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wolframhydroxide

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  • Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50%

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  • The problem is that the theory of supply and demand requires the assumption that buyers and sellers are rational actors, and if there's one thing the last 25 years has taught the corpocrats, it's that humans are not rational, and are easily manipulated.

    The other thing they learned is that, if you don't want to face regulation, you just need to buy the government. They already knew this, but now the process is perfected.

  • xkcd #3285: Accretionary Arc

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  • Indeed! And a lot of things which are NOT new England are in it.

  • Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

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  • In case it was not your intent to point this out with sarcasm, for anyone reading:

    1. not all forests are created equal: new growth forests are simply not as good at long-term burial of carbon.
    2. carbon sinks only work so long as the carbon stays sunk, so if a tree dies and rots before it's buried, all of that carbon just goes back to the atmosphere, except a lot of it is now methane, which is MANY times worse than CO2.
    3. this means that it is possible for a poorly - managed tree to actually be an effective carbon source for the purpose of greenhouse gas emissions, rather than a sink, since a single molecule of methane can do the damage of a hundred molecules of carbon dioxide.
    4. the largest carbon sink on earth is not the forests, but the ocean, and that carbon only really has two ways out: back into the atmosphere, or buried at the bottom in the calcareous ooze. Now if you really want to understand how fucked we are, read up on the following:

    • Carbonate Compensation Depth (see how it relates to the amount of calcareous ooze being buried in the ocean)
    • Methane Clathrate Hydrate
    • Permafrost Methane

  • Kennedy Center Board Votes to Carve Trump’s Name Into the Building’s Marble Facade

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  • I'm confused. You say "here", but then claim to be from a country being bombed by trump. What's your nationality?

  • xkcd #3285: Accretionary Arc

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  • As a New Englander an Avalonian, I approve this message

    FTFY. We'd best call ourselves what we are. And given that England itself is part of it, would we not now lay mutual claim to the title "Older England"?

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • I love nebula. Well worth it. Less content, but all but two of my preferred creators are on it (not including Dropout, which is also worth it). For those two, I use Freetube every month or so to check in, but they're just Tiny little science channels that do simple experiments, and I can find the experiments they cite on their university webpages once I have the names of their demos.

  • Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest crimes against humanity that was carried out against the civilian population against Japan by the US. The only country to date to use nuclear weapons

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  • Umm, that last claim is wholly untrue. Every nuclear-armed country (save perhaps a couple) has detonated nuclear bombs. The US isn't even the only one to use it intentionally against civilians, since the French were actively studying the deleterious effects of fallout on their colonial subjects in French Polynesia, which is what led to the Rainbow Warrior state-sponsored terrorist attack against New Zealand. I'm sure that there are other cases of the USSR or some other nuclear power testing their own devices against civilian populations if I had a mind to check.

    Perhaps "the US is the only country to detonate a nuclear weapon against civilians of a country with which it was at war" or "the only country to detonate a nuclear weapon as an act of war"

  • xkcd #3278: Vera Rubin Observatory

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  • As long as you also accept Ceres, Eris and The Moon as planets, I see no contradiction. I would argue that we should still change the numbering to reflect it, though, since the moon would be the fourth planet, and Ceres the 6th, making Pluto the 11th planet.

    The only reason the moon isn't a planet is because the IAU says it isn't in the definition of "planet". MinutePhysics makes a particularly excellent case for that fact, if you're interested.

    The Earth/Moon system is a planetary binary. Fight me, IAU sycophants.

  • 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

  • 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