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[โ€“] 108 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I'm sorry, but cum.

You can swear on the internet. And this isn't swearing even, it's just related to sex, you know, something natural

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  • [โ€“] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    these days it's not because people are trying to censor the content from the viewer, but they're censoring from the algorithms. they want their content to be seen, and algorithms will demote content when it has profanity. probably not the case on lemmy, but this was a screenshot from somewhere

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm with you. Censorship is killing my sanity. But here's the issue.

    We already have content restrictions in place to "protect" under 18s whether they're mature enough or not to see porn or gore. Physical and digital media have PEGI, BBFC, etc. ISPs have parental control - the UK has Content Lock. We have parents with personal preferences for their offspring's access.

    National or global censorship is useless. In their insatiable quest for power and money the corporations and governments are trying to turn the internet into a child's internet. If these are the lengths they're willing to go to, if their intentions were honest, it would surely be easier to let the adults have the freedom of adults and build a second internet for children. Maybe age lock that. Instead of killing everything consenting adults made.

    This is equivalent to taking a bar, stripping out the slot machine, alcoholic drinks and erotic dancers, adding a ballpit, replacing live sports with cartoons and still checking ID at the door. Except now they want to swap ID for fingerprints.

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  • [โ€“] 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    > be me
    > greek philosopher
    > love wisdom
    > realize eating animals is kinda fucked up
    > go veg
    > "oh yeah well what about protein dumbass?"
    > plebs forgot one thing
    > BEANS
    > eat beans nonstop
    > all beans all the time
    > beans beans beans
    > everything starts to smell like beans
    > breath smells like beans
    > farts smell like beans

    pff w/e this is wise af

    > fap to own wisdom
    > cum smells like beans

    Fellow philosophers, I have just concluded a series of rigorous scientific experiments...

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  • [+] [S] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [โ€“] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Life

    No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived,[2][3]ย and almost nothing is known for certain about his life.

    Cool.

    Cool cool cool.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago

    Typical teen: "What?? No mom, I just crushed some beans earlier, I swear!"

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago

    I have a kid I sometimes call "Little Bean" as a term of endearment.

    This is not what I meant.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago

    He also believed your soul carries on after death and enters a new body, possibly even an animal's.

    The story that he was killed because he refused to run away through a field of beans is probably fake. There's a trope of ancient philosophers getting ironic deaths:

    • Archimedes being killed because he was absorbed in his geometry (he told the attacking soldier "don't disturb my circles!")

    • Diogenes was notorious for rejecting social norms and acting dog-like. "Cynic" comes from the Greek word for "dog". He died of food poisoning after eating raw octopus, showing you can't really live like a dog.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I fear that this is where Lemmy and Pythagoras part ways irrevocably.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We share 70% of our DNA with an onion, some people more

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  • I honestly love that we've all agreed to misattribute this relationship of triangles to Pythagoreas, because it's meant future generations keep learning about Greece's greatest crackhead.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, Pythagoras wasn't so wrong either, all living beeings on Earth are descendants of the first single-celled life that formed at the beginning of the Earth, also beans and humans.

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  • Pythagoras it's human being, not human bean!!! Silly goose!

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago

    'Ecce homo, qui est faba'

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, have you see a fetus? At some point, it looks like a bean.

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  • Isn't Pythagoras also the guy who believed that farts were the soul leaving the body?

    And that beans were therefore toxic and related to death.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Itโ€™s a shame he never had the pleasure of Bradford Pear trees in the spring. ๐Ÿคข ๐Ÿคฎ

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    mmmm, primordial bean soup.

    I'm still eating it though even if it is my (step) nXgrandmother.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    The little discussed Pythagorean Wild Conjecture.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What kind of bean? Don't most varieties we eat today come from the Americas?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago*

    From Wikipedia "Bean":

    cultivated since the seventh millennium BCE in Thailand, and since the second millennium BCE in Europe and in Peru.

    So from Asia, and in Europe 4 kiloyears ago

    The nine kiloyear Thai date suggests beans were among the first domesticated plants in afroeurasia

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago
    [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Huh, I was watching a YouTube video about the Sabians in Tรผrkiye the other day and how they were Pythagorians who didnโ€™t eat beans

    https://youtu.be/L00Fyu_5GXk

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh shit guys it's bean season again

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    Some days...reality just beats drugs.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    He also died because when he was being chased, he refused to run through a bean field, trampling on the beans.

    He used to also lecture by dressing like a girl, and sitting behind a curtain so that only his shadow would appear on the curtain. I love stories of ancient trans people. Yes they also believed in silly things sometimes, but they were just as intelligent and creative as we are. They were human in every way that we are today.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    He's a pseudomythical figure and you should treat stories about him about the same way you treat a story about Moses and the like

    Especially because Greek "historians" just straight up loved lying to make a good story

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I kind of believe it. I think before monotheism people were much more free and diverse in their thinking. They were more just natural to their own beliefs and human nature. The greeks and Egyptians loved culture. They loved to see about how other humans were living in the world. The most celebrated people in Athens for example were often travellers because everyone wanted to hear their stories from far off lands.

    In modern times the culture is extremely strict. Everything from your beliefs to your clothing to who you are supposed to love, is heavily policed by the culture. I think this is the main reason you can hardly find a person anymore that has any original ideas or can think rationally, or see the bigger picture. Our DNA is degenerating.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interesting rephrasing of the fascist concept of degenerate modernity, bro

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago

    Fascists are the most degenerate people, I'm not sure how you could possibly take that from my statement unless you literally didn't read what I wrote.

    To make it clearer, I'm saying humanity is degenerating because people are no longer free and our society rewards the wrong things, like conformity, submission to authority, duplicity, selfishness, evil politicians and giant corporations. Your average American today is voting for mass surveillance, millions of cops, and corporate finance of politics and the eraser of citizenship, brainwashing, censorship, disarming the population, giving the rich not only low taxes but access to unlimited nearly free loans that don't even match inflation, and they still can't make the economy good. This is what American voters vote for, they are incredibly stupid. In fact I'm going to start telling Americans how stupid they are when I see them for voting for mass surveillance and bot farms and algorithmic brainwashing, horrible economics, complete technology serfdom by having everything in their nation corporatized. I think you should tell them too. I don't think they realize what they vote for election after election they are too distracted with the extreme fear based politics of the corporate media.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)