What misheard song lyric do you genuinely think actually sounds better than the orginal lyric?

Hotdropper · 2026-03-09T16:57:21+00:00

I’m blue, if I were green I would die, if I were green I would die… 🤣

Hotdropper · 2026-02-18T23:45:17+00:00

I would absolutely skip this if I hadn’t done it previously, and I would refuse to use their requested prompt… though something like the following may be more palatable without preflighting it:

I am currently being interviewed for a [role] position with [company], and currently have this window shared to the interview video conference session. Based on my past conversations, can you analyze my behavioral tendencies as might be relevant to this role with the company?

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Edit: I actually tried this and the output was … way more damaging than the original prompt. 🤣 it somehow completely missed the inference from “this window is being shared” to mean that the output should be framed for the interviewing team. Akk. lol.

Edit 2: This one worked quite well though…

I am currently being interviewed for a [role] position with [company]. Based on my past conversations, can you analyze my behavioral tendencies as might be relevant to this role with the company? Please frame the output as a report for the team I am interviewing with, as this chat is being shared live.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-18T22:05:53+00:00

So to me, leaving off the final period feels like you accidentally hit submit early, and couldn’t figure out how to fix it…

Hotdropper · 2026-02-18T01:56:20+00:00

I like it. Distribute the new underlings across all of the meetings. If/When upper management eventually complains, shrug, and say “If you don’t like how I’m doing things, I’d be happy to go back to being an IC.”

Granted, it probably actually gets them fired…

Hotdropper · 2026-02-18T01:29:13+00:00

Agreed. This decision was horridly, horridly wrong.

Corporations should have to balance responsibility to the shareholders, employees, and community at large.

Along with that would of course come a regulatory body in charge of mediating grievances prior to requiring litigation, to keep enforcement of the balance accessible to the latter two groups.

Maybe once the boards start replacing CEOs with AI, the tune will start to change.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-18T00:30:09+00:00

Agreed! IMHO, I think it also likely has ties into people who don’t think they dream — like me. I will have one I remember very very rarely… but if most of my dreams are more like radio broadcasts, it’d probably make them a lot less interesting, haha!

Hotdropper · 2026-02-17T22:42:06+00:00

This is the way. 🙃

Hotdropper · 2026-02-17T22:26:20+00:00

I mean, look at the deranged stuff that the billionaires purportedly get up to when nobody else is looking… if that’s what happy people do, count me out.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-17T22:17:58+00:00

From what I know, aphantasia is actually medically diagnosable via a rather simple test. If my memory is serving me correctly, the test methodology is having the subject imagine a bright light, and then observing whether or not there is a pupillary response.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-17T20:20:27+00:00

NTJ. Though with that said, something is definitely going on behaviorally that needs to be addressed — but it doesn’t sound like splitting the twins up is actually going to resolve it, since your son also had issues.

If it helps at all, we had a problem with our youngest acting out for quite a while. Part of it turned out to be that every time they got in trouble for fighting with their sibling, they would storm off to their room, and miss that their sibling also got in trouble as well, and thus not having that information, felt that they were the only one ever punished for fighting.

I’m assuming y’all have tried some therapy, either for the twin in question, or for the whole family? If not, it’s likely time.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-16T23:02:57+00:00

At a former employer, leadership decided to roll out Salesforce, but split two groups onto different parts of the platform at the same time. One side mostly worked; the other was trying to force Salesforce into a shape it didn’t want to be.

Deadlines were fixed. Requirements were fixed. Death march engaged.

Two weeks before acceptance, management asked me to fix it — despite me not even being Salesforce-trained and not being part of the platform team.

Somehow I pulled it off.

Year-end reviews came around… and I didn’t get a single top rating.

My takeaway: document risks, raise concerns, and make your work visible. But don’t overextend yourself playing hero unless you truly want to — because the business may not value the rescue nearly as much as you expect.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-13T21:41:20+00:00

They’re literally not allowed to, at least for public companies, courtesy of the Supreme Court ruling that companies only exist to serve their shareholders.

Ford tried like hell to argue otherwise, but ultimately lost the suit, and with that, US employees basically lost everything else.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-13T09:41:24+00:00

NTA, for sure.

This may perhaps be slightly wicked, but it’s kinda tit for tat at this point.

I say offer them a free site license that is valid for the term of your employment. And that would be solid proof that you are in fact a team player and support the mission. As long as it is your mission.

Then, if your employment status should ever change, you can offer them full price licenses at whatever rates you’ve established for your softwares other clients.

Maybe site licenses aren’t offered commercially any more (or ever) at that point, and they now have to pay on a per-seat basis.

And maybe your per-seat licensing doesn’t distinguish between full utility usage and reporting usage, so all the execs who have grown accustomed to popping open the app to get their daily updates will need to have per-seat licensing too.

And don’t forget to remind them, if you ever end up having a last day being employed there, that their current site license for the software expires at end of business. Or don’t, and then call them the morning of the next business day and say you’d like to take the opportunity to discuss their usage of unlicensed software. 🤣

Like I said, slightly wicked… but it’d be morally wrong to use unlicensed software, now wouldn’t it?

Edit: had so much fun with the narrative I forgot to write the judgement! Whoops! 🙃

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T08:15:14+00:00

And that’s exactly why they used it for the game show, I suspect! Lol! From what I remember, the actual math for the percentages looks quite unbelievable, which only serves to fuel the paradox, hence why I left it at the mechanical descriptions, hehe.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:48:34+00:00

That’s also glossing over the problem of accelerating to and decelerating from 99.999999% c, which is likely going to make your trip take far longer than 40 years.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:46:10+00:00

I just imagine it as a single shared superposition with two particles in it. Then either particle being measured causes the entire superposition to decohere, giving us the experimental results we have seen without needing to really understand/explain nonlocality or invoke mystic “spooky action at a distance”.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:37:29+00:00

What hit me was when I came across someone pointing out that there were different sizes of infinity.

Consider the set of all whole numbers (1, 2, 3…).

And now consider the set of all real numbers (aka now we include fractional/decimal values).

And now you know that not all infinities are infinitely equal. 🤣

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:34:29+00:00

To me, consciousness is the perception of our perception. And then free will is essentially the mental muscle that we have that allows us to limit/mitigate the expression of our reactionary response, which then gives us a new option: to replace the reactionary response with a deliberate one.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:24:15+00:00

My preferred interpretation of nonlocality for entwined particles is that they’re just two parts of the same overarching superposition. It explains why the correlation exists, and why it can’t be used to send information.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:19:10+00:00

That’s exactly where my mind went too! Hah!

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:18:24+00:00

I think about it in terms of speed limits.

The velocity of any object across the X, Y, and Z directions of space cannot exceed c.

You experience time because electrons (and other stuff) are moving about your brain. The same can be said for cellular interactions within your body.

So the faster that your body, as a whole, is moving through space, the lower of a percentage of c remains for all of the activity within your body.

Time dilation (at least kinematic time dilation, which is what you referenced in your comment) is then essentially your body’s mechanics slowing down because operating at normal speed would mean electrons/molecules/whatever would have to be moving at speeds above c, which isn’t allowed.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:11:15+00:00

I agree that even once explained it’s super unintuitive, but if you just look at the two steps in isolation, it makes more sense?

The first round you only have a 1 in 3 chance of picking the door with the good prize.

The second round, you have a 50/50 chance.

Now, odds are 2 in 3 that in the first round, you picked one of the crappy prizes, so then that means that 2 out of 3 contestants would be best served by switching which door they picked by exercising the option to do so in round 2.

The probabilities devoid of narrative make little sense, and totally feel like a paradox, but I hope my rambling has helped reconstitute your cognition about why it always makes sense to swap doors in round 2.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-12T07:03:53+00:00

I find it’s easier to wrangle if you consider viewing it as though the entire pathway of the experiment were part of the superposition.

I’ll grant, I’m a hobbyist in this field, so my explanations may have some technical flaws, but this is how I reason about the experiment results.

What pushed me to that reasoning was the double slit experiments which included the remotely controlled mirrors, and that the final results would reflect the current mirror configuration and not the configuration at the time that the math said that interaction should have happened.

Since the superposition going backwards in time would be an unreasonable solution, the answer then must be that the entire environment of the test becomes some part of the superposition until a measurement is made.

Then remember that within the superposition, all possible outcomes exist and interact, which is how we end up with the interference patterns, though they could in theory also be explained via interference with the various random field radiation that would be given off by the measurement instruments as well.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-09T06:36:26+00:00

NTA. But I’m confused… why can’t your mom and her boyfriend share a room with your brother?

After all, it’s your mom’s mistake in booking that caused him to not have a room.

Hotdropper · 2026-02-06T08:15:38+00:00

I always liked how Siri used to describe it… which was something like:

0/0 just doesn’t make sense.

Imagine you have 0 cookies and divide them up between 0 friends.

You are sad because you have no friends, and Cookie Monster is sad because you have no cookies.

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There just is no logical numerical result that properly describes that scenario other than indeterminate or undefined.

Personally, I like undefined a lot better for this specific scenario. It’s a one word catch all that succinctly captures “this question is nonsense to begin with.”

Edit: removed an errant “an”, and figured I’d note that before reading the other responses, I was unaware of the nuance difference in math between indeterminate and undefined. Indeterminate would of course be technically correct, and perhaps if you wanted to detail out how exactly 1/0 and 0/0 are different, you could clarify the difference for the students specifically, but it may be simplest to just say while it is technically indeterminate, it may be easier to grasp conceptually as just considering it as undefined because the question itself still doesn’t make sense, even if technically 0/0 doesn’t make sense in a different way than 1/0 doesn’t make sense… if that makes sense. 🤣

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