Nintendo Power would disagree

I get that the heavier bowling ball affects the acceleration of the earth more than the lighter feather, but I don’t see how that means it’s falling faster as the meme is stating. The bowling ball would meet the earth first when dropped separately and from the same height because the earth is (imperceivably) accelerating toward it faster than it does the falling feather, but both the bowling ball and feather are falling at the same rate due to Earth’s gravitational force.

Or am I missing something?

It’s a cute little comic about how people feel on first dates and how crazy dogs look drinking from a hose.

You come off as someone who has no personality if they’re not talking down to others.

I’m not sure I get this one. Is the joke that they’re the first humans so they don’t know that they’ll die someday?

Jesus Christ this thread is full of people who don’t realize they’re the judging hipster in the post.

Ubuntu isn’t the entry level distro that you move on from once you’ve gotten your feet wet, and your not very subtle pats on your own backs for using something different aren’t earned.

Does it do everything the user needs from it? If so, don’t tell them that they need to “graduate” to a “better” flavor.

Or Ubuntu could perform every task they need it to and never switch to anything else.

Braver than most western journalists, who regurgitate the corporatocracies narrative and manufacture consent on their behalf.

True

Hopefully she’s given a good job and granted asylum somewhere in the west ASAP, so she can go on with her life.

What?

@lemmy.ml

Not everyone of course but there’s way too many people over there who will justify anything the Chinese government does or just ignore criticism by saying, “what about what the US does?!!?!”

How they cannot understand that the US and China are both dystopian hellscapes is embarrassing.

There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet.

This is why it’s often best to just avoid the comments completely

It would take a super genius to understand that they’re either a non-native English speaker or made a simple typo/autocorrect issue. Also, since it’s completely impossible to even guess at the point they’re trying to make through the context of every other word in their comment we all owe you a debt of gratitude for calling this out!

Thank you, corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, for adding something incredibly meaningful to the conversation and the world as a whole!

Oh no… I just saw this comment in a different thread from 2 hours ago, and it MAKES NO SENSE:

Doctors today face a demand form their services that, while we can’t guarantee will get them.jigher wages, can give them more leeway against unwritten political rules of speech.

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

What is a doctor’s “demand form?” And “them.jigher” isn’t a term I could find anywhere on the internet! I don’t understand what the author, corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, was trying to say! It’s all just gibberish!

I feel good calling it out though. I’m sure that corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca will be grateful for my much-needed help and not think I’m a dick for detracting from their point to assert my knowledge of English grammar over them.

Since when are independent shops no longer an option? I just checked their site and it says you can take it to independent shops, but risk warranty.

You answered your question.

the evidence seems to suggest people are happy with their Teslas

Your “evidence” are people who live on your block and your boss. You might be an engineer but you’re no statistician.

It appears that you’re in a lot of pain. I’m truly sorry.

Neat, there’s a second epilogue update in the game that I can’t get past the second level.

That’s 86 F for all you freedom lovers, or the front seat temperature of a Ford F150 with 312 fresh Big Macs in the extended cab.

It’s true, I spent way too long replying. I usually avoid engaging but I think it was the absurdity that made me throw away what had to be at least a combined hour of my day. They knew the true nature of the universe and tried to convince an atheism group.

It was obvious pretty quickly that they weren’t in a place where they could accept their belief being challenged, but maybe a really bored person read it all and took something away from it.

Stay in school, kid.

On the contrary, if another pandemic killed a bunch of people, many of their homes would be bought up by the same hungry corporations that created and perpetuate the housing crisis.

I get that you feel like you have to “win” and that since facts and logic aren’t on your side you want me to feel upset which would give you some sort of moral victory. You try and change the topic away from you claiming your own god (predestination) in response to an atheism comic no less, to debating my mental health which could put me on the defensive and begin to get under my skin like I have to you.

It doesn’t work when you’re so transparent though. And even if it had, you’d still walk away knowing that some stranger poked a few holes in the latest belief structure that you were trying to use to make sense of your reality. That would be a fun challenge to an intellectual but just sucks for someone like yourself who wants to be right and feel smug.

There’s hope though. You don’t have to stay like this. As you get older and mature, your awareness can help you to become someone who’s interested in learning instead of being right. Then you could grow into a real intellectual thinker instead of cosplaying one.

If you were able to take in anything I’ve said you wouldn’t have asked that, though you’ve made it abundantly clear that you don’t currently value the process of learning. I’ve never cast judgement on the theory you’ve chosen to call The Truth. Through everything I’ve said, you either refuse or can’t understand what I’ve clearly laid out. Your issue is blind acceptance of something you heard. Your arrogance and lack of actual knowledge told you that it sounds neat and makes sense at 30,000 feet so it’s Truth.

You go for personal attacks because you have nothing of value to retort or add. Your Knowledge was challenged and you reacted with anger and name calling because you can’t reasonably address anything I’ve said.

You and religious people have a lot more in common than you think. You all believe that you’ve found The Truth. Whether it’s Jesus or some theory you actually know practically nothing about, you’re drunk on feeling superior and think you comprehend the very nature of existence. There’s no real difference between you and any religious person because there’s as much hard evidence for one belief as the other. You believe there’s a difference because you chose to go all in on a theory as opposed to a god, and that makes you feel smug.

You’re a kid who doesn’t know much about anything, and you think you’ve got existence figured out. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad and common.

Hopefully you’ll grow out of this but there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that may not be the case.

Our current understanding of math tells us that it’s 4, and simple addition like this led to higher levels of mathematics that we’ve used to do things like place humans on the moon.

That never would have happened if we’d collectively said, “2+2=4 and now we know all math.”

We don’t Know All Math. Check out all the unsolved proofs that our best mathematicians haven’t been able to solve. And those are just the questions we’ve thought to ask due to our current level of understanding.

People who acted like you used to believe that they were having a drought because enough virgins weren’t blood sacrificed, as that was the contemporary thinking. They were just as unbending as you in believing they knew The Truth. We have the benefit of hindsight and advancements in science to better understand and predict droughts. You’re lacking the ability to see your place in history objectively and understand that what you call Truth is merely a theory of today that requires infinitely more understanding.

If you’re not ready to accept that you don’t know The Truth, that you’re not in the special club of enlightened people like everyone who goes to the Flat Earth conferences also believes, I understand. It’s not an easy transition from “I’m so smart that I understand the very foundation of reality” to “I’ll never know The Truth about anything but I’m excited to keep learning.” It’s not something that happens quickly either. It’s a whole shift that changes how you see everything, and it can initially lead to feeling like the mom in the comic. I hope you can make that transition someday as the earth always needs more scientific minds.