Things You Pondered Today

[SneakySecrets]

There’s a % chance greater than zero that I’m the greatest skater to have ever lived but have been unlucky enough to have had an unbroken streak of bad days for the past 21 years. 

[Mean salto]

What if there was an X-Men who's power was they couldn't die but they didn't know so they just lived a normal life.

[Deputy Wendell]

my national anthem

“As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
-Eugene V. Debs

[fineslime]

What if there was an X-Men who's power was they couldn't die but they didn't know so they just lived a normal life.

That's what us humans are already doing since only our physical forms die off. Our consciousness is infinite.

We're basically X-Men.

[rawr1922]

If aliens come and visit us, I think it would be really cool of them if they just played along with all of the classic alien clichés.

If they make it here, they probably also have the technology to present themselves however they please. 

And they’d certainly be able to research what we think they might be like. 

And if they didn’t opt for our immediate annihilation/sexual subjugation, there’s a good chance that they’re pretty chill.

So I just think it would be nice if, for our benefit, they went through a list of the greatest hits: abductions via tractor beams, landing on the White House lawn and coming out and saying “take me to your leader”… that kind of shit. 

Also, after they adjudicate all the other, more important intergalactic political shit, I’d be curious to know what they think about skating.  I bet they’d be into it.

Had a good chuckle the other night reading this.

Arctic Monkeys 5 million followers on insta . Just realized this , pretty fascinating. Can be a case study

[crepes]

How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

[SneakySecrets]

How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

I looked it up… according to Iowa State University:

Horses are equipped to be highly aware of peripheral motion. The motion of anything causes the horse to register what it is (a survival mechanism for the prey animal). Anything that moves, regardless of what it is, may cause the horse to initiate the flight response before a predator begins to approach. Horses use two-forms of vision, monocular and binocular. Monocular vision allows the horse to see on both sides of his head, meaning the left eye and the right eye work independently and see different views. Each eye sees across an arc of approximately 200–210 degrees around the body at one time. The monocular fields straight in front of the horse’s face overlap slightly resulting in a  binocular field between 65 and 80 degrees. The binocular field is responsible for depth perception. A horse’s depth perception is considerably less than for humans. Because of their vision capabilities allowing for a panoramic view, it is impossible to sneak up on a horse.

The blind area is directly behind the animal’s head and body and has an arc of approximately 20 degrees. The front blind spot is directly under the head, immediately in front of the forehead and below the body in front of the horse’s face. A horse can’t see what they eat (grass they graze or grain in the bucket), fingers that stroke their muzzle or even the bit they accept in their mouths.  If a person raises a hand suddenly, they appear to the horse to come out of nowhere.




https://www.extension.iastate.edu/equine/vision-equine

This seems to be very similar to the sight of other prey animals like rabbits and squirrels and shit.

[Mean salto]

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How do horses see the world? Do they somehow coalesce 2 fields of vision like we do or is it split screen?

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I looked it up… according to Iowa State University:

Horses are equipped to be highly aware of peripheral motion. The motion of anything causes the horse to register what it is (a survival mechanism for the prey animal). Anything that moves, regardless of what it is, may cause the horse to initiate the flight response before a predator begins to approach. Horses use two-forms of vision, monocular and binocular. Monocular vision allows the horse to see on both sides of his head, meaning the left eye and the right eye work independently and see different views. Each eye sees across an arc of approximately 200–210 degrees around the body at one time. The monocular fields straight in front of the horse’s face overlap slightly resulting in a  binocular field between 65 and 80 degrees. The binocular field is responsible for depth perception. A horse’s depth perception is considerably less than for humans. Because of their vision capabilities allowing for a panoramic view, it is impossible to sneak up on a horse.

The blind area is directly behind the animal’s head and body and has an arc of approximately 20 degrees. The front blind spot is directly under the head, immediately in front of the forehead and below the body in front of the horse’s face. A horse can’t see what they eat (grass they graze or grain in the bucket), fingers that stroke their muzzle or even the bit they accept in their mouths.  If a person raises a hand suddenly, they appear to the horse to come out of nowhere.




https://www.extension.iastate.edu/equine/vision-equine

This seems to be very similar to the sight of other prey animals like rabbits and squirrels and shit.

Assuming it works the same as human eyes/brains I think it's just the classic you can't see what you can't see and not like two or three seperate things going on in their head. Hold your hand between your eyes like you're stopping someone from poking them (3 stooges style) and your hand almost disappears. It's prob similar for the horses blindspot

[Mean salto]

In the not too distant past the earth still had megafauna. Compared to many dinosaurs these animals were probably considered small. In the future will we be considered the megafauna when most the earth's creatures have died out

[SneakySecrets]

Imagine if the universe didn’t produce any sort of conscious beings whatsoever.  All that crazy shit going on in the universe: all the black holes, stars, supernovae, planets, multiple light year wide nebulae, 100 billion-ish galaxies and no one or nothing would ever know about it. What a waste.

Would that be a huge bummer?  How could it if there was never anyone or anything to be bummed about it in the first place? 

Or is there some sort of intrinsic value to there being a universe, independent of whether or not there’s anything around to witness it?

Or is a universe without consciousness functionally the same as there being no universe at all?

Or is consciousness somehow fundamentally baked into the universe?  Maybe we since we only experience consciousness through the aperture of a brain and nervous system we can’t really grasp what another form of consciousness would look like without all that stuff.  Maybe the universe is constantly observing itself everywhere at all times.

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If you assume that only a living thing can be conscious, if all living things on the planet were to die at the exact same moment, would it really be a tragedy?

There would be nothing to even register that it happened… nothing would ever know.  Likewise, there would be nothing or no one around to feel any sort of sorrow or loss.  Can something even be bad if it literally never causes any negative impact whatsoever on a conscious being?

If that’s the case, then a mad scientist instantly killing every living thing on the planet is infinitely less morally reprehensible than someone using the last square of TP and not putting a new roll on the thing.  Kinda mindblowing if you think about it.

I can’t imagine that anyone is going to read this whole thing.  To anyone still reading, what’s wrong with you?  Don’t you have anything better to do?

[beandemon]

Give a monkey a brain…

[Mean salto]

Wonder if vans sells tons of red checker board shoes in Croatia.

[BallparkFrank]

The world’s largest producer of mozzarella is in New Mexico

[Mean salto]

It would be cool if tyshawn cameos on sesame street and just blasted some tricks over Oscar the grouch in his can

[devils acrobat]

Wonder if vans sells tons of red checker board shoes in Croatia.

Ahaha, good one. I dont live in Croatia but in a City with a solid Croatian community and while literally everyone is wearing red checker shirts for soccer matches I havent noticed the vans. So probably not but it is an untapped market for sure. You could DM vans like a man and tell them.

[AR abstain]

in muslim countries, do skaters refer to thrasher as 'the koran'?
what about in israel?

[RoaryMcTwang]

Imagine if the universe didn’t produce any sort of conscious beings whatsoever.  All that crazy shit going on in the universe: all the black holes, stars, supernovae, planets, multiple light year wide nebulae, 100 billion-ish galaxies and no one or nothing would ever know about it. What a waste.

Would that be a huge bummer?  How could it if there was never anyone or anything to be bummed about it in the first place? 

Or is there some sort of intrinsic value to there being a universe, independent of whether or not there’s anything around to witness it?

Or is a universe without consciousness functionally the same as there being no universe at all?

Or is consciousness somehow fundamentally baked into the universe?  Maybe we since we only experience consciousness through the aperture of a brain and nervous system we can’t really grasp what another form of consciousness would look like without all that stuff.  Maybe the universe is constantly observing itself everywhere at all times.

—

If you assume that only a living thing can be conscious, if all living things on the planet were to die at the exact same moment, would it really be a tragedy?

There would be nothing to even register that it happened… nothing would ever know.  Likewise, there would be nothing or no one around to feel any sort of sorrow or loss.  Can something even be bad if it literally never causes any negative impact whatsoever on a conscious being?

If that’s the case, then a mad scientist instantly killing every living thing on the planet is infinitely less morally reprehensible than someone using the last square of TP and not putting a new roll on the thing.  Kinda mindblowing if you think about it.

I can’t imagine that anyone is going to read this whole thing.  To anyone still reading, what’s wrong with you?  Don’t you have anything better to do?

Everything is conscious man

[SneakySecrets]

Are other animals capable of being autistic, or is that just a human thing?  Like are there autistic squirrels and chickens out there running around?

[beandemon]

Are other animals capable of being autistic, or is that just a human thing?  Like are there autistic squirrels and chickens out there running around?

We’ve got a dog that’s spectrum-y af.

[Mean salto]

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Are other animals capable of being autistic, or is that just a human thing?  Like are there autistic squirrels and chickens out there running around?

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We’ve got a dog that’s spectrum-y af.

I think if anything humans are the least autistic animals on average

[Frank]

i've been pondering if i should move to some eu exclave/outside territory, thinking about canaries, azores, french guyana, something like that. it's gonna be a couple years until i would do it, but i want to research how viable that idea is.
i guess i'd be fine with corsica, too.

[tuesday]

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean

[matty_c]

How should I repair this? It's driving me crazy. I don't always wanna be going full tilt to get through the divot

Hard one cause you could fix it for like a session but probably fall apart quickly

Pain in arse but best I can think of is you clean the shit out of it, no wax, keyed finish so quite rough not smooth at all then try smash another piece of granite off a side that doesn't matter try use a grinder to shape it to the missing piece
Get a drill and drill like 4 holes in ledge and piece epoxy some rod into holes to hold it and then epoxy everywhere you want it to stick

Lotta work

Otherwise just clean it, rough it up and use a stiff construction grout throw some fibreglass fibres in the mix but I would use epoxy to stick them together just mix that shit in a 711 cup or something you won't need much bro
Clean it up with a grinder after its dried you don't wanna break the bond with the epoxy or it will fall out real quick

Hope you been well Flea

[SneakySecrets]

I wonder what things are staring right in our faces that future generations with the benefit of hindsight will point out as obvious, driving factors for the collapse of the global economy.  “How did they not see this coming?” they might say.  “Why wasn’t everyone freaking out?”  Maybe “Why did everyone just go along it?” in a similar way to how people still ponder how in the world the German people allowed themselves to be engulfed by Nazism. 

Also, what will the people of the future look at and say “can you people actually thought that way?”

[Mean salto]

What dingus decided to make so many things peanut butter flavoured? Not like peanut butter m&ms because they are actual peanut butter but everything else is dumb. It's just peanut flavoured not peanut butter. And what the fuck is popcorn chicken ........

[Abyss1]

What dingus decided to make so many things peanut butter flavoured? Not like peanut butter m&ms because they are actual peanut butter but everything else is dumb. It's just peanut flavoured not peanut butter. And what the fuck is popcorn chicken ........

and popcorn shrimp, but yea during the supply shortage only thing I could find for months on the granola shelf at Walmart all had some some sort of peanut butter mix...

[live, laugh, love]

Even though it's a dick move, the guy who's censoring Japanese porn gets to see porn most people will never see.

[Mean salto]

Even though it's a dick move, the guy who's censoring Japanese porn gets to see porn most people will never see.

Hmmmm I'm gonna say it's prob more like "has" to see rather than "gets" to see as Japanese porn is mad gross.

[beandemon]

I wonder what things are staring right in our faces that future generations with the benefit of hindsight will point out as obvious, driving factors for the collapse of the global economy.  “How did they not see this coming?” they might say.  “Why wasn’t everyone freaking out?”  Maybe “Why did everyone just go along it?” in a similar way to how people still ponder how in the world the German people allowed themselves to be engulfed by Nazism. 

Also, what will the people of the future look at and say “can you people actually thought that way?”

Going to say climate, Mr. Secrets.

[EXTRA SPICY]

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I wonder what things are staring right in our faces that future generations with the benefit of hindsight will point out as obvious, driving factors for the collapse of the global economy.  “How did they not see this coming?” they might say.  “Why wasn’t everyone freaking out?”  Maybe “Why did everyone just go along it?” in a similar way to how people still ponder how in the world the German people allowed themselves to be engulfed by Nazism. 

Also, what will the people of the future look at and say “can you people actually thought that way?”

[close]

Going to say climate, Mr. Secrets.

Enjoy everyday as it is the nicest day outside for its slot in the calendar for which it will ever be.


Today I pondered when people are dumb in the sub high school years, and remain dumb into adulthood, is there a trigger point where it’s like, “I don’t want to learn from my mistakes and don’t wish to seek further thought on X-subject.”
I’ve also been around my family for Christmas.