[-] philthi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

That's last pane is essentially an eve online screenshot

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I noticed how many of the verbs in English can mean different things depending on what word comes next, e.g.

  • Put
  • Put down
  • Put up
  • Put upon
  • Put on (wear)

English has so many words that mean the same thing, it's amazing, astonishing, bewildering and flabbergasting, there was a thief, mugger, robber, bandit... Who stole, robbed, nicked, thieved from me... I don't know how anyone ever learns all the English words for stuff, I honestly don't know how I have.

It also made me reflect on how languages are just noises we've all agreed to make at each other. The rules try to match the language and fail, not the other way around.

Recently I was also thinking about how interesting it is that some words we use are SO OLD, and we just... use them like it's no big deal, but if we we're transported back thousands of years, people were still calling vanilla something very similar to vanilla and arteries something very similar to arteries, and that is super cool to me.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I was essentially certain that this meant: "their face when"

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I'm almost certain this is pine, the grain lines are very spaced apart, suggesting it was grown very rapidly too, so probably not a very old table.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 139 points 4 weeks ago

It took me a while but "cocktails" for anyone else out there like me

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

"You ARE the droid I've been looking for"

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

I know this is completely unrelated, but I think I'd actually find it impossible to get to 11:50 in the day with only 7 steps. That's a one way trip to the toilet...

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

I suppose in reality it's the average of people who post pictures online and are willing to display it publicly, and probably weighted slightly by how many pictures of a person are uploaded (e.g. if someone has uploaded tens of thousands of pics of themselves - a celebrity or whatever - they will throw the average slightly towards their own face). Assuming the sample set is something like: all of social media photos of a person's face.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

"i can see right through you and your lies"

"That's just one facet of my personality"

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Full disclosure, I am not a vegan.

However, I do know that not all plants we eat die as a result of being eaten, for example, eating apples from an apple tree does not kill anything - I suppose I can see that this is like eating eggs from a chicken.

Another example could be eating the leaves of rocket lettuce (but choosing not to uproot it), or the stalks of celery or rhubarb is another example, in both cases the plant can return to complete health over time.

Then there are some plants, such as grasses that require the ends of their blades to be eaten in order to be healthy.

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I like it! But I'd rephrase it to:

Why don't zombies eat clowns?

Because they taste funny

[-] philthi@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago
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