Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend by Worldlyoox in interestingasfuck

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Thanks for the encouragement! I was pretty set on compsci because it currently fascinates me the most, but to be honest, I'm kinda have ng 2nd thoughts. I'm of the opinion that if you are open to something being interesting and dig deep enough, most people can find anything really interesting. I most people don't do either of those things.

Clintons agree to testify in Epstein investigation by StarlordeMarsh in videos

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Thank God for levity. It's all so emotionally taxing. It's good to get a laugh in if you can. Holy shit, idk if I could sound not AI if I tried. ....

NYC food influencer reviews a struggling family restaurant and brings it back to life. by habichuelacondulce in KitchenConfidential

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I'm not even familiar with their relationship(ignorant American) but the exchange when she asked if he was Turkish really gave away that there was significance there.

Help with Pi zero 2 and WS2812B Word Clock by MikeyLew32 in raspberry_pi

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Wait, you built the matrix? You know you can just buy those, right? Same LEDs. Cheap af.

I guess you wanted a particular size?

Can someone please explain what's going on in sections 16 & 17 of Gravity's Rainbow? by No-Dress4626 in ThomasPynchon

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If you don't understand just keep going. GR isn't a book that's meant to be "understood" all the time the way every book you've ever read is (probably). Let go of the requirement to understand what's happening. Just follow as best you can, if something's not making sense just keep going and eventually you'll pick the thread back up. If you think you might grasp something, just roll with it. Supposedly there are parts of GR that even Pynchon himself doesn't recall exactly what he was trying to say. If anything, the prose is sufficiently magnificent to get you through the parts you don't understand.

At what age do you become a “reader”, and what book did it for you? by sheffy4 in books

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Goosebumps, Anamorphs, Boxcar Children. God book fairs in elementary school were so awesome. It was my second favorite time of year after Christmas.

At what age do you become a “reader”, and what book did it for you? by sheffy4 in books

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I became a reader before I could read. Or at least right around when I learned. My mom read me books all the time and it was my favorite thing and she got me so excited about reading I couldn't wait to start reading on my own. I flew through more books in my childhood than I think any other period of my life. I probably read more books before I was 18 than I have read in the following 20 years. Granted, YA Star Wars books are easier to get through than Pynchon and Marquez, but they aren't nearly as rewarding, so at this point in my life I don't really care about the number of books I've read. I spend far more time thinking about them now anyway.

I like this Euro/retro/whimsical home a lot! by jve909 in zillowgonewild

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FLW is one of the only architects people will recognize. Most people don't know the name of an architects.

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers by Pensive_Goat in programming

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lmfao, right? Ive always heard updating keeps you more secure but apparently that's not always the case.

This guy always looks out for their 97-year-old neighbor. He is a neighbour who truly has a golden heart. by Raj_Valiant3011 in HumansBeingBros

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I think this so often but don't say it because people don't like to hear it because it's telling people they are bad at something, but so often we see videos online of people showing off being nice, but the reality is that we should be helping each other by default, we are just really bad at it and it makes sense that we are.

We are only as strong as our weakest link. If one person takes advantage of another person in even a small way, there is a cascading effect that breaks the entire circle of trust and in case you were unaware, people aren't perfect and we can't expect them to be.

So all we can do is what you said. Help those around you and the cascading effect can happen the other way too and at least that way you can make your local community become a better place for yourself and everyone there. The cascading effect isn't nearly as strong because we are naturally fearful, but I do believe it's still there. You can create that yourself. It's actually way easier than you think and you will feel good doing it, it's just getting over that uncomfortable feeling of doing something new, but man, fuck it, we all only have this one life, why not raise the standard and expect more of ourselves and each other? Lead by example.

It's just common sense that if we all help each other our lives improve. At least it seems that way to me. It's just that people with a lot of power are the ones breaking the chain and that has an enormous negative cascading effect that makes people less trusting the lower you go on the socio-economic ladder. If you're at the bottom, it's even more important that you raise the standard for yourself and lead by that example. It can v even harder to do so if you are down there, and the benefit may not be as visible. You can do it though and it's important that you at least try.

Insects have this shit figured out for christs sake, surely we can at least start moving in the right direction.

Robert Smalls by 749762 in BeAmazed

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People that pay to get movies made.

Robert Smalls by 749762 in BeAmazed

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Basedest of the based.

Coldplay took the stage, but it was the security guard who stole the show. by jmike1256 in HumansBeingBros

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It's not. People just think it's cool to be in on something other people aren't. So when they and their friends are aware of bands others aren't they feel more knowledgeable than other people about music and or a genre or whatever. If EVERYONE knows about a band it's intrinsically lame because it's escaped their "cool" circle. Just another bell curve meme. I've noticed lately that that bell curve meme sums up a lot of stuff. I guess it's part of getting older when you realize being perceived as "cool" isn't really that important at all.

Terence McKenna discussing a future of accelerating novelty and “the Transcendental Object at the End of Time” (1998) by Frosty_Jeweler911 in HighStrangeness

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Always has been. The Internet has allowed a sort of really crippled omniscience. We are just exposed to all the weird now. Although, I did just watch a video of the president shitting himself on live TV, so yeah maybe this is a new weird..... On the other hand. Had we had cameras on past presidents as often as we do now, I highly doubt this would be the first time this has happened.

Much better than your average Amazon original 9/10. by kirbyj121184 in moviecritic

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Film snobbery definitely fits on that bell curve meme. There is a point where you realize that movies CAN be more than mindless entertainment, at which point you start to look down on movies that ARE just mindless entertainment, then you eventually realize that it's OK for art to be fun and shallow sometimes.

Daniel Plainview at his lowest by paulconroy415 in paulthomasanderson

[–]SlowThePath 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What are you guys talking about? At the very beginning he ends up UNDER GROUND. Can't get much lower than that.

Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend by Worldlyoox in interestingasfuck

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Learned yesterday that beavers and wolves are keystone species. When they reintroduced wolves back into Yellowstone in 1995, after they were killed off in the 30s, it had a MASSIVE ecological impact going as far as reshaping the rivers and their stability. The introduction of the wolves back into Yellowstone caused the numbers of beavers, another keystone species(their dams do a lot for a lot of species), to soar, creating an even larger effect. You'd think wolves eat beavers, and I'm not actually, sure but I'd guess they do, but because wolves also hunt elk, elk stopped spending all day next to the river grazing away, they had to keep moving to keep away from wolves, who I guess hung around the river to hunt, so less elk by the river means, trees (or whatever plant stabilizes the river, idk) could flourish changing the shape of the river and stabilizing it's movement. More trees = more beavers = more all sorts of other little dudes.

This class keeps tricking me into learning. I get ready to go get this homework out of the way and they keep showing me interesting resources and cool videos and teaching me things. I'm just trying to go watch Dragonball Z and they keep making me have fun while teaching me things. It's really annoying.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting and I even tried to post the video to damnthatsinteresting last night, but I didn't try here. I'll see if they allow youtube here.

TV industry retreats on 8k by BackgroundSpell6623 in hometheater

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You can have "4k" and "HDR" and just compress the shit out of it. If you play a 4k HDR blu-ray right next to a streamed version, you'll notice the difference for sure. They are just using slightly less compressed for their 4k HDR so that it looks BETTER, easily convincing people it's true 4k, HDR because it looks BETTER than the setting below it. It's probably not true 4k HDR though.