curiosityLynx

second meme on the page, reaction to first one.

Taught me how to avoid Poseidon's kiss.

Jedi council of Elrond? I'm not sure what a subreddit with such a name would be about. Summary?

Easy. Kbin/lemmy admins actually listen to their users, unlike spez and his cronies. The asshole can move to their own instance and continue there, but that might get them defederated.

Oh I'm not saying I'd rejoin Reddit if that happened, only that that's what would be required for me to consider it in the first place.

That's a bad take. There are some users that regularly write outstanding content or even just a series of posts that you don't want to miss the next installment of. Examples on Reddit were /u/Gambatte in /r/TalesFromTechSupport and /u/SqwrlTail in /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk

You forgot to mention that it's only open for billionaires, spez, Trump and Putin, but that they'll be given a 100% discount.

At this point, spez resigning wouldn't cut it. Reddit would need to be made into a non-profit a la Wikipedia and be managed by a trust.

There is not a single word that's universal to all languages.

1. Even if there had ever been one at some point, there are languages that have/had word retirement as part of the culture speaking it: If a word is used as someone's name and that person dies, that word is now taboo and a new word is needed to refer to what the old word stood for.

2. Conlanging, especially by laypeople, often explicitly makes up most or all of its vocabulary from scratch or uses cyphers to make the connection invisible. I wouldn't be surprised if a people made up their own secret language from scratch, maybe initially with very similar grammar, that developed into a native language for a community.

3. Have you heard of Cockney rhyming slang? Take a word like "fart", use a two part word that rhymes with it, like "raspberry tart", then drop the rhyming part. That leaves you with "raspberry" meaning "fart" and no discernible connection to the old words this utterance/meaning pair came from.

4. Sign languages are languages as well, and in multiple instances developed from the ground up without influence from the surrounding spoken languages.

"It's okay, another orange currently has the orange brain cell, let me in"

Massively depends on what you're into.

That said, I follow these podcasts:

News related comedy:

• Wait Wait Don't Tell Me from NPR
• Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
• The Bugle
• Breaking The News from BBC Scotland

DnD:

• Dicefunk (I recommend seasons 3 & 4 in particular)

Puns:

• Punwatch
• (also The Bugle sometimes)

Science communication:

• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Daniel And Jorge Explain The Universe
• The Curious Cases Of Rutherford & Fry
• Supermassive
• A Problem Squared
• Creature Feature
• My Favourite Theorem

About Media:

• Failure To Launch, about TV pilots that failed to become full series
• Get Played, originally called "How Did This Get Played?" and focused on the worst games ever made, now about games in general
• Dream Factory, about plots of non-existing movies

Security/Hacking:

• Malicious Life
• Darknet Diaries
• Human Factor Security

History:

• You're Dead To Me

The point of the John Oliver pictures is to make it hard for him to NOT at least spend a segment of his next show talking about it.