We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5
What if there's a bigger, still unknown reference point?
When we think about teleportation, there’s always someone talking about how you should take into account the earth and the sun moving through space. Let’s step back a little (not so much) what if the galaxy we’re currently in is rotating really really fast around another, bigger, still unknown, spacial object?
Every semi-natural group of considerable size has rotten apples.
One way groups can be classified is the naturality of forming the group....
Do Finnish soldiers kill you or finish you?
99% of the people here are dumb as a box of rocks
people that look good in still pictures are called photogenic.
so, people that look good in moving pictures are called clipgenic, i guess....
English is such a peach.
It’s bullshit that the opposite of “impeachable” is “unimpeachable” instead of “peachable”
We should count in base four
We have basic words for the numbers zero to three, so why not use them to count?...
Creating Agriculture is the Home-Office of the neolithic era.
No more nomadic lifestyle following herds around, simply stay home. Grow wheat and beat the shit out of it after it’s harvested.
Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance
I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came into existence here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Damn.
On Lemmee, actual shower thoughts can be posted because theres less filters.
When we clean out a vacuum, we become the vacuum cleaner
Keep This Under Wraps For Now
I want to know what was running through the mind of the first guy who thought up mummies. Some guy just came along and said "You know what we need? Dead bodies to last longer! C’mon, who’s with me?”...
We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children
Edit: To those downvoting, could please comment the reason as to why you are downvoting? The comments that are there right now do not explain the reason for the downvotes. I am genuinely curious as to what the thinking behind disliking the post is....
Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice.
I’m not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.
I feel sorry for men who have to wear pants
I can wear a dress to work and nobody criticizes me. I’d be really sad if I had to wear pants all the time, they’re just not as comfortable. Let’s normalize pretty dresses for dudes!
We are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe
The ancient Roman fiscus Iudaicus is a fanum tax
The fiscus Iudaicus or Judaicus (Latin for “Jewish tax”) was a tax imposed on Jews in the Roman Empire after the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in AD 70. Revenues were directed to the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome....
If corporations are people, are shareholders slaveowners?
Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.
(I have no idea if accurate.)
showerthoughts is just a place for people who don't have microblogging social media to dump their random thoughts
The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.
Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?
Dogs run about 10 degrees hotter than humans, so do you think they regard us as the giant cold ones?