Things You Pondered Today

[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.

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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?

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?

[close]

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.

[SneakySecrets]

The Japanese made the first side scrolling video game… these games always go left to right, but they read right to left. 

I would have expected that someone would naturally program it to scroll in the direction they read, but that’s not what happened.  Why?

[Mean salto]

How the fuck do deaf kids learn to read? Without corresponding sounds the alphabet is completely meaningless. Then what you just have to memorise every word ever invented but can't even sound it all out in your head

[SneakySecrets]

They sound it out, it’s just all fucked up bc they can’t hear shit.

[matt_2993]

They sound it out, it’s just all fucked up bc they can’t hear shit.

Still not making sense for me

[doublesteveburger]

It’s probably because you’re deaf and don’t know it

[SneakySecrets]

Some people say that World War II is just a continuation of WWI.  Not two separate wars, simply one with a two decade lull in the action.  Is there any truth to that?

[Mean salto]

^^i would say only in the way that all wars and history in general are connected. Maybe in 50-100+ years or something it will just seem like it was all the same thing. Just like how we now basically think of like the wild west, or mediaeval and dark ages of just being one thing going on.

[Mean salto]

Do other countries have "man flu"? And did anyone ever come up with bro-vid (covid for bros)?

[scab]

Some people say that World War II is just a continuation of WWI.  Not two separate wars, simply one with a two decade lull in the action.  Is there any truth to that?

No, that's untrue. Of course there were a lot of throughlines between the two world wars, and WW2 might not have happened the way it did if WW1 had unfolded differently, but the international landscape (for instance, Italy & Japan fought on the Allied side in WW1, but were part of the Axis forces in WW2) as well as the way wars were fought (from trench warfare in WW1 to carpet bombing in WW2) changed so dramatically between 1918 and 1939 that no historian in their right mind would claim they're the same war. Also, there were ratified peace treaties after WW1, so they are different wars from a legal point of view as well.

[Easy Slider]

All you need to know about WW2 as an American :-)

[Banned from the room]

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

[close]

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

Things are going ok. Thanks. I hope it's the same for you.

What I do now is skate the center of the ledge and just grind further or pop out.  It's frustrating because I can't nose grind over these bumps. This is a new problem for me. Could be the 58mm wheels on top of the dents? Idk.

I wanted to just try body filler but I'm really frightened to hurt the ledge. Imagine some old skater who kinda sucks now fucking up the only ledge in town. I'd hate me if I was a kid

I'm heading down there rn I think see if it's dry over there