“Australia isn’t down under anything, it’s sitting on the side of a big sphere like the rest of us.”
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
15 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43669 readers
1219 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
If I push too hard and one comes out... will it fit down the shower drain? Or will I have to break it up with my hands.
These were mad times, mind you.
Gotta do the ol' waffle stomp
"There are some people who don't see a photorealistic image in their head when they imagine an apple..."
I once thought:"wait, what am I" and had a moment, where I couldn't feel my body and almost saw myself from a 3rd person perspective
This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife..!
My strangest shower thought came from my strangest shower.
I worked for a small company years ago that paid for a "spa day" for its employees after completing a year long death march project. I had a mediocre massage, but afterwards I went to change I their shower room and decided to give the shower a go.
My god. It had a 3ft square rain shower head and no less than 12 separate side jets on the walls, all adjustable. Every inch of my body was hit simultaneously with hot, pressured water. It was like wearing a suit of hot water armor, head to toe. No matter how I moved, water. It was basically a standing bath. They must have had a city water main hooked up to that shower stall, as the pressure was just ridiculous.
I stood in there for nearly 30 minutes. It was wonderful, and also made me realize that this is how the ultra rich lived. This kind of luxury as an after thought, an expectation. For that moment of time, on someone else's dime, I was in that world. That realization was almost as surreal as the physical experience itself.
Sadly, no matter what the luxury once it's always available it becomes pedestrian. You enjoyed that shower 10 times more than somebody who has one in their bathroom would.
I read an article about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat Thinking about this myself lead to the conclusion that the amount of information that would need to be generated and maintained just for my brain would be prohibitively enormous. All the people in the world and their states and history. The combined knowledge of mankind. I started thinking about quantum mechanics though and that kind of threw off my conclusions because the state of particles is not known until you measure them, which seems like an optimization of sorts. I don’t know, but it is interesting to think about.