philthi @ philthi @lemmy.world

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We can easily stop having children then

I knew before looking, that this would be the first comment on this picture 😂

Did Semele just... Show up one day?

I conflated conflagration with conflation 🤦‍♂️

Aaah thank you, I reread the original post trying to find a point related to a ladder and eventually decided I just didn't understand what the "ladder point" was referring to, but now I understand them!

Languages are fun :)

That's last pane is essentially an eve online screenshot

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.

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

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.

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

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

Or to quote Terry Pratchett:

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

20 years is extremely optimistic.

This feels to me like one of those optical illusions where the "wall" is in reality the floor.

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Yeah, it did suck. It is much much better now though. I genuinely enjoy it at the moment.

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...

Haha, if someone remembers something that everyone else has forgotten is it really embarrassing... No one would believe him anyway!

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