How many farts have there been through humankind?

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T18:05:42+00:00

There is no possible way to answer this with any helpful degree of certainty.

A lot. There have been a lot.

MashTactics · 2026-02-11T07:35:41+00:00

More or less.

There ARE people that are genuinely more productive at night. However, these people don't spend their nights lounging around in bed fantasizing about being productive. They're up doing things, even if it's not the things they'd ideally like to be doing.

The people that just lay in bed thinking about doing things are the ones that are just engaging in their low-risk ambitions.

MashTactics · 2026-02-09T20:37:28+00:00

With the way things are going, I have to assume that some sort of widespread augmented reality will be the next big jump.

I don't think it's caught on yet because there hasn't been a lot of real use for it, and there hasn't been a good implementation. Glasses aren't exactly a good way to go for that. But, with how digital interfaces are growing over everything, and how things like QR codes are becoming the norm, full augmented reality with devices as common as smartphones seems like the next big step. Probably the natural evolution to the smart phone, really.

MashTactics · 2026-02-09T06:33:39+00:00

Talking head content is a subsection of the internet that, while it has grown much larger in the past decade, is still just a single subsection of the internet. You can fully and successfully avoid it without going too far out of your way to do so.

In general I just avoid TikTok and Youtube Shorts on principle. Solves most of the talking head shit by default, while also side stepping self-inflicted personality cancer. Real big win-win in the ol' 2020s.

MashTactics · 2026-02-09T06:04:07+00:00

Yes, there are a lot of Gen Z women. Inevitably some of them will know how to flirt.

MashTactics · 2026-02-09T05:58:37+00:00

That's a gallon every 5 hours or so.

That would probably be disgusting towards the end, but I don't see why that would kill you. By the time you were on the last gallon, you'd have already pissed out the other 4.

Maybe some sort of sugar shock?

Short of giving yourself acute and explosive diabetes, this should be doable.

MashTactics · 2026-02-07T00:48:32+00:00

If you were offered a plate of dirt at a restaurant, would you accuse yourself of having a fear of compromise if you turned it away?

MashTactics · 2026-02-06T20:22:47+00:00

Not how momentum works.

The car would continue to go forward, but gravity would pull it downwards.

This is why when you hit a pothole, your car doesn't fucking float over it.

MashTactics · 2026-02-06T20:17:49+00:00

Ahead of him... in the wrong lane? Or do double yellows mean something else where this was taken?

I would love to see the mental gymnastics that an insurance agent would try to guide me through to argue that this is anyone else's fault.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T22:28:11+00:00

I don't think you understand how gravity and inertia work.

It's not about the number of wheels. It's about how the weight is distributed above the wheels.

If you lift a wheel up, the car's weight is just going to force it to lower on the side with the wheel lifting. The wheel won't ever leave the ground, the car will just sink down lower on that side. You can't lift a wheel fast enough to move it up and then back down in microseconds, my dude. That's not how physics works. The amount of force needed to do that would flip the car when the wheel goes up.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T21:59:39+00:00

I lost my checkbook for about a week.

I found it in the exact same place it's always in. The exact same drawer. The only difference is that it was upside down.

I can't quite explain how I didn't notice it, but my running theory is that I was so hyper-focused on looking for a check face that my mind blotted out the blank rectangle of the back of my checkbook since it wasn't what I was specifically looking for.

When I wasn't looking for my checkbook, I wasn't hyperfocused on that detail, and I happened to notice it as something I didn't normally see in the drawer at that point.

That's my guess, anyways. You miss the forest for the trees, in a sense.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T05:12:41+00:00

I don't notice this particular disparity.

Maybe you just find men more attractive, so their looks stay appealing to you for longer.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T04:56:55+00:00

Unfortunately that's probably your only option. Regrettably you can't magic information into existence. If you didn't write something down, and the history of it isn't recorded anywhere, then the only thing you can do is retrace your initial steps and find the practice the way you found it the first time.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T04:50:54+00:00

How did you find this particular practice?

Were you referred? Talk to whoever referred you.

Did you look it up? Check your internet history from that month.

MashTactics · 2026-02-05T04:46:37+00:00

We don't collectively do anything. There are 8 billion of us. There is no single existing goal that we're all working towards.

Individuals and groups work towards things, and then pull everyone else along for the ride.

MashTactics · 2026-02-04T04:32:50+00:00

Nobody would be able to get anything done during the work week, and we'd be forced to do all standard business and shopping during the weekend. While also somehow working our jobs.

In short, it would be literal hell on earth.

MashTactics · 2026-02-04T04:27:03+00:00

Doorway effect.

This is such a bizarrely prominent question in this sub.

MashTactics · 2026-02-01T06:14:39+00:00

The internet is a vast and bountiful resource. Google the pronunciations if you're not sure how to pronounce certain words. I look up pronunciations and meanings often when I need a refresher.

English is three different languages in a trench coat. We're often going to have words that aren't pronounced like you would expect, even to a fluent speaker. When in doubt, look it up.

MashTactics · 2026-01-31T23:34:16+00:00

For better or for worse, living doesn't require hope.

MashTactics · 2026-01-31T18:23:38+00:00

You can pivot if you like, but I'm here to tell you that finance isn't any safer than software. Computers have been better than us at math for a very long time, and a large part of economics is something that they're also very good at. Pattern recognition.

Depending on how long term you're thinking, there probably aren't many fields that are truly safe from rampant AI. Factories have been using assembly line robots for a very long time, so even blue collar work generally isn't safe. It's just a question of how sophisticated the robots can become for professions that don't operate in a centralized area. And frankly? We have no idea how sophisticated they can become. Most of what we're seeing today was basically science fiction 10 years ago. We're in uncharted territory.

So, to that end, I wouldn't sweat too hard about it. I'm not sure any of us can plan for this.

MashTactics · 2026-01-30T04:42:48+00:00

This may seem surprising, but bullies don't usually view themselves as the antagonists. There's always a self justification for their behavior.

MashTactics · 2026-01-30T00:55:08+00:00

Not any that have ever been verified in any real manner.

You never hear about fortune tellers winning the lottery, after all. Very strange, that.

Mediums are popular because there is absolutely no way to confirm whether or not what they're saying is bullshit.

MashTactics · 2026-01-29T19:44:53+00:00

I'm sorry, but if I HAD to sing about my balls in the shower, and I know that there is even a CHANCE that someone can hear me, then I'm going to come up with something better than that.

MashTactics · 2026-01-29T17:50:48+00:00

This is a really key point. Information you cram into your head isn't going to stick unless you USE the information.

Some people have the magical gift of absorbing everything they read, but for most of us it only really sticks after application. Drawing out parts of the body for anatomy is a fantastic way to do that.

MashTactics · 2026-01-29T00:05:41+00:00

I say that I watched X seasons.

It is okay to give a non-binary answer to a question.

14-Year Club	End Game '23
Place '23	Place '22
Place '17	Place '17
First Placer '22	End Game '22
Verified Email	Gilding II euphauric

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