The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it
Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn’t what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, “So, rocks are conscious?” This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism....
Superman photosynthesizes
He gets his strength from the sun.
If the Spiderman character was invented today, he would be stopping school shootings
Is "food" a social construct?
Hear me out. There’s nothing innate to an object that makes it “food”. It’s an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that’s edible “food”....
Fatty liver disease is just self-induced Foie Gras
puts down baconator
The Hyperloop might be a good idea maybe a 100 years from now
HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU DOWNVOTE....
Today's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozen
12/06/24
Dads sometimes call their kids "lil' squirt" and that's because that's all it took.
Capitalism is essentially alive
I think capitalism can be understood as a living entity, a being composed of billions of smaller beings (people), essentially cells. It evolves (legally and through market innovations), has an immune response (police), and grows and reproduces itself (imperialism). The cells are independent life in their own right, but they...
22 qr-codes can store the same amount of data as the Commodore 64's RAM.
Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god
So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there’s a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of...
Maybe many Lemmy users don't understand "shower thoughts" because they don't shower.
Some of the posts in this community are just crazy out of whack.
I wonder if Windows Recall will track Windows Update
Getting closer to marriage and approaching your full earthly potential are the same thing (assuming they're done perfectly)
Edit: “getting closer to marriage” is about the whole journey starting from being completely single...
The only way to do stuff that has to be perfect, is to arrange things so that *you* don't have to be perfect.
Lemmy is like a public library of the internet: it's one of the few places where you can exist without the expectation of paying either through watching ads or through direct payments
Dial Tone
Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.
Until you eat your vegetables, they are just hopeful intentions
Until you eat your vegetables, they are just hopeful intentions
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is like when someone gets diarrhea of the mouth when they're stressed, but of the anus
It’s basically the same thing, but out of the other end of the GI tract 👌💦💩
If 'dawg' didn't already have a very different meaning, it would sound like some sort of mythical draconid.
If time suddenly started going backwards, eating and using the restroom would suddenly get extremely awkward...
Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.
Idea: government funded parties with attendees selected by sortition: "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Party" "Lincoln County Party"
Every week or every month each level of government throws a party funded with taxpayer dollars, and attendees are selected at random from the residents and given advance notice of the party schedule.
Self-driving cars will never be popular as you can't speed in them.
Given how many people treat speed limits as suggestions, at best, having your vehicle obey the limit would turn some people off of them.