The New Coffee Room

Gedouddahere. You’re gonna visit Nobody’s Sock.

Let me check.

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

73% of all women from every class survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Only 19% of men survived.

Speaking of paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions. It's no wonder why young men might be looking around and wondering about these sorts of attitudes.

Especially when we are harangued about being sexists and patriarchs.

Swim, bitch, swim.

@jon-nyc said in News sites getting crushed by AI tools:

@Axtremus said in News sites getting crushed by AI tools:

Look forward to the day AI mostly trains on content generated by AI.

Hallucinations all the way down.

Spot on. Followed by descent into artificial madness.

It will be interesting to see how AI fares when there are far fewer websites being updated as their business model died.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/news-sites-are-getting-crushed-by-google-s-new-ai-tools/ar-AA1Gq8Bn

@jon-nyc said in Newsom 2028:

I think there’s too much about California that will stick to him, even if much of it is cleaned up by then.

My fear is he’ll beat someone electable in the primary.

Shapiro 2028. He's just about their only chance, assuming things do not go south badly between now and then.

Yes. i was reading this morning that Trump's approval on immigration is going way up. Even CNN is saying it. Newsom would carry deep blue states but get slaughtered in purples.

Yes. Technology is far outstripping progress in the other two.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-navy-officers-sabotage-submarines-in-black-sea-fleet-as-putin-faces-army-unrest/ar-AA1Gs9Ke?cmp_prftch=2

@89th said in Public Playgrounds Are Getting Way Overdone:

Another pet peeve of mine, parents who follow/hover over their kid the whole time. I mean, if your kid is 1 and might fall off the edge, ok... but WAY TOO OFTEN I see a mom or dad following their kid and saying shit like "are we making safe choices?" or "don't go up the slide, you need to go down it" or "let johnny go first, let's take turns". I am an avid believer that you really need to let your kid feel free and figure out how to socialize with other kids.

Agreed. You have to let them figure it out on their own. I'm also a big believer in natural consequences. You don't want to wear a coat to school? OK. Then they will know why they should wear a coat. They won't freeze to death.

Well, maybe where 89th lives they would.

That’s funny.

Good catch.

I’m surprised Japan would ever have rioters and looters.

Wombats are the only animals on Earth that produce cube-shaped poop — a quirky mystery that puzzled scientists for years. But now, researchers have figured out how this Australian marsupial pulls off the feat. By dissecting wombats and analyzing the elasticity and stiffness of their intestines, scientists discovered that the wombat’s gut has uniquely structured regions with varying flexibility. These regions contract in an uneven rhythm during digestion, slowly molding the feces into distinct six-sided shapes. To confirm their findings, the team even built a 2D mathematical model that simulated how these intestinal contractions form cubes over time. Unlike other animals, whose intestines squeeze poop in smooth, uniform waves, wombats have sections of muscle that squeeze faster or slower depending on their stiffness, shaping sharp corners as digestion progresses. The evolutionary reason? Wombats mark their territory by placing their droppings on rocks and logs — and cube-shaped poop simply doesn’t roll away. Scientists believe this strange biological trick could inspire new engineering methods for shaping materials more precisely.