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Technology@lemmy.world•First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in GeorgiaEnglish
2·2 years agoIt’s pronounced NOOK-YOU-LERRR
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Android@lemmy.world•Sync for Lemmy is live on Google Play StoreEnglish
111·2 years agoRiF is Fun for Lemmy
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Technology@lemmy.world•First claimed successful replication of LK-99English
2·2 years agoMy local store had numerous room temp superconductors right next to the perpetual motion machines.
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Android@lemmy.world•Where to buy a good second-hand Pixel phone in Europe?English
41·2 years agoI’m not sure how reliable eBay in Europe is, but I would suggest finding one available from a highly rated seller on eBay.
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Technology@lemmy.world•New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly firesEnglish
9·2 years agoYeah I have the feeling a lot of them are as bad or in some cases worse than bicycles upfitted with gas engines.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Metaverse could be renamed to escapeEnglish
5·3 years agoPosthumous Michael Jackson activated
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•An X is kind of a sans serif German swastikaEnglish
4·3 years agoIs there something tangible? Slack’s logo is a symbol that suggests clockwise rotation while the version of the swastika that the Nazis used is a symbol that suggests counterclockwise rotation.
Especially given that the Nazis appropriated one version of a symbol that had many other versions/uses/meanings in different cultures, do we really need to equate every symbol or logo that has remote similarities to the swastika with Nazism?
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politics @lemmy.world•RFK Jr.: Media hitting me harder than TrumpEnglish
11·3 years agoYou make a great point here. It’s so common to boil one view down to a label, and then people use that label to extrapolate a whole set of views, many of which the individual may not ascribe to. Example: he’s anti vax which is an alt right viewpoint, therefore he is alt right. You tell someone that he is alt right and then that person thinks he is bigoted toward LGBTQ+, donates to the NRA, pickets outside of abortion clinics, etc.
I’m not saying any of this in support of RFK Jr at all, just that this concept is detrimental to all rational discourse. Labels are a helpful part of language in categorizing things, but they can also be really dangerous when you default to using them in every situation even if they don’t fit.
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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•No one hates programming languages as much as programmers
1·3 years ago- Albert “Confucius” Einstein
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Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdownEnglish
2·3 years agoI’m curious to see how streaming services are going to be affected by the strikes. Theoretically down the road they’ll reach a point for a while where they have very little new content to release and will be fighting each other for the rights to existing content.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdownEnglish
2·3 years agoSame. I cancelled my Netflix a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. They don’t have a lot of content that I’m interested in watching anymore, and when they do it’s easy to find elsewhere. I host my own Plex server now which makes it even more of a seamless transition.
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World News@lemmy.world•The Netherlands short 390.000 homes in 2023English
72·3 years agoMany English speaking countries use the comma to separate groups of three whole number digits and the period to notate the partial number digits. Most non English-speaking countries do the opposite.
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politics @lemmy.world•Republican House member refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in debateEnglish
411·3 years ago“Mein Führer” and “my boss” mean the same thing. My boss definitely won’t mind if I use those interchangeably. Arguing otherwise is just semantics. /s
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politics @lemmy.world•Senate Democrats announce vote to advance Supreme Court ethics billEnglish
29·3 years agoAnytime I see an announcement about voting on a bill that seems even remotely desirable, I just assume it won’t pass. I’m basically always right and it saves some grief.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?English
17·3 years agoI like this question, although I don’t think it could work. Someone who campaigns really well, does not necessarily mean they will fulfill their office well. It also penalizes when there are two good candidates running against each other.
I could see it being more viable if the upper term limit is still along the lines of what we have today. Perhaps a presidential candidate winning an election by landslide could get a maximum term of 8 years, whereas someone just barely winning would have a shortened term of 1-2 years. I would definitely still be concerned about the negative ramifications of potentially more and more dirty campaigning to try and capture the highest portion of votes that others have mentioned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every DayEnglish
102·3 years agoAre they truly able though? I’ll readily admit I’m not very knowledgeable on this, but radio towers have a limited range, right? Satellites have the ability to provide internet and communications to truly remote areas where it may be logistically challenging or impractical to build radio towers.
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World News@lemmy.world•Nepal makes history with same-sex marriage rulingEnglish
51·3 years agoHow is any of the information random? The OP title says vague things like “makes history” and “ruling”. While you can guess that the ruling is positive based on it saying that it makes history, the headline on the article is unambiguous and much better in my opinion.
First South Asian country
This describes the manner in which this ruling was historical.
Recognize same-sex marriage.
This describes what the actual ruling is.
To use a hyperbole to illustrate a point, the OP title could just as well describe a situation where Nepal had ruled that same sex couples who marry must be banished to outer space. Hypothetically, It’s just as much a historical ruling as what actually happened.
Edit: fixed formatting
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World News@lemmy.world•Nepal makes history with same-sex marriage rulingEnglish
7·3 years agoHere’s the actual headline from the article which contains important detail and is less click-baity:
Nepal makes history as first South Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does my Cane Corso stare at me?
1·3 years agoTIL what a Cane Corso is.
I’m curious how big of a dip there was with macOS when they fully dropped 32 bit support. I’m just one person but a lot of the games I played through steam were older 32 bit games. I don’t think I’ve opened steam on my Mac since that update.