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CBT as a kink may be an evolutionary adaptation to protect men's most vulnerable (and evolutionarily useful) body part.

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Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity?

by henfredemars

A movie theater combining with an oxygen bar could probably make a powerful smell-o-vision experience

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The only way things can get better is by acknowledging that things aren't as good as they could be

by 3volver

Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon.

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The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products.

by DrillingStricken

Marsupials are the gymnosperms of the animal kingdom

by Logh

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Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music

by JasonDJ

The best way to keep feeling young is to remove all of your mirrors.

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The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train.

by yesman

NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.

by CRUMBGRABBER

There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.

by Oka

In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber

by DeepThought42

Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity

by alyth

I'd rather be an unknown fish in my own pond

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Humvee limousines kind of look like what would happen if giant tour busses could take a massive poop.

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The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.

by ParabolicMotion

Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion

There used to be a point were I was mostly too young to get the joke. Now I'm mostly too old to get the joke...

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Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.

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Would a (Not-)For-Profit-owned orphanage classify as a business-owned family?

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Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

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Magneto was right .

by Legend

With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant

by neidu2

Uranium pellets are supernova batteries

by JasonDJ

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If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself.

by Daft_ish

[Microblog] I think it's interesting seeing people in the restroom

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Everyone has already died and has died multiple times

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If you have a bank account or a car, you can never use all your money or all your fuel. If you spend all your money or use all your fuel, you will be fucked.

by LemmyKnowsBest

Since 2016 the general publics knowledge about narcissism and manipulation has increased significantly.

by Daft_ish

No one has predicted the end of the world in a while.

by Daft_ish

Are the people who read terms and conditions the same people who pre-heat their ovens? 🤔

by essell

AMAs are just self produced This Is Your Life for geeks

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Take That, Conspiracy Nuts!

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My imaginary friend is better than an AI companion

by CRUMBGRABBER

Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?

by Corkyskog

Once you reach a certain age, all hairs are pubes because you grew them post-puberty

by MycelialMass

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Your body is completely dark except for the 1 molecule outside layer that light hits.

by CRUMBGRABBER

If we took material like rock from space and got it back to Earth enough times, would Earth grow as a planet?

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We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time

by 3volver

Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?

Everyone who reads this was at some point(s) in their life seconds away from death, without realising it.

by ZeroGravitas

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Kids love playing HIde and Seek because it plays into our hunter and prey instincts.

by someguy3

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The more air conditioners in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Infinite money glitch.

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A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month

by 3volver

People are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.

by Daft_ish

What ever crazy randomness and chaos led to me being alive and having a cat kinda makes it all worth it.

by Daft_ish

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Autotune is just a "beauty mode" camera for your voice.

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Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage.

It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.

by ParabolicMotion

If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes?

by m4

What if the only reason countries, like the U.S., agree to arm other countries when they are in conflict, is because international billionaires have placed bets on which country will win?

by ParabolicMotion

If life gives you a gator, should you make Gatorade?

by Etienne_Dahu

It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men.

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Mr Rodgers actually was who he was

by CRUMBGRABBER

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Why don't technical books have a issues page?

by ransomwarelettuce

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Wanting nothing and being grateful for everything is true freedom

by 3volver

If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation

by xia

Almost every problem in the world would be dealt with meaningfully if we outlawed billionaires.

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AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful

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"aaa" letters on t-shirt can be advertised and sold as mirrored number of the beast.

by inconel

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Candy Crush is this generation's Tetris.

by someguy3

Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box.

by Gork

The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.

by Apytele

The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in

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What is tea if not a fin broth

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A good test to see if an alien race has a sense of humor would be to ask if they imitate each other's ways of speaking

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I love the sound of a person's voice when I can hear that they're smiling

by Thorny_Insight

The future of mobile devices?

I wonder if an argument from the elite against gender fluidity is that the future AI models to track us all via camera will find it harder to assign gender.

by thetreesaysbark

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When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend.

by xia

A large language model trained off of Lemmy would be funny

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I doubt future generations will have “basement dwellers” because none of us can afford to own basements.

Considering that Pokemon are stored as computer files, tools like PKHeX probably exist in the Pokemon world too

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The Joker is Probably Completely Sane and Just Uses his Public Image of Being Insane to Keep Others Underestimating Him as Just Some Lunatic

by PhlubbaDubba

Later generations will have less attachment to how things were when they grew up because everything changes a lot faster.

by paulzy

When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video?

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You had no say in being born, but you have the ultimate say in how you're going to live.

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Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.

by spiderwort

Keep This Under Wraps For Now

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We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5

Creating Agriculture is the Home-Office of the neolithic era.

by jupyter_rain

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The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.

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The Giant Korean

The ancient Roman fiscus Iudaicus is a fanum tax

by molave

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We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children

by UraniumBlazer

If corporations are people, are shareholders slaveowners?

by postmateDumbass

Even with unlimited ressources humans would be the only species where millions still would die from hunger and thirst every year

by Grogon

When we clean out a vacuum, we become the vacuum cleaner

by Corno

I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came into existence here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Damn.

by Lemmy

The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

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Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.

by someguy3

We are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe

by Corno

Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs?

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showerthoughts is just a place for people who don't have microblogging social media to dump their random thoughts

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Chloe Luna \ she/they

On Lemmee, actual shower thoughts can be posted because theres less filters.

by CRUMBGRABBER

Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice.

by Astronaut_M_Dexter

What if aliens caused inflation by stealing small amounts of cocoa beans from lakeside resorts?

by CRUMBGRABBER

The eclipse shadow travels on the ground at about 2300 mph, so you could follow it with an SR-71.

by profdc9

A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic

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We should count in base four

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