It’s fascinating to see a Mercator-style projection that does not produce a huge Greenland.
Maps like these must all have been frustrating to plot out before the advent of non-Euclidean geometry explained a bit better what was going on with the numbers, certain forks in the mathematical road taking you where things didn’t quite make sense, and there was nothing you could do about it, except start over from a different point and or geometrical approach.
Queen Victoria was also a fan, had at least one Marianis Wine glass a day for decades.
Look at it from the other side.
They were there when their subreddit was starting very, very small. Over time, with great effort and as a labor of love, their community grew to numbers they never dared to imagine possible, a successful buzzing community that gave them great frustrations and thrills, anxiety and joy. In a very real sense, this is their baby, they have been through thick and thin together. To hand this over to some indifferent, greedy and abusive asshole… the thought is too much to bear.
These people are suffering. They have a sense of belonging to a community that is being held hostage. To accept they were tricked and are being exploited is a horrifying thing to do.
Absolutely. I quit Facebook about a dozen years ago, Reddit was there to take its’ place.
Then my final visit to Reddit was on June 11th I think it was, the moment the first protest started I quit Apollo for the very last time.
Somewhere around this time, probably earlier, I did the same with Twitter.
This time, it was Kbin/Lemmy that were there, the only viable options, still tiny and awkward, the sudden influx still only a fraction of what Reddit has, yet it flooded the system like a bucket of water falling on top of a fly.
And yet here I am, and so are you, and many others. The variety and portions of content are still much smaller than Reddit, but this place has something that Reddit also had: a quality community, apparent from these discussions, or go look at the art in ArtPorn or TrafitionalArt, or sure, absolutely why not - the shitpostings.
This place pushes that intellectual button for me. And now I also give myself time to do the NYT Crossword and watch physics/cosmology videos on YouTube.
There was a Bart Simpson t-shirt my mom bought me when I was a kid. Bart said: Underachiever and proud of it.
I remember radio ads for some bullshit corporate product service bullshit, the announcer said “It’s a no brainer!”, and the simpleton character, meant to stand in for all of us, goes “Uhh… no brainer? Oh I like that, hyuck hyuck hyuck!”
I remember this ad making me angry. Then also being vaguely disturbed when I noticed that this cynical marketing profile was all over the place.
“We need ten painters to train as astronauts.”
“Why not get ten astronauts, then train them to use paint?”
“How about you shut the fuck up instead?”
Nilsson was also one of John Lennon’s constant drinking companions during his “lost weekend” in Los Angeles that lasted for over a year.
Could have gone with Summer and Sprinkles, too.
You really need to be careful about believing everything you read on Lemmy nearly anywhere on the internet.
Too many people decide to not vote on entirely skewed cherry-picked drip-drip-drip, downright false often without any fact-checking except a tummy sense of truthiness. That’s how we get these passive hordes staying at home fondling their purity on Election Day, “bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRitE”.
Fiddlesticks
Many asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects discovered by the Keck telescope, on the big island, have been given Hawaiian names, adding to the very few words I knew before, like aloha, mahalo, pahoa’hoa and a’a, the last two being types of lava, either runny or crumbly.
They have played us for absolute fools
Who is “they”?
“They… you know… they. The librul… mooslem… communist… trans… lizard overlord… libruls!”
Middle-aged men in white labcoats and with clipboard in hand, using the words “uncanny” and “eerie” in vague sentences.
Whether or not such a collapsing object forms a black hole depends on the specific properties of the object. In some cases, an object may be very close to the threshold, having a hard time deciding whether or not to form a black hole.
Talk about tottering on the very edge of the infinite abyss itself!
I wonder what would happen if you zoom in on the math of that moment when the object finally commits, on the very boundary between relativity and particle physics, at the Planck scales they might be able to steal a glimpse or two of gravity handshaking the quantum world.
EDIT: …or splintering into an infinity of pieces, again.
Bet it would also work with cold brew coffee.
What was the tagline? “Fifteen minutes into the future”, I think. Or maybe it was ten minutes.
Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling!
Statement from Israeli government:
…all indications are that this was not Israeli orders, that this was rather, a Hamas rocket that fell short.
From past conflicts with the terrorists in Gaza, we know that on average about 33% of rockets that they shoot at us, fall short and land in Gaza.
If this happens to be the case - and it does not surprise me one bit that Hamas sees Gaza’s civilian population as cannon fodder/collateral damage, one in three of their own rockets hitting their own people - there are still a million articles and items and social media comments pushing the narrative blaming Israel.
Hey… that looks eerily similar to my own microwave.