• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The paper is the other thing. I don’t understand the question.

    ‘Wet’ is a concept ancestor people came up with to describe how their towels were sometimes squishy and sometimes weren’t. I don’t think they knew what molecules were.

    Knowing that your clothes are soaked in water is useful, but knowing that a river is soaked in… river, isn’t. So, that part of the definition just doesn’t develop.

    But also, like you’re saying, ‘wet’ is a feeling. Dipping your hand in a pot or squeezing a sponge feel similarly, so… aren’t they both wet?

    So, which is it? Wet or not?

    Whatever is socially expedient, I really don’t care. Water feels wet is good enough for me.

    • lseif@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Water feels wet is good enough for me.

      true. really makes you think what all this fussing is about, when we could appreciate water for being water