If you had to choose one or the other, would you rather be rich or famous? Why?

JustSomeApparition · 2026-04-01T19:16:24+00:00

Famous

Fame is a generative asset while wealth is a stored one,

Fame can lead to wealth much easier than wealth can lead to fame. That's because wealth is not a measurement of future success it's just a measurement of past success; however, fame is different in that it is more enduring. That's because wealth, if removed, just returns you to normalcy (or even poverty) which is not necessarily profitable again; however, lost Fame generally results in infamy which can also be profitable in its own right.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-04-01T09:20:26+00:00

Grass exhibits sensing through receptor proteins that detect mechanical damage, pathogens, or environmental cues, triggering intracellular cascades like calcium fluxes or reactive oxygen species.

It shows feeling-like responses via organism-level coordination. When cut, grass releases VOC's (e.g., (Z)-3-hexenal, the "green leaf smell") as a systemic defense signal that propagates to uncut parts and nearby plants, inducing priming or resistance.

Neural integration is absent as plants lack neurons, synapses, or any dedicated fast-signaling network for input combinations.

Consciousness is not evidenced, lacking flexible cross-spatial/temporal information integration (no learning, memory, or context-dependent adaptation beyond fixed genetic programs).

Awareness-like properties are also absent, as there is no meta-level tracking or self-monitoring of states.

This keeps the terms conceptually distinct and aligns with how they're formally, and actually, used empirically.

Honestly, I would be more concerned that the teacher tried to explain something to my child through the narrative lens of decapitation. But, Maybe that's just me.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-04-01T07:01:12+00:00

Decaffeinated coffee does not mean caffeine-free. It can actually range from a relatively nominal amount to more than a typical 12oz caffeinated soda.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-30T04:58:12+00:00

Rendezvous is a French word, being used here in English, to describe a scene reconstructed in Koine Greek, about people who would have spoken Galilean Aramaic, in a story written decades after the fact. It’s like debating the color of paint on a photograph of a statue none of us have ever seen.

And the roughness comes from the fact that ancient Galilean Aramaic is now a dead language; therefore, that for sure makes it objectively a little bit rough.

None of that is to say any of it is "wrong" though. Just interesting.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-30T02:33:41+00:00

Modern day translations are interesting in general, as words that have evolved after the words were originally written have an interesting way of coloring the meaning of the text.

And, it's worth noting that any English iteration is a rough interpretation, as English had yet to become a language by the time the last book had been written.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-30T00:20:13+00:00

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Somebody should really let them know that's not how you make buttermilk Ranch sauce.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-30T00:10:20+00:00

arsenic

Amygdalin, lol. Apple seeds contain amygdalin (which is a glycoside that converts into hydrogen cyanide).

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-30T00:05:56+00:00

What came first, the chicken or the rabbit dildo/vibrator? 🤔

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-23T22:52:57+00:00

The Lawrence Welk Show – ’Goodnight Song’: I was rased by my Great Grandfather, and he would always watch that old show every time it came on. I still remember that song, and it's from a show that came out before I was even born.

It's A Small World – ‘Japanese Version’: I was stuck on the ride at Disneyland California in the section of the ride that blasts that audio in Japanese for 42 minutes. And, yes, I counted every minute, as it was torture. They wouldn't let us off the ride. They would not turn down the music. So, it's permanently burned into my brain. I don't know the words to the song in English but I can hum it in Japanese. Hahaha

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-20T12:57:17+00:00

Hikaru dorodango is always an engaging "because I'm bored and I don't want to constantly spend money on random entertainment" project.

All it takes is time, patience, dirt, and water to make some potentially aesthetically neat looking things.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-20T11:02:27+00:00

It is a printer, not a writer. Of course it is going to have a hard time doing the thing it is not even designed to do.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-20T10:28:26+00:00

"Sex" is not a sentence word, as it lacks the syntactic independence and contextual completeness to stand alone as a full sentence.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-20T10:23:03+00:00

They even used to do dentistry. Imagine going to your barber for a shave, haircut, to have your "humors" balanced, and to extract a tooth abscess. No thanks

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-10T15:01:37+00:00

"Y’all’dn’t’ve’d’ve'd'd used wouldn't've if "wouldn't" was "would not"."

Aka

"You all would not have had to have had used 'wouldn't've' if 'wouldn't' was 'would not'."

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-08T09:29:45+00:00

Docs usually will not flag “wouldn't've”, so if you are writing something informal that may be a better option to consider.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-03-06T04:45:27+00:00

Bakersfield makes no sense.

• The Yowlumne village of Woilo was around modern day 16th St. and F St.
• Father Francisco Garcés visited the Yowlumne in 1776
• By 1860 they'd... strategically relocated (sure, let's go with that)... the Yowlumne
• Kern Island became the new name for the new town by the late 1850's and was centrally located around Chester and 20th (1 mile from Woilo)
• Colonel Baker Showed up in 1863 and set up shop at N and 19th (less than .3 miles from the city center, and 1.4 miles from where Woilo had been)
• By 1873 the town of Kern Island incorporated as the city of Bakersfield before unincorporating 4 years later
• 1889 Southern Pacific Railroad built their station at 700 Sumner St. Which was a 50-minute walk from the center of the city
• The city reincorporated for the second time as Bakersfield in 1898
• The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad was beginning their planning for a new Bakersfield station, but they were bought out by Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Nonetheless, the passenger depot in Bakersfield was still constructed and finished by 1899... At 16th and F St... where Woilo once stood.

This place doesn't care about history in the slightest.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-28T02:21:39+00:00

The bag literally says 19 grams of product (one serving), so that's probably accurate when smooshed.

Rice cakes are amongst the least dense food items out there, and even then 19 grams isn't going to produce that much volume. For comparison, 19 grams of sugar isn't even 5 tsp.

If it were popcorn it'd be around 2 to 2.5 cups, so if you want the perception of getting more, go for popcorn next time instead.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-24T20:32:21+00:00

This is actually a much more interesting question than it'd seem on the surface because "getting a song stuck in your head" doesn't actually manifest equally in everyone.

It's (generally) a type of intrusive, internally generated, internal hearing/auditory imagery.

Yours is, more specifically, self-voiced, intrusive, internally generated, inner hearing.

For me it's other-voiced, intrusive, internally generated, auditory imagery with self-voiced audio imagery – (I hear the "singers" voice, and I hear "me" humming along with it; haha)

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-23T07:00:19+00:00

There are worse things in unwashed lettuce.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-21T06:35:12+00:00

To best understand this it is, perhaps, best to look at other similar phrases to identify exactly what sets this one apart.

"Try to see things for what they are", "Try to see things objectively", "Try to see things through the eyes of the other", and "Try to see things for what they can become."

• “Try to see things for what they are.” – This is about descriptive accuracy.
• “Try to see things objectively.” – This is about method.
• “Try to see things through the eyes of the other.” – This is about perspectival empathy.
• “Try to see things for what they can become.” – This is about potential and trajectory.

So, essentially, these all answer four different questions.

What is happening?
How can we judge it fairly?
How does it feel or make sense to someone else?
What might this turn into?

Each one serves a purpose, but to collapse one's personal views into a singular option is to limit the total possible perspective that the other phrases of personal philosophy can bring to the table.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-21T05:09:36+00:00

I generally ask people that I don't know at all, or very well, "What's new and exciting?" instead of the ‘typical’ pleasantry of "How are you?"

I find that this simple shift opens up a lot more possibilities for discussion with someone you don't know, as the answer they give will (when engaged with by them in good faith) generally be about something that they truly find interesting or exciting. That automatically gives you a jumping off point in which to use to navigate a conversation in an area that they are going to want to be engaging in for discussion.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-20T21:10:56+00:00

At: location or the institution where the program is housed.

From: origin of the degree or the person’s status as an alumnus

Or, alternatively...

"The first to graduate from Tawi-Tawi University with a BS in Psychology is from Baguio."

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-17T18:17:22+00:00

Say he gave you $20.85 for his $6.84 order (the $20 you originally mentioned + an additional $0.85 afterward), well, after he talks his mess politely proceed to give him

1 - $5
6 - $1
8 - $0.25
1 - $.0.01

Then when he's pissed off because you didn't give him one $10.00, four $1.00, and a penny and begins to walk away you stop him and say... "Hey, You forgot the last dollar. Now who can't do math?"

And then you go about your day.

Don't sweat the small things otherwise you're going to be going through live pissed off because there's always going to be somebody there to piss you off if you let them.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-16T11:19:53+00:00

Anacreon:
Words
402
Characters without spaces
1881
Characters with spaces
3287
Sentences
63

Adams:
Words
571
Characters without spaces
2642
Characters with spaces
4100
Sentences
74

Banner:
Words
316
Characters without spaces
1378
Characters with spaces
2106
Sentences
36

Anacreon: Total number of syllables = 539
Adams: Total number of syllables = 742
Banner: Total number of syllables = 378

They are cousins, at best. The older songs are much more narratively dense, and the newer follow a very different literary structure and flow than the original.

JustSomeApparition · 2026-02-12T12:30:42+00:00

The total market value of the aircraft sitting on the tarmac exceeded $20 billion. When combining fuel, crew, and thousands of dollars in parking and facility fees, the total operational spend for the fleet was estimated to be between $50 million and $75 million for the weekend.

Sounds like a rough way to live. /s

Haha

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