From Wikipedia:

The English word artichoke was borrowed in the sixteenth century from the northern Italian word articiocco (the standard modern Italian being carciofo). The Italian term was itself borrowed either from Spanish alcarchofa (today usually alcachofa) or directly from the source of the Spanish word—medieval Andalusi Arabic الخرشوفة (al-kharshūfa, including the Arabic definite article al). The Arabic form kharshūfa is still used in Maghrebi Arabic today, while other variants in Arabic include kharshafa, and Modern Standard Arabic khurshūfa. These Arabic forms themselves derive from classical Arabic حرشفة (harshafa) singular word of the plural حراشف (ḥarashef) meaning “scale”. Other languages which derive their word for the artichoke from Arabic include Israeli Hebrew, which has the word חֻרְשָׁף (khursháf). The original Hebrew name (see Hebrew: he:ארטישוק) is קינרס kinars, which is found in the Mishna.

Is laying in the middle of a kitchen floor really entertaining though? It’s certainly unexpected I guess but it’s not blowing my mind or anything

I don’t know that it is. I suppose it would depend on which part of the floor you’re talking about?

This seems like it would fit better in the unpopular opinions community.

Having said that, bread works a million times better than water if you eat something too spicy

Most likely it’s either embedded in some other app you downloaded, or it’s a temp file that came from a shady website. I would look over any other apps you recently downloaded even if they seem totally unrelated especially games or utility apps that don’t have many ratings, and you can also try clearing cache and cookies from your web browser

That’s what soap-on-a-rope is for

Might get kind of tricky when crossing a busy street

Either that or they’re just waiting to see if we destroy ourselves before they go to all the trouble of attacking us

This seems like a fake house that’s just for hosting parties lol like I can’t imagine someone actually living in such a ridiculous space

Except that people find a way to insert politics into almost every thread. You’d have to block three quarters of the site and about half the users lol

Looks like it’s just for an extension cord. They probably make a fancy proprietary Black & Decker one for this but any regular cord that will fit should work fine

Do people still say that? I thought that got played out years ago lol

It’s just a buzzwordy way of demanding that everyone notice their shitty opinion about something people probably didn’t care about that much to begin with.

According to the listing a big tree fell on it

$500,000 gets you the privilege of getting to tear down the old building and then you get to pay again to build a new house there! What a deal!

He looks like the hippy version of Jelly Roll lol

While we’re at it why not look for a way to force horses to only eat rare steak? I’m sure we can find a healthy way to do it if we try hard enough!

What do you mean? All I suggested was that disagreements could be settled with an online consent form.

There’s a very simple solution to all of this. Just require the user upload a form showing that their dog or cat consented to being converted to veganism in defiance of their very nature 👍

I suspect a lot of people on here don’t like the idea of monetizing Lemmy since that kind of defeats the whole purpose of Lemmy. It sounds more like something people would do on Reddit or Instagram