How is that dumb?! Can you explain how bike tires are made then? Yeah, that’s what I thought!!
“dumb shit”?! I -and I’d bet all the brave bike tyre workers around the world- feel deeply offended.
They’re two tyred from work to be offended by random tweets
And also - yeah, it’s usually dumb. There are rabbit holes EVERYWHERE.
Hey you dumb shit. It’s engaging and interesting
This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo
how is this dumb
I’m usually thinking about minotaurs or hoagie sandwiches.
Dragons or how quickly I’d die in event of a revolutionary/civil war.
You can multitask by thinking about how quickly you would you die in a civil war fought with dragons.
You’re a goddamn genius
100%. When my wife asks me this question, I always ask…“are you sure you want to know?”.
Once it was the astronomical odds of reincarnation if bacteria was a factor when reincarnating. The math just isn’t there and your odds of coming back as a human would be older than the universe.
She rarely asks me this ever now lol.
Two things:
First, mathematically, It’s sort of a moot concern. Reincarnation comes with the framework that lives are the universe experiencing itself. So There’s no “loss” in going between species as “you” will actually incarnate as everything and everyone once in non-linear time on the backend making “time” immaterial. I am you and you are me. We are all one existence. So you have time.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
I am you and you are me.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
That sounds extraordinarily arbitrary. Who decides what counts as a “level up”? Does that mean if you start as a bacteria you’re stuck like that for a few thousand or million cycles? How would you earn enough karma points to level up from being a bacteria? What counts as “deeper and more meaningful lifetimes” if you are a bacteria?
Exactly and the math doesn’t give this theory a chance really, unless humans create the sentience. Coming back as “anything” would now include the bacteria and whatever else from other planets. Which even doubled, you would have to wait until entire universes recycle.
That would imply that bacteria have souls which means that I’m committing genocide each time I’m cleaning my toilet. I always assumed that you could only reincarnate into creatures complex enough to actually have sentience.
Edit: Also a fun fact is that if you count all human beings that have ever lived in the entire human history it would still not be close enough to the number of bacteria that live in or on a single human being (roughly 117 billion humans compared to around 20 to 30 trillion bacteria).
It’s a quick reset, though. You’ll get back to human eventually unless you end up as one of those immortal trees or something.
If a single celled organism successfully divides, is it dead? Wouldn’t a single cell eventually grow into a colony of clones, copying itself indefinitely until some random mutation or outside force prevents it from reproducing? Where would it be considered appropriate for us to consider a single celled organism dead?
I mean, being a tree isn’t that bad
It is in this boomer run, fuck the environment world.
Unless you’re a Bradford Pear. 🤮
Imagine rolling tardigrade.
Well if what your reincarnated as dependent on how good of a person you are these odds make sense if you look at humanity as a hole
being “good” is relative considering humans destroyed most of the ecosystem
I had just bought a Camry Hybrid andy wife and I were driving in it doing errands… I have a tell when something is on my mind and my wife invariably asks what it is. Usually it really isn’t anything significant and that time was no different…
Except…
I launched into a very detailed explanation as to how the Toyota Hybrid Synergy system really works and it lasted till we got home… Did I mention we had three stops and we’re on our way to the first?
She has not asked what is on my mind since.
This is a tragedy to me, one of the many reasons I married my wife is because she’s the only person who has ever been excited to hear my info dumps.
She still asks on occasion, but she takes me more seriously when I say it’s nothing all that important.
Oh if I’m thinking through something that we both need to have a say in I absolutely share my thoughts as she does with me. j
That’s a bit more comforting to hear. I love a story about healthy communication.
My spouse now knows more about 3d printing and the complex geopolitical state of fantasy settings than most actual fans do.
Same, I feel so bad for people whose spouses aren’t interested. I hope they’re exaggerating here, because the story is sad.
My story, I’m a giant train nerd. Any types, got model trains, ride them frequently, it’s my thing. For the first few years I was terrified to mention it, and man do I regret not doing it earlier. She is interested because I’m interested! She now shares my interests with me. We’ve gone on now 6 or so long distance sleepers here in the states and love it. I can’t imagine having a spouse who actively didn’t want to share interests
That’s so freaking cute! My spouse is a dino and space babe and while I’ve never been invested enough to really get into either, I love learning and I love her excitement. So we take turns info dumping and I now have a new found love for paleontology.
Normalize understanding that men and women aren’t very different in this regard. I once asked a girl what was going on in her head and she was thinking about stinkbugs, and if you could handle them carefully enough to not get stanked.
Did… did you marry her?
For anyone wondering:
Take a paper towel, grip both ends, gently place paper towel over the stinkbug and close both ends keeping the length taut (not putting any pressure or touching where the stinkbug is, just letting the U-shaped fold in the center where you are not touching enclose the stinkbug). Gently twist to seal exits while not squeezing the stinkbug.
You are now holding a paper towel with a non-activated stinkbug. Do what you will with that stinkbug.
So you mean you now have a stink grenade or trap.
You are out here providing solutions, and I appreciate it.
I’ve found killing them with fire is both effective and retributionally entertaining.
But that was the '80s, when kids running around with the spray varathane and a zippo was kinda okay.
I kinda hate stinkbugs.
It’s sad that I read this and the first thought was not about how similar we can be but more, “well…I suppose if you were gentle…”
Normalize having absurd and weird conversations between loved ones.
100x this.
I don’t know about everyone, but I find that these types of conversations can be stimulating/interesting
Bicycle tires were invented by Dunlop and improved by Michelin.
You know these names, because it actually wasn’t a dumb idea.
There are tons of social situations where I’m quiet because the conversation spawned a really crazy thought that I need to explore in my own head, and I don’t know everone else well enough to share it openly. I’m glad I do when people are this judgy.
Im a girl and half the time my brain is just spinning Maxwell cat gif, the other half I’m either thinking about theory or Linux :3
Totally unrelated, but you helped me think of a fun fraction/percentage math question for my kid.
What kind of theory? I’m not sure what that means to “think about theory.”
In case its not obvious socialist and anarchist theory :3
Why would it be obvious? In-between cats and Linux it could be veterinary theory, social media theory, computer science theory, math theory. How would one think anything political is involved, let alone something as specific.
To be clear, nothing wrong with you not mentioning it in the original comment, but I’m very confused on why you thought it was obvious.
No it wasn’t obvious lol
I am a db0 admin so I thought it was :3
