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wolframhydroxide

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  • Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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  • The pillaging was actually only a very small part. The vast majority of going Viking was pure trade or, when conquest was on the table, colonization. That's how you get the Rus Vikings. When a bunch of pagans see unguarded temples, though, all filled with gold, and their gods would be pleased by the offering of such things? Yeah, they're going to pillage. It was often far easier to just trade with the people already there, and so they did. The idea that they're all there to make blood-eagles and die in glorious battle is ridiculous. They had a complex civilisation that set up many of the mediaeval trade routes throughout Europe and into the middle east.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • As someone whose entire library is focused on the history of science: what's the citation?

  • xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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  • I got mine from the Lady of Caras Galadhon. She has a nice 7-for-one special she offers, where you and several other people take on a quest to throw something bad into a random volcano. I agreed to throw Lindsey Graham's phone into the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone, and she gave me some "real elvish rope". Some other group agreed to drop Mitch McConnell's phylactery into Kilauea. We haven't heard from them, yet. You've got to be really smart about what you ask of the Lady of Lorien, too. A few years back, some dolt asked her for a single hair from her head. That group did NOT successfully throw Putin's Ring of Polonium into Eyjafjallajökull.

  • How it probably happened

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  • Well, given that Ra kind of is the sun, they wouldn't be wrong in that assumption. Though that's not actually what they believed. They believed that Nut was the sky above them, and Geb the unmoving ground beneath, and that they delineated creation. It wasn't until the Greek Eratosthenes' experiment that the idea of a round earth was proven, though it had been suggested philosophically for a couple hundred years before him. The idea of the earth actually moving was also proposed by Aristarchus near the same time as Eratosthenes' experiment, but wouldn't gain wide acceptance, let alone be proven, until the time of Copernicus, Brahe and Kepler.

  • Trump says US being 'invaded by filthy air' as he threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires

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  • If you throw enough ICE into a fire, the fire WILL go out.

  • Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.

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  • Oh, I don't disagree with you, just giving the actual reason why these are all worded like the US is all that exists.

  • Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.

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  • Isn't one of the most common rules in news communities that the title must be exactly the same as the title of the article? That's why this happens to you. News sources don't always say "oh, yeah, this is just for the US, BTW." In their headlines.

  • Chat, is this accurate?

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  • What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.

  • Chat, is this accurate?

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  • The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn't going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?

  • Chat, is this accurate?

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  • I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.

  • [Flora of cows] Astrojaks 2

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  • Where?!

    Also, not really a project. It takes less than three minutes

  • FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

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  • That depends on how deep you go into the meaning. The whole point of Earendil's story is that people are so immature, fractious and self-sabotaging that they couldn't be trusted to just appreciate the god-given light of the heavens. When self-serving industrialists (Melkor) destroyed the beautiful harmony of Earth (the great trees), the last holders of that ancient power (the Noldor) selfishly refused to share it with the rest of the world, saying that they should be the only ones to inherit the light of life because they gained it through generational wealth. Eventually, the light of the heavens had to be split apart and placed so far out of reach that none could ever take them again for themselves. Earendil shines as an eternal testament to the inclination toward that hubris, selfishness and determination to fuck over everything you cannot own for everyone else so that what you do own becomes more valuable.

    Perhaps corpocrat fuckwits should just stop insulting Tolkien's memory?

  • Nato leaders agree not to mention World Cup to Donald Trump to avoid irritating him

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  • Indeed, just the specific time when it directly enabled one

  • [Flora of cows] Astrojaks 2

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  • Since they are no longer sold AFAIK, and there are too many people lacking astrojax:

    The original idea for astrojax was developed when the physics student tied hexnuts to each end of a string, then strung one nut loose on the string between them. There is nothing stopping you from doing this. It's the same sort of fun, just slightly less padded than the foam astrojax. If you change the number of nuts strung in the middle to two, you can put a little duct tape around them to make a heavier middle weight, and can also change the number of nuts at the ends by tying them together at the end. Rather than having a nut on both ends, you can attach a keyring to one end and have a yoyo loop to work with for greater grip security.

  • Walls within walls

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  • Founded by Ghislaine Maxwell's father, yes, that Ghislaine Maxwell.

  • Jack Smith Breaks His Silence, Warns of Unprecedented Attacks on Rule of Law by Trump Administration

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  • "The only people who disagree with me are neoliberals and fascists", cried the Dingdong. It does not, of course, perceive that the only matching call in the forest is that of its greatest competitor species, the lowly maggat, with its cries of "The only people who disagree with me are commies and socialists"

  • Jack Smith Breaks His Silence, Warns of Unprecedented Attacks on Rule of Law by Trump Administration

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  • Jack Smith Breaks His Silence, Warns of Unprecedented Attacks on Rule of Law by Trump Administration

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  • Ooh, ooh, can I get a block?! Pick me! Pick me!

  • Thanks, little buddies.

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  • Tardigrades don't have visible eyes like that in the left picture. That's some ai-generated slop image of a demodex mite.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Since we're doing magic eyes now...

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget The Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions & Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes