ripcord

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Dogs are in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(that's Violet, not Lucy)

Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes in c/world@lemmy.world
Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, games with ads are for suckers.

Nobody can stop Israel's war, including the world court, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey, I'm also old and get that!

Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Who cosplays as Margot Robbie too. It's not just a name (for more context)

Nobody can stop Israel's war, including the world court, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's like it in that this is true, but there's a big, big, big difference in how big a deal a given amount being in our systems is.

Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You're talking like .01% as much plastic use per liter as plastic bottle water packs. Is that not....much much better?

Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

But the filters introduce way way fewer.plastics...?

Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

A jolly, CANDY-like button!

Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The plane will miss passengers when they fall out, good point.

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Woooo collapse conversation button (kbin.social)
 

Not sure how long it's been there, but it's finally there. Nice QoL improvement.

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Where did Magazine search go? (kbin.social)
 

There used to be an interface for quickly searching available magazines, subscribing, seeing population counts, etc. Does this not exist anymore, or am I just missing it?

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TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL NASA calculated that you only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument Releases First Data (physics.aps.org)
 

The first data collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument contain close to 2 million objects, including a roughly 12-billion-year-old quasar. The collaboration expects to report their first cosmology-related results within a year.

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