I learned a really valuable lesson in first grade. My friend Daniele had a really nice belt-buckle, but he was wearing it upside-down. I was like: Daniele, why is your belt-buckle upside-down? And he was like: so when I look down, I can turn it up and look at it.

Daniele was a pretty wise kid.

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

kinda like an… opium? …of the masses?

• July 4th events megathread (r$ddit interface): https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1lopwzc/50501_july_4th_events/
• another list of events: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
• lemmy instance: https://50501.chat/
• more social media links: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I’m comfortable. (varies by time of year)

some “unofficial” replacements

• !streetart@lemm.ee… see !grasweeti@slrpnk.net, a lot of the same material (and is more active).

• !TwoGoobers@lemm.ee … see !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun, a lot of overlap

• !webcomics@lemm.ee … see !webtoons@ani.social for a partial replacement

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Regarding !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee, @klu9@piefed.social has created !action_movies@piefed.social to replace it and more.

When I looked through the list of lemm.ee communities I was subbed to, my first thought was: omg I hope JohnnyEnzyme takes this ok…

You’re the Ter-meat-nator!

Dissenting opinion: you have powered a mech suit of bone your entire life.

Aw, she was fake? I feel… something a lot like loss.

Something to try: keep a bucket of water nearby for those “difficult” flushing situations. If you really want conservation points, fill the bucket with your shower run-off.

Done. Now what if I want to taunt my enemies by surprise?

I used to have some friends who were jugglers, I’d hang out when they’d practice in the park and even learned a couple simple patterns. Occasionally someone would stop by and say hi and say that they were a juggler too or something. The only time anyone objected was when one of them started to juggle flaming torches at night, a security guard asked him to stop. But in general it was no more/less weird than throwing a frisbee. (this was in the midwest USA, dunno about other parts of the world.)

Could still be either one!

The guy who used to hang with Mr T, or the other guy?

I can dig it, fam. It’s not really a “shower thought” as defined in the sidebar, tho, it’s more like a microfiction. Or the kind of “nugget” you’d write in a journal where you collect ideas to later build on.

Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.

So… there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world… I never really got the point of that one.

But if you’ve ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you’re not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes “sentient” because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you’d have to do some background reading.

Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends… but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that “something happens”… I dunno this one requires a bit more thought…