spittingimage
@spittingimage@lemmy.world
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 5 days ago:
The dude contributed greatly to physics, optics and mathematics.
He also tried to cure the plague with magic frog vomit.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
Younger me’s anxieties were unrealistic. I was a nervous child.
- Comment on Time travel and the economy 1 week ago:
If that happens, I think the economy will suddenly always have been the least of our problems.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 week ago:
“None of the things you’re worried about will happen, so relax a little.”
- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 week ago:
He’s practically got ‘clueless middle-manager’ stamped on his forehead. He has he confidence to fake it through an interview and the animal cunning to blame others for his mistakes.
- Comment on Where do people dance? 1 month ago:
If you’re an angel, on the head of a pin.
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 1 month ago:
Really? I can’t see yours.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
The average human skull has a volume of about twice the average bottle of wine. Thanks to your sacrifice, some artsy goth is getting wasted.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
Should they bury you as well, or do you plan to be a year-round Hallowe’en decoration?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
When my mother went, the hospital staff asked us if she was a donor.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
Start eating paprika. Like, lots of paprika.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
Strip me for parts and give the rest to science. I’m not real sentimental about my body once I’m done with it.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 1 month ago:
You say paranoid delusion, I say let me see those notes you’re writing-!
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 1 month ago:
I’m told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 1 month ago:
A boxing coach once told me it’s harder to fight lefties because they go against what you’ve trained for.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 1 month ago:
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
That sounds interesting. What’s the process for making it? What colour does it come out?
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
Free RPG content, which I’d be happy to share with you:
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 1 month ago:
She takes my hoodies, my snacks, my cash, the blankets… why wouldn’t she take my name?
~(She didn’t take my name.)~
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months ago:
My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it’s because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 2 months ago:
I’ve started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.
It’s important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don’t use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you’ll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 months ago:
I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 months ago:
Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Okay, now explain to me which is the best Star Trek captain and why anyone who disagrees needs to die by cheesegrater in a three-day ordeal.
🙂
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 months ago:
It costs about $10,000 US to get a kilo of payload as far as Low Earth Orbit. I’m not sure this is going to scale up.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 2 months ago:
I have several first cousins I’d like to have removed. But I’ve always known their kids as my second cousins.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 3 months ago:
Here’s an interesting related factoid - your eyes are constantly making tiny micromovements called saccades. During these movements, you don’t received any visual information. Your actual view of the world comes in stuttering fits and starts. You don’t notice this because your brain literally invents what you think you’re seeing during saccades. It’s good enough not to get you weeded out of the gene pool.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 3 months ago:
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
