“look at it from the bright side, this is a unique opportunity to shove a bowling ball up your ass with ample free lubrication”

not necessarily that specifically, but definitely some form of interference.
As another person pointed out the specific phenomenon is probably Newton’s Rings.

it’s not like physical media these days has any reason to be actual discs, just use SD cards or USB drives…

hit me with that satanic picnic

…sweden?

it’s gotta be some sort of mental pathology, surely

At this point i don’t even demand fewer cars, i just want smaller cars.

90% of people do not need a 4-seat gas-guzzler with a massive trunk which literally outsizes a WW1 tank and a top speed of “yes”, they can get by perfectly fucking fine with a little electric moped-car where the rear seats are foldable and the trunk fits maybe 3 grocery bags.

It’s commonly said in scifi that any spacecraft is a warhead whose yield is only limited by how much fuel you have to accelerate it with.
The same basically applies to cars.

I would straight up ban them until the percentage is actually worth caring about, say 10%. Until then it’s just kinda depressing to see it touted as important…

I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.

$30 bucks maybe gets you a children’s haircut, here. Maybe.

baffling that this isn’t bog standard anywhere that isn’t horribly car dependent.

Like, we have a bunch of big factories basically smack in the middle of my town, and people continue to drive the like 5 kilometers there EVERY SINGLE DAY even when they know for a fact that fistfights break out over parking spaces and the weather is perfect.
I genuinely wonder if there’s anything that could convince these people to stop driving, if they’d drive to work even if there was a 50% chance of being shot in the face when exiting the car.

Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation

“the public can’t be trusted to provide decent seeds”

how on god’s green earth do you manage to convince yourself that gatekeeping gardening is what you should spend your time on?

aggretsuko is a documentary

do you want to drive 3 hours to work every day?

so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?

I have to wonder if these are serious questions or just fishing for comments, because surely the point of seeking knowledge is utterly blatantly obvious??

When you know things you can use that knowledge to do stuff, that’s… that’s how you’re able to type out the questions: you learned how to read and write then used that knowledge to ask things.

And surely you already know some meaning to life: There are things that are enjoyable, that make you happy. Presumably you’re seeking knowledge because it feels good to know things. Well there you go.

that’s cool and all but in the span of like 5 years i’ve basically completely turned my life around and the absolute worst it ever felt was some DOMS when i wasn’t used to the exercise…
…

Yeah no this complete and utter nonsense, you can and should improve yourself without suffering, if you make yourself suffer you’re probably doing it wrong.
Your body can experience pain for a reason, pain means you’re causing damage and damage is bad. And if you constantly associate beneficial things with pain then you’re literally conditioning yourself to dislike it, that’s just operant conditioning which is one of the most basic behavioral things in general.

Pain isn’t virtous; What’s virtous is to be introspective, identify and acknowledge your flaws, then deal with them the best you can, seek help if you can’t handle it on your own. That is how you improve yourself reliably and sustainably, without ending up bitter or literally physically broken because you took exercise too far.

You’re the sculptor, but you’re not marble; You’re clay: and clay needs a delicate touch to sculpt, lest you squeeze too hard and ruin it.

soft men create hard men

“dieting” lmao, yeah that famously works so well.