This reminds me of a news story from the start of Covid.

Tanzanian President, “We have zero bases of Covid!”

Rest of the Earth, “Cool beans! How did you do it‽”

Tanzany Prez, “Easy, we just didn’t test for it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tanzania

“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”

– Mitch Hedberg

Halve Life 4b confirmed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

“Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.”

It’s a kind of cognitive bias that assumes things that are obvious to us would be inevitably found without uncertainty, or trial and error.

they are too stupid to get around it.

Followed by this beauty of a sentence –

And of courser also except when I do my daily shopping, because the boxing itself is also kind of advertising, but it can’t be false, because that’s illegal here, because I live in a civilized country.

Is this “blockage” cylindrical? Roughly 5” long and 4.5” in girth?

Follow up question – is the pipe an m&ms tube?

I appreciate a good amateur comedian, but I really think you have the chops to GoPro.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani repeals bedtime for Knicks’ school-aged fans during NBA Finals with executive order

This word is new to me! From Dictionary.com:

in a way that is unyielding, unchangeable, or unavoidable.

Fate seemed to be working inexorably, relentlessly, to bring about the dictator’s downfall.

I stumbled across this word as a Lego technique to add texture and depth.

https://bricknerd.com/home/achieving-greeble-greatness-3-18-24

To your point -

If a friend texted me the same picture and question, I would do exactly what you described. Try to give a calculated guess that wouldn’t change.

Unless I was lazy and Googled it.

Google’s carbohydrate tool says 8g, then the AI overview goes on to contradict that by saying “A standard cheese sandwich typically contains between 25 and 35g.”

I think her awkward arm angle and free-floating funbags could be from her practicing her backstroke in the shower.

Or maybe I’m the only one that practices one-armed strokes in the shower.

Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn’t the same.

This poster has never made an LED blink and it shows.

Misguided, uneducated, oblivious, and downright stubborn are other options. Sunk-cost fallacy can keep people stuck in a loop.

If I was 14 and had an interest in coding, the promise of ‘vibe coding’ would absolutely reel me in. Most of us here on Lemmy are more tech savvy and older, so it’s easy to forget that we were asking Jeeves for .bat commands and borrowing* from Planet Source Code.

But yeah, it feels like satire. Haha.