This sounds dumb as all heck but a Fediverse equivalent of LinkedIn. Not some corporate hellscape, but something geared towards semi-pro or hobbyists who are looking for collaborative projects. It would serve as a portfolio and a way to group up and network.

So for example, you’re a YouTuber who is looking for an editor. Its not career pay but its a paid side gig. Or maybe you’re an audio guy and are looking to get into the film industry, and want to see if there are local indie films looking for your skills.

There are ‘services’ for these but they’re either adapted from something else (like Reddit or Facebook) or they have some aggressive middleman monetization. And many basically require you to host your portfolio elsewhere, which is sometimes funky to run your own hosting.

How are you going to acquire the voices? By recording other media? Most media has some sort of license attached, and recording it (for movies and shows or music) isn’t usually something allowed.

It seems like you got your taste of social media, decided you were essentially done with it and moved on.

I am just about in the same boat, I feel social media doesn’t offer me much that I value, and so I have been looking elsewhere.

I know a guy that took a security camera and hooked it up to watch his lawnmower, which is set to automatically mow a certain area as guided by the camera.

So he just hits a button and watches his lawn get mowed.

I would likely have different thoughts on it if I (and others) was able to consent my data into training it, or consent to even have it rather than it just showing up in an unwanted update.

Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can’t recall if the girl was black or not but I don’t think she was.

Seems the article is from 2008, and the La-a I know of was in pre-k in ~2015, so it seems someone named their kid based on the legend.

There’s a story about a man (Hennig Brand) who figured since pee was yellow, and gold was yellow, maybe if you boil urine down enough you can get the ‘gold’ out of it and make lots of stacks of cash.

Unfortunately this didn’t work, but it did yield a process to create phosphorous which ended up being a valuable chemical process, of which he sold to other alchemists at the time (Who in turn tried to figure out how to turn the new found phosphorous to gold).

As I recall, Will Wright’s inspiration for the Sims was watching his daughter play with dolls in a dollhouse.

When viewed through that lens, yeah I can see how that formula works.

La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I’ve seen

Patience.

I’ve taken up several hobbies (game dev, gardening, woodworking, etc) where results aren’t always well seen until weeks, months or even years after starting a project.

Everyone seems too interested in getting results fast and now, and the world seems all too keen to sell you something to try and make that happen.

I don’t keep checking to see if I’m being followed, but assessing people nearby seems to be practical awareness.

Its probably some baked in survival skills.

I had correctly guessed she drowned, so I checked downstream of the thinner and shallower (waist deep) river side of the island, which was closer to the town.

But no. She drowned upstream of the island trying to cross the river at its broadest point and further out of the town, apparently.

I think Bethesda just wanted me to finally use up those potions of water breathing.

That quest here to find the missing sister is just the worst:

No map marker, quest giver gives misleading directions, the ‘obvious’ cave leads you through a completely unrelated dungeon, only way to finish the quest is find an incredibly small alchemist pouch buried in mud underwater in a strong current surrounded by tall foliage, only quest rewards are alchemy ingredients.

Yeah they’re centipede mechanoids. They’re usually very old/ancient when you find them, so I thought they fit well for this meme.

…Skipped?

You mean, saved the best for last?

Han Solo thought it was a moon up until he was in tractor beam distance. I’d imagine you wouldn’t see it from hyperspace, but even if you did manage to get within visual distance of it, you’d probably assume it was an exoplanet or asteroid.

I guess the rebels on Alderaan should have been keeping an eye out for this thing but sensors in Star Wars seem to be a funky thing, since they have limited range and ships seem to bypass them all the time.

Edit: Totally forgot - The death star can enter hyperspace as shown in Rogue One. In may have only been in Alderaan’s space for a little while.