Years of shrimp posture

I have long suspected - and I don’t know where real music historians stand on this - that a few of the pieces of music attributed to Mozart were actually written by his sister.

That if you’re amazed by how good/smart LLMs are, it’s because you’re well below average. LLMs are still incredibly stupid and bad at things.

Approximately 30% of any population anywhere in the world are utter and complete fuckwads.

That the investor class in America has been panicking for about a decade because there hasn't been a technological innovation on the same level as the smart phone in that time.

That something's up

Israel had a larger hand in Benghazi than is being let on and Israeli intelligence provided Republicans with a lot of intel regarding the attack as Obama was starting to rift with Israel on how to handle the Middle East.

I have a hunch that there's something fucky with passkeys, and it's gonna turn out to be a security and or privacy nightmare in the near future.

About 160° (~2.79 rad). Been slouching too much and need to fix my posture.

That putting lead in gasoline decades ago fucked human progress and we'd have achieved much more by now if not for that.

This is a random one: (I have no clue if this is backed in any real science or history as I haven't not looked it up)

I suspect the myth of mermaids (with lower half fish and upper half human) stemmed from woman divers along coastal regions, who wouldn't have had any swimming clothes and so would likely be doing so undressed (or only slightly dressed) and likely obscured by the water.

I could also see the part of the myth that mermaids drown sailors as more or less of a 'don't mess with them' warning to people on the ships in case they decided to go check it out or start to stare a little too hard and not focus on what they're supposed to be doing.

The reason it feels like we're slaves no matter how much technology improves is incredibly simple, but invisible: money can't be created unless an equal amount of debt is also created.

This mathematically ensures that life is a game of musical chairs at all times. Interest serves to model the missing chairs.

I'm not crazy and I've never heard of it as a conspiracy theory but personally I'm not 100% convinced about Labrador, Canada. The only pictures I can find of the place are either pictures of scenery that could be anywhere, extremely generic, or low-resolution aerial shots of settlements, nothing that concretely convinces me it exists. I know it's remote and sparsely populated, but there are more remote, less populated places that I can get normal pictures showing daily life a lot more easily.

TL; DR: some people are just animals that believe in nothing.

Idea: what most divides us from other animals isn't thinking, consciousness, or the ability to create tools to adapt. It's belief. Not in a higher power, but in existential drive. I think it shows a level of intelligence that sets us apart as a species.

Hunch: some people are too stupid for this, and are closer to other animals than they are to us. They don't believe in anything. Decisions are made by instinct and self preservation above all.

I'd imagine that, if you were to analyze their genes, they might have traits from "another branch of the family tree."

USA will keep being a warmongering nation as long there are no wars that hit American soil and civilians.

My very first conspiracy theory: Space fuckery. I'll lay out the dots and you can connect them.

On the morning of March 19 or 20, I observed what I was certain at the time was my first meteor sighting. This was in the greater Dallas area.

Skip to Sunday I found a story about meteor sightings reported in Houston and other areas. The sightings were from the previous day, March 21.

Since last weekend there have been further meteor reports across the US.

On Thursday March 26 there was a visible missile launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force station.

This is all in good fun for me. But with this administration and the blunders in Iran, it won't surprise me to learn later that they had something to do with it.

For context before I spout my hunch, within the past maybe month or so, someone who worked as a news hostess in the US had her mother kidnapped and hasn't been found and/or returned yet ( dead or alive ) with no arrests so far.

Given the general climit in the US right now, I wouldn't be surprised if the person who did it knew exactly who they were kidnapping and did it out of spite/hatred for this news hostess. Especially since, IIRC, this happened in Texas.

As to what has happened to the mother since, that's up for debate since there's basically not much evidence in the case besides a doorbell camera showing the man coming, mask on with a gun, and trying to block the camera with his hand. That's the latest I heard.

That the various new and inventive grid scale energy storage solutions people are trying out won't end up being better than just building big chemical batteries. Sodium Ion will probably be good enough and cheap enough.

That democracy and democratic socialism are outliers and fated to be a footnote in the history books.

The unfortunate truth is that hate and violence almost always prevails over peace and love.

If the Trump administration doesn’t kill the ADA law changes regarding digital accessibility set to go into effect soon, Adobe is going to leverage the law to unseat the PDF format on the web in an effort to get people to pay for a subscription-based content management system.

Adobe doesn’t own the PDF standard. They gave it to the International Standards Organization in 2008. Acrobat’s accessibility checker has never been updated to newer standards, even as the federal government has moved to require compliance with WCAG 2.1 (a web standard). Their checker does partial WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA, which was released in 2008. The ISO is working on PDF 2.0, which is not backwards compatible with PDF/UA, nor will files compliant with WCAG be able to meet the PDF 2.0 spec.
Which means that Acrobat (or InDesign) won’t be able to make files that can be legally shared online by many organizations. Adobe will leverage their near monopoly to steer designers into cloud products integrated into their publishing software as a means up fill the niche vacated by PDFs.