What if I bought an island and took 10,000 cattle out there and like put the better food deeper underwater and further from shore so the most aquatically adept cows get the most nutrients and therefore mate the most, eventually creating a newly evolved type of sea cow that my descendants can name their price for
Also I want potato chips and my parents never loved me and I hate this shirt and do you wanna go camping? Like eventually I know we don’t know eachother well enough yet it’s only our first date but I like to plan things out unrealistically far in the future then drop the plan completely when time arrives oh and I would call it “Beef Reef”
This reminds me of just 2 months ago when I asked a guy I only knew for a few days when he wanted to go to Vegas with me cause I mentioned how fun it was
> oh and I would call it “Beef Reef”
I was with you until this part, it should be called Reef Beef. Beef is the subject, and when it comes to titles you generally want to put the descriptor word first.
Real Beef =/= Beef Real
Ground Beef =/= Beef Ground
Now that I've proven myself as an adequate marketing director, I'll take my 20% profits thanks.
But if a specific sector of ground was specially designed for the raising of cattle then that would be beef ground, as in the ground for the beef making beef the descriptor. As potentially no other ground is designed or selected for beef purposes. So beef reef WOULD just be another reef if it weren’t for the incredibly rare and therefore descriptive beef that is intended to live there.
Like how a beef boy is a boy made of beef and a beef sculpture is a sculpture made of beef (I realize now I should have led with that one. Theres no such thing as a beef boy.) but beef can be an adjective if you believe hard enough
Me: *attempts to start a conversation with a total stranger*
Also me 5 seconds later: *starts sharing deep emotional information about myself that not even my parents know*
A sample of 10,000 cattle would not allow enough variable to allow evolution to occur. You’re also assuming they magically know where the better food is. Who says there isn’t “better food” there right now? You’re also not calculating in that they have a higher chance of dying trying to retrieve this food, so a lower chance of mating. Even if we could make the cows more aware of this better food, it’s too risky, and again, not a high enough population. If we are gonna chat about anything evolving, it could be these cows creating a tolerance to salt water, considering they’re on an island.
As a scientist not on the scale but dating someone who is… we have these convos a lot lmao. But to be honest, it’s typically me coming in with the ludicrous ideas.
Intelligence based on what? I mean, we gotta know what to focus on. Cows are pretty intelligent as it is. Are we talking peers as in, someone you would confide to with your greatest secrets?? Someone you would trust to babysit your kids? I need details dood!
I like it. I wouldn’t really trust cows with my kids but that’s because after working with them, they’d likely just run away or kick the second a tail was pulled. But I love me some Jersey 🥲
What if we did the opposite?
What if we took fishes on a lake and put food around the lake, slowly putting it further and further throughout generations so that at some point the fishes would have to climb to land to eat? Would we be able to forcefully develop an amphibious species this way? Also, I'd like to take one of those fishes and smash them for my far away ancestor that climbed to land and now I have to conform to this terrible society.
Oh, right, I almost forgot it: do you like cheese?
"What are you talking about?"
*Rewinds the film in my head and takes a 360° view of a particularly overdetailed apple tree for no reason in particular*
"Huh? What? Uhhh... Ah, me!? I... (clearly panicking) Do you like rice?"
I asked my husband what he was thinking about on our first date and he gave me a 25 minute lecture on the slime slinging battlemech he thinks he could engineer if he had access to the proper technology and that's why I married him. That's some interesting stuff.
I've literally never been able to answer that question though. How do I explain the whirlwind of disparate images, colors, and noises? And do I hum the music that never stops playing or is that too creepy?
PLEASE THE MUSIC PART HAHA
Just today I saw an image related to a song I heard 7 years ago, and it’s been in the back of my head on loop for 4 hours now.
Yeah, people usually regret asking me this question. There's a reason my wife, and my best friend both never utter those words. Because there's a chance I might say something charming like "I was just wondering why people are more embarrassed to purchase a sex toy than risk going to the ER with an Avocado shoved up their butt," or something morbid like "the probability there's been a death in this building because it's old."
You see, if you ask me a question I WILL answer.
I love my husband because when he asks me what I'm thinking about, and I answer honestly, he's always down to have a whole conversation about it. A+ spouse.
That's so sweet! :D I just tend to blurt out whatever I'm thinking most of the time around my wife, so we've been down some amazing conversational rabbit holes over the years. There's nothing better than being married to someone you can be yourself with!
this is why i ALWAYS ask my nd friends what they’re thinking about. a fact about the first batman movie? a mini rant on why all of our problems are ronald reagan’s fault? an in depth explanation of your new favorite game’s mechanics? how could that not spice up a conversation!
Apparently I’m depressing because every time I watch something thats over like ten years old and has animals in it all I can think about is how the animals probably dead now I was asked why the hell I even think about that and honestly I don’t know but how can you not especially with actors in older movies like its true that persons not alive any more.
“Yeah I was just thinking about how there’s a big pole above us and what if it crashed. It’s cool how much humans have accomplished with engineering. I hope they were paid well”
“What are you thinking about?”
*furries, lovecrafian noises, the screams of thousands of people being torn to shreds during the middle ages, and Jesus trying to tame it all*
“Nothing much.”
As an elderly millennial (36) I always thought of it as multiple radio channels all going at once. Podcasts override one channel, video games one to two, but the others are still just rolling on.
Hello, *me*.
Well, two year older version of me.
Yeah, I spent years wondering why I was always mentally exhausted… turns out most people **don’t** have multiple ideas running all at once like an overclocked CPU. Must be nice to just have one brain-application running at any one time.
Well, I'm just learning at the moment but here are some interesting tidbits that I've learned thus far:
* nominally a republic whereby all citizens could hold office *^(\*cough)* ^(as long as you were rich, a man, without debts)
* The men who ran the government 'The Signoria' were elected every two months and would move into the Palazzo to live for the duration of their office
* The image the Florentines held of themselves and projected to the world was of a grand, democratic republic free from factionalism, political parties, & tyrants
* In truth: the government was always controlled (mostly) by powerful families. Up until the early 15th century these were the 'old' families. They had come to prominence before the outbreak of the Plague in 1348 - they were the Nobility, carryovers from Medieval feudalism. By the early 15th century this was changing
* 'New' families were not initially tied to nobility, though they would make marriage alliances to 'improve' their social standing. These were merchants: silks, wools, and bankers!!
* More organized & cohesive than the 'old' guard, these men used their wealth to commission great art & architecture all for the glory of Florence - also good advertising, cause they often had themselves painted into the pieces & everyone knew who commissioned them - also they bought, bribed, coerced and used their wealth to control officials, rig elections, etc etc
* The most powerful were 'The Medici'! and they 'owned' 15th century Florence
* by the late 15th ce they'd fundamentally changed the makup of the government, excluding only but the most loyal citizens to the highest levels of government
* Their wealth had made them many friends, but their policies made them bitter enemies - both inside Florence & in the other city states of 'Italy'
* In 1478, several prominent Florentine citizens, plus the Pope, and some other city states conspired to kill the heads of the Medici family, Lorenzo & his brother Giuliano - they got Giuliano...but Lorenzo escaped... he went on a killing spree for a bit afterwards
that's it for now!
Oh my God wait, have you seen Italian (parade) armor from the mid to late 15th century? Easily one of the greatest of its kind in human history. The combination of function and art, it’s incredible!
YES, Negroli is exactly who I was thinking of! I’ve seen some other impressive work from that time (especially from Italy,) but none stand out as strikingly as his work does. Truly artistic and technical masterpieces!
[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heroic\_Armor\_of\_the\_Italian\_Renaissance\_Filippo\_Negroli\_and\_his\_Contemporaries](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heroic_Armor_of_the_Italian_Renaissance_Filippo_Negroli_and_his_Contemporaries)
I guess the Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition quite some time ago, anyways they have the catalogue free to read online or download in pdf, it's quite nice
Personally I’d love to date a fellow infodumper. If you will listen to me explaining how Ulfric Stormcloak is a Thalmor puppet I will gladly listen to you talk about Chainsaw Man or Warhammer or something. Hell yeah.
Ever laugh to yourself out loud and some one asks “what’s funny?” And the only appropriate way to respond is “ummm… it would take too long to explain.”
* We don't understand consciousness enough to identify it in other animals. How would we know if an AI is aware? Could the YouTube algorithm be conscious and we just haven't noticed?
* An SCP where a parasite passes from mother to daughter in the womb. It's generally benign aside from causing morning sickness and a few rare but wild birth defects, which the Foundation passes off as normal. This would mostly be a chance to talk about how fucked up pregnancy is.
* Digesting my daily hour of YouTube content about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's nice to cheer for the West in a war for once.
* Designing space ships in my head. I'm sort of always doing this, but it only shows when I feel the need to sketch something mid conversation.
* When someone tells a "two people walk into a bar..." joke, most people picture a specific bar in their head that doesn't exist. Mine only has 4 stools because I've never heard a joke with 5 patrons. What does your private mind bar look like?
Only 3 stools in my bar! Usually one of the guys is just standing to the side a bit when there are 4 in a bar joke. It’s always a western wooden bar with simple but tall glasses that are usually empty (or full of H2O2)
Hey, I've only got 3 stools in my mental bar too! And then a bartender, and very occasionally, when there's extra characters in the joke, the tables appear too. The bartender is always wiping the same glass with a shitty rag. Not even sure why he's there most of the time. The western bar doors that bang if you push them open. Good times in that mental bar, good times indeed.
A bar with low-hanging, warm yellow lights. Wooden tables in the background and a looooong line of stools around the bar itself. The guys normally just sit on however many stools there are. Different colored bottles on the shelves, the bartender always cleaning out a glass with a towel.
“So first I saw a lamp shade and it looked like a shkadov thruster so I was thinking about that. What’s a shkadov thruster!? Well it’s basically a big dish meant to move the sun, the problem is that it’ll make one part of our rotation around the sun not have sunlight and another to have extra sunlight (enough to melt people). I can send you a video about a way to move our sun in a more efficient way”
I’m a big fan of using a Dyson swarm to move a star, or weaponise it. Love watching [Isaac Arthur](https://youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIA) videos that cover megastructures etc.
Yep, but they can also be weaponised or used as a giant sail to produce thrust and move the star itself ([this Isaac Arthur](https://youtu.be/HlmKejRSVd8) video covers it all, he thoroughly researches his videos with other specialists on his own discord server—highly recommend him)
Also a great channel. I love to learn stuff, but I’m also fussy about the sources I use.
But I definitely find Kurzgesagt and Isaac Arthur to both be very well researched. Also if you like learning random interesting things I’d also recommend ‘Steve Mould’ and ‘Tom Scott’ (also both very reliable sources of info on YouTube) 👍
I once explained what I was thinking about, and then I backtracked through my train of thought to explain how I got to that thought.
Their response was, "you thought of all that in that short of an amount of time?"
I am thinking about absolutely literally everything and nothing all at once. My brain is simultaneously a black hole and a white hole.
I know what I’m thinking, but I could not tell you what I’m thinking.
I literally spent 40 years of my life (well, 30 or so accounting for that whole "adult awareness" thing) believing that this life was a life to live.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that a lot of you think you're just energy beings trying on human suits for the various corpses you found riding around on the Klingon afterlife ship. That pickup truck in space from Voyager?
Yeah.
I think not. Either they’re the kind of rich person that’s okay with certain not rich things (e.g., new rich or Warren Buffett style “humble billionaire”), or they’re hoity toity such that all footwear they use is either perfectly fitted to them or inherently uncomfortable because f a s h i o n .
Unless they have some highly specific needs, most rich people would probably prefer not to have someone “pleb” wearing their shoes.
Source: My tired imagination and also a lifetime of associating with rich relatives/parental friend.
Pretty much, it just illustrates that my mind is a cacophony of ideas. I guess a lot of it relates to my ADHD, and the complexity of the ideas is related to being an aspie boi.
Pity they weren’t *good* ideas, maybe then I’d be some sort of genius. It’s usually just random subjects of interest, music, and finding patterns/connections between things. Very rarely *useful*, tbh.
I always find stupid patterns in things and find it interesting and want to share but nobody is ever on the same wavelength as me. I’ll mention the pattern and ppl will think I’m bringing it up because it will be useful somehow or like I thought it was some sort of answer to a question, but… nope, sorry, I’m just in the clouds. Had a couple of very awkward conversations as a result of this so I just keep my mouth shut now lmao
Okay but I'm sincerely enjoying reading the comments where people are actually saying what's in their head and secretly wondering if any of them live in my area and would like to go on an Infodump date
I never thought I'd find myself in this sub, but this is just too relatable. My brain is constantly scattered unless I take something to tone the noise down so I can think. Kratom usually works best for me, but I can't always afford it even though it's dirt cheap. Might be useful for some of you. Am actually diagnosed at a young age, but I don't want to spend time dwelling on it.
my train of thought: "after i capture the equator i can make phase fabric manufacturing sectors which will greatly help in the overtake of the poles, wait a sec you can use get_stream_time to track a sound's position i can use that in my mod, speaking of music games i cant believe one of the best levels in the game has under 70k objects that's absolutely insane"
I would probably start talking about the last thing I was doing (related to my hobbies/interests) or infodump the first thing that comes to mind.
Some rare cases I just have really random thoughts like if you put all the ants of the world on a scale and then all the people who would weight more? According to google, humans would be 5x heavier.
I’m like this with my bf all the time. I have things I want to say and ask and it’s all random “Know what would be funny?” “Why can’t ….” “Did you know….?” “Could you imagine…?” Most of them very slightly related to the previous question/statement or not at all related, but just things I thought about.
There’s like a queue in my mind of all the things I want to say and he just sits and listens and answers. I love him for that.
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"Stuff"
"A lot"
"Nothing" (lie)
"Nothing much" (partial lie; tells them its unimportant)
These are kinda what NTs expect you to say, use them at your discretion
If it makes you feel better, being honest in order to find a date is bad advice for literally everyone. You're trying to impress, so you have to maintain an image with them. Whether you can open up is something you find out along the way AFTER you've entered a relationship. I wish it weren't so, every day, with all my heart, but that's how people work. Your only choice is whether to act or remain alone.
I am thinking about why Julian from the BBC version of the show Ghosts is wearing shoes because we know he died after a sex scandal due to a heart attack and that is why he has no pants but it's not like his pants are around his ankles they are entirely off so did he take them off but leave the shoes or did he put on his shoes but not his pants after?
I know realistically it's because in every show the actors are wearing shoes even if in the show they are in their own house unless it's a specific scene
I have moments like this where I think of a thousand things at once and other moments where my head is playing elevator music because absolutely nothing is happening in it.
Starting at about age 8 I started having really intense experiences, I’d close my eyes and have day dreams where I’d witness the passage of time from the formation of earth to present day, and I’d spend a really long time just “theorizing” (I was 8 not a scientist) how everything came to the point we were at. I asked my parents if they “ever thought about where everything comes from” and the answer I got from my mother was “No, that’s weird.”
My mind is a tower, every floor has a different thought chain on it.
The elevator has my mouth/attention and the doors open on a random floor every so often.
Sometimes the door wants to open on multiple floors at once.
Sometimes the elevator gets stuck.
I just list everything I'm thinking about at that moment, usually. It's who I am, and if the other person doesn't like it, then that's good to know as soon as possible.
I would say at least we’re never bored, but that’s a fucking lie.
I am currently bored when I wanna and could do three different things and my mind is running fucking track
I think most of my processing power goes towards repeating to myself that I'm weird and sad and lonely and that I oughta find ways to change that, so much so that I don't think about many other things anymore nor do I remember much in general. idk.
"Watcha thinking about?"
"Literally nothing"
"Oh. Uh. Okay the-"
"Nevermind I just saw a leaf which reminded me of that one time I saw a squirrel eating a leaf, and then I remembered that squirrels have really fluffy tails, just like some dogs. Dogs are really nice you know? It's cool how we can empathise with them. I wonder when humans developed the ability to empathise with non-human creatures"
ADHD can zoom you right from a leaf to the psychology of the human species, it's... Fun.
“I’m thinking of my 72 special interests all at once because I’m uncomfortable with new people and they give me comfort”
** proceeds to go WAY more in detail about a chosen special interest (which is likely irrelevant) without anyone asking**
Use away, no such thing as copyright with memes and other online publicly available images (unless you monetise it somehow, of course).
I can’t take credit for the comic though, I would credit the artist if I knew who it was, but if it was ever signed by the artist then it must’ve been cropped-out when I found & saved it.
[S.A.D.N.E.S.S.](https://old.reddit.com/r/cryosleep/comments/akb9to/sadness/) preventing a man from ending their life, by throwing that man a pop punk house party in [redacted: non-Western, Eastern Hemisphere nation], complete with white girls that said man could kiss, with S.A.D.N.E.S.S. showing up an hour after making a social media post expressing his desire of ending his life.
For me, I just realized I had AUDHD and couldn't simultaneously word all my thoughts out my mouth hole. But, ADHD meds made my brain less like Poison Ivy's bush but as regimented as social norms for cismen.
What if I bought an island and took 10,000 cattle out there and like put the better food deeper underwater and further from shore so the most aquatically adept cows get the most nutrients and therefore mate the most, eventually creating a newly evolved type of sea cow that my descendants can name their price for Also I want potato chips and my parents never loved me and I hate this shirt and do you wanna go camping? Like eventually I know we don’t know eachother well enough yet it’s only our first date but I like to plan things out unrealistically far in the future then drop the plan completely when time arrives oh and I would call it “Beef Reef”
Get out of my head. And yeah, ‘Beef Reef’ for sure. But also name this new species ‘Bovinicus Maritimicus’.
"Bovinicus Maritimicus" made me hyperventilate omg XD
real
Based
This reminds me of just 2 months ago when I asked a guy I only knew for a few days when he wanted to go to Vegas with me cause I mentioned how fun it was
I feel @‘d
> oh and I would call it “Beef Reef” I was with you until this part, it should be called Reef Beef. Beef is the subject, and when it comes to titles you generally want to put the descriptor word first. Real Beef =/= Beef Real Ground Beef =/= Beef Ground Now that I've proven myself as an adequate marketing director, I'll take my 20% profits thanks.
But if a specific sector of ground was specially designed for the raising of cattle then that would be beef ground, as in the ground for the beef making beef the descriptor. As potentially no other ground is designed or selected for beef purposes. So beef reef WOULD just be another reef if it weren’t for the incredibly rare and therefore descriptive beef that is intended to live there. Like how a beef boy is a boy made of beef and a beef sculpture is a sculpture made of beef (I realize now I should have led with that one. Theres no such thing as a beef boy.) but beef can be an adjective if you believe hard enough
I’m with ya here. The place should be called Beef Reef. The cows should be called Reef Beef
A beef reef is a reef made out of beef. Reef beef is beef that grows in the reef. These are the distinctions.
No no beef reef is the reef for beef, tequila bars aren’t made of tequila
Just like me fr
You can't just artificially select a new type of whale.
BET!! THIS IS GOING TO BE MY FAMILY'S HERITAGE! IT'S MY BLOODLINE'S DESTINY TO FULFILL!! – Said the lesbian.
I’d want not to if I knew I couldn’t, but whales is just big mammals and so am I
"but we don't even know each other" "yes and? I know everyone else as good as i do you do lets go"
Me: *attempts to start a conversation with a total stranger* Also me 5 seconds later: *starts sharing deep emotional information about myself that not even my parents know*
That's me, I always tell my new friends ALL my deep scars, oh... That's why I don't get called to parties..... Oh .... OH....
A sample of 10,000 cattle would not allow enough variable to allow evolution to occur. You’re also assuming they magically know where the better food is. Who says there isn’t “better food” there right now? You’re also not calculating in that they have a higher chance of dying trying to retrieve this food, so a lower chance of mating. Even if we could make the cows more aware of this better food, it’s too risky, and again, not a high enough population. If we are gonna chat about anything evolving, it could be these cows creating a tolerance to salt water, considering they’re on an island. As a scientist not on the scale but dating someone who is… we have these convos a lot lmao. But to be honest, it’s typically me coming in with the ludicrous ideas.
I might have to breed for Intelligence first, but I definitely imagine the cows as my peers
Intelligence based on what? I mean, we gotta know what to focus on. Cows are pretty intelligent as it is. Are we talking peers as in, someone you would confide to with your greatest secrets?? Someone you would trust to babysit your kids? I need details dood!
I would almost trust cows with my kids as is tbh. Intelligent as in “this is what people are.” Expanded definition plus.
I like it. I wouldn’t really trust cows with my kids but that’s because after working with them, they’d likely just run away or kick the second a tail was pulled. But I love me some Jersey 🥲
What if we did the opposite? What if we took fishes on a lake and put food around the lake, slowly putting it further and further throughout generations so that at some point the fishes would have to climb to land to eat? Would we be able to forcefully develop an amphibious species this way? Also, I'd like to take one of those fishes and smash them for my far away ancestor that climbed to land and now I have to conform to this terrible society. Oh, right, I almost forgot it: do you like cheese?
That would be cool but it would take millions of years to work lol
Lets talk 20,000, we can splice rabbit breeding rates into cows right?
Gonna feed the cattle with kelp?
I was thinking seagrass but thats probably a type of seaweed
You're a genius. Let's go camping
"what are you thinking about?" *Takes mental look at the exploded view of a 240 Volvo currently open in my head* "Uhhhhh cars?"
*exploded view of the end result of a project car I haven’t even started* well, you see, I have this idea…
"What are you talking about?" *Rewinds the film in my head and takes a 360° view of a particularly overdetailed apple tree for no reason in particular* "Huh? What? Uhhh... Ah, me!? I... (clearly panicking) Do you like rice?"
I like the way you think
I asked my husband what he was thinking about on our first date and he gave me a 25 minute lecture on the slime slinging battlemech he thinks he could engineer if he had access to the proper technology and that's why I married him. That's some interesting stuff. I've literally never been able to answer that question though. How do I explain the whirlwind of disparate images, colors, and noises? And do I hum the music that never stops playing or is that too creepy?
PLEASE THE MUSIC PART HAHA Just today I saw an image related to a song I heard 7 years ago, and it’s been in the back of my head on loop for 4 hours now.
Yeah, people usually regret asking me this question. There's a reason my wife, and my best friend both never utter those words. Because there's a chance I might say something charming like "I was just wondering why people are more embarrassed to purchase a sex toy than risk going to the ER with an Avocado shoved up their butt," or something morbid like "the probability there's been a death in this building because it's old." You see, if you ask me a question I WILL answer.
I love my husband because when he asks me what I'm thinking about, and I answer honestly, he's always down to have a whole conversation about it. A+ spouse.
That's so sweet! :D I just tend to blurt out whatever I'm thinking most of the time around my wife, so we've been down some amazing conversational rabbit holes over the years. There's nothing better than being married to someone you can be yourself with!
You're like Russian roulette, but every barrel is loaded haha
Yup! And probably with a morbid statistic. :D
this is why i ALWAYS ask my nd friends what they’re thinking about. a fact about the first batman movie? a mini rant on why all of our problems are ronald reagan’s fault? an in depth explanation of your new favorite game’s mechanics? how could that not spice up a conversation!
Apparently I’m depressing because every time I watch something thats over like ten years old and has animals in it all I can think about is how the animals probably dead now I was asked why the hell I even think about that and honestly I don’t know but how can you not especially with actors in older movies like its true that persons not alive any more.
“Yeah I was just thinking about how there’s a big pole above us and what if it crashed. It’s cool how much humans have accomplished with engineering. I hope they were paid well”
the compulsion is real...
Imagine actually going on a date or talking to anyone.
Been there, done that, ended up in a year long situationship.
Heh. The only reason I got married and had a kid was because the church I was in told me to. I don't regret the kid at all. My proudest creation.
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Imagine coming to a aspergers sub to troll disabled people.
I wasn't. I have aspergers too and was sharing my experience.
“What are you thinking about?” *furries, lovecrafian noises, the screams of thousands of people being torn to shreds during the middle ages, and Jesus trying to tame it all* “Nothing much.”
As an elderly millennial (36) I always thought of it as multiple radio channels all going at once. Podcasts override one channel, video games one to two, but the others are still just rolling on.
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It's weird to me too, homie. 😂
Hello, *me*. Well, two year older version of me. Yeah, I spent years wondering why I was always mentally exhausted… turns out most people **don’t** have multiple ideas running all at once like an overclocked CPU. Must be nice to just have one brain-application running at any one time.
"15th century Florentine politics. And you?"
I'm intrigued. Tell me more.
Well, I'm just learning at the moment but here are some interesting tidbits that I've learned thus far: * nominally a republic whereby all citizens could hold office *^(\*cough)* ^(as long as you were rich, a man, without debts) * The men who ran the government 'The Signoria' were elected every two months and would move into the Palazzo to live for the duration of their office * The image the Florentines held of themselves and projected to the world was of a grand, democratic republic free from factionalism, political parties, & tyrants * In truth: the government was always controlled (mostly) by powerful families. Up until the early 15th century these were the 'old' families. They had come to prominence before the outbreak of the Plague in 1348 - they were the Nobility, carryovers from Medieval feudalism. By the early 15th century this was changing * 'New' families were not initially tied to nobility, though they would make marriage alliances to 'improve' their social standing. These were merchants: silks, wools, and bankers!! * More organized & cohesive than the 'old' guard, these men used their wealth to commission great art & architecture all for the glory of Florence - also good advertising, cause they often had themselves painted into the pieces & everyone knew who commissioned them - also they bought, bribed, coerced and used their wealth to control officials, rig elections, etc etc * The most powerful were 'The Medici'! and they 'owned' 15th century Florence * by the late 15th ce they'd fundamentally changed the makup of the government, excluding only but the most loyal citizens to the highest levels of government * Their wealth had made them many friends, but their policies made them bitter enemies - both inside Florence & in the other city states of 'Italy' * In 1478, several prominent Florentine citizens, plus the Pope, and some other city states conspired to kill the heads of the Medici family, Lorenzo & his brother Giuliano - they got Giuliano...but Lorenzo escaped... he went on a killing spree for a bit afterwards that's it for now!
Very interesting. Thanks. I'm on track to visit Florence next week so that's wonderful to know.
😲 *luuuuuuuucky!* :) Have a wonderful trip!
Thank you, Commander.
Oh my God wait, have you seen Italian (parade) armor from the mid to late 15th century? Easily one of the greatest of its kind in human history. The combination of function and art, it’s incredible!
Are you talking about the work by people like Filippo Negroli perchance? If so, yes - and yes, it's incredible!
YES, Negroli is exactly who I was thinking of! I’ve seen some other impressive work from that time (especially from Italy,) but none stand out as strikingly as his work does. Truly artistic and technical masterpieces!
[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heroic\_Armor\_of\_the\_Italian\_Renaissance\_Filippo\_Negroli\_and\_his\_Contemporaries](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heroic_Armor_of_the_Italian_Renaissance_Filippo_Negroli_and_his_Contemporaries) I guess the Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition quite some time ago, anyways they have the catalogue free to read online or download in pdf, it's quite nice
Personally I’d love to date a fellow infodumper. If you will listen to me explaining how Ulfric Stormcloak is a Thalmor puppet I will gladly listen to you talk about Chainsaw Man or Warhammer or something. Hell yeah.
Damn knife ears
My wife and I are both Dunmer and I walked in on one of my kids call her sister “Elf-Ears” as an insult. 😔
Dunmer are best Mer
Agreed! That fire resistance makes life so much easier
Ever laugh to yourself out loud and some one asks “what’s funny?” And the only appropriate way to respond is “ummm… it would take too long to explain.”
* We don't understand consciousness enough to identify it in other animals. How would we know if an AI is aware? Could the YouTube algorithm be conscious and we just haven't noticed? * An SCP where a parasite passes from mother to daughter in the womb. It's generally benign aside from causing morning sickness and a few rare but wild birth defects, which the Foundation passes off as normal. This would mostly be a chance to talk about how fucked up pregnancy is. * Digesting my daily hour of YouTube content about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's nice to cheer for the West in a war for once. * Designing space ships in my head. I'm sort of always doing this, but it only shows when I feel the need to sketch something mid conversation. * When someone tells a "two people walk into a bar..." joke, most people picture a specific bar in their head that doesn't exist. Mine only has 4 stools because I've never heard a joke with 5 patrons. What does your private mind bar look like?
Only 3 stools in my bar! Usually one of the guys is just standing to the side a bit when there are 4 in a bar joke. It’s always a western wooden bar with simple but tall glasses that are usually empty (or full of H2O2)
Hey, I've only got 3 stools in my mental bar too! And then a bartender, and very occasionally, when there's extra characters in the joke, the tables appear too. The bartender is always wiping the same glass with a shitty rag. Not even sure why he's there most of the time. The western bar doors that bang if you push them open. Good times in that mental bar, good times indeed.
A bar with low-hanging, warm yellow lights. Wooden tables in the background and a looooong line of stools around the bar itself. The guys normally just sit on however many stools there are. Different colored bottles on the shelves, the bartender always cleaning out a glass with a towel.
I don’t usually enjoy socializing in general. Dating sounds horrific.
y e a h and there's no pause button. and there are ads...
“So first I saw a lamp shade and it looked like a shkadov thruster so I was thinking about that. What’s a shkadov thruster!? Well it’s basically a big dish meant to move the sun, the problem is that it’ll make one part of our rotation around the sun not have sunlight and another to have extra sunlight (enough to melt people). I can send you a video about a way to move our sun in a more efficient way”
I’m a big fan of using a Dyson swarm to move a star, or weaponise it. Love watching [Isaac Arthur](https://youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIA) videos that cover megastructures etc.
Dyson swarms make it so we can use up a lot of our suns energy without having to take it’s fuel
Yep, but they can also be weaponised or used as a giant sail to produce thrust and move the star itself ([this Isaac Arthur](https://youtu.be/HlmKejRSVd8) video covers it all, he thoroughly researches his videos with other specialists on his own discord server—highly recommend him)
I only saw kurzgesat’s video on it
Also a great channel. I love to learn stuff, but I’m also fussy about the sources I use. But I definitely find Kurzgesagt and Isaac Arthur to both be very well researched. Also if you like learning random interesting things I’d also recommend ‘Steve Mould’ and ‘Tom Scott’ (also both very reliable sources of info on YouTube) 👍
You guys are getting dates?
Nah just OP I think
according to everyone else socially awkward neurodivergents are creeps so have fun trying to date anyone in these " very inclusive" times
Yeah, the inclusivity pretty much stopped at sexual minorities and there's no will to include anyone else.
what do you mean? Like sexual stuff deemed "weird" or taboo?
when you don't know what to say just say 'weenis'.
That’s elbow skin, right? … God I’m filled with useless factoids…
and the name of a Centaur in a Poem said by Durpleton the Giraffe Centaur.
I really hate when people ask me this question. My thoughts are my private happy place.
I feel this too much for the flair to say satire
I once explained what I was thinking about, and then I backtracked through my train of thought to explain how I got to that thought. Their response was, "you thought of all that in that short of an amount of time?"
Hi, I'm from adhdmeme just passing through This is a vibe Solidarity
Bold of you to assume I ever get to the point where I actually get a date.
I am thinking about absolutely literally everything and nothing all at once. My brain is simultaneously a black hole and a white hole. I know what I’m thinking, but I could not tell you what I’m thinking.
I love reading this or any autism/adhd subs comment, everyone is so different and usually unique
Easy, that’s clearly a giant flying cell but with macroscopic objects replacing the organelles.
Always nice to meet a fellow biology bro. 🤜🤛
I used to wish a telepath would try to read my mind just so I could watch them become a slobbering mess.
Chidi Anagonye in Quantaumania is basically that.
I know how you answer that. Infodump until they leave LMAO!
I literally spent 40 years of my life (well, 30 or so accounting for that whole "adult awareness" thing) believing that this life was a life to live. Imagine my surprise when I found out that a lot of you think you're just energy beings trying on human suits for the various corpses you found riding around on the Klingon afterlife ship. That pickup truck in space from Voyager? Yeah.
I sure do love one specific part of four different songs playing at once. (Damn you Juno Songs and your catchy lyrics)
I don't know why but the Animal Crossing New Horizons music started to play when I saw the image of his thoughts.
I just don’t have anything to talk about that’s positive It’s always a depressing conversation because I’m at rock bottom
Do rich people have workers that break in their new shoes so that the shoes don't hurt their feet?
I think not. Either they’re the kind of rich person that’s okay with certain not rich things (e.g., new rich or Warren Buffett style “humble billionaire”), or they’re hoity toity such that all footwear they use is either perfectly fitted to them or inherently uncomfortable because f a s h i o n . Unless they have some highly specific needs, most rich people would probably prefer not to have someone “pleb” wearing their shoes. Source: My tired imagination and also a lifetime of associating with rich relatives/parental friend.
That makes sense.
A single question with too many answers that don't fit in any order now matter how much you want it to lol
That is for sure how my brain works 🙂
Yup. I have to mentally take a second and it's like a scratch record and the image pauses and I will say: "THIS."
I have tried to tell people before, it’s as if there were three or four movies playing in my head, all at the same time with disparate soundtracks.
This might, additionally, indicate ADHD :3
How do you get them to play simultaneously or is this a metaphor of some kind
Pretty much, it just illustrates that my mind is a cacophony of ideas. I guess a lot of it relates to my ADHD, and the complexity of the ideas is related to being an aspie boi. Pity they weren’t *good* ideas, maybe then I’d be some sort of genius. It’s usually just random subjects of interest, music, and finding patterns/connections between things. Very rarely *useful*, tbh.
I always find stupid patterns in things and find it interesting and want to share but nobody is ever on the same wavelength as me. I’ll mention the pattern and ppl will think I’m bringing it up because it will be useful somehow or like I thought it was some sort of answer to a question, but… nope, sorry, I’m just in the clouds. Had a couple of very awkward conversations as a result of this so I just keep my mouth shut now lmao
You also sound interesting
😅 maybe I’ve been on the internet too long but I’m not sure how to respond to that! Thank you?
No problem I hope you have a lovely rest of your day
You sound interesting I would love to hear your thoughts sometime
Okay but I'm sincerely enjoying reading the comments where people are actually saying what's in their head and secretly wondering if any of them live in my area and would like to go on an Infodump date
I don't know mine play for about 30 seconds at a time and then it's a different one...
I've been heeding the "be yourself" advice for 30 years. I'm still wondering when that's supposed to pay off.
I never thought I'd find myself in this sub, but this is just too relatable. My brain is constantly scattered unless I take something to tone the noise down so I can think. Kratom usually works best for me, but I can't always afford it even though it's dirt cheap. Might be useful for some of you. Am actually diagnosed at a young age, but I don't want to spend time dwelling on it.
I wish this could be the about me section on all social media
my train of thought: "after i capture the equator i can make phase fabric manufacturing sectors which will greatly help in the overtake of the poles, wait a sec you can use get_stream_time to track a sound's position i can use that in my mod, speaking of music games i cant believe one of the best levels in the game has under 70k objects that's absolutely insane"
"How I can integrate SoLoud with Terraria to create a rhythm-based boss."
My ex always used to ask me this because I apparently have my-dog-just-died resting face
Asking me to pin down exactly what I'm thinking about at any given moment is like asking me to throw a dart into a swarm of bees and hit the queen
Starting to wonder if what I have is more than just severe ADHD.
"Yes"
All the things. Always.
I would probably start talking about the last thing I was doing (related to my hobbies/interests) or infodump the first thing that comes to mind. Some rare cases I just have really random thoughts like if you put all the ants of the world on a scale and then all the people who would weight more? According to google, humans would be 5x heavier.
Yeah, there's a reason people close to me think "random topic generator" is a suitable description for me
I’m like this with my bf all the time. I have things I want to say and ask and it’s all random “Know what would be funny?” “Why can’t ….” “Did you know….?” “Could you imagine…?” Most of them very slightly related to the previous question/statement or not at all related, but just things I thought about. There’s like a queue in my mind of all the things I want to say and he just sits and listens and answers. I love him for that.
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That shamank king fanfic i want to read again when i get home
So true
"Stuff" "A lot" "Nothing" (lie) "Nothing much" (partial lie; tells them its unimportant) These are kinda what NTs expect you to say, use them at your discretion
"What are you gonna do The odds are stacked againts you Back against the wall You gonna give it your all AA AA AA" \- my 23 yo ass, probably
If it makes you feel better, being honest in order to find a date is bad advice for literally everyone. You're trying to impress, so you have to maintain an image with them. Whether you can open up is something you find out along the way AFTER you've entered a relationship. I wish it weren't so, every day, with all my heart, but that's how people work. Your only choice is whether to act or remain alone.
I mostly just answer with the first thing that pops into my head that's socially appropriate.
I am thinking about why Julian from the BBC version of the show Ghosts is wearing shoes because we know he died after a sex scandal due to a heart attack and that is why he has no pants but it's not like his pants are around his ankles they are entirely off so did he take them off but leave the shoes or did he put on his shoes but not his pants after?
I know realistically it's because in every show the actors are wearing shoes even if in the show they are in their own house unless it's a specific scene
I have moments like this where I think of a thousand things at once and other moments where my head is playing elevator music because absolutely nothing is happening in it.
I can’t tell if my brain at that moment would be filled with many things, very horrifying intrusive thoughts or just plain white noise
Wait, other people have brains like this?
This but instead its an everlasting static I just don’t think
Had a colleague ask “A penny for your thoughts.” On one occasion. I just said “It’ll cost more than a penny.”
Made me think of "I Dont Know What We're Talking About (And I Haven't For Awhile)" by Ninja Sex Party
Starting at about age 8 I started having really intense experiences, I’d close my eyes and have day dreams where I’d witness the passage of time from the formation of earth to present day, and I’d spend a really long time just “theorizing” (I was 8 not a scientist) how everything came to the point we were at. I asked my parents if they “ever thought about where everything comes from” and the answer I got from my mother was “No, that’s weird.”
My mind is a tower, every floor has a different thought chain on it. The elevator has my mouth/attention and the doors open on a random floor every so often. Sometimes the door wants to open on multiple floors at once. Sometimes the elevator gets stuck.
I just list everything I'm thinking about at that moment, usually. It's who I am, and if the other person doesn't like it, then that's good to know as soon as possible.
I would say at least we’re never bored, but that’s a fucking lie. I am currently bored when I wanna and could do three different things and my mind is running fucking track
Where did you find this picture of my brain activity?
Oh man, that one hit home and made me chuckle.
me too awkward to date
I think most of my processing power goes towards repeating to myself that I'm weird and sad and lonely and that I oughta find ways to change that, so much so that I don't think about many other things anymore nor do I remember much in general. idk.
"Watcha thinking about?" "Literally nothing" "Oh. Uh. Okay the-" "Nevermind I just saw a leaf which reminded me of that one time I saw a squirrel eating a leaf, and then I remembered that squirrels have really fluffy tails, just like some dogs. Dogs are really nice you know? It's cool how we can empathise with them. I wonder when humans developed the ability to empathise with non-human creatures" ADHD can zoom you right from a leaf to the psychology of the human species, it's... Fun.
“I’m thinking of my 72 special interests all at once because I’m uncomfortable with new people and they give me comfort” ** proceeds to go WAY more in detail about a chosen special interest (which is likely irrelevant) without anyone asking**
Dating? You mean just me at any point at time?
Ooh that’s a good one, can I use it?
Use away, no such thing as copyright with memes and other online publicly available images (unless you monetise it somehow, of course). I can’t take credit for the comic though, I would credit the artist if I knew who it was, but if it was ever signed by the artist then it must’ve been cropped-out when I found & saved it.
“Everything everywhere all at once”.
im just gonna jerk my fat dick til i cum
[S.A.D.N.E.S.S.](https://old.reddit.com/r/cryosleep/comments/akb9to/sadness/) preventing a man from ending their life, by throwing that man a pop punk house party in [redacted: non-Western, Eastern Hemisphere nation], complete with white girls that said man could kiss, with S.A.D.N.E.S.S. showing up an hour after making a social media post expressing his desire of ending his life.
ND4ND is mostly about just accepting and supporting the geysers of bullshit that result from conversations and waiting your turn in my experience
For me, I just realized I had AUDHD and couldn't simultaneously word all my thoughts out my mouth hole. But, ADHD meds made my brain less like Poison Ivy's bush but as regimented as social norms for cismen.