Most people unconciously associate the pause symbol (Two vertical lines) as currently playing and the playing symbol (sideways triangle) as paused.
if trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?
We should pick a few words to start intentionaly misspelling to see when AI picks up on it
A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).
I ate 6 donuts today. I wonder if this is how it feels to be a cop.
Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have
Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
I find it odd that in the various communism communities and subreddits not all posts recieve the same number of upvotes
Tooth doctor doesn't have the same ring as eye doctor
Saying eye doctor in a conversation feels normal. Saying tooth doctor feels like listening to someone who had a bad disco elysium roll and they’re punching themselves in the face to get the words out.
I pronounce there and their differently
and I can’t really describe how. Their is more like a they with an r on the end.
Milk, milk, lemonade, round the corner chocolates made
You can hold a poop while peeing but you can't hold a pee while pooping.
packets of ketchup are super wasteful
The grams of waste per teaspoon of ketchup seems high....
Mindlessly petting a cat is like mindlessly washing a knife.
This was my best showerthought I left on reddit. I didn’t want to leave it into the oblivion.
Ice is just frorzen worter
Lightning McQueen is yesterday's Thomas the Tank Engine.
Both introduce the world to youngsters, but with different modes.
Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.
or maybe eX-twitter
It's actually wholesome that early internet most famous meme/ viral video is a song about "never giving someone up and never letting them down"
I just realized how incredible it is that we don't have toes growing out of our ears.
AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don’t have...
DNA Testing Would Clear Out the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Pretty Fast.
The fact that we aren’t aware of every process in our body means our brains aren’t fully connected with our bodies.
If we were created then the creators probably put fail safes so we can't see our own code.
Was thinking about this in terms of AI. As we create it we are probably going to put fail safes on it. So it would be reasonable then to assume if we were created the same thing would be programmed in us.
Do kids talk like cartoons or do cartoons try to talk like kids?
There are certain action phrases in cartoons that kids imitate. There’s also a kind of children’s books writer tone to many programs, simplified language, certain ways of explaining things slowly or expressing emotions
The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length
I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I’m sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.