If you start going into the specifics of why a certain thing is humorous, it suddenly ceases to be funny Funny is less a quality and more a subjective feeling as a response to something given a huge amount of precursive contexts. So it'll differ from person to person too
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It also largely depends on your state of mind. If everything goes to shit, some might laugh at the absurdity. Others might just cry
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I wonder if animals have humour. I supect if they do it's very primitive. I think a lot of ours is facilitated by language and our crazy propensity for abstraction Meta & such
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Or maybe it's evolved as a kind of relief for our crazy anxious human brains. And also a community builder, since laughter is contagious Then again if someone laughs at something you're not, that could create social friction Whatever it is, laughing is cool and I'm grateful
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Humor’s complex and diverse in the same way music is. Different jokes are funny for different reasons, and depend on one’s prior knowledge in various ways.
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