Statue should be based on this picture:

Maybe by the same artist who did the Ronaldo statue:

Plaque should be:

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

‘Pedo Guy’ Elon Musk, 2012

Sentient balloons made me think of this

Ah young one I was once like you until I realised, that by not making the bed, your fitted sheet ends up absorbing more dust and moisture during the day and you have to change them more frequently. For truly optimal laziness it’s best to at least throw the quilt over.

I never really thought about it before but semantically ‘atheist’ only means ‘no belief in God or gods’. Technically it shouldn’t preclude belief in spirits or other supernatural elements. I suppose the closest thing to complete disbelief in the supernatural is ‘skeptic’ but even that’s up for interpretation. Do satanism and humanism explicitly rule out any supernatural?

For a second I thought you said the ‘Trials’ games. I guess living in a world of cartoonish side scrolling motocross wouldn’t be so bad

Humans do not understand the philosopher. It is a strange creature.

I wonder if there’s different kinds of aphantasia for sound and vision (mind’s ear vs mind’s eye)?

Interesting thanks. It seems like it takes a lot of practice! It makes me wonder if it’s possible for an “earworm” song to get stuck in your head if you’ve only ever heard it with your “mind’s ear”

I wonder if anybody can do it for an orchestra? I suppose Beethoven was composing symphonies while he was dead so he must have been able to!

Archaeologists are not dinosaur experts you shame of Lemmy commenters. They had a paleontologist comment,you can’t even recognise them in your own post.

Just watched it! It’s amazing how much effort he goes to. Makes me appreciate how complex and expensive carbon capture and sequestration at any kind of scale must be.

I always wanted to have a full team of glitch Pokemon:

Ash is wading along the beach on cinnabar island when suddenly he falls over onto the hard ground. Bright light comes from all around as he looks up in shock to see a strange emtpy wireframe space.

As he gets up, a piercing noise shatters the silence, it seems to come from inside his own head. A shadowy, pulsating form fades and crackles into view. An ‘arm’ extends and throws a ball, completely black like a void. Exploding from within is a pokemon…? No It can’t be! Ash stares wild eyed at the strange rectangular form, a chunk missing in its top right corner. It shrieks as it ripples with strange patches of incomprehensible randomness.

Ash’s vision flashes for a moment back to the beach, he’s staring up at his friends as he lies on the sand. They’re saying something but he can’t hear it. He can’t speak, his eyes are portholes and he’s trapped inside. Then he’s gone, back to the broken liminal space.

The pokemon is approaching. Or is it? It doesn’t seem to exist properly, a 2D form in a 3D space that only seems to grow in his vision. Ash looks down to see pikachu by his side, hair standing on end. They exchange a glance and he knows what to do.

The fight is a blur, each new opponent more incomprehensible and impossible than the last. As the final entity is destroyed. Ash falls to his knees, his mind shattered by the infinite cosmic chaos. The strange ‘gym leader’ begins to fade and the world starts to crumble to blackness. A bright light is shining. A voice emanates from all around. “Wake up ash you’ll be late for school.”

Ash opens his eyes and looks around, he is in bed. The world seems so much more detailed, so much more real. A handheld gaming device rests on his chest, white light flashes from its LCD screen as a pixelated title cutscene plays. A single word appears. PoKéMoN™

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here’s a few that I haven’t seen:

• Chris Spargo - Documentarian ‘Answering life’s little questions’ (in his own words)

• HowTown - Well researched, slick documentaries on science and sociology

• Useful charts - Family trees and history combined with some nuanced religious history

• Map Men - Somehow both an incredible geography channel and very funny skit show

• ToldInStone - Regular and endlessly fascinating ancient history content

• Captain Disillusionment - A one man special effects genius makes funny deep dives and debunks on special effects topics

• Nile Red - Chemistry wiz kid makes alcohol from toilet paper - The closest thing to a modern alchemist I can imagine

• Joel haver - Inventor the rotoscoped paint cartoon, funny, creatively driven and refuses to sell out

• Patrick Boyle - Educated, nuanced and cuttingly dry humoured takes on popular economics issues

• Steve Mould - High quality science demos and explanations with an engaging and humble host

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I like your ‘roll with it’ attitude, Give this man a raise!

I knew I had arrived when I could finally add all of the chilli sauce sachet. I’m still riding that high ten years later.

I thought so too so I checked. The plague came in many waves (famously the black death was in the 1300s which may be why we were confused) but there was a major plague outbreak in 1665-1666 which is when Newton was doing his work on optics.

This too shall puss

I blocked all posts containing [HC-DUMB] but now I don’t know what your post said. Can you post it again please?