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[-] littlebrother@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Police. Yeah I'd like to report a murder.

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Good luck finding the body, that lake never gives up her dead

[-] littlebrother@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

When the skies of November turn gloomy

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I'd still argue water molecules touching eachother make themselves wet, but that guy is an ass so fuck him.

[-] klao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

actually water molecules are cohesive (attracted to each other, yes in that sense you are right) but wetness is associated with adhesion which basically means the possibility of a liquid to adhere to a solid surface so no, water molecule themselves alone are not enough to fit into the definition of wetness i hope i wasnt too technical but i tried to be as dummy as possible

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

You fucking idiots. Real ones know wetness is how much vermouth it has in it.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Churchill apocryphally liked his martinis so dry that he would observe the bottle of vermouth while pouring the gin, and that was enough

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago

Oh please someone argue this with me!

I love semantic bs!

Water is touching water, so therefore water is wet!

Not that Thomas isn't a piece of shit regardless.

[-] itslilith 23 points 1 day ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting

Wetting is the ability of a liquid to displace gas to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.[1] These interactions occur in the presence of either a gaseous phase or another liquid phase not miscible with the wetting liquid.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

Fair enough. I was not expecting something I could not understand

[-] itslilith 17 points 1 day ago

Basically, the process of making something wet requires a liquid (usually water) to actually stick to it, through intermolecular forces. That's slightly more narrow a requirement than the "needs to touch water" that's commonly thrown around. A lotus flower or water repellent jacket doesn't get wet, even if you spray water on it, the droplets don't actually stick to the surface.

Now, water molecules stick to each other as well, that's called surface tension. But wetness, at least in physics, is defined at an interface between two mediums, a liquid and a solid, or two liquids that don't mix

[-] scheep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I learned something new today

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 11 points 1 day ago

Saying water is wet because it touches water sounds like "Fire is on fire because it touches fire". It just sounds fundamentally illogical as you're talking about a state of matter, not the matter itself.

I'm not a scientist, just throwing in my view on this

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

More reasonably, "wet" is often used as an adjective describing something that is liquid. Wet paint is, of course, wet.

[-] orochi02@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Nevermind what his view on abortion is. Why does he have to start something on a post about womens rights unless he thinks they should not have rights?

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 89 points 2 days ago
[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago
[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The irony of this statement—for any one who’s ever been in Lake Superior—is immense.

[-] mlegstrong@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago

A single molecule of water is not wet but as soon as more then one molecule is present the water is then wet. That is my hill to die on in this argument.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

I disagree. Mixing water and another liquid does not make the second liquid "wet" - it makes a mixture. Then if you apply that mixture to a solid the solid becomes wet until the liquid leaves through various processes and becomes dry. If that process is evaporation, the air does not become wet it becomes humid.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean. The molecule itself isn't a solid or liquid, that has to do with the behavior of the molecules in dimensional space. Your argument is based on water as a substance, not as a molecule, completely avoiding the basis of their argument.

Besides that, most liquids you could easily mix with water are themselves water-based and therefore would be totally dried up into a powder or perhaps a jelly without their water content. To add water is to make them wet, and then they exist as a wet incorporated substance. As liquid substances. In fact, they could not dry up if they were not wet in the first place; to become dry is to transition away from the state of being wet.

You know what else dries up? Water.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Those things are mostly true yes but we're talking about the function of the adjective wet in language and the phenomenon of wetness as a linguistical descriptor and livable experience. Obviously things are wet, it's an incredibly common and useful term, but it probably does elude rigid classification and all you're going to get are opinions because there's no way to rigidly define it. It's a "heap problem" there isn't a specific point where something becomes a heap, but yet you can heap thing.

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

If there is two molecules of water which one is the dry molecule and which one is the wet molecule?

If there are three molecules does one get divided in half to make the other two wet or does only one get wet and one stays dry until a fourth arrives?

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[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Getting into a political argument with a lake account. The lake account using 1st person language as Lake Superior.

Our ancestors would marvel at our reality!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

I don't know, getting into arguments with sentient geo/hydrological features seems like the kind of thing our ancestors would have done

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

Water deities in ancient mythologies: Am I a joke to you?

[-] onyxjet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

The lake account using 1st person language as Lake Superior.

Are you suggesting that account isn't Lake Superior's account? Clearly lakes microblog.

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[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 days ago
[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

"Lake Savage" hits harder in my opinion

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[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

unless theres more than one molecule of water, its touching itself

[-] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Just wait till lakes home pull up..

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

water isnt wet bro it just makes everything it touches wet but i SWEAR its not wet bro pls just believe me i have to be right its not wet

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[-] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

I don't know who that Tom Fitton guy is, but water absolutely wet. And he's a knob.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Wetness is a quality/concept gained from a surface having liquid adhere to it. The liquid itself can't be wet. It's like saying fire is burnt.

[-] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wetness is being saturated with water. Water is saturated by water by a base definition; you cannot be more saturated with something than literally being it, a 100% saturation value. Water is wet. And now so is the object in contact with it.

It's less consistent to the example to say that fire is burnt and transferring that burnt, and more that fire is hot and a material affected by fire is also hot. Fire is hot. And now so is the object in contact with it. Being burnt is a secondary reaction as a result of the primary transference of the heat properties in an overabundance. Much like your skin shriveling is a result of being wet for prolonged periods. It's a secondary reaction to the primary transferance of properties.

Water transfers its wetness, fire transfers its heat. Water is wet.

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[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

There's an argument that a single molecule of water on its own would not be wet, but essentially all water is touched by other water, so even by the needlessly contrarian definition, water is wet.

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[-] ProtoShark@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

yes, what water touches is wet. you'll never guess what water is always touching

[-] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 days ago
[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Nah, it touches everything, water has issues with boundaries and consent.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

If everything water touches is wet, and water touches itself, then water is wet.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 37 points 2 days ago

wetting is the process of a liquid adhering to a surface. water by definition can't be wet

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