Little Bobby Tables?

“Draw me like one of your French cats"

"Life, uh, finds a way” - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

Unless you’re a politician.

Stolen from the internet although I’ve seen a few versions:

Out in space two alien life forms are speaking with each other. The first alien says, “The dominant life forms on the earth planet have developed satellite-based nuclear weapons.” The second alien, who looks exactly like the first, asks, “Are they an emerging intelligence?” The first alien says, “I don’t think so, they have them aimed at themselves.”

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that… well, I’d have at least one.

I read somewhere there are at least 6 possibilities:

1. Dark forest theory - read at least book 1 and 2 of three body problem series or google for spoilers
2. A filter exists, or more plainly something that always causes a civilization to eventually fail.
3. Similar to Star Trek, other civilizations are waiting for us to pass a threshold before contact is made.
4. Carl Sagan: the universe is so large and intelligent life is so sparse, we just haven’t come across them yet.
5. Life on our planet is unique to the entire universe
6. Could also be a mixture of some of these.

Whatever it is, it’s a fascinating problem and I like Carl Sagan’s approach.

Everyone knows you should keep your armys in your sleevys.

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”

What a strange thing to think. They might not be physically imposing but they sure are in many other ways.

How cool would it be if politicians started to compete for doing the most actual good.

Another thing to consider is quality. I’ve had a pair of Bose over ear headphones for 9 years that I bought on sale for about 200$. I treat them like crap and they keep on kicking. I’ve replaced the ear pads twice for 20$. Sometimes quality is worth factoring in too.

Strange. I don’t have access to the posted link but this one has the same author, same post date, same article image and title however from what I can tell, has a different starting sentence: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/2025-felt-disaster-numbers-tell-120000268.html

It must be amazing to have the nose sensitivity of a dog, to enjoy smelling everything and have smells rammed up your nose at highway speeds.

The eyes want chaos.

I know there’s a retriever joke in there somewhere…

The cover image looks like he’s trying to make farting noises with his mouth. Not that that’s much different than anything else that comes out of it.

https://lemmy.world/post/22143486

This reminds me of the “taco town” SNL skit.

Lol

The game was kind enough to gift me -170 billion billion billion billion wagons.