This was a pretty dumb choice of cake day.
At least I’ll remember it this time.
Netflix documentaries are the high-brow evolution of the Discovery Channel
Discovery used to be science, nature, and well-researched documentaries. Then it turned into the TV version of click-bait....
DNA Testing Would Clear Out the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Pretty Fast.
Everything isn't as far away when you use a Pluto year for your light year measurement (lemmy.world)
So Alpha Centauri is now only .016 light years away....
It is impossible to live in the present when all we see is the past.
I bet a lot of teenage depression comes from people no longer thinking you're cute and smiling when they see you.
It’s such a subtle shift they probably don’t even realize it happened. But suddenly people stop reacting with joy and love when they see you and it takes a while to adjust to that
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
Alcohol is lighter than water but the bottom of the cocktail still tastes the stronger .
Like I said, alcohol is lighter than water but the bottom of the cocktail still tastes the stronger. If i dont steer my mojito the bottom has a stronger alcohol taste
Life
Do buddhist monks practice escapism or have they grasped a divine truth about life and the evolution of the soul for a world beyond what we presume to be reality?
Moving Issue Discussions to Lemmy would Enhance Collaboration and Prioritization
I propose relocating most issue discussions from GitHub to lemmy.ml/c/feature_requests to optimize developer time and foster increased user engagement and collaboration. This transition would allow developers to focus on critical tasks while leveraging the voting system on Lemmy to sort comments and identify the most valuable...
So, there is a method for finding if a number is divisible by 7.
Since I have studied mesoamerican languages, which includes base 20 numbering systems, I was curious to see what may happen by following the same rules for 7 in decimal....
There are behaviors we stopped doing because of speciation. For each of those behaviors, there is a day in history in which one of our ancestors did it for the very last time.
If the sausage Bologna is pronounced "Balloney" in english, how is the city of Bologna pronounced?
Side note: It’s also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.
If wetness is the property of having water on something, what is the property of something in water?
I’m firmly on the side of “water is not wet” in this debate, but it’s a question that I was asked while I was high and have no answer to it. Water cannot itself be wet because you can’t get water on water. However, what is a fish in a lake? It can’t be wet until it’s taken out of the water, but it’s not dry...
Every other species in the world gets to go out in their birthday suit...
… but when humans do it, it’s automatically NSFW....
Start saying "tock-tick-tock-tick" repeatedly and you somehow end up saying "tick-tock-tick-tock"
Besides breakfast and books, is there any other use for a nook?
I did not intend for that to rhyme.
Our entire existence may be a sort of stable spacetime bubble that can pop at any moment.
Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.
Architects who design and propose glass buildings may have increased carbon emissions for decades
Someone's put salt in their coffee and liked it
Loyalty should never demand a reward.
Loyalty should never demand reward. Loyalty itself is the reward. Else it’s just prostitution by another name. (This thought inspired by golf)
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
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.