Share some objective or subjective wisdom you’ve learned recently.
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Didn’t catch that
“O Deep Thought computer,” he said, “the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us…” he paused, “The Answer.”
“The Answer?” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to what?”
“Life!” urged Fook.
“The Universe!” said Lunkwill.
“Everything!” they said in chorus.
Deep Thought paused for a moment’s reflection. “Tricky,” he said finally.
“But can you do it?”
Again, a significant pause.
“Yes,” said Deep Thought, “I can do it.”
“There is an answer?” said Fook with breathless excitement.
“Yes,” said Deep Thought. “Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I’ll have to think about it.”
… Fook glanced impatiently at his watch. “How long?” he said.
“Seven and a half million years,” said Deep Thought.
Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other. “Seven and a half million years…!” they cried in chorus.
“Yes,” declaimed Deep Thought, “I said I’d have to think about it, didn’t I?"[Seven and a half million years later… Fook and Lunkwill are long gone, but their descendents continue what they started]
“We are the ones who will hear,” said Phouchg, “the answer to the great question of Life…!”
“The Universe…!” said Loonquawl.
“And Everything…!”
“Shhh,” said Loonquawl with a slight gesture. “I think Deep Thought is preparing to speak!”
There was a moment’s expectant pause while panels slowly came to life on the front of the console. Lights flashed on and off experimentally and settled down into a businesslike pattern. A soft low hum came from the communication channel.“Good Morning,” said Deep Thought at last.
“Er…good morning, O Deep Thought” said Loonquawl nervously, “do you have…er, that is…”
“An Answer for you?” interrupted Deep Thought majestically. “Yes, I have.”
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
“There really is one?” breathed Phouchg.
“There really is one,” confirmed Deep Thought.
“To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?”
“Yes.”
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
“And you’re ready to give it to us?” urged Loonsuawl.
“I am.”
“Now?”
“Now,” said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
“Though I don’t think,” added Deep Thought. “that you’re going to like it.”
“Doesn’t matter!” said Phouchg. “We must know it! Now!”
“Now?” inquired Deep Thought.
“Yes! Now…”
“All right,” said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
“You’re really not going to like it,” observed Deep Thought.
“Tell us!”
“All right,” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to the Great Question…”
“Yes…!”
“Of Life, the Universe and Everything…” said Deep Thought.
“Yes…!”
“Is…” said Deep Thought, and paused.
“Yes…!”
“Is…”
“Yes…!!!..?”
“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Individualism is a good way to get depression. Meet new people, make friends, go to public places. Humans evolved as a social species.
Also, find some ways to chill in nature wherever you can. Humans didn’t evolve in a concrete and plastic environment.
I learnt that humans are happiest when their environment most closely reflects the one we evolved in.
So I got myself a couple of parasites, killed my neighbour and stole his wife.
it took me 6 years working abroad to realise that I could speak more freely with a random stranger from my homeland, than I ever could with my (now ex-)girlfriend.
I went to japan once (pre-pandemic) and it was a little bit crazy how whenever us english-speaking folks would run into each other we were suddenly best friends. The people I work with would be lucky (good or bad, idfk) to see me speak to any of them throughout the entire course of a day.
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I think you mean “isolation”. Individualism had nothing to do with being alone or not making friends.
Yes, but I used the term individualism on purpose.
I think that a mostly individualist culture leads to more isolation, and we, as a society, should be encouraging more collectivism.
Isolation is a symptom of a bigger problem for most IMO
Be excellent to one another.
And party on dudes!
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Lemmy is very often worse than Reddit.
Even the answers in this thread are worse than if an LLM answered this same question.
Just install Linux it’s easy even my 4-year-old can do it
how dare you create a child. Everybody come downvote and shun this lemmy
Nailed it
You should let the answers go thru metaballism to akshully make sence
Sometimes it isn’t what it is.
But even then, it is what it is.
S’not.
And it isn’t what it isn’t.
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
United We Triumph! Don’t let the billionaires divide us.
There is no perfect Linux distro.
If your current choice (of anything eg. partners) is 90% of the way there, don’t spend all your time chasing for those last 10%, as if you do, more often than not, you will lose the other 90% for the sake of these 10%.
what if Windows is 90% there
Well then good for you! Can you compromise on those 10%?
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I also saw that line while TW3 was loading, do you know what it means? (Well, the full line is “When the time of the White Frost comes, do not eat the yellow snow”). It didn’t seem to apply to anything in game, even with the ending.
Yellow snow implies it’s been peed on. Don’t eat the piss snow.
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I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This too shall pass
to the folks reading this on the toilet, give it time
No
-Gandalf
Nothing ever neither always nor nevers.
Nothing never happens. Nothing always happens. Learn to live in the gray and you will be happy.
This is the least I can share to explain.
This would make a great cross stitch pattern. Like one of those floral circles grandma might have on her wall… but less saccharine, more contemplative.
Go to bed with an itchy ass, wake up with a stinky finger.
simple is often the opposite of easy
perfect is the opposite of good
Peanut butter is the opposite of jelly
Not recent knowledge, but flatulence is always funny.
If you want your funeral to properly represent you, write your own eulogy.
priest clears throat “in the immortal words of the deceased: f*ck da police coming straight from the underground…”
“WAKE UP! RUNAHAUNANANAHUNA MAKEUP YOUWANTEDTO”
Also you won’t be there anyway, so, whatever…
(not recently but always useful): Righty tighty, lefty loosey. Always helps when un/screwing things.
Except gas pressure regulators
And lawnmower blades
And brush cutter heads
And some wheel hubs
What did I miss?
Oh, bicycle pedal cranks
Half of a bottlescrew or turnbuckle.
Some arbor nuts.
What did I miss?
Anything where the nut will regularly be in a counter-clockwise rotation. Ideally you want the nut spinning toward tightening, so that it doesn’t back out over time. So, for some application “left-handed” threads make more sense.
Congrats for just explaining why I listed those specific things 😂
