Bill Withers' song "Ain't No Sunshine" could be interpreted as Hades and/or Demeter singing about Persephone.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone...
Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games.
You could probably make a poptarts are sandwiches alignment style thing out of this....
Snitches get stitches
is actually a rather nice promise to give someone in the USA: “we’ll treat your wounds, you’ll receive basic health care services from us”
Shower thoughts are just thoughts but in a shower
You can’t have a shower thought outside a shower so how can it be that thoughts in a shower are outside in the shower?...
Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments
By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic
Wouldn't it be funny if there ended up being a plastic-based life form and they wondered how they came to be...
…and they COULD NOT think of a natural process that could produce plastics in the environment in the amounts required to produce life?...
I wish there was a website where people can upload and view historic photos of roads and places on a map UI
Sometimes I go past an old looking building or see some traces of old signage on a store and wonder what they used to be, especially when those traces are hard to read or obscured.
Dinosaurs wouldn't be that popular if they were small like dogs
Alternative title: Dinosaurs wouldn’t be that big if they weren’t that big
Why doesn’t Paddington, who is famously from "Darkest Peru," speak with a Spanish speaker’s accent?
Or is he from one of those indigenous Peruvian tribes that speaks the King’s English?...
Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around
Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy
Capitalism is nothing but a giant pyramid scheme.
One stranger liked what I posted. I hope he liked it :)
With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....
Collecting memes in your camera roll probably serves the same instinct that stamp collecting used to
that said if any FOSS devs want to make an app for categorizing and tagging memes outside the camera roll so i can use it for its intended purpose i will volunteer a (consensual) kiss on the forehead
In 2024 we are now further from the release of the song 1985 than 1985 was from 1985
Bike shops should take car trade-ins
Cash-for-clunkers but make it eco-friendly
We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat".
Just realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside down
Why do people say "symbiotic relationship" when they really mean "mutualistic"?
Why doesn’t Miss Piggy call herself Mademoiselle Cochon?
I wish there was a sloth month
Just a month to celebrate relaxation and not obsessing over the grind. Festivals where people just bring camping chairs and chill together. Companies pandering by giving paid extra time off to employees. And so on.
Dial Tone
Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.