What if aliens caused inflation by stealing small amounts of cocoa beans from lakeside resorts?
What if aliens caused inflation by stealing small amounts of cocoa beans from lakeside resorts?
april fools should span an entire week
1 day is too short
Rain on your wedding day isn't, in itself, ironic - BUT a song titled "Ironic" getting the very concept of irony wrong, that is the very core of irony, so... well done.
What if Boney M. was short for Boney Montana?
I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.
Like when the creator does their spiel for whatever sponsor.
Humans were lucky that it worked out that bigger dogs generally are less mean.
You know how you can go to the dentist to have tartar removed? In the future, we could have routine appointments to have kidney stones pulverized and removed.
U.S. troops in Iraq were directly ordered to murder whole families, including children, and likely committed even worse war crimes, and this is the reason why so many Iraq vets have PTSD.
This literally just occurred to me as I was thinking about it and it makes me sad. And yes, I already know about the heinous shit that went down back then that we already know of, including the use of white phosphorus....
There is a chance that birds accidentally sing a known musical motif
Besides breakfast and books, is there any other use for a nook?
I did not intend for that to rhyme.
I wonder what fish and sharks think of whales and dolphins that have to surface to breath. I can totally see it "get out of here air breather, go hug the surface."
Algebra in school is like a compiler with shitty type inference: you rarely have to write type annotations and you can easily end up with impossible states.
Cows seem sorta like oversized goats that are too heavy to climb anymore.
The reason the internet can hook us more than a book is that the internet responds to us. If we get tired, we can dumb down our surfing, but dumbing down what you're reading is harder.
Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.
Posts without an image should default to the community's logo (lemmy.world)
Like so, it would make scrolling through posts more cohesive and it would be easier to skim.
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Gonna be a whole generation of artists and musicians who think their art isn't good because of the way algorithms work online
Used to be that great art attracts great attention. However I see many bands who are amazing who get something like 2 plays on youtube, or their tweets sink without a trace. I wonder how many of these young kids are gonna give up their artform because of this?
Gundam has actually always been weirdly leftist?
So I’m a kid who grew up with Gundam Wing and only came to the UC as an adult. Always loved those troubled boys in mech suits and grown to understand how horrifying Gundams are as I have rewatched shows as an adult. Bog standard...
Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great
If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the...
Swimming...
…is just flying in the water.
Is the Fediverse (or thrediverse specifically) going to follow the way of the old web?
People using their communities to link to like communities because the fediverse/thrediverse is so vast and it’s not as easy to navigate? Maybe, eventually finding a way to consistently open links to other instances/services in a way that opens it in your preferred instance/service (some sort of protocol or extension). Our...
How come we say Lake Michigan and not the Ocean Pacific or River Chicago?
We started and ended the week with a crowd strike
The term literally means "exactly figuratively"
The term literally meant that what ever was stated happened exactly as described without any additional figurative meaning. However, as is normal for human language, the meaning of the term has changed in general conversation. The new meaning is “I am not exaggerating the figurative meaning of this statement.” This change is...