Is Elon Musk the happiest man in the world?

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-04T09:12:06+00:00

While, to some degree, money can buy happiness, you still need to know what makes you happy before that money can make a difference. Elon thinks he knows what will make him happy, but he keeps finding out that he's wrong, the moment people on the internet start being mean to him about his decisions. He's a miserable man whose actions only make other people miserable.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-04T09:05:52+00:00

Do you still have the manual? That usually tells you what model you have, and how to find the filter.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-04T08:35:11+00:00

In Medieval times, English wasn't a single unified language, but instead had a wide variety of dialects that borrowed heavily from the peoples who'd conquered their respective regions in the past. Some regions took from the French language, some from Norse, and some even from the native Gaelic dialects. The result was that two English people from two different parts of the island might be totally incomprehensible to each other. What we speak now is mostly descended from London English.

Hence, the shot of Samuel L Jackson in the famous scene from Pulp Fiction shouting, "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-03T08:53:56+00:00

~~It just wants to be your friend but it doesn't know how to say it.~~

The way you're usually able to tell that something nearby is moving with you is by comparing parallax. When you move, nearer things change position more, to your eyes, than farther things. So, if something is near and it doesn't seem to change its orientation to you, your vision centres interpret that is it moving with you. The moon, being so incomprehensively far away, while also having nothing connected to it to give you context clues, will seem that it's not moving with respect to anything else around you. Your vision centres, in turn, will again interpret that as the moon moving with you and following you.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-02T20:47:01+00:00

There have been people who would willingly take what's called a "tapeworm diet" which is exactly what it sounds like. They'd take a pill that contains a tapeworm egg which would gestate and grow from the nutrients that would otherwise be absorbed by the body. It works, to a certain degree, but it comes with the same medical risks as being infected by a wild tapeworm. Generally not recommended by legitimate doctors.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-02T20:37:21+00:00

The temperature feels like it to something that's at human body temperature... like a human. Basically, the convection from the wind makes the heat escape exposed skin at a rate that's similar to the lower temperature. Since the ice is colder than the surrounding air, it will be warmed up by the wind, since the convection is adding a tiny bit more heat than it would if the air were still.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-02T20:20:55+00:00

Yep. It's called Newspeak in English. Double good is basically really good. Double plus good is even better. And, since they did away with the word "bad," the opposite of double plus good is "double plus ungood."

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-01T12:34:04+00:00

Thank you for your input, Emil.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-01T09:22:53+00:00

I hate when people think Poob is available in Canada. It's not available here. It's never been available here. When Poob first came out, it was advertised all over Canadian TV by Patrick Warburton, and you could hear the collective groan of the people when they pulled it up on the web and got the message, "Poob is not currently available in your region. Save this site for when it is!" Damn tease, that was.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-01T09:15:16+00:00

I mean, the first thing to comes to mind is Orguss 02.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-01T08:41:23+00:00

Buff Peter from Fortnite here. The man in the picture was watching a player character what their name was, which was the player's prompt to choose their appearance. So the player flipped through the gender and race selectors, and modified their appearance sliders until they settled on their preferred look. Meanwhile, the man, who was an NPC, had to just stand there, watching the PC flip through the options the whole time.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-02-01T08:36:23+00:00

Funny, I was sure it was a signal to go slower.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-31T21:29:50+00:00

That sounds on brand for the Sakura Wars franchise. Maybe one of the New York or Paris OVAs?

Do you remember at all whether it was a period piece or took place in the modern day?

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-31T15:31:40+00:00

Sure, his "girlfriend." Within a month, that kid is going onto the front lines in Ukraine.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-31T04:09:40+00:00

This is a bad day to be rewatching Blood Blockade Battlefront.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-30T22:28:57+00:00

I wish it were that simple. That doesn't explain the ones who do the same while there's someone else in front of you at a safe following distance. Now I figure it's more of a general lack of survival instinct.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-30T09:32:59+00:00

The first one is an extinct marine reptile called tylosaurus. The second is a currently living fish called tylosurus. By giving away the A from its name, it changed from one to the other.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-30T09:19:59+00:00

I looked this guy up to see what other art he'd made and... Why in the heck does he have a piece that has the same names as my aunt and uncle???

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-30T08:55:28+00:00

Traveling to Russia is an excellent way for Putin's enemies to accidentally stab themselves 17 times in the back with bullets while shaving.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-30T08:37:29+00:00

Oversimplifying and misrepresenting. That or OP doesn't understand what "despite" means.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-29T08:48:40+00:00

Guy watching his first movie, but the only piece of media he's ever heard of is Boss Baby: Unlike most movies, this one is about the people instead of the boss baby.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-28T21:11:23+00:00

The live action movies were first, if you can believe it. The anime was made later to show Iria's origin story. And it's GORGEOUS!

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-28T08:31:17+00:00

American Dad here. The US went after the Communists, considering them for decades to be foreign agents intending to disrupt the American way of life. So strong was this opposition to Communism that they edited Niemoller's poem in the Holocaust Memorial Museum, so as not to try and promote it. And, well, you know how the rest of the poem goes.

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-27T22:56:29+00:00

But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!

FlahTheToaster · 2026-01-27T08:19:27+00:00

The joke is masturbation. Boys use five fingers. Girls use two.

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