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[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

I am so sick of shower thoughts that are people just ignoring definitions of words and using other words instead like it’s some mind bending reality shock. No, birds FLY through the air because that is the DEFINITION of flying you dweeb.

[-] xoggy@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

But spoons are just tiny bowls to get food from the bigger bowl, man!

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

WRONG. Spoons are tiny ladles you degenerate. If you need a tiny bowl go get yourself a cup.

[-] VulKendov@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Ladles are just small bowls on a stick

[-] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

Fish don’t really swim, they are flying through the water.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

That is essentially what penguins do, yeah.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Air doesn't float, it just doesn't sink as hard

[-] lung@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Water - swim

Air - fly

Space - ?? fly

Ground - dig?

Plasma - liquefy?

[-] foo@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Plasma - liquefy?

You misspelled "vaporize"

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] VulKendov@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

That's Phineas's step brother

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

And what is a platypus?

[-] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

How high are you right now ?

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

They are so high, swimming way above the clouds.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 8 points 10 months ago

to fly and to swim are very different actions

[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

1 a : to propel oneself in water by natural means (such as movements of the limbs, fins, or tail) b : to play in the water (as at a beach or swimming pool) 2 : to move with a motion like that of swimming : glide a cloud swam slowly across the moon 3 a : to float on a liquid : not sink b : to surmount difficulties : not go under sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish— Daniel Webster 4 : to become immersed in or flooded with or as if with a liquid potatoes swimming in gravy 5 : to have a floating or reeling appearance or sensation

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swim

Apparently, swimming inherently requires a liquid.

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Some birds fly through the water.

The common merganser, for instance.

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Air is a mixture of gases also qualifying as a fluid, so I see the logic here.

A more interesting question would be in the absence of gravity, would you sink in a liquid or remain on the surface? (Surface tension/buoyancy issue)

this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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