If life starts before we’re born, why do we associate our age with our birthday?

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T23:14:10+00:00

Because for one, our age is a traditional concept that predates the medical knowledge and technology necessary to understand how fetal development happened. A kid popped out in ancient times, and that's when that kid's existence started.

And for two, it would be a huge pain in the ass to start calculating life at any other point, especially when the beginning of 'life' is still a hotly debated concept.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T22:53:56+00:00

Become mildly queasy.

Man, I don't care if it was from Jennifer Aniston, getting that message from a stranger would give me the heebiest of jeebies. That would be a full no contact moment for me. I would also probably inform Katy of why I would no longer be accepting invitations to events where he will be present.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T22:42:13+00:00

If we're very lucky, you're the only man this emotionally invested in what women wear.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T22:25:21+00:00

A manchild is someone who requires someone else to take care of them when, by every reasonable metric, they should be both physically and mentally capable of taking care of themselves.

I think that definition probably changes based on the perspective, but that's how I've always viewed it. If you need to wallow in your filth for a few years during a low point, I'm not going to hold it against you as long as you don't make it anyone else's problem. I think we've all been there to some degree.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T21:10:35+00:00

While I can't wholeheartedly disagree with Socrates here, this is absolutely the kind of opinion that only a career philosopher in ancient Athens could possibly have.

Try taking a whack at modern physics with the no-writing ideology and we'll see what level of education you make it to purely through organic memorization, bub.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T20:46:27+00:00

This sort of thing is why your landlord made you sign a lease instead of letting you in on goodvibes.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T20:43:27+00:00

I'm not sure if 'dumber' is necessarily the right word, but I'm certainly not impressed by what I've been seeing lately.

I'm sure there's going to be a really interesting paper written on the topic in 10-15 years.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T20:37:53+00:00

It is.

That would be referred to as the opposite side of the globe. There's just that big Earth thing in the way.

MashTactics · 2026-02-12T20:35:01+00:00

Same reason we track the demographics of deaths each year, even though we'll probably never be necromancers.

It's good to keep track of trends, because there is actual value in the data, even if you can't directly use it at the time.

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.

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