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.
It's possible to lose your virginity before your biological parents with sperm donation and artificial insemination.
What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?
Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”...
We have vehicles for all types of nature's elements except for fire
We have cars for earth, boats for water and planes for air. Nothing for fire. Not that I want to ride on fire.
A Jedi who becomes one with the Force could be said to be a Force kin
The reason the internet can hook us more than a book is that the internet responds to us. If we get tired, we can dumb down our surfing, but dumbing down what you're reading is harder.
Dumbing down doesn’t mean “philosophy versus Call of Duty”. It just means what’s intuitive versus what takes conscious effort. Heck, Call of Duty could demand conscious effort.
We did it Lemmy!
Perhaps this is a dark thought… but I’m wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to “We did it Reddit!” or “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” will be....
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....
People from other cultures who revere cows must feel the same way about beef as we feel about eating dogs.
The real beef.
I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from?
I’ve never seen a cop fill up at the gas station.
Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day could tell people whether the brain senses pain as we die by many different ways.
If Christians want more people reading the Bible, they should stop spoiling the plot
I wonder how many fires have been started because people left the pizza box in the oven while trying to keep it warm
I’ve seen a few people put their delivered pizza in the oven after everyone grabs a piece to keep it warm. I’ve also seen a lot of those people forget the pizza is in there and either have to throw it out or only noticed after they preheated their oven.
As an introvert you can't teach me how to be an extrovert but I can learn to like being around people.
You can hold a poop while peeing but you can't hold a pee while pooping.
A clown that could legimately spit out infinite scarves could likely make a killing selling quilts.
due to the curvature of the Earth a really long building can't have walls that are both parallel and level.
Aparently, I’ve conflated Level with Plumb, the walls cannot be parallel and plumb. Due to the curve, the center of gravity for the walls would require them to angle in slightly together or not be plumb.
Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great
If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the...
I wonder what percentage of people become suddenly concerned about colon cancer the day after eating beets.
Paywalls aren’t a new thing for journalism. Newspaper delivery fees were a paywall.
Critical Role is DnD being played by Bards
Poop is the original processed food
Manifesting is just like praying. In both you strongly wish something to happen
And the odds of that happening doesn’t change whether you chose to ‘pray’ for it or ‘manifest’ it.