numberfour002

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[–] numberfour002 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll be upfront: I don't know. But I do have an anecdote.

I have a family member who swears that their phone is listening to every word they say. Their evidence is that they say they get ads or news regarding things they had recently had conversations about.

Fast forward a bit, they come and stay with me for a bit for a visit. This phenomenon starts happening while they are here. Absolute proof, right?

Well, no not really. Every single instance of "evidence" they pointed out could be explained as simple IP association.

"We were just talking about having okra for dinner and now my feed is filled up with okra recipes" -- well yeah, we talked about that, so me being the good host I am, I looked up how to cook okra so I could maybe fix some for our dinner.

"We also had that conversation about Tom Hanks and I just got an ad for one of his movies" -- yeah, we did, because you watched a couple Tom Hanks movies on Hulu yesterday so now they know someone at this IP is watching Tom Hanks movies and now might be a good time to advertise something else he's been in.

And this went on and on.

So anyway, I do wonder if there's a chance someone else on your same wifi / cell / whatever is looking this stuff up and it's just coincidentally seeming like the all knowing omniscient internet gods are leaking your private conversations.

[–] numberfour002 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If he's late 30s to early 40s then he did not age well. I know several full blown alcoholics in their 50s who look younger than the guy in this photo.

[–] numberfour002 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the world changes. Old stagnant ideas that don't keep up tend to mostly die out. It's not a particularly shocking conclusion to arrive at.

[–] numberfour002 5 points 3 months ago

I dry them in a food dehydrator or in the oven. There's no way I could leave them out, exposed like this in my part of the world.

[–] numberfour002 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My first thought as well: Those would be covered in flies, ants, and/or other bugs if I tried it around here (which is not Mexico). It makes me wonder if this photo is taken some place that doesn't really have much in the way of bugs, as hard as that is to imagine, or if they go to great lengths to kill all the pests in the area to prevent them from taking over the tomato yield.

[–] numberfour002 6 points 3 months ago

No dead animal pics for me, but lots of random bugs, flowers, mushrooms, leaves, rocks, and sunsets.

[–] numberfour002 7 points 3 months ago

Same for the fish, the cycads, and the ferns. But not the unicorns.

[–] numberfour002 3 points 3 months ago

Your sodium, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels will earn gold, silver, and bronze medals for their Olympic-grade high jumps. And that's how you know it's healthy.

[–] numberfour002 3 points 3 months ago

We're all eating craps on this blessed day.

[–] numberfour002 2 points 3 months ago

It's definitely a fair bit of effort and responsibility to keep this many fish in this size of tank, so it pretty much needs to be a labor of love. Cichlid tanks like the one in the photo might be a little less work / stress compared to a typical saltwater tank of similar size, but they can still be a lot of work.

I wouldn't want to take on the responsibility of upkeep on this tank, but I am certain if I had something like this in a nice spot where I could stop and lounge for a bit, watching the fish do their thing, in that moment it would be quite calming.

Same principle with captive birds as pets. The sounds of a happy, healthy aviary can be so soothing (with the right birds of course). However, birds are a lot of work. And the cost of caring for them, I mean, just wait until you see the bill.

[–] numberfour002 2 points 3 months ago

I remember that site, but 80s and 90s horror movies had already inoculated me against the gore aspects of it. There were quite a few fictional and non-fictional gore clips movies popping up in video rental stores back in those days. Some of it was pretty grotesque and horrific, perhaps even more so than a lot of stuff you might have seen on rotten.com.

[–] numberfour002 3 points 3 months ago

fark

Fark is still around, but it's barely a glimmer of what it used to be before it went downhill. I certainly understand if someone wasn't aware it was still around, it's been almost 20 years since the case could be made that it was an important player in the news aggregation category of websites.

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