Maybe it was someone from the future.
The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
someone was alive and died the most painful way possible
The Bible story of the apple was probably originally a birds-and-the-bees type talk. Probably for girls.
The snake (of the trouser variety) tempts Eve with the forbidden fruit (hanky panky) that she shares with Adam. The consequence of which is painful childbirth....
Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
We really accepted toilet paper as the definitive way to wipe our asses isn't?
Why aren’t baby wipers our default?
Now that scotus gave the president immunity Biden can legally assasinate all of the conservative justices
If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself.
People from other cultures who revere cows must feel the same way about beef as we feel about eating dogs.
The real beef.
We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time
It’s becoming really annoying.
Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it
It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a995411c-72c6-4a7b-af8d-b0d59aa67987.jpeg...
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.
What if the great filter of humanity is to overcome it's own nature that made it the dominant species of the planet and what if that is the universal great filter that makes the cosmos silent
Is "food" a social construct?
Hear me out. There’s nothing innate to an object that makes it “food”. It’s an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that’s edible “food”....
Isn't it weird that we have exactly five fingers and five toes on each hand and foot.
I mean why 5, why 5 on each limb, why not 4 or 6. Why do our feet also have 5. Whats with our body being so symmetrical....
Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?
Birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects? Sure. But no mammals....
In The Matrix, how are babies made?
Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.
Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it.
Just make it so normal that people accept it....
Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.
Maybe ghosts are real, but since they're incorporeal they're unaffected by gravity and get left behind in the void of space
Maybe many Lemmy users don't understand "shower thoughts" because they don't shower.
Some of the posts in this community are just crazy out of whack.