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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Apple Vision Pro from a Young Earth Creationist's View (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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I got the Apple Vision Pro. It's awesome, but to be honest, it doesn't do much, yet. It's amazing hardware and software, but there are few built-in apps. It'll grow and expand, but there's just not a lot you can do with it yet.

There are two built-in experiences to sell you on how much potential it has to sell you on how incredible this thing can / will be. They both involve dinosaurs.

In one, a large dino comes into the room. It's very impressive. In the other, you're fully immersed in a scene of dinos and you can look around at all the scenery surrounding you. And this got me thinking…

What if I was a Young Earth Creationist who bought this? You know, those dummies who take the bible literally and think the earth is 5-6000 years old. The ones who think either fossils are a test of your faith by god or dinos roamed the earth with humans. How would these make such a person feel?

Personally, my first dream job, as a child, was to be an archaeologist, digging up dinos, so I loved both experiences. But if I thought this was all a lie from Satan, how let down might I feel when those are the best parts of my new, expensive toy?

This was my first thought when I awoke this morning. I'm typing it right after I woke so I don't forget, such as we forget the details of dreams. Apologies for typos. I'm not proofreading it. I'm grabbing some caffeine and getting my day going. I just wanted to capture this silly, ironic idea. Btw, the AVP is still truly awesome and I don't regret the purchase.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aha, youre not the first person to point this out to me, though you are by far the most polite and least rude.

I know how to do markdowns in lemmy.

I just stylistically like using / encapsulation as a form of emphasis, usually to indicate a tone shift to a more serious and louder tone if you were reading this in your head or aloud.

Ive found that italics and bold and ~~strikethrough~~ all have different sets of contextual uses that usually evoke slightly different interpretations from most readers, so i kind of just made up my own thing.

Italics usually convey either a tone shift down to a softer or near whisper, which can be used for ironic inflexion effect, or to just actually denote an actual whisper, or i often also use it if im writing basically a monologue or dialogue and then want to indicate that some kind of action happens.

Bold text ive found doesnt usually actually imply seriousness or even loudness to most people, but instead actually something more like a boastful and prideful tone.

I also use it in more serious discussions to focus on key phrases, figures or words that are pivotal to either my argument or the argument of another.

And then of course theres ALL CAPS which usually denotes basically a tone of quite loud, quite agitated, anger, when used sparringly, ... or basically that youre either insane, or very old and cant read small caps well, if its used not sparringly.