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ContriteErudite

@ ContriteErudite @lemmy.world

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  • Help me understand the point you are trying to make. Are you trying to hand-waive categorization as superfluous to developing broader understanding?

    Natural satellites fall within the primary body's Hill sphere, where the gravity of the larger mass dominates. The Earth/Moon system co-orbits the sun. Saturn has two satellites that orbit each other, and that system co-orbits Saturn.

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  • The Earth/Moon system does not qualify as a binary planet because it does not meet the L4/L5 instability threshold. In a system of two orbiting masses, the larger needs to have at least 25x the mass of the smaller for the system to have stable L4/L5 points. Earth is ~80x more massive than the Moon, allowing the system to have stable L4/L5 points, and is therefore a satellite system.

  • TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

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  • It's true. I've stopped using sounds and songs that I enjoy as my alarm because of this. I haven't used an actual alarm clock in years, but the sound of a circa-2000 electric alarm clock buzzer going off instantly activates my fight or flight mode.

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  • There was a post not too long ago discussing boobs and how people react to them. One of the responses was from a foreign aid worker in Haiti after the earthquake. In Haiti, it's not uncommon for women to walk around with uncovered breasts. At first, the poster said, they found it extremely distracting, because boobs were everywhere. After a few days uncovered boobs stopped being novel and sexy, because they were everywhere.

    Once their assignment in Haiti ended and they returned to their home country, boobs started being sexy again... all that to say that while they are a secondary sexual characteristic, it is a cultural construction whether or not they are seen as overtly sexual.

  • xkcd #3182: Telescope Types

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  • Please accept this hug from an internet stranger that is likely heading down the same road... hoping the symptoms end up being a huge nothingburger, but if not then I'm going to miss my hobbyist equipment.

  • South Koreans hunt for old LG air-conditioners after logos turn out to be pure gold

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  • No, some people just do contentious things without any real purpose.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • Paraphrasing a quote I head years ago: Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.

  • Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up

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  • In a video with Ben Shapiro he questioned if the news we were hearing regarding Israel and Gaza could be trusted. Shapiro looked mortified that a fellow conservative would even entertain such a thought. It's been alluded that was the moment that Kirk sealed his fate.

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • There are also a lot of people out there that will intentionally swerve to hit an animal. Mark Rober made a video a long time ago where 6% of drivers went out of their way to hit animals that were just chilling on the shoulder.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA

  • Terrible idea

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  • They are referring to when New Jersey had a huge problem with needles washing up on the beaches back in the 90s.

  • Terrible idea

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  • Hell yeah! Where all my New Jerseyans at?

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • ...and we still put people like Caligula into positions of power.

    We're not going to make it, are we? :(

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • All-Star is what made me change my mind on Superman. I never really liked him when I was younger, and it was for all the same complaints that people have already listed above. But All-Star was a blast to read, not in spite of it's (at times) cheesiness, but because of it. All-Star Superman is relatable because he embodies the best traits in all of us; he is incredibly intelligent and kind, leveled and patient. Without going into spoilers, I think what I love most about All-Star is that it shows that even the best among us have our weaknesses, and that it's not the huge, planet-level threats that define who are and what we do, but the small, innocuous things that can most affect who we are in the moment.

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  • Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle's Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don't think so...

  • Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns

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  • Game theory, pure and simple. At its core, it is nothing more than the mathematical codification of self-interest. Within capitalism, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for justifying and even glorifying selfishness and greed. By reducing human interaction to competitive strategies designed to maximize personal gain, it frames cooperation, empathy, or long-term collective well-being as irrational or inefficient. The result is a system where decisions that harm the many can be rationalized as “optimal” so long as they benefit the few who hold power and wealth.

    Most people recognize the absurdity of this: we are essentially allowing the worst actors to dictate outcomes for everyone else. And all of it is wrapped in the veneer of mathematical inevitability, as though greed were a natural law instead of a human choice.

  • It happens so fast

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  • Right? I saw the meme, chuckled because I relate, but then I saw those bricks. Immediately looked up local gardening and hardware supply store to see if they have them in stock. This is EXACTLY what I need for my gardens.

  • We're learnding.

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  • What you're describing isn't really a failure of the education system. It's a reflection of the average American mindset. I was born in the US and grew up in the public school system. I loved math and science, and while I struggled with the rules of grammar, I still loved reading. I have always had a love of learning new things.

    But most people aren’t like that. Not just in America, but across the world. A true love of learning is rare, and I think that’s because learning is hard. It requires humility, effort, and the being able to admit that one might be wrong. It means questioning long held beliefs and sometimes changing parts of yourself completely. That’s a deeply uncomfortable prospect and many people avoid it.

    I think most people fall sleep while leaning on the third tier of Maslow’s pyramid (belonging and social identity.) The next level, where self-reflection and self-actualization begins, is hard to climb because it means hanging question marks on their long-held ideas and beliefs. They choose the safety of clinging to comfort and routine.

    The current controversy over dismantling the US Department of Education is a complex issue that can’t be fully unpacked in a short reply on the internet. But in my view, what’s driving the American zeitgeist toward authoritarianism and anti-intellectualism is this resistance to growth and change. Internalizing new ideas means re-evaluating what you’ve always believed. For many, that feels like a threat. And instead of rising to meet the challenge, they'd rather pull everything down to their level, where they feel safe.

    But, at least for me, the climb is worth it. Continuing to learn means accepting discomfort. It means growing past who you were in order to become someone better. It’s how we find purpose, empathy, and a deeper understanding of what it means to be alive.

  • From our new album

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  • Why go to a show when the replay button is, like, right there?

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    Is it moral to vandalize Teslas?

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  • That's weird, guy.