I tried to look into the music Cicada published, and it’s a bigger task than me.

Someone put more thought into The Instar Emergence than I put into my entire goddamn life. It’s played in a weird tuning that I’ve never seen used for anything else, mostly to put almost all notes on prime numbered frets. The song runs for precisely 167 seconds, a prime number, and it’s a reverse of the original file name, 761.mp3, which is also a prime number. The melody is laid out in phrases with prime numbers of notes…

It’s the detail that has latched the 3301 mystery into my brain, someone thought this piece of music all the way through, and it’s an absolute banger at that.

It does work out in my household to run it in the evening or early morning, which aligns with my energy concern’s ToU pricing. It also works out that it’s usually the coolest at night, so venting the steam into the house either isn’t as bad during the summer or helps out in Winter.

I have a Buick Century. If you push the lock doors button with the door open, it beeps three times at you and doesn’t lock the doors, as if to say that’s an invalid operation while the door is open. Press it again, and it locks the doors.

Turns out, if you press it once, get the beep code, shut the door, the car shines the headlights, corner lights and reverse lights for about ten seconds (so you can see to get in the house in the dark), and then when it shuts those off, it locks the doors. Why not just fucking lock them, I don’t know.

My favorite is it says I “might” live in the town in my shipping address. They’re not sure.

This is probably going to be unpopular on Lemmy, The Nuanceless Platform, but IF the data collection is confined to what they show me here, I’m okay. Because I bought some solder, a pair of calipers, and some computer parts from Amazon, they think I “build electronics.” Amazon has a reason to know this about me as a customer, especially if I can see and even manually delete/change it. As humorous as it may be that they apparently think a customer has a flat ass, that’s relevant information if you buy clothing from them, they’ll steer you away from the bubble butt shorts that you’ll almost certainly return.

The problem is when they want to start installing apps on my phone, new devices in my house, with microphones and radars that are always collecting data about what I do, what I say, where I am. THAT’S the part we need to be dismembering executives over.

Mine is pretty straightforward, “builds electronics” “has precision tools” “likely has a french press” (I do, I bought it on Amazon), “prioritizes high-speed data transfer”, “Probably has a computer system with internal expansion” (I bought an NVMe SSD from Amazon once), “Likely lives in (the town in my saved shipping address)”

So surveillance. Much sleuthing.

Fuck that. Federal minimum.

lol the drill sergeant character who spoke almost entirely un-clanlike, other than occasionally using the term “freebirth”.

The first intermediate period is approximately the 8th to 11th dynasties, I’m thinking of Pharaoh Hatchepsut from the 18th dynasty, who ruled Egypt after the invention of the Bikini.

(If we’re honest with ourselves though, throughout Egyptian history they wore way more scandalous things than that just normally. Look up Egyptian bead dresses.)

So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.

He says, as if it matters.

Further knowledge about Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat:

At various stages in the campaigns, you’ll face off against Elementals, escort a Tarantula, and fight a Battlemaster. Through cheat codes, you can add these to the mech lab and play in them in the “Trial of Grievance” free play mode. The Elemental works fine, it functions as a tiny mech, the Tarantula works mostly correctly, but it isn’t 4-legged. It looks like it is but the front two legs are legally arms, they can be blown off and it works fine. Trying to select the Battlemaster in the mech lab will immediately crash the game.

Cheat codes for Mechwarrior 2 were the very, very first thing I searched the internet for.

The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code. --.. dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.

FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.

False! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.

Red Bull is marketed as a drug, not as a beverage.

Nobody discusses the scent of cocaine.

Point of order: Deviled eggs aren’t a drink.

Kombucha was what she was reacting to.

Male pharaohs, specifically. The few female pharaohs we have evidence for were buried with one arm crooked over her chest and one at her hip. Probably making sure both halves of her bikini stayed on for the entire slide, while the men in swim trunks weren’t worried about it.

In Return of the Jedi, he communicates with the Ewoks, ultimately enlisting them against the Empire, probably the most he actually “did.”

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One ten millionth of a quarter of the circumference of some random ass planet somewhere isn’t either.