I'd rather be an unknown fish in my own pond
Apropos "it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond"
Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
Would a (Not-)For-Profit-owned orphanage classify as a business-owned family?
With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant
...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying
If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself.
No one has predicted the end of the world in a while.
Take That, Conspiracy Nuts!
The Earth is round to keep you from walking out of the simulator. If it was flat, there'd be a door or something.
Your body is completely dark except for the 1 molecule outside layer that light hits.
Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?
People are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.
We must look as alien to deep-sea animals as they look to us
It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.
If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? ( kbin.social )
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It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men.
Had the song It's Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?
Almost every problem in the world would be dealt with meaningfully if we outlawed billionaires.
Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing....
If a God exists then everything humans "create" is like the meme "I made this, you made this?...I made this". ( sh.itjust.works )
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-made-this
Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box.
Otherwise it defeats the purpose of calling it a glove box. If gloves are not in this box it would be more accurate to describe that volume as a passenger compartment.
AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful
The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.
It's easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving and...
People outside the Simulation might be yelling at you, "pull the plug, pull the plug, pull the damn plug!" and yet you stubbornly keep on living.
The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in
When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend.
What if the one thing you'd be really great at in life is being homeless? You could be the Diogenes of this era but you'd never know it because you won't try.
I doubt future generations will have “basement dwellers” because none of us can afford to own basements.
“Basement dwellers” implies parents with multi level houses. I feel like the kid living with their parents for a long time will become more of a thing but they’ll be lucky to have the privacy and space of a whole basement....