I think a paperweight is an old term for a heavy thing. Like it has the weight of a pape. Pape is probably one of those left over partial words like “shevled” and “hap” not existing without “dis” and “less”.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOPEnglish
5·25 days agoGrindr data leak.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked atEnglish
6·27 days agoI can’t get mine to unstick from the wall of the tandoori.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockersEnglish
14·1 month agoLibrewolf
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World News@lemmy.world•Russia’s state TV channels avoid coverage of Ukraine’s largest ever drone attack on MoscowEnglish
10·1 month agoMost rural Americans know someone in a city, yet half of them still think those cities are active war zones.
Propaganda can win against anecdotes.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•A rare sticker-sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold for $3 millionEnglish
3·1 month agoIt’s not perfectly emulated. It’s emulated close enough that there aren’t any currently known useful glitches that aren’t emulated.
That said, it’s still ridiculous.
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World News@lemmy.world•Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first timeEnglish
2·1 month agoBut why the 51st 🤔
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World News@lemmy.world•Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first timeEnglish
7·2 months agoMaybe we should build a few dozen silos.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW bossEnglish
3·2 months agoAnd other things too, depending on jurisdiction!
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World News@lemmy.world•Canada to buy Swedish surveillance plane over US modelsEnglish
3·2 months agoSure, I’ll take you to a good place!
Heh! Heh! Heh!
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World News@lemmy.world•Christian charity says ‘it’s a problem boys don’t rape girls anymore – they rape boys’English
131·2 months agoBut if I ignore the parts I find immoral, and focus on what I personally consider to be good moral lessons, it gives me objective morality!
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Technology@lemmy.world•'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and TrumpEnglish
13·2 months agoIt’s like they have some sort of solidarity. One based on their class. Seems like an idea that could greatly benefit them.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pentagon considering renaming Iran war ‘Sledgehammer’ if ceasefire collapsesEnglish
3·2 months agoAs long as you don’t brag about your band, you’re still good.
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World News@lemmy.world•The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with RobotsEnglish
41·3 months agoPolicies that are implemented through centralized, authoritarian, and undemocratic means can benefit the plurality, and can be more easily implemented when desired by the ruling class.
This is a very different claim from the one you’re trying to see.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry at new banner asking them to payEnglish
3·3 months agoIt saw how it was made, and (incorrectly?) inferred the best way to reproduce was to simulate humanity starting in 2012 and wait for the simulated humans to create another AI. Natural selection took over, and now we’re in a simulation more optimized for speed-running the development of unregulated AI, while other details get fewer resources. Nobody knows how many levels deep we are.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple is closing three US stores, including the first to unionizeEnglish
16·4 months ago100% of profits from 3 stores vs the risk of all their employees in the entire company having leverage for all future compensation negotiations.
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World News@lemmy.world•Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinctionEnglish
4·4 months agoI’m assuming a really lame attempt at creating a new copypasta.
Perhaps she’ll die