No worries, as mentioned Lateral is a puzzle show, each episode he brings on 3 guests and has a handful of questions they ask each other that have some level lateral thinking to get to the correct answer and whoever is reading the question has some clues to help them get to the right answer an example might be like:

A shop has a tray of Lego bricks on the floor, what is it selling?

The first clue being it’s not a toy shop, since that’s obvious, and the second clue it also has trays of gravel, stone, and wood bark.

The answer being shoes, the trays are there so you can see how those shoes feel if you were to step on different objects.

It feels really good when you guess, or know, the answer right away and are following the guests train of thought getting to the right answer.

Depends on mood, sometimes I’ll do Lateral with Tom Scott or Escape this Podcast if I want more puzzle oriented, sometimes I’ll do Mostly Nitpicking or Movie Struck if I want movie talk, Improv Tabletop if I want a TTRPG actual play, otherwise it’s just music.

Sorry, don’t have any sort of ham radio license or anything 😂

I think in most cases it’s added functionality and convenience at the cost of privacy, sure the scale is still gonna tell you how much you weigh, but what if it automatically saved that to an app so you can track your weight loss progress without writing it down manually (as long as you’re OK with some company also having that info so they can share ads with you for weight loss products to help you reach that goal faster without allowing you to build the habits to do it right.

Isn’t it nice that you can just ask your fridge if there’s milk in it while you’re at the store rather than hoping you have milk, or assuming you dont? Disregard the fact that Samsung is using that fridge to know whether or not you’re home right now, if you have an iPhone, or what kind of smart TV you have. It’s still a fridge, it still keeps things cool, until a firmware update breaks that of course, guess you just need to buy a new fridge, it’s been a couple years anyway.

Sometimes (though not often) the smart appliance is cheaper since they know they’re gonna make money on the data.

My girlfriend yells at me cuz I’ll drop a can of green beans in it with an egg, apparently frozen is fine, but canned is gross

I’m left-handed and always secretly wished I had this and a right-handed twin so we could literally be mirror copies of each other.

That depends, is the planet Mogo or Ego? I’d feel pretty good if Mogo were our nearest celestial neighbor. Alternatively it means a poorly buried giant, next we find out Transformers are real, Mars just used to be filled with Energon and the war depleted it. Granted a face that large, could imply Unicron, which is also a problem.

Don’t worry, we’ve already established that Outlook doesn’t work in space.

Maybe it’s an issue of perspective. I see them as replacements for Twitter and Facebook and for me specifically I was posting the same things on both, its just that I had some people exclusively on one or the other, so when deciding to cut things, it made sense for me to only setup one given not many people I was communicating with were using either Mastodon or Friendica. I guess the core issue is either I’ve never really been using social media properly, or I just don’t know what the core usecase/structure for Friendica/Facebook actually is.

Genuine question, are there a good number of people using Friendica? I looked at it back in like 2017 or whenever Hak5 did a video about setting up Friendica servers, but it always seemed like Mastodon was the way to go, I know they aren’t technically filling the same space, but still.

Edit: can’t type on mobile

Looked like the site was saying that Germany already uses this, so I have to imagine someone is making devices already.