If you're on a car ferry and get nauseous, are you carsick or seasick?
Can someone who just wants to keep the rights gained over the last decades really be called progressive? And is it really conservative if someone wants to radically change society?
Do the terms “progressive” and “conservative” still make any sense?...
In Black Mirror, Aaron Paul was in two episodes. First, he was on earth, simulating space-life. Then he was in space, simulating earth-life.
Any illness on an airplane is an airborne illness
You have an unique perspective of your feet.
If you nicknamed a Giraffe "Giff" how would you pronounce it?
Why shouldn't electric plugs screw in?
I just watched a TikTok about how people used to plug in things to their light sockets when electricity was first becoming popular. And they kept calling the plug a light socket, what rule says it’s not a plug that screws in? And why shouldn’t plugs screw in? We have material science to make plugs and cables hard enough that...
A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't.
Explanation: Random walk in 2D has a unity probability of making it back to the starting point as the number of steps approach infinity but random walk in 3D only has ~0.34.
When you say something is “red” it’s actually every color except red since red is the color being reflected off the object.
What’s your new favorite color now???
The blowhole in whales and dolphins is really their nose.
That’s where they breathe from.
Is the Fediverse (or thrediverse specifically) going to follow the way of the old web?
People using their communities to link to like communities because the fediverse/thrediverse is so vast and it’s not as easy to navigate? Maybe, eventually finding a way to consistently open links to other instances/services in a way that opens it in your preferred instance/service (some sort of protocol or extension). Our...
I'm turning 18 this year. My mom is a millennial
I’m most looking forward to investing in stocks.
I wish my contacts packaging had raised numbers...
so I could tell which one goes in which eye without glasses.
In just a few decades we will probably be able to ask an AI for a movie or a game, and it will make one to our exact specifications.
We under-estimate how much of an impact our social media posts have on the world
It’s routine for even relatively unsuccessful posts and comments to get 1000+ views. Imagine that many people huddled around you in the real world hearing your take on the Reddit API changes or looking at the dumb meme you made in 5 minutes. That would be something, wouldn’t it? For some reason we don’t think it is just...
it's quite ironic that English became the lingua franca
People who take baths will never experience a shower thought
Baths are weird anyway.
It is interesting to see what ads play during certain content…
I know there is usually a “target demographic” that is profiled for what kind of products that they may buy. I was listening to an electro swing mix online and I kept hearing ads for different kinds of soaps, and all I could think of is “damn, a lot of people must clean while listening to this.
I know where outer space is, but where is inner space?
I know I’m not the first one to wonder, but really…
I wonder how many people have wished upon Venus.
Metaverse could be renamed to escape
Just like mail in electronic form is called email, virtual worlds chould be called escapes.
Whomever named lisp was extremely cruel because those who have it can't pronounce it.
Whomever named this was extremely cruel because those who have it can’t pronounce it.
Lemmy bean posting could be a reddit counterattack to get people to return to reddit.
I don’t know how I didn’t think of this be for, but the Lemmy bean posting could be a psyop that reddit is trying to get people to return to them after switching to Lemmy
If everyone moved to open source non-profit solutions, the tech industry would lose billions
I’m a FOSS (free and open source software) contributor and enthusiast. So I prefer to use such products (Lemmy instead of Reddit, Linux instead of Windows, Firefox instead of Chrome, Signal instead of WhatsApp, you get the idea). Was just thinking that if everyone moved to such solutions, the tech and ad industry would lose...