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Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York
It’s not steam. It’s smoke from wood fired pizza ovens for the turtle men that live there. There was a cartoon documentary about them on tv a few years back.
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Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York
It’s not steam. It’s smoke from wood fired pizza ovens for the turtle men that live there. There was a cartoon documentary about them on tv a few years back.
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Funko gets community noted
“We reached out to itch.io” aka we called his mom.
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Dream job!
Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.
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Autism ‘highly likely’ linked to Tylenol and circumcision, RFK Jr. says
The causal chain between pp and autism is lost to me.
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*Permanently Deleted*
That why you should never date someone who only codes in COBOL.
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Apparently *all* of the DND 5.5 physical sourcebook team was let go during Hasbro's December layoffs
Let’s hope they move to Paizo and join the work on pathfinder 2.5.
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What's the difference between communism and socialism?
In real general terms, communism is about people/state’s ownership of the means of production. Under this system, most private property is nationalized.
Socialism allows for private property and sees the role of the state to redistribute power and wealth among its citizens through some sort of state program.
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Meta Threads is going to be Fediverse compatible. Meta taking a shot at Reddit?
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Step 2: We are Extending the fediverse with our open source contributions. We are such great citizens of the fediverse and we like to contribute . Step 3: We have decided to exit the fediverse because of reasons. But don’t worry! All the people you like to talk to are on Threads already. Come on over!
The 2020s are shaping up like the 90s again. All we need is Steve Ballmer as Meta ceo and the circle will close.
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Am I Crazy or is the Mali Government Reclaiming the ml Domain Now is too Convenient of a Time?
ml was managed by freenom for a long time. They made it available alongside tk domains.
Freenom stopped operations for sometime and both Mali and Tokelau are in the process of taking over their registrars from freenom.
It’s more of an example of a coincidence than a conspiracy.
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What if the Gaza Strip declared independence?
I’m not an expert in middle eastern politics.
My uninformed take is that if the Gaza Strip was to self organize as a state, they will implicitly recognize Israel as a state as they will have to decide on borders.
Being unrecognized allows the Palestinian authority to claim all the former Palestinian land as their own.
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Trump unleashes legal chaos for Elon Musk’s DOGE in speech to Congress
“I hereby pardon Mr Musk for anything past, present, future” -Big marker signature
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The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
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Check out wefwef.app. It will feel familiar.
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"onnosecond" moment
One or two bitcoin miners never hurt no GPU.
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Clash of Twitter
Spez taking notes for Reddit 3.0
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Why do we associate nuclear radiation with a green glow?
The blue hue is called Cherenkov radiation. It happens when a particle moves through a medium early fast, leading to light being released. It’s like a sonic boom but for light.
As for the green glow, maybe it’s due to uranium glass glowing green unused UV light.
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Nikki Haley: Texas has the right to secede from the United States if it wants to
I pledge blah blah blah one nation* under god blah blah blah
*terms and conditions apply, non binding, we reserve the right to change terms without notice, no shirt no shoes no service
But you better stand, remove your hat, and salute the flag
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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits
This sounds like the textbook definition of a collider. Meaning that being toxic is the likely “root cause” and that toxic people are more likely to engage in political discourse (because it’s likely going to be toxic anyways? Idk) and they are more likely to comment toxic stuff in general.
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I feel betrayed...
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Here is the salient point on the Wikipedia page that explains why horses don’t produce 1 HP:
Watt judged that the horse could pull with a force of 180 pounds-force (800 N)
Basically, Watts made up HP to sell his steam engine to mines and likely made up a number to make the new technology seem better.
Some things never change.
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Domain registrar
I use porkbun.
The prices are similar to google domains and the dns management interface is ok.
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Oh God, it's catching
Jokes asides, revanchism was one of the main ideological engines of the Italian facist party, from which Meloni takes strong cues.