Never heard that word before. Wikipedia: “Mereology is the philosophical study of part-whole relationships.” Fascinating that there’s a name for that!

I considered it. Should I cross-post?

I do strongly think that “mildly interesting” is the most accurate category for this

Lol, it’s not that thick. The floor is not okay, but it’s been like that for years :P

Feline drop

Why does it make every drink taste like blood 🤔

Happy to be of service :D

Yes, I had to fight my own pedantry to post that phrasing! It’s one piece, but calling it two pieces connected by a handle is the only way I could think of to describe it and actually be understood. I challenge you to come up with a title for this which is both easy to understand and topologically accurate.

I hope Singapore has actual enforcement of these fines. In my area there’s supposedly a fine if someone doesn’t pick up their dog’s excrement, but I don’t think it’s ever been enforced.

More than once for me it’s been a comment that I posted.

Hmmm fair enough, I’ll turn down my snark

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If you’re genuinely considering doing this (or someone you know), you should probably ask a lawyer. Or at least ask in a law-oriented message board. There are probably also lawery websites where you can ask questions and they (eventually, if they feel like it) answer them publicly. But either way, even if the law decidedly allows it, it can still cause loads of headaches because if an officer mistakenly believes it’s illegal they can still take you in and/or confiscate it, and it can take you a while to prove that it’s actually allowed. Take this risk into account. If you still think it’s cool enough to justify that risk, I say go ahead.

If this is more of a curiosity or a thought experiment type question, then knock yourself out and ignore my party pooping!

You can’t seriously expect most people to be able to decipher that just from “sw t al v 320”. Even for the relatively tech savvy demographic of Lemmy, that’s very niche.

what the hell are you talking about

I guess that depends on your interpretation of “can understand”. The joke in question was:

I’m gay and my husband’s bi and there’s nothing he loves more than when people ask if he’s gay and he gets to say “I’m not gay but my husband is”

To understand this joke, you have to understand:

1. what ‘gay’ is
2. what ‘bi’ is
3. that someone who is bi is not gay, e.g. someone can describe bi as “both gay and straight”, which is an easy explanation that gets most of the point across, like you’d explain to a 5-year-old, but doesn’t fit this joke
4. how to do the mental arithmetic of who’s saying what - OP is talking about his husband, who enjoys saying something about himself and his husband… It even gave me pause, it’s hard to follow
5. what the joke is, after having gone through all the above, and understand that this is a fun (and uncommon!) way of expressing it

that’s a heck of a lot to expect from a 5 year old.

Copying from my response to the other reply:

The rule is (emphasis mine):

If you cannot tell this joke to a 5-year-old and they can understand, you probably shouldn’t post it here.

Yes, you can tell this joke to a 5-year-old, but would they be able to understand? Some might, but I think >95% of 5-year-olds would not understand this joke. That’s why, on paper, it’s a violation of community rules, perhaps subject to one’s interpretation.

Reporting that something is a violation of community rules is not the same as disliking or hating something. If I see a really funny joke on a “Programmer Humor” community but it has nothing to do with programming, I might still report it because it doesn’t fit that community. Doesn’t mean I hate the joke. And if the non-programming joke involved LGBTQ+, [ayyy] would still call me bigoted for it.

FWIW I am not the one who reported that post, and I don’t think I would have, but I don’t see any grounds for calling them “homophobic monsters”.

The rule is (emphasis mine):

If you cannot tell this joke to a 5-year-old and they can understand, you probably shouldn’t post it here.

Yes, you can tell this joke to a 5-year-old, but would they be able to understand? Some might, but I think >95% of 5-year-olds would not understand this joke. That’s why, on paper, it’s a violation of community rules, perhaps subject to one’s interpretation.

Reporting that something is a violation of community rules is not the same as disliking or hating something. If I see a really funny joke on a “Programmer Humor” community but it has nothing to do with programming, I might still report it because it doesn’t fit that community. Doesn’t mean I hate the joke. And if the non-programming joke involved LGBTQ+, you’d still call me bigoted for it.

Assume good faith. They can think the joke violates community rules without being homophobic. I’m kind of on the fence myself.

Nice try! You’re clearly a shill for… uhh… big shopping!

Yes. It’s the premise of the comic that husbands are usually incompetent, so I jokingly said that she’s the “husband”. In the last panel she enters home and immediately starts yelling at her partner for something that isn’t his fault - another hallmark of a bad husband in the same vein.

Whatever though, I tried to make a joke, it didn’t land (I probably could have told it better), c’est la vie.