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TIL about Karoshi, a Japanese word for "overwork death" (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://mastodon.art/@stjepanlukac/112195010351308263

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The rich are busy making Earth more like Venus while dreaming about making Mars more like Earth. (hexbear.net)

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Why don't they just stop incinerating this planet?

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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. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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Since both wood and starch are made of glucose molecules, wood houses and gingerbread houses are very similar. (lemmy.ml)

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Since Wales and Cornwall are the only places in Great Britain where a Brittonic language is spoken, they're the only places that can call themselves British, in a literal sense (lemmy.ml)

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Star-ratings for online reviews would probably be actually helpful if you just excluded all the five-star reviews from the calculations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Companies don't pay for four-star reviews, but a person giving a four-star review liked the product overall.

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if the universe was perfect we wouldn't have molecules (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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keep making molecules, y'all.

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Dashcams around the world probably store thousands of hours of people singing who would otherwise not willingly record themselves singing (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Twitter under Elon's management is so bad that people are beginning to think a Meta alternative is a better option ... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aaron Swartz would have LOVED the fediverse (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Having all the rights without the responsibilities" Is often a straw man to gatekeep getting equal rights. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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Metallica went from doing Thrash Metal to do Trash Metal. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A cold toilet seat is more comforting than a warm one (sopuli.xyz)

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Redditors (often) didn’t read it (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most of the time on Reddit, people didn’t read the linked article 😆

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/r/eddit often didn’t read it (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the first time that people insulted me using software which I created (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 coming from people who pretend to represent the working class.

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If Jesus ever comes back to earth, Christians would be the first ones to cancel him. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As humans discover and adopt ways of modifying their bodies with non-biodegradable materials such as plastic or metal, more skeletons will have breast and cochlear implants, and metallic 'bones' (lemmy.ml)

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