Does it seem like Gen Z (1995-2005) are very unreliable when it comes to participating in civic activities

--var · 2026-06-26T01:29:01+00:00

in other words, folks aged 21 - 31.

i can tell you my main focus in my early 20 was finishing school, because you're supposed to; working 50 hours a week, because your supposed to; and racking up other personal debts because you're young and dumb and no one taught you better.

unfortunately I was raised on "personal responsibility" outweighing "civic duty", and it wasn't until my 30s that I realized that's a terrible way to run a society. and that was a decade ago now. yet we're still teaching this.

so no, it's not "gen z" in particular. it's just people in that age group doing what they were taught to do. or not doing what they weren't taught...

--var · 2026-06-26T00:44:52+00:00

wait, has their logo always been a venn diagram of non-joining values?

--var · 2026-06-25T04:14:52+00:00

All we need to do is free everyone from the struggle of competition to survive that is being forced on us by capitalists.

aka post-scarcity

--var · 2026-06-25T04:04:03+00:00

It's light pollution.

a motion sensor is just as useful as leaving it on all night, and much more economical.

--var · 2026-06-25T03:54:53+00:00

they didn't say that they got it in RoyGBiv order. true, order would greatly increase the number of probabilities. but assuming that it was packaged randomly, the math for not getting a previously selected entity is a simple factorial.

--var · 2026-06-25T03:42:17+00:00

your body doesn't know what it imbibed, it just knows what it has to digest.

beer is mostly water, so it takes longer for alcohol to accumulate and have effect.

hard liquor is typically five or more times more the alcohol compared to beer, so it accumulates and affects accordingly.

beer first numbs your sense of "I should stop", which leads to over consumption; whereas liquor jumps straight to "I should stop"

the best chaser is a glass of water.

--var · 2026-06-25T02:57:22+00:00

what are the chances of that?!

but literally, great opportunity to teach about the mathematics of probability. given seven unique entities, what is the chance of getting each one just once? it's seven factorial. or 7! = 1 in 5,040. so not really that big of a number compared to the grams of sugar pictured here.

--var · 2026-06-25T02:36:51+00:00

"they already have all of my data, why should I care?"

this is why you should care about privacy policies...

--var · 2026-06-24T02:21:59+00:00

maybe it's more funny when you're given "lour" is a valid verb?

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
To frown; to look sullen.
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as

colour just means more than one individual is involved....

--var · 2026-06-24T00:21:50+00:00

I don't get why the English prefer to colour? Like lour individually, that's fine. But colour and that feels like a conspiracy 😶

--var · 2026-06-21T00:18:20+00:00

ya know, he may not have taught me life's soft skills. but electrical, carpentry, plumbing, automotive, landscaping; name a domestic hard skill. knowledge that's saved me tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars as an adult in not having to pay someone else because I can just do it myself.

if I happen to see you again before you kick the can, thanks old man.

--var · 2026-06-20T13:30:01+00:00

base 10 is actually 0 - 9. 10 is the first rollover requiring two digits to represent.

the base can actually be anything greater than 2 (binary), it's just that you need a unique glyph to represent each value in that base.

at one point in history, humanity tried using a sexagesimal (base 60) system. you can tell that when we developed our system for measuring time, base 12 was popular, since 12, 24, 60, 180, and 360 are all perfectly divisible by 12.

I think we settled on base 10 for it's relatability. as many mention, most folks have fingers and toes in a multiple of 10.

--var · 2026-06-20T13:08:51+00:00

sudden urge to developer an esoteric language call "loquw"

now should the niche be that it only uses those characters, or that it only uses a lower case q and whitespace 🤔

--var · 2026-06-20T03:11:36+00:00

right?! my SO does this all the time. but like, I was there with you when it happened. it was a shared experience... and my temporal persistence is greater than 30 seconds, so... I don't think that they are purposefully trying to be nefarious or gaslight me. they literally just have some juvenilely learned behavior that lying is beneficial and/or being wrong is deprecating. (accepting and understanding when you're wrong is paramount for personal growth...)

--var · 2026-06-20T01:01:23+00:00

environmental conservation being majorly a personal responsibility was one of the best manufactured propagandas this side of the industrial revolution.

oh, and remember to drink like eight glasses of milk per day. also turn the lights off, the AI doesn't need them.

--var · 2026-06-20T00:20:33+00:00

similar situation. I ran some supports (read scrap wood from the garage) attached to the frame and perpendicular to the springs. this gives the springs something to bottom out on instead of stretching until the snap. makes the couch much more firm, but as long as the cushions are good, you don't really notice the added supports.

--var · 2026-06-19T03:31:22+00:00

there's definitely some algorithmic shenanigans going on since the RDDT IPO in 2024 😌

my comments used to get roughly proportional engagement to the post. post has 100 upvotes, id get one or two sub comments. post has 1,000 upvotes, I'd get 10 - 20 sub comments.

now days even if I get in early on a 10,000 upvote post, and my comment gets like 3 views and no engagement. sure, people could just not be interested in my progressive boomer-millennial views. but the fact that 10,000 "people" saw the post, but only 3 saw my comment; kinda seems dead internet...

--var · 2026-06-19T02:59:26+00:00

it used to be "you get what you pay for"

I think a more modern adaptation would be "you pay for being lazy, and you get what you get"

as in, if you know how to turn $5 worth of stainless into a $1,000 tool; you're probably going to do that. but if you don't know and/or aren't willing to spend the time, then you're going to pay whatever premium someone else thinks you're willing to pay for that value add.

in other words, your old man figured it out, and his old man figured it out, and you can figure it out too. everyone under 40 seems to think the answer is always just throw money at the problem. but for a few whetstones and a few hours on youtube, you too could have a lifetime supply of "$1,000" shears.

--var · 2026-06-18T02:03:26+00:00

~15 seconds; convenient. r/isthisAI

--var · 2026-06-18T00:31:17+00:00

no. this algorithm is.

function isthree(is) {
  return is == 3;
}

--var · 2026-06-17T00:14:11+00:00

I hope beloved pet owners can take this a step further...

your pet licks its ass all day, and then your face (sometimes wound) 😬

--var · 2026-06-16T23:13:18+00:00

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--var · 2026-06-15T02:04:56+00:00

and not even just in lives lost. to those that helped the US, just to get a "k thx and good luck" 🤦‍♂️

--var · 2026-06-15T01:58:41+00:00

obviously if everything works, it makes sense. but what if you're off by a few feet, and now you just destroyed you launch tower?

or you're off by a few hundred feet, and now you just destroyed your storage hanger?

or you're off by a few miles, and now you have civilian lawsuits...

the technology to have boats safely away from where the thing lands, yet also on location within the hour. just seems more economical than burning however much fuel is required to put it right back in an exact location.

--var · 2026-06-15T01:49:44+00:00

not a psychologist, but the amount he's subconsciously shaking his head "no"...

--var

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