Surprised the hell out of my history teacher when I had the answer for what number President Warren Harding was. Took me a minute and a half to get to that point of the song though lol
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Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"3·1 年前Not even that. He was headed to Cuba, the US government forced him to be in Russia.
“NSA leaker Edward Snowden got stuck at a Moscow airport after Cuba, feeling pressure from Washington, warned that it would not allow an Aeroflot flight from Russia to land in Havana if he were aboard”
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Nvidia's grasp of desktop GPU market balloons to 88% — AMD has just 12%, Intel negligible, says JPREnglish16·1 年前AMD is doing really great things with APUs like the Steam Deck. I just got a travel mini PC with a Ryzen 7 7840U. It can play most games at 1080p high quality with 30fps and fits in the palm of my hand.
It might be a while before you can play VR on an APU but they’re already comparable to GPUs from 5 years ago
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Mosquitoes are swarming around Houston. The future could bring even more.41·1 年前White nose syndrome has also nearly wiped out bats in the states as well, seriously compounding the problem
That is fun, the only other media I’ve seen like that is Quest for Fire (1981) starring Ron Pearlman
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto World News@lemmy.world•Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed deadEnglish11·1 年前Ukraine
has beenwas on the counter offensivesincein June“Russia had begun preparing for the counteroffensive since November 2022 and had created extensive defensive infrastructure, including ditches, trenches, artillery positions, and landmines intended to slow down the counteroffensive.”
Russia has had the defenders advantage since
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they're already talking about '5.5G'English21·2 年前“Comcast is discontinuing its its “Xfinity 10G Network” branding to describe its internet service after a National Advertising Review Board (NARB) panel found that the term could mislead consumers into thinking that Comcast’s cellular and broadband services would offer much faster speeds than current-generation networks.”
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Europe@feddit.de•As U.S. government remains gridlocked, Warren Buffett's son Howard has given Ukraine half a billion dollarsEnglish4·2 年前Funny timing, the same week the federal government announced that they’re considering suing Warren Buffett for $625 million for setting California on fire several times.
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto World News@lemmy.world•Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says ‘US credibility is at stake’ when asked about Trump’s NATO commentsEnglish6·2 年前I think Michael Moore really nailed it with “Human molotov cocktail”
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Joe Biden criticises snack makers for ‘shrinkflation rip-off’0·2 年前Well TIL, I always thought that executive orders were a way to bypass Congress. I know that there was a Democratic Congress in 1971, I wonder why they rubber stamped that for Nixon.
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Joe Biden criticises snack makers for ‘shrinkflation rip-off’0·2 年前That has never stopped presidents before. In response to inflation in 1971 President Nixon issued an executive order making it illegal to raise prices for several months and before him FDR went even farther with rationing and controlling wages.
Inflation is actually super easy to control. You just need to be willing to threaten business leaders with serious jail time.
Morgoon@startrek.websiteto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It322·2 年前41% of the land in the US is used for meat production, and 1/3rd globally. The Amazon rainforest is being slashed and burned for cattle farming. Animal agriculture means habitat destruction and is a large part of why 21 species were declared extinct in the US this past year. We can and must fight them both.
Well we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming anymore