TIL about Karoshi, a Japanese word for "overwork death" (en.wikipedia.org)
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The rich are busy making Earth more like Venus while dreaming about making Mars more like Earth.
Why don’t they just stop incinerating this planet?
The idiom of "doesn't grow on trees" as a metaphor for scarcity falls apart when you realize that food does grow on trees yet is still very scarce.
Extremely not-fun fact: collectively, humanity currently produces more than enough food for every person. But a huge part of it is either wasted or inaccessible by people that need them, which usually results in them not going to anyone and being wasted, which is why we still have food scarcity.
Star-ratings for online reviews would probably be actually helpful if you just excluded all the five-star reviews from the calculations
Companies don’t pay for four-star reviews, but a person giving a four-star review liked the product overall.
if the universe was perfect we wouldn't have molecules
keep making molecules, y’all.
Dashcams around the world probably store thousands of hours of people singing who would otherwise not willingly record themselves singing
"Having all the rights without the responsibilities" Is often a straw man to gatekeep getting equal rights.
This is because then your civil and human rights are finally recognized, the rest of the laws that already exist still does apply to you and no responsibilities are strip away from you, for example, taxes.
This is the first time that people insulted me using software which I created
Its a very interesting feeling. On one hand Im proud because Lemmy has come so far. Two years ago there was only one instance dev.lemmy.ml and no federation. On the other hand disappointed, because some people are unable to appreciate how much time and work I put into this project. Its especially ironic that these attacks are...
"Man" is a fine interjection but "woman" is not
Woman, English is weird.
"Rub off on someone" is a phrase that sounds way more exciting than it really is.
Stole from a friend of mine but they said it was okay :)