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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.brtoScience Memes@mander.xyzExhaustion
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    8 days ago

    Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

    Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

    Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.










  • Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can’t evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here’s what I propose:

    • we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
    • before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
    • the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
    • if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: “I got it” and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.

    Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.

    (Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).