AbouBenAdhem @ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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He knows that states can only have one governor at a time, right?

They may not have enough manpower to guard a more distributed site, especially if they’re afraid of internal groups seizing some of it.

Kirzhach is on the far side of Moscow from Ukraine. Did the drones fly over Moscow to reach it, or did they take a longer route?

Most hated is “boffin” for scientist—“boff” is American slang for sex, so it sounds like calling them “fuckers” (which generally doesn’t seem to be the intended connotation).

It’s an emergent phenomenon—institutions will naturally behave in ways that increase their power, without that necessarily being the conscious intention of any given member.

The older the average pope, the shorter the average term, and the more papal elections in a given span of time.

One of the main powers of cardinals is electing the pope, so more papal elections means more power for the college of cardinals.

Looks like a Roman-style lozenge-shaped plate fibula.

Or non-random—watch how many Instagram/Meta critics get their accounts flagged as underage.

Plot twist: aliens introduced generative AI so people would dismiss evidence of their existence.

You’d think any hidden shit would have already come to light during her 26 years as one of the most visible progressives in the US House.

I think people get confused because it sounds so similar to “eventually”—i.e., something bound to occur given enough time.

It is not an eventuality, it is a possibility that he tries

That’s literally what “eventuality” means:

eventuality | əˌvɛn(t)ʃəˈwælədi |
noun (plural eventualities)
a possible event or outcome.

A steelman argument (the opposite of a strawman).

A Mid-Atlantic accent?

Any accent of English, including more recent ones, perceived as a mixture of American and British English, and often perceived as incorporating the prestige speech of one or both countries

One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small or self-hosted one? (Or in other words—does the nature of the platform software potentially incentivize consolidation?)

How would Carville even have standing to sue?

This Is How You Lose the Time War

I honestly feel like I wasted my one minute of typing this.

Good news—this one weird trick can make you the fastest typist in the universe!

It’s been towed beyond the environment.

Earth travels at 107,826km/ph

In that reference frame, the speed of the ISS varies between 79,826 and 135,826 km/h.