This actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people are using Lemmy either because they prefer federated web platforms to centralized, which makes it antithetical to corporate interests, or because they're opposed to Reddit's API policy, which was a blatant move to squeeze more money out of their users. Either way, Lemmy's appeal is very anti-capitalist, and since opposition to capitalism is a generally left-wing philosophy, I can totally see why most Lemmy users would be left-wing.

I haven't seen the new episode, but this sounds like the same joke Futurama has made in both of its previous revivals. Bender's Big Score opened with the crew lamenting that the Box Network cancelled their delivery license. Rebirth opened with the crew noting the comedy in the random wormhole from the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder happening to be Earth's central channel for shipping. So this isn't entirely new to Futurama.

I think they're continuing the joke

If a man donates his sperm and a woman donates an egg, then a baby can be conceived without either bio-parent engaging in intercourse, through in vitro fertilization ("test tube baby"). If the donors remain virgins long enough (maybe they're ace or something), then their bio-child could lose their virginity before either of them do.

"You see, the file itself can be copied by anyone, but this one little piece of metadata can never be duplicated. That means you own the file."

This is why pirates were wearing eye patches, to be able to enter the hull of the ship and see immediately without lighting up a candle. Fire is not a good idea inside a wooden ship filled with black powder.

This is one theory for why pirates wore eyepatches. We haven't found any historical evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, we have at least a few documented cases of pirates wearing eyepatches for protecting a damaged eye.

This is not true. There are a litany of laws that capturing a wild duck from a public park would be a violation of, so don't do it.

As an American whose only knowledge of UK government comes from sporadic episodes of Politics Unboringed, my first thought would be to replace the Minister for Women with a Minister for Gender Equality. They would have all the powers and responsibilities of the Minister for Women, and also gain any powers and responsibilities that a hypothetical Minister for Men would need.

• If there is a need for a Minister for Men, then that need is met by the Minister for Gender Equality
• If there is no need for a Minister for Men, then the only thing that changes is that the Minister for Women has a new, less controversial title

Sounds like a win-win to me, but again, I'm a dumb Yank lol

Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you'd be better off getting a heat pump. It's the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I've been told.

If I ever feel the need to downvote my own post, I would probably just as well delete it.

If that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.

Yeah, dude is asking the wrong question.

Correlation does not prove causation. The fact that the number of men seeking a relationship is declining at the same time that MGTOW rhetoric is on the rise does not mean the two are strictly related. It could be related to something else, like the radical lifestyle changes forced by the pandemic, or the economic decline making it difficult to justify investing valuable time and money into a relationship, or any number of possible factors.

Also, your suggested solutions are super problematic. For one, they would be blatant governmental intrusions on the human right to privacy. And for two, they could be seriously harmful to gay, aro/ace, and other LGBTQ+ people. With all due respect, please stop.

That would actually be comic accurate, too (to some degree). At one point, Aunt May reveals on her deathbed that she secretly knew Peter was Spider-Man for a long time, and wanted him to know that she was proud of him before she died.

They retconned this, of course, bringing Aunt May back to life with no memory of Peter's identity. Then eventually did more stories about Aunt May learning Peter's identity, dying, then coming back to life... man, keeping up with comic book lore sucks.

Now I understand why I don't have a problem with small talk. The people I make small talk with aren't assholes!

Not a dentist, but the reason dentists gave me for doing it in that order is that bacteria and plaque build up a lot while you sleep, since your teeth are just kind of sitting there doing nothing. So I guess waiting until after breakfast is just an unnecessary delay.

Yes, in fact such a machine already exists. It's called an air conditioner. An air conditioner is just a heat pump that pumps heat out of a building.

Brown v. Board of Education was filed in 1951, and decided in 1954. The desegregation movement was well underway. Some folks from that era might not be happy that segregation went away, but I don't imagine too many would be surprised.

Futurama has done meta jokes before. It may be lazy writing, but this isn't them cashing in on a trend, this is Futurama being Futurama.

Stop, you'll give the bots ideas!

In all seriousness, I never fake anything. If I see a bicycle, I click it. Plus, I never need to fake my pauses, since the ones I get are actually bitch hard lol