People born deaf think in the languages they know. Those who learn sign language early often experience “inner signing”—visualizing or feeling signs in their mind, much like a hearing person’s inner voice. Many also think in images, spatial concepts, or written words. Thought adapts to available language and senses; it does not require sound.
Je viens d’apprendre qu’une hospitalisation en psychiatrie peut effacer les dettes. C’est pas mon premier choix, mais on garde toutes les options ouvertes.
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
SOMEONE BUILT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN YOUR BROWSER.
YOU CAN FLY THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW.
no download. no app. no account.
you open the tab and you are in space.
it's called Galaxium. https://t.co/GjBcK32Hdb.
scroll out from Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn with real rings. past Pluto. past Voyager 2, still flying since 1977. into the Milky Way. you hit Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. the light bends around it. real physics.
click any object. it flies you there.
126 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying through it.
just a website that lets a normal person leave Earth for a few minutes.
we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still:
open tab.
fly into space.