I understand that I’m a bit like a toaster that was advertised as a chef…but really all I do is try to burn your house down

This is a beautiful metaphor and I’m pissed that it came out of an LLM. Either this is a hilarious consequence of the word “toaster” often being followed by “burn your house”, or someone else on the Internet came up with it and the LLM just regurgitated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_of_wages_from_productivity

Everyone makes mistakes

Except psychopaths who know their claim is garbage but lie through their teeth to get it published. That’s not a mistake, that’s corruption.

your brain does that, not the speaker

This is fascinating. I never realized that sound is processed like this. Not that different from sight then, which is processing a bunch of electromagnetic frequencies.

So it’s not the record or the CD or whatever that is magic. It’s our brains. Holy shit that is so cool. Thank you for explaining it so well!

Oh ok, I thought you meant pulling the eyeballs “inwards” as in towards the back of your head! What you describe, I’d normally call “crossing” my eyes.

Moving your eyes inwards

Details, please. 🤨

I just tried that and I can definitely say the closure happens at the pharynx for me, which is also what I do consciously when I hold my breath.

I am intimately familiar with that feeling. Because it’s not just popcorn that causes it. In apples, the seed chambers are lined with a hard membrane that is extremely similar in size and texture to a popcorn hull. If you bite too close to the core, or if you eat apple slices from uncored apples, youwill get one stuck in your throat.

I like him too.

The answer was in us all along.

Today is my birthday and this is very much how I feel about growing older. It’s not at all what I thought it would be.

“Eh, worth it.”

Some wear lab coats and blue nitrile gloves!

Oooh I love debating semantics. Is a sieve an appliance? A slotted spoon? They both work in the same way as your water filter.

Common usage of the quantifier kitchen appliances indicates use of electricity. I would describe my electric coffee grinder as a small appliance, but not my mortar and pestle.

It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.

… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?

Will this blue obsidian crystal amplify my positive energy?

Feynman, mainly because he was an amazing professor and knows how to talk to people.

Einstein and Newton disliked people, so they would be terrible conversationslists outside their areas of expertise. I think that was true of Leonardo as well. Edison is also out because he was a dick.

My thought sas well! I’d rather stumble upon this than shit like “vegetative electron miscroscopy”.