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  • Lol, the word “meme” was introduced as a parallel to gene and religion was provided as an example of a very strong meme. At one point the word started to be used for memes that spread over the internet, and since most of those were image macros, a lot people came to believe that meme means “image macro”.

    But jokes are a wonderful example of meme. There are jokes that have been going around since ancient times, some with almost no alterations.





  • I have aphantasia. I definitely cannot rotate a cube in my mind. I can with great effort and concentration kind of do what you describe, follow where individual edges and vertices would be in space relative to each other, but normally it would just be the idea in my head “there’s a cube and it’s rotating”.

    My go to test for aphantasia goes like this:

    • “Imagine a circle”
    • “OK”
    • “What color is it?”

    People always answer with color and many times with a more detailed visual description, like texture, material, the surrounding scene, etc. I personally would very stumped by that question because when asked to imagine a circle, I just imagine the concept of a circle. It has no color, no texture, no substance.


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    My ZX Spectrum clone didn’t have a “tape drive”, it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn’t have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.