Random Thought Thread

ferider said:
They are missing a bunch of stuff, of course, but the choices are not too bad ....
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I'm thinking an intern spent an hour surfing the web, finding various options at differing price points that have good name recognition, and slapped together this little buzzfeed listicle. Nothing offensive about it, just didn't realize FOX was doing this kind of thing now. I don't usually watch/listen/read from them.
 
Pàdruig said:
Some random musings while I wait for a work meeting.

As I dipped my head into some places here on the forums that I typically leave purposely unvisited, I am reminded of an old co-worker from many years ago. He had the irksome habit of absolutely destroying the bathroom whenever he came back from the field. One day, another from our team emerged from the bathroom, after having been caught in the blast wave, and exclaimed, "Larry, you really have to change your diet!".

We, as a modern society, spend way too much time on the internet; social media, internet chat rooms, forums, etc., they all suck up our time and bandwidth. We had a family discussion at the dinner table the other night about what kind of limits should we put on ourselves to maintain a healthier relationship with our devices. This led to us looking at our total screen time per day and it was rather sobering. Algorithms have been created to entrap us, to push content at us that align with our interests and feed our individual ideologies. As someone who dislikes being put in a box, I find this enormously disconcerting and aggravating. How simple it is to be caught up in a whirlpool of your own making, spiraling endlessly, consuming and regurgitating the same information over and over. That energy has to go somewhere, right? I guarantee that for many of us, that expenditure is less than pleasant.

Change your diet.

Introduce yourself to more books. Go outside a little more often. Go make something with your hands. Do you play an instrument? When was the last time you picked it up?

The fetid nature of our national discourse is born of our collective inability to establish common ground on even some of the most obvious issues. Who stands to benefit from such a separation? Makes a fellow wonder.
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YES


FFS YES
 
oldmanwilly said:
I'm thinking an intern spent an hour surfing the web, finding various options at differing price points that have good name recognition, and slapped together this little buzzfeed listicle. Nothing offensive about it, just didn't realize FOX was doing this kind of thing now. I don't usually watch/listen/read from them.
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Could have been entirely AI generated - Bing sends me similar articles daily. I’m just enamored that they picked the 110 as best folder. And a local maker coming out on top is not bad …. And half of BF would have picked the Morakniv as best budget fixed, too….
 
I can't believe the Kershaw Cryo is even on that list

The Cryo is one of my least favorite knives. I picked it up for $20 and I can't say it was worth it. It's really heavy and the blade steel leaves a lot to be desired. I leave it in my car in case I ever need something better than plastic cutlery.
 
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