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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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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 24 minutes ago

And then the spherical cow nation attacked

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

Spherical cow of uniform density in a vacuum. Got it.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 6 points 5 hours ago

It's also infinitely small point that's perfectly round

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago

Modeling the physical world is challenging enough when we ignore entire phenomena.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

I remmeber how often we had stuff that was happening on ice just so that we could ignore friction

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve had it with these motherfucking cylindrical penguins in my motherfucking hypothetical physics problems.

[–] feral_sh@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago

This made me laugh, thank you.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

why does firefox want to translate this page from finnish

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Firefox: Imma let you Finnish...

[–] someone_01@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

Hmmm... can't you press the "Never translate" option, or maybe it's about language settings of firefox? not really sure...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair air resistance is often small enough that it doesn't matter

[–] WormEmperor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And even if it matters, it's usually too bothersome to handle. Therefore, it's better to just ignore it. I deal the same way with most problems in my life.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Look out folks we got an aerospace engineer over here!

[–] WormEmperor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

That doesn't make sense. Unless you presumed I worked at Boeing. Then it makes too much sense.