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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

By improving the performance of a Nerf gun, you "buff" it, which is ironic

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?...

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”

Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around

One stranger liked what I posted. I hope he liked it :)

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

Bike shops should take car trade-ins

Cash-for-clunkers but make it eco-friendly

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.

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.

In 2024 we are now further from the release of the song 1985 than 1985 was from 1985

Why do people say "symbiotic relationship" when they really mean "mutualistic"?

Just realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside down

I've gone to lots of secondhand stores, but I've never once seen a raspberry beret for sale.

At this point, I’m wondering if there is enough of a quantity of raspberry berets in secondhand stores to identify the kind you would find in one.

The whole concept of a forehead (hairless forehead) is strange.

Why is there no hair? It’s completely surrounded by hair. The entire rest of the head (except parts of the actual face) is covered by hair. Other animals have hair.

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....

Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy

The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it

Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn’t what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, “So, rocks are conscious?” This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism....

If the Spiderman character was invented today, he would be stopping school shootings

Superman photosynthesizes

He gets his strength from the sun.

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”....

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