Now friends with Lao Tzu

Ticks will dry out in cut grass but not in long grass.

Literally the only convincing reason I’ve ever heard for why to mow the lawn.

Ever taste an Hombre?

That’s how I read it at first…

Find them a program like KidPix and just let them make stuff!

We need a phone that runs Debian stable.

Is it possible / practical to go to a previous version of Always On Display?

Rich people have such a different relationship with money than you and I…

Why would it be fact? I think it is true based on how the people around me talk, but I don’t have any linguistic studies to refer to. Just anecdotal experience.

No clue. I dont think op makes much sense tbh

It’s the kind of humor that’s funny because there’s a shared understanding. You can’t explain why 6-7 is/was funny to gen alpha, it just is funny to a certain group of people that all grew up at the same time in the same zeitgeist.

Recognizing something as funny or not helps solidify your identity in a peer group and the identity of others outside of the peer group. At least that’s how it seems to my lay person understanding.

Same with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, you can’t really explain what makes it funny, because it is so subtle. But to the right age group who grew up with the right background, it just hits in a certain way.

Beavis and butt head was weird, but it made way too much sense to be called brainrot.

Thanks to OP for making the connection though. When I watched Adult Swim specifically Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I had no words to describe how strange and nonsensical but also weird and funny it was. But Brainrot in the modern sense describes it perfectly.

Developmentally, could this be related to wanting to read the same book over and over? Because that’s normal. But I don’t know how it changes with watching videos except intuitively it doesn’t seem as healthy.

In my interpretation, the lady in the phone says something so Orwellian that the guy looking in the calendar is surprised, but it makes sense because in the next calendar month, we’re going back to the year 1984.

I have no idea what this has to do with sticks, big or otherwise. Maybe someone else can add on to the explanation.

AI is a bubble, corporations will exploit taxpayers for bailouts, hopefully we’re not all doomed.

Not many people use the definition of AI you seem to want to use.

Wasn’t his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?

Can’t find him saying it outright but this is interesting:

SECONDS: What is the relationship of your art to psychedelia?

GIGER: I think there’s a relationship. Not so in the colors but I have some older works that look very psychedelic.

SECONDS: What have drugs done for the art world?

GIGER: You know, drugs are forbidden in Switzerland. Even psychedelic drugs that open you up are forbidden. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, who is Swiss. He had his first psychedelic experience on a bicycle, after accidentally getting some LSD on his fingers. He didn’t know what he had discovered. He was looking for something that would help women in labor. He changed the world. Many artists symbolize the psychedelic experience with a bicycle. This man is now 88 years old. I met him about six months ago. He’s very healthy and intelligent. Each day, he hangs upside down with his wife for half an hour, like a bat, in gravity boots.

SECONDS: You know Timothy Leary too, right?

GIGER: Yes, but not too well. When he was in Switzerland, he was looking for a place to hide because they wanted to put him in jail. My father was a pharmacist and knew Leary was in trouble. He was not very excited about Leary being in Switzerland, so I didn’t tell him I was trying to get help for him. He wouldn’t have been pleased.

Thanks for this great answer! I was thinking about swiss-style (like with the holes) and didn’t even consider that some cheese might be imported from actual Switzerland!

Yep!

Isn’t it fancy Swiss cheese?