GraniteM

joined 2 years ago
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

That guy that took a picture of his phone, then took a picture of the camera taking that picture, then took a picture of that camera taking that picture, and so on...

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

I myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes "999999", so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9s, and then impishly say, "and so on!"

—Douglas Hofstadter

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

James 5:1-6, NRSV

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

Breaking bread with a fascist is kind of insulting to everyone who has ever been victimized by a previous or current fascist regime.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Now I'll never know what people mean when they say "those cupcakes won't fill a sauna"!

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Get distracted and scratch my nose.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Relevant Oglaf (NSFW but not nearly as NSFW as this comic often gets): Dimorphism

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Loudly and intrusively hating things that other people like.

If someone likes a terrible show or movie or musician or whatever else... just let them like their thing. It's okay to state your point if you somehow get dragged into a conversation on the merits of a given thing, but making a point of shitting on something that someone likes when they're in no way harming you is just shitty behavior, and it's not going to accomplish anything.

Don't yuck other people's yums.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (3 children)

IIRC, there was a study done with cats hearing recordings of random voices saying random words, random voices saying the cats' names, owners' voices saying random words, and owners' voices saying the cats' names, and then carefully measuring the cats' responses.

The findings pretty convincingly showed that cats full well know their own names but choose to ignore the calls.

 
 

A quick search suggests that the average American uses about 1.3 pounds of honey per year. If I'm 40 years old, and guess that I might live to be 80, that's only 52 pounds of honey, which I could easily buy in bulk. Honey doesn't expire, and even assuming the price doesn't skyrocket from bee die-offs, inflation alone will make the price go up over time.

Does it make sense to buy all the rest of the honey I'll ever need for the rest of my life, right now?

 

I just wanted to feel rested in the morning for a change!

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