People from other cultures who revere cows must feel the same way about beef as we feel about eating dogs.
The real beef.
Wireless Shower Head
If you were to make a wireless shower head, would it have hydrogen molecules and suck in the oxygen from the air to create water? Would you have to recharge it with hydrogen?
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....
Social differences even between coasts are massive
Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic....
Lemmy is so good right now because there are no kids here
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
If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.
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.
There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
The idiom of "doesn't grow on trees" as a metaphor for scarcity falls apart when you realize that food does grow on trees yet is still very scarce.
Extremely not-fun fact: collectively, humanity currently produces more than enough food for every person. But a huge part of it is either wasted or inaccessible by people that need them, which usually results in them not going to anyone and being wasted, which is why we still have food scarcity.
"Fry" is an ambiguous word in English
Here are 3 examples:...
Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society
Thinking about this because of a greentext I saw earlier complaining about OF models....
The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.
It’s easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving...