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PugJesus

@ PugJesus @lemmy.world

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Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

Moderating

Rough Roman Memes lemmy.world

2y ago

Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago
I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse's current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.
When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.

2y ago

A time of chaos

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Lawless? Mate it’s still perfectly legal to do that today

What a sick, disturbed society we are forced to exist in 😔

2y ago

Road rage

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Brutal

2y ago

Wh-what if we held hands and shared a post-war khrushchevka? Jk jk! Unless…? 😳

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

The Monument to the Sailors of the Dnieper Flotilla, erected 1979, Kyiv, Ukraine, then-the-Ukrainian SSR

Rather than necessarily intending to be homoerotic, cultural expressions of affection can vary wildly - such as how in some extremely homophobic countries men holding hands or other physical closeness is not seen as a warning sign of homosexual attraction.

Nonetheless, one imagines that it very well could have been the artist or designer being cheeky - especially considering artistic types are known for being disproportionately open-minded on such issues.

It's the subtle leg pop that does it for me, I have to believe that someone involved said "Yeah, we goin' a little gay on this, no one's gonna call us out"

2y ago

Wh-what if we held hands and shared a post-war khrushchevka? Jk jk! Unless…? 😳

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Sometimes they would both work on the collective's most remote fields all night long, and we wouldn't see them until morning, utterly exhausted and soaked with sweat! What good, hard-working Soviet boys they were!

2y ago

I'm tired

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

You ever meet a kid who escalates when ignored?

Musk is that kind of kid, guaranteed.

2y ago

Doggolarity

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

And they deserve every morsel with a cute face like that!

2y ago

"Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!"

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

I feel powerful when it happens. Like my education isn't worthless, even though it totally is

2y ago

Tastes good though

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

They're our Fifth Column

2y ago

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Stole them from the US*

fucking what

Israel's nuclear program development was dependent on French and British support

2y ago

You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

I wouldn't place any high value on what we're doing here. At best, you should view this as bitching about the news at the local college-kid frequented coffeeshop. Yes, there is an element of raising awareness and discussion - it's not useless, but ultimately, it's not going to play a major role in getting us out of this shitshow. We're discussing matters because it brings us some relief to do so, first and foremost.

2y ago

THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Explanation: Not only did the ancient Greek philosopher Eratosthenes (born and raised in what-is-now Libya) know the earth was spherical, he used that knowledge to measure the circumference of the earth - with two sticks and some carefully applied mathematical thought - to an astounding accuracy!

According to Cleomedes' On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies, around 240 BC, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in Ptolemaic Egypt.[8] Using a vertical rod known as a gnomon and under the previous assumptions, he knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Syene (modern Aswan, Egypt), the Sun was directly overhead, as the gnomon cast no shadow. Additionally, the shadow of someone looking down a deep well at that time in Syene blocked the reflection of the Sun on the water. Eratosthenes then measured the Sun's angle of elevation at noon in Alexandria by measuring the length of another gnomon's shadow on the ground.[9] Using the length of the rod and the length of the shadow as the legs of a triangle, he calculated the angle of the sun's rays.[10] This angle was about 7°, or 1/50th the circumference of a circle; assuming the Earth to be perfectly spherical, he concluded that its circumference was 50 times the known distance from Alexandria to Syene (5,000 stadia, a figure that was checked yearly), i.e. 250,000 stadia.[11] Depending on whether he used the "Olympic stade" (176.4 m) or the Italian stade (184.8 m), this would imply a circumference of 44,100 km (an error of 10%) or 46,100 km, an error of 15%.[11] A value for the stadion of 157.7 metres has even been posited by L.V. Firsov, which would give an even better precision, but is plagued by calculation errors and false assumptions.[12] In 2012, Anthony Abreu Mora repeated Eratosthenes's calculation with more accurate data; the result was 40,074 km, which is 66 km different (0.16%) from the currently accepted polar circumference.[10]

2y ago

Hehe

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

"No bro you don't understand it's like email here let me sketch you a chart"

2y ago

Crackers are for happy families

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

His dad

2y ago

Remember the REAL enemy this Valentine's day - the 1% (of happy couples)

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Centurii-chan

2y ago

Permanently Deleted

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

As is .world

2y ago

Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it

Someone fetch me my spear

2y ago

Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO

Same. On topics on than Romeposting(tm) I'd love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it'll be a while before that day comes, though.