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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I call it "reading with my eyes but not my brain", but I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't think you need to turn every god damned niche thing into a new word or initialism just to gatekeep against those who didn't know the new word just made up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not that deep bro relax

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how exactly do you think jargon happens "bro"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it's easier to refer to something with a single word or abbreviation than to have to explain the entire concept?

It's more slang than jargon either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Slang is informal language, jargon is a specialized term. This post is asking for jargon. Slang is designed to keep people out of a social in-group, jargon is designed to keep people out of an intellectual in-group.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is why studying takes me 4 times longer than the average person. I have to reread so many things to make it sync in. It annoys me how somone can just look or read something once and they have it already

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's called "looking at memes".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Linking an obscure community that I made. You're my favourite lemmite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait? XD You did? I didn't realize it was you...
I really love your concept by the way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks. I've started quite a few. Infact you've probably seen a few of em. [email protected] for example

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Actually no or maybe I forgot. But [email protected] stuck out because it resonate so much with me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dissociation, of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I've done this with audio books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I call it "five too many coffee cups today". When I cut off from coffee, I become able to follow a text much better.

I can drink as many tea cups that I can without throwing up and not get the same jitter-effect so it doesn't seem to be just caffeine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Sure. Or it's just tiredness and completely normal to happen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank god this relatable to so many of us, I was wondering if this was a symptom of a larger disorder whenever this happens to me.

The worst is when I'm reciting word for word technical information about chemistry or physics, because I often like to explain how things work to friends and family while I work on stuff, and then I'll get interrupted or distracted and have no memory of wtf I was just saying for the last several minutes straight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It already has a name: ADHD

Edit: and the stigma against the disease continues. I thought you were better than this, Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"someone isn't focused, they're surely suffering from a neurodevelopmental disease"

fuck this fucking pillpusher propaganda

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure bud, tell me about the condition I’ve had all my life and how my life didn’t get immeasurably better when I finally got diagnosed and treated by a professional in my 4th decade of life.

So ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Trump voter?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sometimes a headache is actually a sign of a fatal cancer that needs to be operated on.

MOST of the time it isn't.

I don't expect you to understand the difference.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's absolutely an ADHD symptom if it happens every time a person tries to read. Whether or not they need medication is a separate issue.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yes, anyone who ever feels even the tiniest bit of infocus is ADHD. /ultrahypermegasupersarcasm

Learn about the condition you're talking about. You'll get angry and start spamming shit at me, but that's all before you'll actually read anything more than a few sentences. I've read dozens and dozens of studies on this. You wont' even understand what the word "neurodevelopmental" means.

Headaches don't mean you have brain cancer, does it**?**

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Headaches are a symptom of strokes, pretty much always. It doesn't mean that you should think you're having a stroke if you get a headache.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lucid Reading?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it could be argued for a state of hypnosis, like how people drive for miles but just don't remember how they did it entirely.

Difference is, you clearly drove and got there safely. You didn't read the words on the page, you just moved your eyes across ink blots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was a professional driver for 20 years. I can attest that autopilot is a real thing.

It’s easy to monitor traffic on either side but end up daydreaming and miss a turn.

I’ve been out of the transport industry for five years now and I still occasionally find myself auto-piloting to places I used to deliver to. It’s so weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I drove black cars for a bit, I've definitely just taken the airport exit once when I was out of it. Glad I'm not alone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. It’s not a big deal, but how you handle it really matters. (This is advice for anyone else reading; I’m sure you know.)

If you miss your turn because you’re daydreaming or whatever, just keep going. DO NOT swerve three lanes over to an exit or whatever other dumb shit. You fucked up. Deal with it without putting other people in danger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
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