kryptonite

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[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours 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 10 hours 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 5 days ago

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

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 5 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.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a medical intervention justified by observational data must be in want of verification through a randomised controlled trial.

This was a great read. Thanks.

[–] kryptonite@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That depends on how you define breasts. From Wikipedia:

The platypus' mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

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