I recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It’s related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o’clock = 7 bongs…
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Outer Wilds. A game that genuinely made me reflect on my place in the universe.
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Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•Is this the Dark Side? ...Is this just fantasy?English
5·4 months agoCaught in delusions See through the lies of the jedi Open you eyes Let your anger flow through you
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News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'
2·5 months agoI’m betting on brown
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science@lemmy.world•Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists sayEnglish
4·5 months agoThe sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.
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science@lemmy.world•Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists sayEnglish
7·5 months agoNo, it is something different. Cloning creates a another being with the exact same DNA. This would allow people, who can’t produce viable sperm/egg cells, to reproduce with their partner. First patients would be infertile men and women.
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World News@lemmy.world•Going to an office and pretending to work: A business that’s booming in ChinaEnglish
13·6 months agoI did, and I am.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Whatsapp just developed a new murder weapon
8·1 year agoIt’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Causes of Death in London (1623)English
8·1 year agoMaybe they mean lupus? I think wolfes were already extinct in the 1600s on the British isles.

I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?