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  • Clearly its the tines of 2 and the handle of 5. Anything else is madness.

    My reasoning is quite simple. The tines on the No.2 fork are longer than the others. Long things are often associated with quality, status and refinement (Long fingers, long lashes, long legs etc.). The extra length suggest dexterity and precision.

    Conversely the comparatively stubby tines of the No.1 fork would likely suit a toddler or an adult who isn’t allowed near pointy things without supervision. Similarly the tines of the No.5 fork suggest that this utensil was born wanting to be a spoon but then was made into a fork at the last minute. This hypothesis is further supported by the rounded end of it’s handle which would suit a spoon rather well.

    Numbers 3 and 4 forks are usually, in my experience found in establishments where you help yourself to cutlery from big pots with grubby labels marked “SPOONS”, “KNIVES” and “FORKS”.

    Now to the handles. Although the tines of the No.2 fork are pleasing, it then lets itself down with a handle that widens to the point of absurdity. Perhaps the thought was that it would help the extremely aged keep a firm grip while spooning tapioca past loose dentures.

    So a cleaned up fork made from an amalgam of the refined tines of No. 2 fork and the pleasantly rounded handle of No. 5 are the only option for any adult with reasonable dexterity.




  • It’s not the stupidest timeline because in that one everyone’s happy because everyone’s stupid. The problem is that you’re smart and too many people with power aren’t. After so many decades of living alongside news media empires, who make money if we’re all terrified, I take everything with a pinch of salt now.

    I automatically ignore any headline, for example, that asks a question in the subject line and doesn’t answer it unless you read the article. Also, any article that uses hyperbolic phrases like “This is the end of…” or “<insert name> slams/eviscerates/destroys <insert name> with tweet/article/report”.

    Also, any headline with ridiculous numbers in it like “Eighty million people will be homeless by winter” or “The average human is filled with 5 kilos of micro plastics!”. I even ignore headlines that promise good news, if they use the same tricks, like “New, cheap, easily mass produced chemical discovered that can fix climate change!”.

    It’s kind of a new brain muscle for me but now my first impulse when I read any headline is to assume it’s not true and then see if anything else comes along to suggest otherwise. Take all that BS, for example, about the 2000 foot deep chambers apparently discovered under the pyramids that just appeared in everyone’s newsfeed. Didn’t take long for that to get debunked.

    Basically, I just assume all this is fiction until it’s corroborated by several dependable sources. The reality of the state of the world is almost certainly not what is being put in front of us. It might be worse or it might be better but it’s almost certainly not what they say it is.



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    1 month ago

    I remember it so clearly man… The morning of October 15 2025, a Wednesday as I recall. People were warned but they didn’t listen. They don’t ever listen.

    I’ll never forget the screaming. Millions of Windows 10 computers just spontaneously exploding all over the place. Women, children and men with beards running down the streets of every city just trying to avoid the thousands of computers being thrown from the tops of buildings. The world was never the same after that. I found an abandoned bus in the chaos so I tried to save as many people as I could. We rode into the night towards the hills. Away from the cities and the looting and chaos.

    Or you know… it just means no updates and we’ll all probably be fine.







  • It’s crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are “free” if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don’t realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.