ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.socialtocats@lemmy.worldSee you there!
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    1 month ago

    That’s not a thumb you dumbass, that’s her index finger separated from the others for the cat to rest on. Thumb is on the other side of the cat. Have you never held a cat in one arm and cradled it on your palm like that?

    Edit: I checked, to humor you. It’s a well-known image of Carrie Fisher in costume as princess Leiah, taken decades before anything even resembling an AI existed.












  • Wow… I’ve worked in the fast food industry for 2 years, and that really hits close to home. With the kitchen display systems and headsets, with modern technology it would be easy to implement that… very easy. We’d still need one manager on the line for de-escalating angry customers but that would end up essentially the same as the book synopsis described. And the subsequent dystopia… I could literally see this occurring tomorrow. Kinda scary.



  • The “traditional” story (the one that “seems most likely” because we don’t really know) is that some kids were playing with discarded warped glass at a glassmaker’s shop and ended up with a magnifying glass or rudimentary telescope. Enter the simultaneous invention of the telescope in multiple places (very likely it wasn’t any one person in particular), Galileo starts using it for scientific stuff, now they’re making lenses on purpose. Old nearsighted lensemaker looks through it, maybe some charts or a book on the table, all of a sudden they can see well. Attach to frame. Glasses.