Who would ever want to sneeze faster? 😄

My wife does this too, both of us have the reflex, I just happen to not enjoy sneezing?

Timeless movie!

Imagine something more valuable than your life. Every moment you think of a loved one being well you feel joy. When they are hurt you feel a physical pain in your chest. You would do anything for them. The world is no longer about you.

Looking from the outside that sounds like a very vulnerable and unattractive situation to be in. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

(Disclaimer: It’s still possible to hold unconditional love and betray that love in a self centric way, I have, but the above is how I would describe the ‘feeling’ of it)

Probably looking for stories and here I gave some advice. Will sit down now and get some popcorn.

This is a very generic question but I think I know where you’re coming from.

A lot of people react to things rather than consider what effect they want. Look at what you’re doing, and ask yourself if you think this will get you the change or response you want.

i.e. Sometimes yelling, or flipping someone off at road rage can feel good, but it doesn’t get that driver to reconsider their poor driving. Give them a shameful finger wag and you’ve got them thinking…

Pause and reflect on what you expect your behavior to accomplish.

So you’re saying you agree?

Walmart is absolutely a result of capitalism, those intricate supply chains are in place to make money. Maybe we could do it without a common way to track needs for a while, but would it adapt? Would the alternative resist corruption better? The invention of Money almost seems an inevitable consequence from one perspective.

I don’t think this answers the original question, but it’s an interesting side topic.

+1 for xkcd

Donnie Darko is an upside down version of “it’s a wonderful life”

It’s the American dream. What is the quote? We’re all embarrassed potential millionaires?

Acerola - I tried simulating the entire ocean

I really enjoy listening to this guy, he really explains the details about graphics in an easily accessible way.

What we are seeing is the sunlight going through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell’s_window and it looks amazing.

For Karl!

Or that we are all refugees and are just tired of enshitification.

I thought ‘Children of the mind’ was good, could have been merged with Xenocide.

Whatever you do, stay away from ‘The Last Shadow’. What a terrible way to finish a series.

'I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don’t come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.’

A traffic jam when you’re already late

Isn’t ‘stolen’ a bit harsh?

If kanji were truly stolen, then the Chinese would need to use a simplified…

Oh no.

Have you looked into bone conduction headphones?

Fidelity goes up (!) when you plug your ears. I use them in server rooms and on my bike (sans the earplugs).

Aftershocks is a good brand, basically anything with a titanium band.

Blizzard in May? Oh my!

Man, Star Control 2 was my favorite game to introduce friends to during the BBS days. Two player melee over a shared keyboard! The music in SC2 was top notch MOD/XM music back when trackers were starting to form a genre. Beeps on computers were the norm but you could hear a drum track over the internal PC speaker in this game. IMHO Tunic is the only game that came close to the wonder and awe of exploration and discovery. Absolutely a masterpiece.

Babu’s game room has my favorite YouTube review. I’ll let the bot pipe the link

https://youtu.be/3klJJ5mBDKU