You don’t get to choose whether you are in the trolley problem. Once you’re standing in front of the lever, choosing to not intervene is still a choice.

Did you respond to the wrong comment? Because I’m having trouble imagining what you could possibly be referring to

RRR is fantastic

I don’t see how but go off I guess

Alright man. Let’s say, hypothetically, that I tell you “everything in the universe is matter”

Then I proceed to tell you what matter is, that it’s made of protons, electrons, and neutrons, which are further comprised of subatomic particles.

Then I explain how this theoretical approach is applicable to anything and everything and how incredibly useful it is to think of stuff in this way. And how its basic composition allows for many different configurations and interactions of matter. Incredibly hot plasma caused by nuclear fusion in stars. The insane density of neutron stars. And how this is the most correct model we have to date.

Now you may respond in one of a few ways:

You can say “huh, that’s really neat” and move on. Or maybe learn more about it.

Or you can say “that’s really cool, but I only care about the stuff that we can see on earth” which is totally reasonable and which is what many people are doing in this thread.

You could also say “that’s dumb, only the stuff we can see on earth should be called matter” which is similar to the preceding response, but is not reasonable at all and is what OP is doing.

Or you could say “that’s dumb, if everything is matter then the term is meaningless” which is just an arbitrary semantic application of a phrase which, for some reason, you and OP are treating as a universal maxim and completely leaving out all context and nuance pertaining to the situation. Syndrome can say “when everyone’s super, no one will be” in the Incredibles because that is a difference of degree, while this is a categorical difference.

I explained that a meme is any piece of information that can be transmitted with or without modification, because that is the definition. If you want to stop there and say that “if everything is a meme, then nothing is” that’s your prerogative. But I am not over-intellectualizing, you are under-intellectualizing.

That is the working definition we have and it’s useful because all the rules of evolution that apply to genes also apply to memes, and so it tells us a lot about how humans interact with and exchange information. It would not work if the definition were any different. If you want to change the definition to eliminate things you don’t like, or that don’t fit within a specific community, I guarantee you will leave out things that you would say are memes unintentionally.

If you don’t want lazy text screenshots in a meme community, that’s fine. But that does not mean they are not memes.

I have been looking for something like this for ages. I could kiss you rn 😘

The carbon-silicate cycle. I suggest everyone watch The Deadliest Pattern in Nature on youtube.

See, that’s the thing. They are still memes. Bits of information that are transmitted with or without modification.

If a copypasta isn’t iconic, that doesn’t mean it’s not a meme. It’s just a less successful meme than the navyseals meme. Same thing with greentexts, images, comics, reddit posts.

Nah, OP is just straight denying that screenshots of text are memes. Claiming some bullshit like having to make some change to it for it to qualify as a meme. Just ignoring reposts of green texts, copypasta, reddit stories (poop knife, cylinder, cbat guy, etc etc etc etc), people getting ratioed on twitter, tumblr chains.

Like, wtf kinda change does OP want me to make if I wanna revive some old classic greentext. Draw a big red circle on it? Slap a wojak right in the middle?

Screenshots are lazy, sure, but they are definitely still memes. Whether an exact replica or not.

OP: 👏 TOMATO 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FRUIT 👏

Everyone: tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

An exact copy of a gene is a gene. An exact copy of a meme is a meme.

Well said.

When everything is a meme, nothing is

“When everything is made of genes, nothing is”

This is just an assertion, and a false one too.

Everything is a meme, and they behave exactly like genes. They replicate themselves, perfectly or imperfectly, and are then subject to competition for users’ attention which will affect their future replication.

Another meme is attempting to outcompete the screenshot genus of memes, by using you as a propagation tool: the “screenshots of text are not memes” meme.

Edit: downvote me if you want but you can’t deny the facts. The idea I expressed in this comment was also a meme whose chances of propagation were diminished from your downvote.

It’s the dictionary definition

TIL letting my teacher make suggestions on my draft means they control the entire contents of the final paper

Options are:

Stay at a friends place

Have someone drive you

Get an uber/lyft/taxi

Drive drunk anyway

Honestly, it doesn’t look like AI to me. Funnily enough I think it’s exactly what the other reply said and it’s just badly photoshopped text on an existing image. But I do think their reasons for thinking it’s real are pretty terrible, and I still think the things I listed are sus, as they don’t look like typical artifacting to me.

In particular the detail on the ceiling in the background is quite clear and the spacing between the lights is consistent, and most other details seem to check out (the guy’s watch and clothes, people and stands in the background, veins on their hands, etc).

As a whole I would say it looks a bit uncanny just because of their poses and facial expressions, plus the weird design of the sign.

From left to right:

1. The pattern on the tie is nonsensical and quite noisy

2. The edge of the sign above and below the man’s arm is discontinuous. It’s parallel but it “breaks”

3. The man’s ring is constricting the fuck out of his finger, and is also slightly offset from the finger’s position and angle

4. Same as 2 but horizontally

There are some newer portable MRIs that kinda look like this

The community is called “de-amazon”. It’s fine to say “bezos bad” but there’s plenty that the community could do beyond that.

Amazon and brick-and-mortar big box stores killed a lot of small businesses, and now online shopping is the only way to go for a lot of items, especially niche stuff.

Here are some ideas for actual useful posts in a community called “de-amazon”:

Here are the best sites for all your cookware needs

Anyone know some reputable sites to buy drone parts?

How to make diy x so you don’t have to buy it!

But who cares about community and information-sharing anyway.

I’ve seen some word that Trump probably just thinks Mamdani is using “fascist” as a political pejorative - in the same way republicans call their political opponents “communists” or “radical left socialists”.