It's like going up to someone who doesn't know about conservation of energy, and telling them you have a wheel that never stops spinning, and expecting them to be blown away.

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Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

At 20: I worried about what everyone thought of me.

At 40: I stopped caring what everyone thought of me.

At 50+: I realized... nobody was thinking about me in the first place.

When a helicopter's rotors synchronize with the camera frame rate.

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It's people like that who make you realise how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. TOM LEHRER (1928 - 2025)

A MALAPHOR is when two metaphors are clumsily and incorrectly combined, such as 'It's as easy as riding a piece of cake' or 'We'll burn that bridge when we get to it'.

Welcome to adulthood, where you'll be constantly tired except for when it's time to go to sleep.

This thread is convincing me more and more to be glad my late teens were prior to social-media-records-everything. All the stupid shit I said was said to some other moron, in private.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

Visst har vi spikat att det nysvenska ordet för det här är PIXELSPYA?

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Harmi.

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The trolley problem is inherently optimistic because it assumes a robust and active public transportation system.

doctor: make sure you drink plenty of fluids

me: that’s literally all i drink

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #17,181!

this has the same energy as guests arriving to a party before the host is there. glad we're all here together now 🕺🪩

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