588: Date Me parodies, Rick Steves' Iran, and crazy pyramid facts
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I made this injury lawyer parody flyer to advertise my wife quest as an experiment at an upcoming festival to spark more conversations. I’ll report back how it goes.
My goal with this is to bring a smile to any viewers face and make the process of introducing friends to dates fun for all parties. If it’s hilarious even without prompting a referral, it justifies its existence, and will undoubtedly generate referrals.
What do you think? Have you seen other examples of this?
Technology
Fidget Camp was last week, which best I can tell is a bottom-up DIY skill share hackathon where folks make fun things using new skills. I enjoyed the hand shaped hand soap, and the custom merchandise for random street addresses that were then shipped to said address.
Ideologies
Rick Steve’s sanctioned 2009 documentary about Iran is a timely one to watch now that Trump just dropped bombs on the country. People are not governments, as we well know.
Second Person is a rationalist adjacent dating blog that had some good' ‘get to the heart of the matter’ questions:
How would an honest friend describe you right now?
Your date says, “here’s the sort of relationship I’m looking for.” What do you hope to hear?
What experiences do you want to share with a partner? Think about past relationships or friendships — what did you love having, or wish you had?
What absolute dealbreakers or requirements shape your dating life?
Whose type are you? Think of skills and qualities that aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but make you really valued by those who seek them. What do your friends appreciate about you? What desires and needs did your former partners have in common?
What’s your deepest insecurity or shame around dating? What would it feel like if someone not only accepted it, but was specifically drawn to it?
Memes
This twitchy Youtuber told me several facts about the Egyptian pyramids I didn’t know, like that the Great Pyramids are lined up with the constellation of Orion, and the biggest one:
Remains to this day the most aligned structure on Earth with true north,
has longitude coordinates that are the same as the speed of light,
Is a scale model of one of Earth’s hemispheres, scaled to a number which is the precise number of seconds in both equinoxes. :O
Wikipedia disagrees with him and says we have good explanations for how they were built, while Slate Star Codex (of course) has a spirited discussion as to how these coincidences could have arisen.
Makes sense to me that ‘the measure we measure light with is related to the measure we measure longitude with’ in the end, because it’s all based on anthropocentric and geocentric measures.