Lyre

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[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are certain people on the internet who have been conditioned to impulsively post any recognizable reference even if only tangentially related to a topic in hopes of getting some sort of response. It's the redditor syndrome

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago
  1. Create environment actively hostile to remain in for long periods of time
  2. Expect people to work and be productive in said environment for hours on end
[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Alberta-Saskatchewan boarder remaining impenetrable as always

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So.... Who took this picture?

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

A wolf with sporadic depression?

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess etymologically it would just mean man-human. So it technically works

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Ive heard the city of Pheonix described as "the single greatest testament to man's arrogance"... But idk

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

They'll probably kill off his character in the first scene then leave us with the cheaper actors for the rest smh

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?'—With my keyboard I corrected the albatross

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find myself morbidly curious about how you learned this

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminded me of a Terry Pratchet line.

"What doesn't die, doesn't age. What doesn't age, doesn't learn. What doesn't learn, doesn't live."

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thats the cool thing about language that people dont really seem to understand. Meaning is defined by what we collectively believe, not latin origins.

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