to random

That Tetris kid must be over the moon. If I had got on the news at 13 for being good at Nintendo I would still be introducing myself that way today

monkeyborg, 6 months ago to random

I feel certain that somewhere in this world thereʼs a guy living in a van who has done a whole lot of mushrooms and meditation and has accidentally acquired an intuitive, non-mathematical grasp of the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence and the structure of quantum gravity.

monkeyborg, 6 months ago to random

Started getting ads on Prime Video last night. Finished the movie, then deleted the channel from my Roku. Feeling better and better about letting my Amazon Prime expire for good in two months.

monkeyborg, 3 months ago to random

What if the reason weʼre all miserable all the time is that weʼve normalized empathy for people we donʼt know, and so feel despair at all the shit happening in the world when before we would have just bracketed much of it out of our emotional lives?

Except for the people stubbornly resisting this development, of course, who are just mad that they are being asked to.

The worldʼs a shitshow but you would be hard-pressed to argue that itʼs more of a shitshow than it was during the 20th century. …

monkeyborg, 3 months ago to random

Today weʼll tackle one of the easier questions.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Why would there be nothing?

Nothing is a determinate state that would also require an explanation. If I leave a sandwich in the break room fridge in the morning and the fridge is empty at noon, that means we need some information about how it got that way, as surely as if a casserole mysteriously appeared.

…

monkeyborg, 3 months ago to random

Reminding myself that replying in anger when someone runs their mouth is a sign of weakness, not strength. I am at my most powerful when I step back from that shit, take a breath, and take ownership of the situation.

monkeyborg, 3 months ago to random

I seem to be making my way back to some sort of unconventional spirituality in spite of myself

monkeyborg, 2 months ago to random

The meaning of “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” as a reference to communication by metaphorical cultural reference has completely eclipsed its original meaning of two strangers becoming allies through a shared trial, and thatʼs a real Shaka When the Walls Fell if you ask me

monkeyborg, 27 days ago to random

The Matrix 2.5: Regurgitations. Agent Smith clones break into a genetics laboratory and create hilarious variations of themselves, including Bat Smith, Brainy Smith, Spider Smith, Brawny Smith, and a pointlessly man-crazed lady Smith named Smithette.

monkeyborg, 22 days ago to random

I got an email from Nextdoor yesterday which used the name of my housing development in such a way as to imply that they were our neighborhoodʼs official messaging board. I probably donʼt need to tell this to anyone on here, but donʼt go on Nextdoor.

monkeyborg, 4 months ago to random

Is there a way to post a literal text URL to Mastodon without the app reformatting and hyperlinking it?