We don't know what our boogers smell like - it's the default smell for us.
Title, basically. Enjoy trying to sniff your own snot!
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
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 whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.
Professors who grade the same exam dozens or hundreds of times probably experience semantic satiation (explained in the body of the post).
Semantic satiation happens when repeating word or a phrase over and over makes it temporarily lose its meaning. This was first written about in the psychological literature by Titchener, in case you search it online and find that name....
if trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?
You can totally play Tetris in your head
Realised it this morning
The opposite of workout is chillin
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.
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.
People from other cultures who revere cows must feel the same way about beef as we feel about eating dogs.
The real beef.
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.
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.
Critical Role is DnD being played by Bards
Poop is the original processed food
Motherboards must have integrated 8bit game to play if windows gets corrupted
Was thinking about how sometimes a therapist can give bad advice, and if you're not thinking about the situation clearly, how would you know? Clearly...
Was thinking about how sometimes a therapist can give bad advice, and if you’re not thinking about the situation clearly, how would you know? Clearly the solution is to see a bunch of them concurrently, like a therapist RAID setup
Climate change is like having BDSM sex but both partner forgot the safe word so it just keep getting worse.
Had this funny thought of mind had to share 🤣...