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.
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.
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 👌💦💩
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.
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.
If alien set hellfire on all of Israel territories
Imagine the survivors crying about which country to turn to ...and the whole world kept slience and watch....
Silence is Violence, but so is speaking from ignorance, so maybe keep your dumb mouth shut if you don't know what you're talking about.
The difference between sport bikes and cruisers
I'm in my 40s and just got my first sport bike, been riding dirt bikes before I was 10 and street bikes by 14. I've always liked cruisers and choppers, never had a crotch rocket style....
Using a notification badge to make me look at an ad should be a felony
The Fair Use disclaimer is the "Anti-Piracy" screen of YouTube in the sense that they are both about copyright, but have very different "permissiveness" on distribution of copyrghted matrial
Words are the hands of the mouth
The only feeling worse than "Why didn't I think of that?" is "I thought of that, but didn't do anything about it!"
Skateboarding is just "The Floor is Lava" on wheels
Saying 'completely turned my life around' is normal, but saying 'turned my life around 360°' (rather than 180) is stupid.
QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!
Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn't make sense in modern society on modern devices.
I Am Able To Change My Race, Right?
This is from my last post, many people disagreed with my belief. Since people are able to identify and claim whatever they want to be. I am now a trans white. I do not consider nor identify myself as an African-American woman anymore. I don’t feel comfortable in my skin. I don’t believe this was my right race at birth. So I...
You shouldn't listen when people tell you what they look for in a partner. It's mostly survivorship bias.
In WW2, Allied researchers were trying to figure out how to reduce the number of their planes that were shot down. They found that most of the planes that returned had extensive damage in the wings and tail, so they decided to add armor to the wings and tail....
Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses.
I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains....
Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?
CBT as a kink may be an evolutionary adaptation to protect men's most vulnerable (and evolutionarily useful) body part.
I have no idea why it's out there, but I suppose abusing it a bit may help toughen it up enough to ensure you can still have children when an accident happens.
Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity?
You’re indoors in the sense that you’re protected from the weather and the elements, and the cave could even have some kind of covering or entrance area that could be considered a door or doorway. People have built homes in caves....
Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon.
Are we doing anything interesting for the celebration?