When my mom got fiber internet, they had to dig a trench through everyone’s front yard in the neighborhood. They managed to destroy one of her Christmas yard decorations.

When I got fiber internet, a dude in a truck ran it from a pole across the street in like two hours.

My first thought when I saw this.

Maybe not direct miscommunication, but definitely a lack of context.

I got into a stupid game with my girlfriend texting back and forth quotes that start with “I am” like I’d send “I am Iron Man” and she’d respond “I am not a crook!”

After a while, I was running out of ideas, so I sent a quote from Pulp Fiction which I probably botched. Wasn’t sure if she had even seen it.

A few minutes later, my ex girlfriend calls and then hangs up when I answer. Thought that was weird.

Then I thought about how my ex and current girlfriend had the same first name.

I had just texted my ex who I hadn’t spoken to in two years “I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON YOU!”

I tried to explain the context. She was fairly understanding, but I was shoook after that experience.

The tips of the turbine fan blades are going much faster than the plane itself.

The air leaving your lungs during a sneeze is moving roughly 100mph.

At the equator, everything is moving at over 1000mph.

Glass cracks propagate at an absurdly fast rate. Something like 4x the speed of sound (1400m/s). Not a physical thing moving, but very common.

Also need to specify rest mass. Light has momentum.

Can’t find any solid numbers on it, but the micromirrors on a DLP projector are really fast. They rotate 10 degrees or so back and forth something like 1024 times for each color channel for each frame at 60fps.

The crack of a whip is a sonic boom caused by the tip going supersonic.

Normalize Worms 3D cursor!

Changing a monitor’s resolution from 1024x768 to something useable.

Not quite rage-quit, but I worked as a cashier at a local grocery store chain until one day I was asked to clean up broken eggs that had dripped into the dusty-ass vents at the bottom of the dairy section.

Nor are a man and a woman.

The tenets of capitalism say nothing about how much each person makes. Nor do communism. If you’re eager to learn more, read something.

Because everyone would have access to the same opportunities and same schools etc. Those with better talents or a better work ethic will probably make more money. Instead of today where families hoard wealth through generations.

It’s spelled “caste,” and castes are (critically) hereditary. Leaving a caste you were born into is virtually impossible.

People who do more/harder work can get compensated an appropriate amount. Note that this runs at odds to the current system where a CEO makes 1000x their employees salary despite not working 1000x as hard.

The old joke “what was the tallest mountain before Mt. Everest was discovered?”

“Mt. Everest”

Yep. 2011 was really the year we lost the plot.

Peaking in 2009

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