This is interesting and I’m glad to see this. I’ve always been an avid reader and until recently, I could read words on a page for hours on end but really could not sustain my attention to an audiobook for more than a few minutes, and always felt like my retention was very poor when I tried listening to books. But that was always a me thing.

My brother and wife have both been avid audiobook readers for a number of years and I always picked up on them feeling mildly insecure about it, as if they weren’t “really” reading when it was an audiobook.

Oddest of all, in the past year or so, my brain has completely flipped and now I mainly read via audiobook and text on a page can’t hold my attention for long.

5d ago

Good night sweet prince

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Deacon @lemmy.world 5d ago

How did you get this photo. This is an invasion of privacy.

5d ago

‘At Least 12,000’ and ‘Possibly’ 20,000 Iranian Protesters Have Been Murdered According to Bombshell Report

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Deacon @lemmy.world 5d ago

I'm convinced that many of the people calling for violence from the left in response to the administration's behavior are the same ones that pushed the right into extremism over the past 30 years.

Do you believe you have good reasons for thinking so?

I would be interested in seeing you lay out what convinced you. It seems to me that the only thing these calls for violence have in common is just that: they are calls to violence. How can you possibly draw any parallels beyond that without completely minimizing how unprecedented a situation it is we find ourselves in?

5d ago

Heave-ho!

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Deacon @lemmy.world 5d ago

Oooh this takes me back. When I was 11, something like this in a Sears catalog would have basically been porn for me.

Then a year later we got the internet.

5d ago

Biz_dave on Threads is training crows to attack red hats

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Deacon @lemmy.world 5d ago

FUCK THE CARDINALS!

6d ago

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland

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Deacon @lemmy.world 6d ago

Sure, but go from that thought…

To trump.

1w ago

Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrank IQ Scores of Half of Americans

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

We know, we are literally living through that shit now. Hope we survive it.

1w ago

He's starring in 28 Prayers Later

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

Jesus was a really good dude whose corpse was almost certainly eaten by wilds dogs.

Or we have to believe a Roman governor who had a history of being nasty to the Jews allowed an insurrectionist to have a decent burial when generally the point of crucifixion was humiliation, and corpses were often left to rot on the cross for some time, conspicuously warning others who might be having ideas.

But then we also have to believe that a member of the same Jewish Sanhedrin who unanimously agreed to arrest Jesus was also secretly a follower but not so secretly that he didn’t petition that same Roman governor to let him bury the guy he’d just demanded be executed.

So his body probably got eaten by them dogs.

1w ago

[Video] Unmarked ICE Vehicle Burning.

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

Oh bravo.

1w ago

crazy lucky

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

There is a certain wink at the camera implied in most dad jokes (at least in this dad’s) that I think is replaced with seeming earnestness in this example and in the vein that I’m thinking, but maybe I’m quibbling because I don’t want to have just “reinvented” dad jokes in my comment.

1w ago

Puff Daddy

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

In my expert opinion, it is a science meme.

1w ago

crazy lucky

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1w ago

I don’t really have much to add but feel compelled to say that I really enjoy this type of comedy. Maybe there is already a name for it but I think of it as observational absurdism, or Incorrect Shower Thoughts.

I rarely laugh out loud at it, but it makes me smile extra big to consider it.

I love the idea of someone making a remark based on an absurdly incorrect observation or premise, and as a bonus, this type of comedy rarely has a “target”: it isn’t punch down or up. It’s punching itself if anything.