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nandeEbisu , to nostupidquestions in Is a bong an instrument? It has been featured in many songs even having credits for bong solo.

Lots of non traditional instruments get called for in concerts. I played a song that called for drumming on upturned metal trash cans in high school.

JackGreenEarth , to science_memes in Pavlov

That’s just thought association, classical (pavlovian) conditioning is about a conditioned stimulus creating a learned response, not a thought, eg if you were to be shudder every time you heard ‘Pavlov’ because you thought of dogs.

danjoubu ,

Way to ruin the fun, poindexter

geekwithsoul , to science_memes in Cucumber 🥒

Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? …blogspot.com/…/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian…

tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife

kamenlady ,
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Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.

idunnololz ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s

stupidcasey ,

IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.

geekwithsoul ,

From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/bb983bd6-8461-44a5-8d68-8c76638f9c85.jpeg

affiliate ,

they chose to hide it in plain sight

geekwithsoul ,

Why does that sound like the voice of experience?

affiliate ,

🤐

kamenlady ,
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Theoretically even a buttplug could be assembled using 2 of the veggies

_lilith ,
@_lilith@lemmy.world avatar

kinky

Hello_there ,

Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.

Tja ,

🍆

Tiltinyall ,

“sustain”

M137 ,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, that’s gotta suck.

Lobreeze ,

You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?

Fondots , to books in What are you currently reading? (09/06/2024)

I used to read a lot, but I lost my love of reading somewhere in high-school/college. Before then I always had a book going, often 2 or 3 at a time. My high school, however pushed reading really hard to the point that certain math classes even assigned books, which left me without enough time to read my own books and just kind of burned me out on reading and I’ve struggled to get back into it. I occasionally manage to get into it for a bit but inevitably fall off of it somewhere after a while.

I started making my way through the dune books a couple years ago. I made it up to God emperor, and stalled out. I was enjoying, but it’s the kind of book I really need to really dedicate some time to reading through it. So that’s been on the back burner for a while. Probably need to restart it when I get back to it. Chunking my way through it a couple pages at a time on my downtime at work like I tend to do isn’t gonna cut it for this one.

I had just started reading The Road before the pandemic, and that just had the wrong vibes for me at that time. Was really enjoying it until I suddenly couldn’t buy toilet paper, then it was all hitting a little too close to home. Haven’t picked that back up yet, but definitely intend to.

I’m slowly working my way through an Esperanto translation of Treasure Island, I’m far from fluent, so that’s slow going but I’m making progress. I’ve seen and loved just about every adaptation of the book, the 1950 movie was a pretty important cornerstone of my childhood and started a lifelong love of pirates, but somehow I never read the book, so I’m killing 2 birds with 1 stone reading the book and working on my Esperanto.

I’m starting to get into Warhammer 40k, so while I save up a bit to start buying and painting minis I’ve started reading some of the books. Decided to start with the Horus Heresy series. I’m currently on the second book, I’m probably not going to read all 60 or so books in this series because I can already tell there’s some definite quality differences between the different authors involved. This seems like it’s gonna be a good fit for me though, there’s a ton of 40k books so there’s always going to be something for me to have lined up as my next book, but they’re light enough reads that I’m not going to burn myself out on them.

ImmortanStalin , to science_memes in Units of measurement
Paradachshund , to science_memes in Units of measurement

I love when they compare size to so many of something that it’s no longer understandable. “The same size 20 Olympic swimming pools!” Ok, I have no idea how much that is now.

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

That’s still easy to imagine, compared to the volume of 6000 gummy bears.

Paradachshund ,

To be honest with you I’m not really sure how big a single Olympic size swimming pool is either. 😅

kamenlady ,
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I just fell into a rabbit hole the size of an Olympic Swimming Pool.

Before your comment, i didn’t know this was a thing.

TL/DR

  • Length: 50 m (164 ft 1 in)
  • Width: 25 m (82 ft 0 in)

That’s the size.

Paradachshund ,

Today I learned. Thank you, stranger!

velox_vulnus , (edited ) to asklemmy in How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?

One million dollars can’t do jack shit to “fix” this world. It’s like telling the doctor to put an adhesive bandage over a third-degree burn.

JackGreenEarth , (edited ) to science_memes in Triangles

I don’t get it

Edit: what does this mean?

a_robot ,

Don’t worry, I wish I could get some too. : [

DannyBoy ,

Supposed to be Maslow’s (?) hierarchy of needs. The bottom is things needed for survival and the top is complete fulfilment. The joke is that all they need is forehead kisses but they put it on a soil triangle instead.

FilthyShrooms ,
chameleon , to games in "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"
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Aside from all of the problems with the game itself, I think they must've had one of the most unfortunate launch moments. Hero shooters had been pretty much on the downturn and then just before they launched, Deadlock went public and suckered quite a lot of the hero shooter audience into playing a full-on MOBA/FPS hybrid. And Deadlock is very quietly breaking all kinds of silly records for what's technically an invite-only alpha (currently #8 on Steam's most played with 137k concurrent players).

WatDabney , to nostupidquestions in Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

nomous ,

Wow, this is such an accurate description of so many online communities that have come and gone over the years, nicely done.

lettruthout , to asklemmy in How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?

Follow in the footsteps of Gil Cisneros

"…is an American government official, philanthropist, and politician who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in the Biden administration. He served as the U.S. representative for California’s 39th congressional district from 2019 to 2021

“In 2010, he and his wife won a $266 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot and became philanthropists, establishing endowments for scholarships to be given to Latino students at GWU and the University of Southern California. They also founded Generation First Degree Pico Rivera, with the goal of ensuring every Latino household in Pico Rivera has at least one college graduate, and the Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros Foundation with an initial investment of $20 million to provide mentorship in education.”

data1701d , to linux in [Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users
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While some of this can be a problem, I feel like using podman automatically disqualifies you as a regular user.

I think the more accurate title is “Linux is harder for medium power users who are already used to an operating system.”

I honestly feel I am unqualified to say how easy Linux distros are, as I often think to do things that a normal user wouldn’t, thus breaking my system in a way that doesn’t mirror what a regular user would experience.

affiliate , to mildlyinfuriating in Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation

please bro just download one more app. please, your phone has so much space. we need more data come on bro please

beefbot , to explainlikeimfive in Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

Ok I’ll explain like you’re five. You’re wrong. It has lots of times. There are things you don’t know until you read more about them

psycocan ,

Exactly. The trick is media control

AlternateRoute , to asklemmy in How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?

1 million dollars doesn’t go that far these days, at the world scale it is almost nothing.

You could however make a lasting difference in your community by making a scholarship, building needed facilities, or doing something else where you directly make sure the funds go where needed and can’t be used for other uses. Lets face it, if you give it to some charities 90% of it will just go to the administration.

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