Having a cordwainer construct shoes directly on your feet without laces or other openings, then cutting the shoes off and discarding them after wearing them once.
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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world If Civ I had been a real-time strategy game, people who started playing a game the year it came out would currently be up to 3965 BC.
Ask Science @lemmy.world Is it likely that we’re underestimating the extent of metamorphosis in the fossil record because we’re mistaking different stages of the same organism for different species?
Wikipedia @lemmy.world Investment theory of party competition
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.
Wikipedia @lemmy.world Dionysian imitatio
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.
California @lemmy.world California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?
Wikipedia @lemmy.world Shift-and-persist model
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.
Ask Science @lemmy.world What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?
California @lemmy.world Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
Biodiversity @mander.xyz Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)
Showerthoughts @lemmy.world If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.
To verify that, I’d have to listen to a speech Hegseth wrote himself for comparison—and there’s nothing I’d rather not do.