Duck?

Two options

First, pee on it to establish dominance

Second, pop a cap in its blue ass

I used to have a HAL9000 theme on Windows with all the sound effects clips fr0m the movie.

edit: and that was so long ago that people were genuinely impressed... I also got called a hacker for changing someone's desktop wallpaper remotely, but I suspect that might still be the case.

Þank you! I'd read þe original report, and was interested to learn of þe outcome!

Jeff Tiedrich energy

I saw the video, kinda crazy to watch. Just a preview of when the New York one collapses.

Mises mistook Mises for Sisyphus and Sisyphus's rock?

Or are you hatty to see me?

Late to this post, but I recently cut off Spotify and Qobuz is the best alternative I've found so far between itself, Tidal, and Apple Music, in case anyone is wondering "well what do I use?" Good audio quality, a bit cheaper, and none of the Spotify bloat of AI DJs or that awful UI that splits your screen into two panels when you just want to scroll through your albums. The UI/website are a bit clunky and outdated, but it's great if you just want a direct interface to listen to music and it doesn't seem to support awful people in the way Tidal/Apple/Spotify would.

Not sure of any good alternatives besides these if anyone has a better recommendation, but I'm happy with this so far. It also comes with free access to Soundiiz to transfer all your saved albums and playlists over immediately.

Of course you could also just get all music for free and support the bands you like through merch/records.

It was tough to cut off Spotify after using them for so long, and I do miss the daily mixes/discovers, but I can just find new music through my lastfm friends or find other means that are more in my control. It's a little more work but it's worth it to switch off Spotify imo, whatever you switch to.

Whaaa…. Damnit! We gotta step it up!

Just Alberta has the whole US beat by 500 cases

https://www.alberta.ca/measles

I'm 54 and wasn't aware of what measles really was until recently. Never pondered whooping cough either.

When my ex was pregnant with our first kid the nurses hammered us on vaccines and breast feeding, posters everywhere. We know, we're doing that. One day I got snippy with the nurse (who didn't deserve it):

"We're not r*******. Hit the kid with what ever ya got, on whatever appropriate schedule."

Stared at me a sec, looked at my wife nodding vigorously, back to me. What a dumb situation where nurses have to stump for vaccinations.

My current peeve is hearing "evidence based medicine" at every sort of medical intervention. "Yeah, that's called 'medicine'."

Oh there's a long way to go for that

Freedumb

USA! USA! USA!

We’re no 1! We’re no 1!

We're so back (to the 1930s)

'winning'

Worm power!

Don't forget a source, my friend.

https://www.iflscience.com/us-breaks-new-measles-record-surpassing-1500-cases-the-most-in-33-years-81029

I saw a cool video a while back where someone made an online version of that psychic card test where you guess what shape is on the card. It turned out the results skewed significantly more towards correct guesses than would be expected statistically. It was because people who weren't doing well in the first few draws were quitting out and not having their results saved, but people who got a streak of good guesses kept going.

I'm pretty sure we do that in our day-to-day lives as well. Guessing something wrong or not having a seemingly prophetic dream is unremarkable, but guessing right or having deja vu is something special that we remember.

It would be interesting to see a peer reviewed study on that sort of thing, since biases and preconceptions can really skew things.

But the food’s fine, right?

It's basically just this.

The temporal lobe is responsible for locating memories in time. Sometimes it can 'relocate' a memory you're in the process of making into the past. Making you think it is a genuine past memory.

Hence dejavu.

EDIT: I think I found it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763423004360

I personally have experienced it in very strange ways. Very minor things. I'll hear a hitch in playback on some video and go "huh, that's strange" as the feeling comes over me, and then something unrelated happens right after like I see someone enter the room and have this overwhelming sense that I knew that exact person would round that exact corner 5 seconds before they did. Usually the whole room comes alive in that moment as the unexpected feeling activates all my senses and I take it all in at once. It's a very bizzarre feeling, but it always seems to have that "I knew that was going to happen. I was thinking about it happening before it did." I also have insane issues with experiential memories, so those moments in particular stand out strongly.

Well... im sorry, but im still going have to reduce your tip for bringing cold food.