Starting any sentence with 'how come' makes you sound like a tattle tale.
If there was a city called January, and it hosted an international event (such as the Olympics or the Eurovision Song Contest), people would think it took place in the month of January.
If this was a real city, it would be the largest city of Dooland (not the capital, the capital would be Almara) if that were a real country. Context: the Summer Olympics take place in July/August, the Winter Olympics in February, and Eurovision in May.
There is no way you can effectively communicate to a dog hoe you felt three days ago.
What if cars grew from use - like animals. A lot of people with big/small vehicles today would be flipped around.
Just thinking about all the… Shall we say “under used” pickup trucks in my neck of the woods. Bought to look like the owner moves shit - when in reality it just signals to me they have the money to make others do it for them.
Of all the forms that matter can take in this universe, it predominantly forms into big orbs of light in an otherwise endless sea of darkness
Creating a playlist for a work gathering. It* occurred to me that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing them all off is super easy.
Something for everyone means that someone will hate something.
You will never understand until you've understood.
"You're almost completely covered" can mean two very different things at the doctor's office.
(Assuming you have shitty American insurance, anyway)
An inter-galactic games competition could be going on right now and we'd never find out about it.
The screen of your TV is as good as the screen of the TV being advertised on it. Akan
Does existence of a language authority influence opinions about descriptivism/prescriptivism?
I was thinking of this because in my country there’s an institute which determines correct language and therefore many people speak or write their native language incorrectly. Whereas in English there’s no central authority which would write the rules....
Not a shower thought
Mods, please don’t let this community turn into a lemmy support channel. There’s probably 20 others.
Lemmy is good because it’s good
Lemmy is good right now because we're all lurkers
ChatGPT/GPT-4 mostly prove that humans are just continuous bullshitters
To be clear I’m not expert. But I know a bit....
Cash is backwards
Crossposted from lemmy.one/comment/283051:...
It'll be really hard to colonize space if everyone wants to have no children or at max 1 child
The Fair Use disclaimer is the "Anti-Piracy" screen of YouTube in the sense that they are both about copyright, but have very different "permissiveness" on distribution of copyrghted matrial
AMAs are just self produced This Is Your Life for geeks
It’s an unpolished shower thought.
What is tea if not a fin broth
Joseph Heller tried to warn us of MBA's when he wrote the character Milo Minderbinder
Everything is for the good of the enterprise, even if you have to bomb your own camp
Jet Fuelled Steal Beams
Don’t Melt My Wet Dreams