The equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.

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.)

Jokes on you! I thought that was the “vomiting” emoji, that only happens 10% of the time.

When I talk to people irl there’s like a 50% chance they’ll start yawning. They don’t even try to hide it, wtf.

That’s why I like Lemmy. I know y’all are yawning, I know it. But at least I can’t see it!

Trees are made out of wood and thrive on manure. They are literally shitposts.

Yeah, some jeans are stiff but I’ve definitely got a couple older pair that are softer and that I’d much rather wear than slacks.

But if I REALLY wanted to be uncomfortable on a plane… I still have my mawashi from when I briefly did amateur sumo!

Yeah, that’s right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox

Could still be either one!

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

Some of the tattoos on !shittytattoos@lemmy.ca are also kinda awesome.

Not this one. This one is just an abomination.

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.

The Sistine Chapel. You just have to convince a majority of Cardinal Electors to go for it.

closest to God.

Wait, is that the only criterion? Then we need pope Trent Reznor.

One time when I was a kid we were staying in a seaside hotel in Latin America. This wasn’t exactly a fancy hotel so someone had just dumped a bunch of fish entrails outside by the wall. I saw some cats eating them and I thought they were tame hotel cats so I went up to them and saw one little kitten in particular I thought was cute and I bent over to say her there little kitty.

People, that was not a tame kitten. I’m pretty sure that kitten was half-panther or something. That kitten was wild and I had just cornered it and it turned into a little hurricane of claws and teeth. Since then I’ve always remembered that cats can go crazy if you really push them.

That isn’t money, those are Pokemon cards.

I dunno if Insane Clown Posse started throwing out packets of Flavoraid instead of spraying Faygo at their concerts it just wouldn’t have the same effect…

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…

That’s not a true statement. It’s barely coherent. But it’s kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it… like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.

see here:

• !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
• !smolweb@slrpnk.net
• !retronet@lemmy.sdf.org

also, as you kinda hint at, the fediverse in general is aimed at giving us a space away from corporate social media.