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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-11-22
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"The adult male human brain typically weighs between 1,300 grams and 1,400 grams (2.87 to 3.08 pounds), making up roughly 2 percent of total body mass. Adult female brains weigh 100 to 150 grams (0.22 to 0.33 pounds) less than adult male brains. Brain weight varies by age, sex, and individual physiology. Men tend to have a slightly larger and heavier brain than women have, although this difference does not correlate with intelligence."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/How-Much-Does-a-Human-Brain-Weigh

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proudblond lemmy.world proudblond@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#3 · Quote Reply

"The adult male human brain typically weighs between 1,300 grams and 1,400 grams (2.87 to 3.08 pounds), making up roughly 2 percent of total body mass. Adult female brains weigh 100 to 150 grams (0.22 to 0.33 pounds) less than adult male brains. Brain weight varies by age, sex, and individual physiology. Men tend to have a slightly larger and heavier brain than women have, although this differe...

I think that might be a typo in the women’s brains section. Less than 10% of what men’s brains weigh, but then later on they say men’s brains are “slightly” heavier? Something ain’t adding up. I think they forgot a digit.

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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-11-22
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I think that might be a typo in the women’s brains section. Less than 10% of what men’s brains weigh, but then later on they say men’s brains are “slightly” heavier? Something ain’t adding up. I think they forgot a digit.

Nope. Female brains are 10% less than men’s. That number isn’t the total. It’s the difference.

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Zidane lemmy.ca Zidane@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-08-10
#5 · Quote Reply

Cropped the nonsense

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proudblond lemmy.world proudblond@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#6 · Quote Reply

Nope. Female brains are 10% less than men’s. That number isn’t the total. It’s the difference.

OOOOH I missed the “less,” thank you.

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dwemthy lemmy.world dwemthy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-15
#7 · Quote Reply

Cropped the nonsense

You dropped this

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Ricky Rigatoni piefed.zip RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-14
#8 · Quote Reply

This does bring into question: if cats have nine lives shouldn't each life have its own ghost? So hell is filled with how many cats have died times nine.

And the cats are in hell because they're having fun torturing the catholic priests who gave out indulgences for money.

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Sasquatch lemmy.ml Sasquatch@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-12
#9 · Quote Reply

This does bring into question: if cats have nine lives shouldn't each life have its own ghost? So hell is filled with how many cats have died times nine. And the cats are in hell because they're having fun torturing the catholic priests who gave out indulgences for money.

And presumably that was an evolved trait, so there's cat precursors in hell with 1-8 soul twins

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rabidhamster lemmy.dbzer0.com rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-15
#10 · Quote Reply

You dropped this

You dropped this

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iocase lemmy.zip iocase@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-11
#11 · Quote Reply

The best part of the invention of calculus is Newton developed it to settle an argument about orbits and kept it secret for 20 years going "if you're so fucking smart how about you solve it then!"

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iocase lemmy.zip iocase@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-11
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

"The adult male human brain typically weighs between 1,300 grams and 1,400 grams (2.87 to 3.08 pounds), making up roughly 2 percent of total body mass. Adult female brains weigh 100 to 150 grams (0.22 to 0.33 pounds) less than adult male brains. Brain weight varies by age, sex, and individual physiology. Men tend to have a slightly larger and heavier brain than women have, although this differe...

Its probably to protect our brains from punching each other in the face so much throughout history.

Ive heard beards likely exist for a similar reason. Face padding...

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jaygray91 piefed.zip jaygray91@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-07-17
#13 · Quote Reply

You dropped this

finally, now I can laugh

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frank sopuli.xyz frank@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-05
#14 · Quote Reply

This does bring into question: if cats have nine lives shouldn't each life have its own ghost? So hell is filled with how many cats have died times nine. And the cats are in hell because they're having fun torturing the catholic priests who gave out indulgences for money.

Nah the soul is tethered to the game over screen after the last life is lost. Same with butterflies (who carry an extra life but use it during metamorphosis)

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pruwyben discuss.tchncs.de pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-12
#15 · Quote Reply

You can't be pedantic about someone calling the brain "meat" and then call it tapioca pudding.

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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
Joined: 2025-03-22
#16 · Quote Reply

Cropped the nonsense

No I don't know if it's funny or not.

ChatGPT, is this funny?

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Brave Little Hitachi Wand feddit.uk yakko@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-01-08
#17 · Quote Reply

finally, now I can laugh

Millennials killed the laugh track, and zoomers brought it back with this shit.

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TheEmpireStrikesDak thelemmy.club DakRalter@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2023-06-15
#18 · Quote Reply

You dropped this

You dropped this:

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BoosBeau lemmy.world BoosBeau@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-18
#19 · Quote Reply

You dropped this:

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PotatoesFall discuss.tchncs.de PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-11
#20 · Quote Reply

Millennials killed the laugh track, and zoomers brought it back with this shit.

tumblr is still millenials. It's millenials all the way down

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OpenStars discuss.online OpenStars@discuss.online
Joined: 2023-12-31
#21 · Quote Reply

You can't be pedantic about someone calling the brain "meat" and then call it tapioca pudding.

Well actually, it turns out that people can be pedantic about anything!

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#22 · Quote Reply

Cropped the nonsense

Omfg dying

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Bluewing lemmy.world Bluewing@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-25
#23 · Quote Reply

This does bring into question: if cats have nine lives shouldn't each life have its own ghost? So hell is filled with how many cats have died times nine. And the cats are in hell because they're having fun torturing the catholic priests who gave out indulgences for money.

Cat lives are designed to nest and stack just like your bowls. They really don't take much space after they are run through a compression algorithm.

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Brave Little Hitachi Wand feddit.uk yakko@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-01-08
#24 · Quote Reply

tumblr is still millenials. It's millenials all the way down

I preferred turtles.

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dditty lemmy.dbzer0.com dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-13
#25 · Quote Reply

finally, now I can laugh

fr how else would I know this is funny and how I should react to it 💀💀💀

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bitjunkie lemmy.world bitjunkie@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-19
#26 · Quote Reply

You can't be pedantic about someone calling the brain "meat" and then call it tapioca pudding.

They just did though

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bitjunkie lemmy.world bitjunkie@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-19
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diaphragmwp discuss.tchncs.de diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-06-03
#28 · Quote Reply

You dropped this:

fuck you I am not alt texting this

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Lushed_Lungfish lemmy.ca Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-14
#29 · Quote Reply

My brain is essentially Shinji Ikari.

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Frenchgeek lemmy.ml Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-08-31
#30 · Quote Reply

Its probably to protect our brains from punching each other in the face so much throughout history. Ive heard beards likely exist for a similar reason. Face padding...

In mine, it's to be able to fit a little more headache in it.

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Kairos lemmy.today LodeMike@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-26
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

By lightbulb do they mean the 5 or 10W leds we have now or the 100W space heaters that existed when that sentence was likely written?

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rabidhamster lemmy.dbzer0.com rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-15
#32 · Quote Reply

Y'all are my kind of degens

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BreadOven lemmy.world BreadOven@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
#33 · Quote Reply

My brain is essentially Shinji Ikari.

Stupid Shinji (not you, the character).

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Buddahriffic lemmy.world Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#34 · Quote Reply

By lightbulb do they mean the 5 or 10W leds we have now or the 100W space heaters that existed when that sentence was likely written?

According to this source: https://scicentric.org/human-wattage-generation-efficiency apparently at rest our bodies generate about 100W, and during activity it can increase to 200W or even 2000W in extreme cases. That's the whole body, not just the brain, though IMO the relevant one is how much it takes to run the full meat suit, not just the firmware.

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