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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • Chat, is this accurate?

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  • Oganesson has a half-life of about 0.7 ms and is excruciatingly difficult to synthesize in a way that even lasts on the order of milliseconds. The beam it's created in is sent to a semiconductor detector. You'd be stretching the definition of "lick" very heavily if you could even convolute a way to make it land on the human tongue.

  • Phils Hardware

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  • OP, per Rule 4, credit should be given – or you should at least try and disclaim your attempt.

    Since you might not have been aware of this rule, it's fair to give you a freebie: this is Tundra by Chad Carpenter. Strip possibly from October 10, 2017, based on a reverse image search.

  • NSFW

    Pay the toll

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  • RAGGLE FRAGGLE!

    Aaaaah! Somebody help meeee!

  • There are support groups.

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  • :[(

  • Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

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  • It was still alive, and slithered and squirmed on the surgical table.

    Great.

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • You completely debunk the idea that "I don't think the growth in "unknown" is the primary factor of Window's decline in market share." in the same comment you said it? Because what you said makes absolutely no sense in the face of the actual numbers.

    I expound on the two points because you can't just rest your argument on them and then limply, vaguely disclaim that it's terrible methodology.

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • Those "last two data points" are two months. For OS X, there's some upward movement the last two months (about 3%, which isn't a lot given it spiked late last year from 8.3% to 14.07% to 8.2% in a span of three points), while Linux is practically flatlined with a very light upward incline just the last month.

    To the extent StatCounter is useful to begin with, the Linux point is functionally meaningless while the OS X increase of a few percentage points may or may not be significant; trying to divine a trend from twitches in those two points is reading noise. Look at the "unknown" line, meanwhile, and see how it begins mirroring Windows' decline around mid–late 2025. It rose from 11.3% in September 2025 to 21.5% in June 2026. That represents actual, meaningful, lasting change.

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • Okay, but StatCounter's graph (edit: here) clearly shows that "unknown" is what's cannibalizing most of that – and this is specifically measuring web traffic.

    "Lemmy celebrates the rise of bots polluting web traffic stats because they didn't bother to read the article beyond a misleading headline that reaffirms their biases."

  • Ethics, Integrity, Transparency

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  • This man looks like he was engineered in a lab to be the villain of an iCarly special.

  • DAE...

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  • Image credit is Ellis Rosen. Source is The New Yorker (image 4). The New Yorker also maintains a cartoon bank.

    In the future, if you don't leave a source, please make sure to try and disclaim that you did.

    Edit: Also, LB, please use a more descriptive title.

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  • That's probably it.

    and maybe some day we'll find out that there's something smaller inside quarks

    I don't think particle physicists in 2026 wake up in a cold sweat worried about preons. We are still taking measurements, but I don't think theoreticians have any reason to invoke it – and IIRC its predictions have been outright contradicted experimentally.

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  • Are any particle physicists particularly concerned with matryoshkas? Like what's the context here? If this is about matryoshka brains, that's not, like, a thing particle physicists specifically care about.

  • Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseats Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado House primary

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  • Hard disagree

    I almost can't believe you're citing Republicans, the most obvious counterexample to what you're claiming imaginable. Donald Trump was the insurgent candidate in 2016, and every candidate in the 2016 primary and even a sizable part of right-wing media was calling him every name in the book. His current VP compared him to Hitler. It worked because Republicans wanted to feel like they were going against the party establishment, not in spite of it.

    Thank you for practically making my argument for me.

    Edit: Since apparently Lemmy didn't live through the same 2016 everyone else did, let's review:

    Time:

    Overwhelming force can turn unwieldy, and Clinton’s aides have struggled for a year to battle insurgent foes Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, who operate out of makeshift offices built less around corporate flow plans than a never-ending focus on letting the candidates do exactly what they want.

    NBC News:

    GOP Establishment Considers Next Moves to Stop Insurgent Trump

    The Economist

    An insurgent in the White House

    And it is my absolute displeasure to link to fucking Breitbart:

    Pat Caddell: Donald Trump Running as ‘Insurgent Candidate Against a System That Has Failed the American People’

    I can keep going.

  • Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseats Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado House primary

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  • In the absolute worst case where NBC News is editorializing using the word "insurgent", I can about guarantee you that'll appeal to more people than it turns away. In 2026, the establishment of the Democratic Party is a toxic brand.

  • Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseats Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado House primary

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  • Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseats Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado House primary

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  • No, I'm not going to come on. They are insurgents; that's a good thing; I don't believe NBC News is using that accurate descriptor to editorialize; and if they are: good, fucking let them. If they want to make the DSA candidates look like they're bringing radical change against the party by force: good, fucking let them. People are clearly sick and fucking tired of the "well it's this or fascism I guess" wing of the Democratic Party.

  • Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseats Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado House primary

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  • I mean that's literally what they're doing, though: they're opposing the "moderate" authority that controls the party. They literally are insurgents in their own party.

  • Drawing some blood

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  • Blood from the blood god.

  • Looking back at old photos of yourself

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  • "Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Janeway, and I go to a school called Starfleet Academy."

  • Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

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  • Is it? I've never seen my VPN serving me any ads, and it's pretty cheap.