dantheclamman

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Arose from people misinterpreting unguligrade/digitigrade animals as having no knees, then people pointed out they do, so some guy was like but what if they didn't?? Dunno where the lips came from, maybe just a parallel of not being able to eat normally to go along with not being able to walk normally

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

According to my history:

Depths of Wikipedia > Cow Tipping > Achlis > Hugag

 

In American folklore, the hugag is a fearsome critter similar to a moose with an extensive upper lip, preventing it from grazing, and jointless legs preventing it from lying down.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

She is deep in the depths. Finds amazing stuff! I am often tempted to re-post what she finds here, but it feels like cheating :D

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I get what you're saying, but he's spent years investigating this subject, so it feels fair for him to be given some credit for it. No requirement that we name things after the literal person who discovered it, particularly because that's often impossible to prove.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even in CA, we had a Texan middle school teacher who drilled into our heads like a mantra that the Civil War was about disagreements over States' rights/tariffs/etc.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

we must go deeper

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They say the camera points down, but that makes me wonder...what about the reflections?? Oh god, the reflections

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Not really a YouTuber but I've always been curious what happened about a decade ago with Chris Ziegler from The Verge, who was an editor but then accepted a job at Apple on the side, and was then fired by both companies. He then disappeared entirely from the record and everyone got real quiet about it.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" to be tragic.

To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense

 

The turbo encabulator is a fictional electromechanical machine with a satirical technobabble description that became a famous in-joke among engineers after it was published by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers in their Students' Quarterly Journal in 1944.

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O'Neill cylinder (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 

An O'Neill cylinder would consist of two counter-rotating cylinders. The cylinders would rotate in opposite directions to cancel any gyroscopic effects that would otherwise make it difficult to keep them aimed toward the Sun. Each would be 6.4 kilometers (4 mi) or 8.0 kilometers (5 mi) in diameter and 32 kilometers (20 mi) long, connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. Their rotation would provide artificial gravity.

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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (October 25, 1946 – October 13, 2025), often referred to as Miss Major, was an American author, activist, and community organizer for transgender rights. She has participated in activism and community organizing for a range of causes, and served as the first executive director for the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project.

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