If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people?

Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.

If it's oats, antonyms.

If it's a celebrities rise fo fame, synonyms.

Airstream: Anal International, Anal Basecamp

Jayco: Anal Vibe, Anal Surveyor

Keystone: Anal Bullet, Anal Cougar

Cruiser RV: Anal Radiance, Anal Viewfinder

I do know that it is the first one but still, my shampoo smells really appetising and just like the real thing...but every time I eat a really tasty/ aromatic fruit, my brain goes like "that tastes like my shampoo/ shower gel!"

Under the shower i thought about the life of Vernon Dursley.

The guy is just some normal British bloke. We don't know much about his background, but given his sister is breeding bull-terriers, he's probably from some lower middle class countryside family.

He falls in love with a women who is heavily traumatized because a freak genetic mutation or something gave her sister "special powers" and made her sister her parents favorite.

He doesn't get any of it, but he rolls with it, because he loves his wife. He works hard, gets in the corporate ladder and sucks it up so his wife can stay at home and raise their recently born son.

Then some freaks show up and drop his nephew on the doorstep. Turns out his sister in law and her husband have been engaged in some vigilante paramilitary group that was fighting in a secret war against a very potent terrorist. The terrorist murdered his sister in law and her husband. Somehow their little baby survived and apparently killed the terrorist. Or the head terrorist isn't really killed because of how this freak genetic stuff works, but Vernon doesn't get any of it.

The freaks who left the child only left a letter with it, saying the child will be safe at their house, but is otherwise in mortal danger as the terrorists are still out there and also the head terrorist some day somehow might return.

Despite this bringing danger to his family, Vernon takes in the child. He figures that the best thing to protect his family and the child is for the child not to be engaged in all of this freak stuff, so he tries to get it out of that cursed child. Again he doesn't really understand any of it, but weird stuff keeps happening around that child.

Because of that he develops anger issues and kind of locks the child in, which of course isn't okay, but he doesn't know what else to do. There is no government resources to help him. He doesn't know how to reach the people who dropped the child off, however they seem to keep tabs on him and his family. Again from all he understands they are involved in some paramilitary actions.

Despite all of this he remains loyal to his wife who he understands must suffer a lot from this, but they cannot seek counseling or other help as any psychiatrist would just lock them up for psychosis.

Then the boy starts going to the school for the freak kids like his parents. He starts getting involved in fights with that terrorist, who apparently is still alive, people show up at their house through the chimney, blowing half of it away, the godfather of his nephew is a wanted murderer he knew as an armed prison escapee from the news, his own son almost gets killed in an assassination attempt on his nephew involving some sort of invisible monsters and finally the leader of that paramilitary group shows up and demands them to leave their house for a while into the unknown.

The Dursley's are left alone to deal with all of these things that are way beyond their comprehension or ability. They try to do the right thing, but often fail the task. Instead of getting understanding they are considered the evil ones by everyone who seemingly understands whats going on.

Microplastics.

You can say the real means of production aren't anything material, but the skills, and knowledge of how to make things. And, like, the US just gave it all up willingly because it "makes economic sense" and makes the rich more money. Now they (the US) don't even know how to make new stuff anymore.

Edit: clarify who i meant by "they", thought it was unambiguous.

How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.

Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.

The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then...use it as a saber.

To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn't exist.

For so long we have always referred back to Nazi Germany as the last massive fascist and authoritarian takeover, but with America at the gates ready to go full fascist, the Germans must atleast be relieved that in a few years we will be talking about MAGA America instead of Nazi Germany.

W for the Germans I suppose.

People can grow vegetables and simply eat. But bread is way too complicated.

There is a bakers' dozen of big steps to go from wheat into bread. And multiple special structures needed too.

Same with beer. Wine makes total sense but how do you even invent ale? How are these common foods everyone knows and uses?

I was thinking "imagine if mediveal people knew how to boil seawater and sell salt" and now I spent 20 extra minutes in the shower.

The truth is out there

TL;DR: it looks like there are routers on the market that use gpt APIs to classify new, never seen before websites and add them to the blocklist in real time

This allows everyone to run something like the "great firewall of China" - and imagine what a government could do

Full story:

At work the boss got persuaded to pay some thousands for a fortinet firewall to cripple the customers free wifi (the extremely stupid idea is to sell them an unblock code, but I live in a country where with 10 euro per month people can get 100gb of 5G connection, who's going to pay?)

I tried that network and I was really shocked how crippled it was. Boss decided to block anything related to gaming, for example. You visit a small game developer page and it initially works but after a few minutes, you get a "blocked" page (but customers can't see that because nowadays everything uses HTTPS and they don't have the self signed CA on their system - they just see HTTPS certificate error). I tried multiple times but always the same result, after a few minutes is blocked.

Everything that corporate thinks it's not appropriate, it's blocked!

I felt more frustrated using this network than the time that I lived in China! (Left a few years before COVID, don't know the internet situation now)

When I came back home I took a shower and I thought to it under the hot water. At home I'm using gpt4o in karakeep to classify my bookmarks... and a router can also do the same.

Considering the number of rage baits out there these days.

Been thinking along the lines of Planet of the Apes -but without any man made catastrophe, meteorite impact and climate stabilization- what sort of structures or evidence of our civilization would remain in five or six million years if we all just vanish? Would an intelligent species of evolved insects -or something else- find buried artifacts in the ground like we did the dinosaurs? Would ancient structures like the pyramids or Great Wall remain for that long, and would any modern things like the Eiffel tower, Burj Khalifa, or even some present day Doomsday Vaults survive that amount of time? In our digitized age, I assume that not much would remain, other than satellites maybe or I suppose any modern species that just happens to get preserved like a dinosaur did.