The Wandering Mind of Lightning Mustang

Just, you know, sharing the insane things I see with whoever wants to share the experience with me.

[my-dailydreams]

[ruinedchildhood]

[halobats]

this has reduced me to tears

[headlessgrasshopper]

Gone fishin 🎣 🧊

Achilles (dog) is mine and Tagas (cat) is my wife’s @lithiumlocket

[lithiumlocket]

Such cuties !!! 🥲🥲🥲 kittydog friendship ftw 🤞💛

[curoopeez]

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

[mechxel]

In my mind this happened sometime offscreen. Commission I got recently from @mofuguys

[andre-moraph]

Sundae

[draconym]

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Every time OP dances, her parrot flies along with her. OP says she never trained it on purpose and her parrot just loves doing this naturally. Sometimes it’ll just hop right onto her face. (cr 月下郭城)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[revretch]

I don't understand why, any time we have no way of knowing whether or not something has an internal experience, the assumption is "It doesn't, so I can treat it like shit," and not "I should just err on the side of being nice to this thing, since it costs me nothing."

Like, by default, you should even be treating inanimate objects nicely. Because things last longer when you treat them nicely. Because pointlessly destroying things leads to dire outcomes we cannot predict. Because holy shit, just have some fucking respect for the world around you already!!!

[sebbymeister]

insomnia core

[pusheen]

[vyrosk]

|Gladius Et Oratio|

[sebbymeister]

Lars!

[pusheen]

[shencomix]

[shencomix]

[shencomix]

[simplysnaps]

Always be skeptical of advice that feels targeted to genuine laziness. This is different from beginner advice, or advice that is meant to be accessible. Someone saying "This might seem complicated to an outsider, but with a bit of time it'll all make sense, and you'll realize it's nowhere near as impenetrable as it seemed!" is totally fine! But if someone says their method requires "no work," or it gets "real results in no time," alarms should go off in your brain.

Whether it's a machine you can supposedly feed a single sentence into and receive the next Avengers: Endgame, or a $2,000 course that'll make you a wealthy entrepreneur living solely off passive income in 12 months, appealing to instant gratification and minimal effort is the craft of a conman.

This is going to sound like advice from your grandparents, but it's true: Nothing worth a damn comes for free. Whether it costs money, time, passion or heartbreak, things that have value are not created from thin air. If they were, they wouldn't have value, because anyone could have their own.

If someone could really generate 100 Avengers movies with a button, would they be selling you the button, or would they be making billions in the box office? If someone could really create such a reliable investment/business strategy that it could make even the least-savvy Joe out there a millionaire, would they be selling courses online, or would they be running a successful business?

Always ask if you're being sold gold, or if you're sold a shovel.