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  • topherclay@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldGam-yeets
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    3 months ago

    How can you just assert that seeds are not anologous to sperm? You don’t get to dismiss someone else’s apology because your perspective has less layers of abstraction and is therefore more accurate.

    The entire concept of analogy requires abstraction. Any analogy can be torn down by pointing out some inaccuracy in the comparison. If there weren’t any inaccuracies then it would be two thing anologous to each other it would just be two examples of one thing.

    Sperm is absolutely anologous to seeds. That’s why we call it sperm.

    …from Late Latin sperma “seed, semen,” from Greek sperma “the seed of plants, also of animals,” literally “that which is sown,” from speirein “to sow, scatter” (from PIE *sper-mn-, from root *sper- “to spread, to sow,”…





  • This doesn’t make any sense. The dad’s response can’t come first because it’s supposed to be a response to her saying “I’m dying” and him comedically misinterpreting it.

    But her response can’t come first because she already identifies him as dad which makes his introduction as dad not make sense, and also because she asks him to stop as if he already made his joke.

    It’s as if the text is dropping us in after the setup just so we can laugh at the punchline but then they also have her respond to the punchline with a reference to the setup in case we didn’t get it. But anyone who doesn’t get the joke (because it’s a reference to a joke, not a joke) isn’t going to get the joke from this little dialogue because it doesn’t even make sense as a dialogue.









  • I think it’s like saying “there’s no guard rails now” because you are not in safe and regulated society where all the wild animals you see are on your coins, but you are now outside of that safe comfortable world and the wild animals are actually wild animals.

    It reminds me of the saying “when you hear hooves, expect horses, not zebras” because you’d really be somewhere exotic if the sounds turned out to be a zebra. Well you’d really be somewhere outside of your regular comfort zone if the buffalos were sitting in the grass instead of sitting on your nickle.


  • topherclay@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldDee was wrong
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    5 months ago

    Oh nice, Michael Ian Black. I was a big fan of him since Stella and I followed him on Instagram in like 2015 or so. He went live on Instagram one day when I happened to be scrolling, and when I clicked on it there were only like a hundred people watching. He was just sitting on his couch filming himself drinking wine.

    He was super drunk and he was trying to talk about something political like the presidential election or something and then all the comments told him he was too drunk to be doing a live video and when he saw the comments he realized he was indeed way too drunk and he just stopped the video.

    I was so stoked that I got to see it.