@quincy And keep it as a list of recommendations.

#Uselessness

#Uselessness scratches the itch

@remcow @ollicle

Uselessness =

The feeling one has when the pleasure of contemplating the possible existence of a megadwarf turns into an urge to go and look for a minigiant

#uselessness

First definitions documented

https://uselessness.org/uselessnessis.html

edit; Link doesn't work any more, no it is: https://uselessness.org/uselessnessis.php

#Uselessness

RE: https://waag.social/@remcow/116408260577511319

As @ollicle said last week "a multiplicity of community submitted definitions of uselessness could be nice on the site"

I already collected some from previous conversations but like to hear more.

So let me know, what is your definition?

#Uselessness

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/29381…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #bitterness #boredom #gloom #gloominess #idlehands #idleness #indolence #laziness #malcontent #meaninglessness #resentfulness #resentment #slacker #sullenness #uselessness #sloth

Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72 | WIST Quotations

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

WIST Quotations
@ollicle Forgot to say the Pi-Search machine is itself a very impressive example of #Uselessness

Why not, just ordered myself a T-shirt.

#Uselessness #Useless

@mia Nice bowls!

That's how, IMHO, #Uselessness works. Just make or do something just for making or doing it. It doesn't matter if the outcome is completely nothing or something that's useful to someone eventually. It's the proces.