I’d honestly be less mad about that.

A 25,000 sqft ballroom is opulence, a 25,000 sqft ball pit is an international attraction! In time it might also lead to the discovery of new life forms…

On that note, I would have loved to see The Butterfly Effect with Gyllenhaal in the lead role!

I have no idea about the meme format (though I see this is a cross post from anti memes), but the picture is a reference to a famous legend about exponential growth:

Allegedly, the inventor of chess asked the ruler of India (where it was invented) for payment in the form of rice, with a single grain in the first square and the amount doubling for each subsequent square. The ruler agreed, believing the amount to be small, but soon found out there was not enough rice in India to pay the man.

I am a relatively median lifeform, while you are extreme, all-engulfing madness. A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet.

This is how you get a high GDP while half the population can’t afford to satisfy basic needs.

A real human bean?

1366 was always strange.

1366 is 768 divided by 9 times 16, to get an image with 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio. The 768 part comes from 1024x768, which was a very common screen resolution back when.

You plain forgot poor “E”! May I suggest 🗣️

The description of the bird starts out by saying that it’s very trusting, and will often perch on passers-by. Checks out, I guess!

ICE will continue to prioritize your removal

Well that’s not bleak at all…

Oh, I misunderstood. So you mean federating with their network from other software implementing the AT Protocol? From skimming the docs it looks like it should be possible as long as you implement the correct schemas, but I didn’t dive very deep.

Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider Bluesky social network.

Seems like it

They did just fire the GitHub CEO and merge the company into their AI branch, though 🤮

You need C++ for computer science, though!

In your defense, it’s actually spelled “albedo”.

Oh yeah, one is way better than the other! But the lack of actual representation is still creating an “us vs. them” mindset that is straight up ruining democracy.

It’s why ~40% of Americans didn’t vote in 2024.

Well, I’m sure that the first past the post voting system that created two giant parties pretending to each represent half the population, while in reality only representing slightly different billionaires, has something to do with that as well…

Well, that sucks 😅 Sounds like you should live in an apartment/condo! Still won’t escape the cleaning, though…

Doing something you don’t like for yourself feels quite different from doing it for someone else, though.

Most people who do something they don’t like for a living does that thing purely because it is the thing that makes some shareholder more money. All (or most of) the meaning has been sucked out, and that definitely has something to do with capitalism.

Of course we’ll probably never get to the point where everyone loves every day of their job, but injecting some value (that isn’t purely monetary) back into work would do wonders, IMO.

If you can’t see it, then that is your loss 😉