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Whoops
Single most disturbing scene from a movie that wasn’t rated R
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Whoops
Single most disturbing scene from a movie that wasn’t rated R
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TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex
Also the name of one of the best sci fi novels ever written, which has references to the phenomenon
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Some of my iterations are delightfully recursive
I’ve been learning Haskell, and now I won’t shut up about Haskell
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First attempt at a Little Free Library, going live on 9/9!
Snowcrash is awesome, your free library doesn’t mail books does it ? 😂
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Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.
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I came here to point this out and love the way you stated it. Confusion, hesitation and unnecessary lane changes are what create traffic. There has never been a major highway development in history that didn’t cause at least some short term issues. We should give city planners a bit more credit than that
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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit [1991]
Growing up as a musician I was always trying to be the contrarian that hated Nirvana because they were so popular and their songs were so ‘simple’. I’ve since realized the error of my ways
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Street Fighter 6 Tops Over 3 Million Units Sold Worldwide
Just picked it up for myself after bouncing off fighting games my entire life and this one finally feels like it bridges that gap of being incredibly accessible for absolute trash while maintaining an incredibly impenetrable upper echelon of performance. And it just looks so incredible
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State your music taste chat
Damn, Post-Rock is in shambles
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Mental Calculation. In Public School of S. A. Rachinsky - Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1895)
Never seen this before. It’s incredible!
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This kid knows
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It’s an endless cycle. You work hard to enforce your ideals, then when you have the power to make decisions you realize how dependent you are on others to facilitate action. And every one of those people wants something in exchange. Suddenly the ideals you sought to enforce become diluted by compromise, everyone is unhappy and there’s a giant bear called greed knocking on the door into your mind.
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Anyone getting into Eno probably already knows this, but Music for Airports is right up there with Aphex Twins Selected Ambient Works for its influence on ambient music going forward
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TIL of the Jon Hamm conundrum
It’s not wrong, I love Hamm for his work in Mad Men but I’ve yet to see him in anything else where he didn’t feel extremely out of place.
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Echopraxia: The Sequel to the Most Recommended Book Ever
“Our cousins lie about our family trees.”
Thank you for writing this up. Blindsight to me is exactly as good as it is hyped up to be. I think it crops up in all recommendations lists because regardless of what you’re looking for, it is something one should at least try to read. It’s one of the only books that I will actually reread every now and then. But I won’t pretend that Watts’ pros or character work is what brings me back. It’s purely the scope and delivery of his ideas that makes the book so fascinating and the atmosphere of the novel completely supports the abstract nature of his arguments.
The fact that Echopraxia is not as praised as Blindsight has always led me to believe that the book was missing the parts that made blindsight so great, and frankly without those parts blindsight would be a below average sci fi novel. I will move this up my TBR list based on your recommendation.
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[INSPO] What would you call this style?
Me’ Dic
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The iconic SpongeBob SquarePants made his TV debut 25 years ago
Soiled it!
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Mushroom season started early in Norway. Me and my gf picked 10 kilos of mushrooms!
The large orange one appears to have a crying babies face on it that looks remarkably like Donald Trump…
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State your music taste chat
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I also love Radiohead, weezer, BCNR, Swans and joy division… soooo
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First attempt at a Little Free Library, going live on 9/9!
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Stormlight Archives blows mistborn out of the water for me personally.
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The Sign
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I wept.
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What are you playing this weekend? Sept 1st 2023
On new game + in Armored Core 6. Absolutely phenomenal. FromSoft is unmatched in their ability to craft an incredible gameplay experience