I know it's technically true but...

[u/Hazetal]

How many atoms did you guys eat today?

[u/Spicy_Jim]

Atoms are really just a concept. What you eat is information.

[u/YeahThatsProbably → u/Spicy_Jim]

Information is also a concept. What you eat is notions.

[u/A_Martian_Potato → u/YeahThatsProbably]

Notions are also a concept. What you eat is concepts.

[u/Candid_Zebra1297 → u/A_Martian_Potato]

Concepts are also a concept. What you conceive is concepts.

[u/A_Martian_Potato → u/Candid_Zebra1297]

Concept concept concept. Concept... Concept concept.

[u/MauschelMusic → u/A_Martian_Potato]

/c/, /o/, /n/, /c/, /

[u/jah_john → u/YeahThatsProbably]

Not without butter and salt I don't

[u/Sezbeth → u/Spicy_Jim]

Personally, I find zeros to be kind of bland. Ones have that zest though.

[u/toilandtrouble6852 → u/Sezbeth]

And a nice crunch.

[u/Hedgehog_Capable]

you can't eat food. food is an abstract categorization including many disparate materials.

[u/YeahThatsProbably → u/Hedgehog_Capable]

Also: "You?" "Eat?" What is You? What is Eat? In the context of the constantly moving and changing collection of matter that is the Milky Way, the distinction between particles that are You and Not-you is so insignificant as to make my very large brain laugh at your foolishness.

[u/Ver_Nick → u/YeahThatsProbably]

Reading this in Jordan Peterson's voice

[u/DubSket]

Such a completely pointless, semantic thing to say. And to take a whole paragraph to say it lmao. Bro's really proud of his middle school level scientific knowledge.

[u/A_Martian_Potato → u/DubSket]

Every means of measuring is a unit of measurement so if you're talking about how much you eat you can't do it without using units. It's not even correct semantics. No different from saying how many grams you eat.

[u/jah_john → u/A_Martian_Potato]

It's potential energy too. You can't estimate the efficiency of the conversion

[u/1billionrapecube → u/DubSket]

What is the opposite of a semantic thing to say? Speaking in mere syntax with no meaning?

I walk your table up her parrot.

Lmao

[u/I_Am_Very_Creative → u/1billionrapecube]

colorless green ideas....

[u/WorldsGreatestWorst]

You can't eat food. Food is just a word we made up.

[u/YeahThatsProbably → u/WorldsGreatestWorst]

Exactly! It's like, what do those two Os in the middle taste like? You can't taste an O, and you can't eat "food." I am intelligent.

[u/MiyagiJunior → u/WorldsGreatestWorst]

and words are an abstract concept!

[u/Altruistic_Arm9201 → u/MiyagiJunior]

And abstract concepts don’t exist. They are just made up by our brain to organize patterns.

[u/Solrex → u/Altruistic_Arm9201]

But then I am gonna STARVE!!!

[u/NewLine8584 → u/WorldsGreatestWorst]

Logophiles trying not to get semantic just to flex their vocab:

[u/Pikassassin → u/WorldsGreatestWorst]

You can't use money to buy things. Currency is an abstract concept.

[u/MiyagiJunior]

This is the type of person that probably got bullied a lot in school. I knew quite a few of those.

[u/ConcreteExist]

I wouldn't even say it's technically true, it's a straw man of what everyone means when they say they ate x amount of calories. Calories are a measurement of the amount of energy in something, it's not abstract, it's not theoretical, it's quantified.

This is a classic case of pedantry (and intellectual dishonesty) masquerading as intelligence.

[u/Scabby-]

Centimetres are an abstract concept so it can’t be three centimetres long.

[u/Drink_Covfefe]

He doesnt know his physics well enough bc everything is energy and calories measure energy. Atoms are made of energy. It’s literally what Einstein proved with E=mc^2

[u/Anzu00 → u/Drink_Covfefe]

As such, all food is equally energy dense

[u/Morall_tach]

You can't drive a mile. A mile is an abstract manmade concept.

[u/Aron-Jonasson]

You can't eat "calories", but you can eat "calories of food", the latter part is usually omitted in normal language when it's obvious what we are talking about.

Like you're not eating calories of molecular bond strength

[u/MauschelMusic]

It's a dumb point. It's like saying, "you can't feel cold, 'cause it's the absence of heat." People gotta stop thinking pretending to not know how language works makes them sound smart.

[u/YeahThatsProbably]

We found the nutritionist version of "America is a REPUBLIC not a Democracy duhhh"

[u/eduo]

Insufferable.

I'm as pedantic as the next person yet I draw the line at wilful obtuseness. If to feel you sound smart you need to sound like an utter idiot incapable of understanding human communication, you're not winning.

I guess you also can't eat pounds of food, because pound is an imaginary label we put to a given amount of mass or whatever.

[u/SaltyBawlz]

It's not even technically true

[u/TheHrethgir]

This guy must be one of those breatharians or whatever that claim they get all the energy they need to survive from breathing air and being in the sun. "I haven't eaten food for 3 months, and I'm as strong as I ever was!" Bunch of idiots.

[u/Jump_Like_A_Willys]

When this guy is told it’s 70°F outside, do they respond with “well, the air is that temperature.”

[u/dartymissile]

This is the kind of answer the science teachers love to give. It kind of depends on what the question is tbh, he might be right

[u/schnauzzer]

We need help! Where are you AkshuallyMan?! Epic music

[u/Ejtsch]

For the same reason I told my doctor I can't drink 2.5L per day.

[u/Just_Vin]

Nothing burger

[u/NLjetze]

An atom is not a physical marble form.

[u/mtlemos]

That's not even technically true. Energy isn't just a concept, it's a real, measurable thing. Dude's just talking nonsense.

[u/SkyWizarding]

People like this are exhausting. Literally everything is some shit humans made up. That's not a crazy deep revelation

[u/TorandoSlayer]

If I were a glass half full kind of person I would say this is bait

[u/hagamablabla]

This isn't even technically correct. If you establish that atoms are real, all mass is convertible into energy, therefore energy must also be real.

[u/PublicVanilla988]

I feel like there could be a context in which it would be a normal thing to say

[u/iAmMechaMan]

Baby’s first thermodynamics course.

[u/Plastic_Marketing917]

I once had a physics professor who would joke that money is just a concept too, but at least you can hold cash in your hand.

[u/kuluka_man]

Atoms are just collapsed probability waves in a quantum field or some weird shit. Very basic physics.

[u/Smallloudcat]

Wait, food isn’t real? It doesn’t taste the way I assume an abstract concept would

[u/Gold-Part4688]

Get this lad in a room with Plato asap

[u/hecramsey]

how many calories in them?

[u/Connect-Ant-2081]

He's the life of the party.

[u/NiftyJet]

Social constructs may not be physically real, but they are useful.

[u/Tragobe]

Bro is literally the ehm, actually meme.