Mare in English: a female horse.

Mare in Latin: Sea.

It’s a mare mare. Aka a horse sea. Not to be confused with a sea horse (a mare mare, if female).

If you haven’t yet, be sure to read Project Hail Mary, preferably before seeing the movie.

Same author. Great book. Worried about the film adaptation.

Every regulation is written in blood, or other bodily fluids.

drug dog handlers will plant the occasional drug if it’s been too long without a bust, so the dogs don’t get depressed

Yeah…sure…that’s why.

Hi, got a staff here.

I put on my robe and wizard hat

That’s cool and all but they don’t need more than 30 seconds of sensor data to get what they need. Not storing days or weeks (or more, who knows?) of location data.

Certainly not on a device that costs tens of thousands of dollars and the hardware will remain functional for well past a decade but the software updates end in 5 years.

I remember. Massachusetts had a right-to-repair ballot question a few years ago. Auto manufacturers and dealers went HARD with that line.

Meanwhile, nobody asking “wait why is the car storing all that data in the first place?”

Yep. Good to know that soulless cretins who just want to make a buck off the backs of people with scruples are still out there.

This is generally true for most people, but no. When you eat really spicy food, especially something that actually has hot pepper seeds in it…it may be spicy on the way out, too.

We already have an entire subset of people who are proud to eat shit.

Nah shop Amazon when it costs them money. As in, you know you are buying at or below cost.

I just bought a few things from Amazon, cheaper than any competition to begin with, but also used the last of my Amazon rewards balance.

Then put everything on a 0% interest offer and religiously pay the minimum until the last bill, and pay it all off then. Just don’t forget.

Use them when it benefits you significantly more than it benefits them.

I have been buying a hell of a lot more stuff on eBay, Newegg, B&H, etc lately. And most of the cheap consumer junk that I would buy on Amazon is even cheaper on AliExpress if I’m willing to wait a little longer.

I was kinda pissed when I bought a reasonably priced commodity on eBay and it was delivered in Amazon packaging by an Amazon truck, though.

Thank you. That’s so interesting.

I love unexpectedly learning random things. It’s what I miss about young reddit, people like Unidan just popping into threads and dropping knowledge unapologetically.

Couple of weeks ago I had some swelling in my leg accompanied by pain and standard procedure there is "rule out deep vein thromboses (clot in big leg veins) with a vascular study (sonogram), first and foremost.

First off…a male nurse escorted me to the sonographer in a transport chair (no chance of me walking all that way with the leg pain I was having). We shared an elevator with the UPS guy, who asked the nurse how he liked his sneakers (well known high-end walking sneaker brand)

I realized then and there that I’m sitting adjacent to the greatest source of candid reviews on mens walking shoes: elevator small talk between a male nurse and a male UPS driver.

I may have to buy myself a pair for myself after that conversation. The nurse was raving about them.

But I digress. The sonographer was the real hero of this story. She was awesome. Despite the pain and my social anxiety, I was exceptionally chatty that day, and asked a few questions, and learned all about the leg-pump effect, and that she could see on her display when I was holding my breath because it would slow down the velocity of the blood in my veins.

Like, I had never thought about either but they make total sense. Veins don’t have their own propulsion…most of the velocity they get is from “skeletal muscle pumps”…i.e. with the legs, as you walk or shift around while standing, it helps to pump the blood back up through the veins.

All of a sudden I understood so many things. Why DVT happens. Why “sitting is the new smoking” (we also didn’t have nearly as many office jobs when everyone smoked). How compression socks work. Why sometimes, especially when sick, I get a head rush when I stand up after sitting for a while.

Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost to find out no clot, pre-existing varicose veins made it difficult for the initial doctor to differentiate between that and swelling, and that the pain was sudden onset sciatica, which I suspected all along (but never had it before so I was uncertain).

You can’t just say it would be rude in one region without elaborating.

Now my curiosity is piqued and I don’t even know how to get a brief answer without engaging an LLM or spending hours learning about regional discrepancies in Indian culture…a subject I had very little interest in, just a few minutes ago.

My ADHD brain has got blue balls, man.

She’s a British terrorist. Go with that one. That’s perfect.

Ancient greeks were a bunch of murderous, pedophile cucks.

Ancient Greeks also invented modern politics.

In fact, they even invented the word “pedophile”.

Coincidence? I think not.

My neighbors daughter’s name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.

Her mom swears she wasn’t named after Arya Stark. She’s half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don’t want to press to much about her husband…but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.

She’s got an older brother whose name sounds like a very famous musician, who was named in a very popular (Western) song around the time he was born, too. But spelled different.

Like, I’m sure these are culturally common names from their Indian side (or not, idk, I honestly don’t know a lot of Indians). But the coincidences are too real.

If we can’t have shitposts then what can we have?

Ehh still better than reddit’s.

I think an underlying personality disorder is a prerequisite, sure.

But does that mean that even somewhat self-made billionaires did not always start with good intentions?

I think the Steves…Jobs and Woz…are a good pair to look at for the kind of example in talking about. They had equal opportunities. In an alternate universe, Jobs could have ended up like Woz. Or Woz could have ended up like Jobs.

There’s an underlying catalyst that gets triggered and fed and allowed to grow. It starts as an untreated personality disorder…you mix that with money/power and a circle of yes-men and that’s a recipe for disaster.