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AbouBenAdhem

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  • Minnesota protesters bit off federal agent’s finger during protest, DHS claims

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  • She also posted images of two individuals allegedly involved in the attack, though their roles and identities remain unclear.

    I’ve seen cops do this at protests—they’ll grab a few random, odd-looking people just because they look scary, so they can post their mugshots the next day alongside their narrative of events. Then once the news cycle is over they’re released without charges.

  • 37-year-old man shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis was an ‘American citizen’ and licensed gun owner, city officials say

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  • Is this the second killing today (after the 51-year-old man)?

  • If you agree with the majority then censorship is ok.

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  • “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” —Voltaire (reportedly)

  • The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it

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  • What difference would you expect if the “and you know it” clause were omitted?

    Suppose there are indeed some people who would clap ”if they’re happy”, but refrain “if they’re happy and they know it”. The implication would be that these people are happy and don’t know it—and yet we’re supposing that they would have clapped “if they’re happy” anyway.

    If they didn’t clap, adding the clause would have no effect and its inclusion would have no motivation.

  • If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • 30 years ago?

    So right about the time The Truman Show came out?

    Did your friend perhaps watch it while high?

  • If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • Other comments are correctly stating that the sun is white, but appears yellow/orange due to the blue light being scattered—but that doesn’t fully address the issue, because objects seen under a white light with an orange filter in front would still have an orange cast.

    The difference with the sun is that the scattered blue light is still reaching objects via the light from the rest of the sky—it’s the orange light from the sun combining with the blue light from the sky that makes things appear white.

  • Why is XYZ cooler than ABC?

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  • ABC are variables, but XYZ are coordinates. XYZ gives you a space to work in, but you never know what ABC are up to.

  • The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it

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  • And it implies that if you were happy and didn’t know it, you’d clap anyway if the song didn’t clarify.

  • Does anyone remember this Christian cartoon?

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  • Sounds like an adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

  • If I'm struggling with depression, I get ostracized as a "loser" that haven't accomplished anything but if I die in a tragic accident tonight, I'm a "young man with a bright future ahead"

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  • While people are alive, their accomplishments are always being compared to expectations; but if they die before accomplishing anything, the expectations are all that’s left.

  • The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

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  • There would be continuity issues with Jackson’s adaptation, too—in the films, Saruman and Wormtongue die at Isengard (in the extended edition), Galadriel says Frodo’s dystopian vision of the Shire is what will happen if he fails, Rosie Cotton is a barmaid instead of a fellow member of Sam’s agrarian resistance cell, Odo Proudfoot and the rest of Hobbiton are visibly unchanged when the hobbits arrive, etc.

  • The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

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  • In the books, Saruman and Wormtongue escape from Isengard and set up shop in the Shire while the hobbits are still busy wrapping things up in Gondor and Rivendell. They turn the Shire into an industrialized dystopia, destroying the environment and subverting the local hobbits with promises of wealth and power before betraying them and turning them against each other. (Basically, what Frodo sees in the film adaptation when he looks in the Mirror of Galadriel.)

    When Frodo & co. return, they organize an underground resistance movement that escalates into a popular revolution.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

  • Weaponization of Tesla and ICE

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  • Their sales would take a massive hit the first time they tried it. (Not that Musk seems to care much about his brand image these days.)

  • If you could erase one event from human history, what would it be and why?

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  • That, and Spain (or whoever else) wouldn’t be coming in fresh off the surrender of Granada, with the attitude that all non-Christian states must be conquered as a matter of principle.

  • If you could erase one event from human history, what would it be and why?

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  • Columbus’ return to Spain.

    His failure to return discourages further attempts for a while; and when contact is eventually made, it isn’t Spain in the immediate aftermath of the Reconquista looking to continue its momentum.

    Meanwhile, the New World is made aware of Europe and perhaps acquires some resistance to Old World diseases before any larger confrontations.

  • How would anarchism work?

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  • Not an anarchist, but the common thread among those I’ve talked to is the elimination of hierarchical structures (whether government or otherwise).

    Other types of organization are fine, as long as there are no asymmetric institutional relationships.

  • Scientists Discovered the Tunnels of a Possibly Unknown Ancient Lifeform

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  • Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago.

    “Millions of years ago”—that narrows it down to 99.95% of the history of life on earth.

  • "Echo Chambers" are massive unbroken spaces with no internal differentiation or divisions, not highly sorted, disconnected masses of variously interconnected smaller chambers

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  • I think it depends on the type of sound: a canyon echoes shouts, while a cathedral echoes sermons. But a canyon won’t echo regular speaking voices like a cathedral does, and I think that’s what the metaphor is drawing on: the cathedral is an echo chamber relative to an open public square.

  • Trump shares altered map of U.S. flag covering Canada, Greenland and Venezuela

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  • Musk gave him the AI that colored it for him.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.

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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
  • 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?

  • 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
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

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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")

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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.

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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
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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.