Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit Voltaire atrocities.

Is ❎ the new 🅱️?

did you know that displaying icons and figures of Jesus Christ on the cross was actually an old pagan tradition that early Christians co-opted to help spread their religion

Can you at least unlock it later with experience points or in-game currency?

The more I look, the more memes I see. Is that the Instagram World Record Egg?

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You don’t think the #tuesday chatter is exciting? For real though, I get the same vibe. It usually makes me close the app shortly after I open it. Maybe I’m not giving it enough of a chance.

Think of it more like a holiday

I used to feel really sad about having to wear pants all the time. Some might have even called it dysphoric.

One of my acquaintances started a fairly large group text thread recently. Somewhere along the way someone said, “Who’s the android user in here ruining everything?” I never said anything in the thread, so I felt like I was in the corner of a crowded room wearing a disguise about to be exposed.

I was also pretty annoyed. Like, what’s it matter? Texts are for text. Text works fine.

It’ll be like watching a bunch of CPU players fight each other in Smash Bros. That’s entertaining, right?

Sometimes I get a glimpse of what experiencing the Internet without an ad blocker looks like today and it kinda blows me away.

Why would the owners of a website want to make it harder to browse their website

Don’t some companies sell “popcorn oil”? What is that made of?

I don’t think it’s an objective metric. Based on my experience, they talk amongst each other at research institutions, conferences, and through journal articles. If someone claims “most experts think x” when in reality most experts do not, then most experts hearing it will probably speak up about how wrong it is, shoot it down during peer review, or publish scathing critiques in response to it.

A “most experts” proclamation that aligns with reality will also cite several prior publications that have also been read and cited widely, which shows the idea has kinda stood the test of time.

Source: I been in the game a while, despite several attempts to escape. I do wonder if other fields have more objective approaches.

Does that also mean your first word on Lemmy is “fuck”?