An overcooked bread isn't well cooked. So a well cooked bread is necessarily not too cooked. And yet, asking for "well cooked" or "not too cooked" bread in a bakery have well distinct meanings...
That Tesla car that got launched into space has probably burnt up by now
Not in the atmosphere, of course
We should stop saying "The customer is always right" because it's not true
In the grand scheme of things, the customer may have slightly more pull than the cashier ringing up their order, but it’s the CEO and the board of directors that control the narrative. That’s why we’re getting bigger and less fuel efficient vehicles, bigger and more fattening meal portions in restaurants, and bigger less...
"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.
Bot posting in new communities seem to discourage human engagement.
Or is it just a coincidence?
In the future, the artists of retro-looking videos will artificially add compression artifacts instead of film grain.
When you first see what image-generating AIs can do, you feel bad for real artists; after playing around with it, you envy them.
Capitalism is nothing but a giant pyramid scheme.
Since anglophone pansexuals love pans and hispanophone pansexuals love bread, do they all love tortillas, crepes akd pancakes?
c/YouShouldKnow should’ve been called c/LemmyTellUSomething
Low-skill players "rope" (slow play) in online games so that they will lose fewer games per hour played. A player with a higher win rate can still lose more games per hour than a roper.
Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language.
Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.
If we measured value by utility, what would be the most valuable thing in the world?
Obviously, water/food can’t be considered because they’re essential for everyone.
All fans are technically heated fans because of the waste heat from the motor
I know where outer space is, but where is inner space?
I know I’m not the first one to wonder, but really…
There are less than 1000 people who can claim to be on Earth for the second or more time. Everyone else is still on their first visit.
"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.
Metaverse could be renamed to escape
Just like mail in electronic form is called email, virtual worlds chould be called escapes.
If we make contact with a galactic civilization, humans who grew up in developing areas will be much better suited for it than ones used to living in the 1st world
"what do you want to be when you grow up" is just the kid version of asking "where do you see yourself in 5/10 years"
Carrying a lot of stuff and being super busy does not make you more important than others.
I wish my contacts packaging had raised numbers...
so I could tell which one goes in which eye without glasses.