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AbouBenAdhem

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  • Where will Santa live when the polar ice caps are gone?

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  • In an ICE facility for undocumented aliens.

  • South Carolina pastor charged with allegedly cyberstalking wife before she died by suicide

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  • This (mis)use of “allegedly” is a bit of a pet peeve of mine: he’s not charged with allegedly cyberstalking her, he’s charged with actually doing it. A charge is already a type of allegation, and you can’t just nest in an extra “alleged” for good measure—it’s not idempotent.

    And it matters because sprinkling the word into articles without regard for its meaning gradually strips it of meaning, leaving it with nothing but a general association with crime (which negates its ostensible function).

  • How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?

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  • I guess it’ll be when the majority of the working population is Gen Z or younger.

  • Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.

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  • Capitalism incentivizes risk-taking, which can be productive when there are potential opportunities that are otherwise too risky to explore.

    But after they’ve exploited the productive risk/reward opportunities, capitalists increasingly rely on amplifying the risks—but there’s no longer any commensurate increase in rewards, at least for society as a whole.

  • Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy

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  • I dunno—on the one hand, I can see where data consent that’s folded into a long user agreement might get overlooked and approved without thinking, and a second verification would be helpful; but on the other hand, the more times users are asked for consent, the more likely they are to agree reflexively to everything.

    It seems like a user-configurable setting would be the best solution.

  • what was the worst enemy of feudalism?

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  • It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, the ruling class was mocked and identities were concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)

    There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.

  • Orbán says unsure who started Russia-Ukraine war

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  • Orbán also revealed before Thursday’s EU summit that Putin had warned the Hungarian leader that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian assets to help Ukraine. [...] “So we Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said.

    Submitting to extortion is a dubious policy; advertising your susceptibility to extortion is practically an invitation.

  • what was the worst enemy of feudalism?

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  • Carnival.

  • For longer-lasting, eco-friendlier asphalt ... just add algae

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  • For a second I was hoping they’d bioengineered stromatolite.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Archaeologists Uncovered the First Evidence of Math—Before Numbers Were Even Invented

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  • “Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Archaeologists”

  • What "ruins it" for you?

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  • Stupid fat hobbit!

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there's generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).

  • Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

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  • From the wiki article on Public.Resource.Org:

    Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?

  • Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?

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  • New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

    More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

  • All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

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  • For anyone else trying to follow this research, the article is describing the paper by Moody et al. from a year and a half ago.

  • Trump sues BBC for $5 billion

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  • strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart

    Isn’t that about the normal interval it takes for him to progress from one coherent thought to the next?

  • Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?

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  • “Feeding the trolls?”

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

    Your opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of mine.

  • How come posts on Lemmy often have fewer upvotes than the comments in the thread, even if they merely provide additional information or expand on the idea?

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  • My personal policy is to upvote posts or comments that should get more visibility relative to other posts/comments in the same community/thread. So I might not upvote a post if there are currently other more important posts in the same community, but I might upvote comments on that post if I think they're the most important comments on that post.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • California @lemmy.world
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    California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?

    oaklandnorth.net /2025/11/03/california-opened-college-savings-accounts-for-millions-of-kids-why-do-so-few-know-about-it/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Shift-and-persist model

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift-and-persist_model
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?

  • California @lemmy.world
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    Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)

    onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/full/10.1111/ele.14230
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.