That’s a shit prank, and people like your nan don’t understand how pranks work.
A good prank should allow the subject to join in the fun. Some stuff came up this year, so my plans have to be delayed until next year, but I bought a vial of gallium that I’m planning on molding with a cast of one of our kitchen spoons.
So my wife will wake up and see that her coffee melted her spoon. Little miraculous and inexplicable moment in the morning.
(Gallium is non-toxic)
To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.
Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.
I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.
Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.
Vodka is renewable
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
If I recall, the next post down was them realizing their mistake and asking how to delete things from Facebook, so it would have to be a humiliation fetish.
There’s a sub on Reddit called “mirrorsforsale” that’s all pictures like this.
My favorite was someone who posted a picture of their bathroom scale to show off how much weight they lost,but they didn’t realize the scale was so reflective and they were hanging dong.
Also, “Work won’t love you back.”
Yeah, I think the cutoff is 122F which isn’t insanely high.
Mark Rober on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8
“Um it says that you’ll never ask for this code”
With modern deepfakes, you don’t even need to actually kidnap a physical person.
The theater I used to work at had a light up marquee sign in the back that displayed captions in reverse. Then they’d hand out these little semi-transparent plastic sheets on flexible arms that you could clip to your arm rest. So just adjust the plastic until it’s in your field of view and reflecting the marquee in the back, and you had subtitles cheaply and without bothering anybody else.
Tooth filings pick up AM, not FM. Assuming that’s even a real thing. All you need get AM is a diode which can be made to varying levels of performance with a number of common materials.
FM radios generally use superheterodyne receivers which generate a radio frequency to be mixed with the incoming signal to pull out audio.
This receiver does emit a small amount of RF as a result and it’s how the TV police in the UK would catch you for skirting a TV license.
I’m sure there was a better way to do it. This was 7-8 years ago, so I don’t remember the details.
I think I was in a hurry to do it after I found out someone made purchases with a Google pay account I forgot I had.
That’s what I eventually did. Except without the refreeze because it was going to cost me $12 which while a small amount, is definitely a ripoff.
Yeah the temporary unfreeze was what wasn’t working and it was holding up my credit union.
It wasn’t money to unfreeze. It was money to re-freeze after.
It’s melting point is 85F, but I’ve found it difficult to melt with body heat. Haven’t played with it out of the vial yet though. Maybe it’ll be easier when it’s thinner.