kryptonite

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[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

humans just put certain expectations into the word.

... which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.

By the common definition, it's not "intelligence". If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The cream would rehydrate them.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you're supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it's ambiguous.

When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That article you linked was a really interesting read. Thanks!

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I have it on pretty good authority that everyone

That's where your comment went wrong. Just about everything that anyone claims "everyone" does is false. Maybe "lots of people," "most people," or even "by far, most people" do a thing, but literally "everyone"? BS.

I don't like looking at breasts, and I have absolutely no interest in them.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

5 years: pay what it costs now

It doesn't cost anything to copyright something. You just automatically own the copyright to something you create.

(This may vary outside the US; I'm not familiar with international copyright law.)

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Only a 2% yearly increase?!? Are you serious? I lived in an apartment for 8 years, and my ending rent was 70% higher than my starting rent. By your number, it should have ended up only about 15% higher.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Well, if Musk said it, it must be true. /s

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don't repeat.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

"Thong" can mean a type of sandal, also known as flip-flops, but it's also the name of a type of underwear or swimsuit bottom that's basically a string in the back.

I grew up calling flip flops "thongs", but as I got older, people were almost exclusively using that term for the underwear, so I switched terms to avoid confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

500 pages seems a bit much. In only 8 lines, it can be "proven" that 1 = 2.

cross stitch design of a proof that 1 = 2.

from https://www.etsy.com/listing/606236792/proof-that-12-math-cross-stitch-pattern

/s, of course.

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