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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Somehow I don't think Errol Musk knew that much about the geology. Allegedly he bought the shares on a whim without first visiting the mine, which was in a different country.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mines can absolutely become suddenly unprofitable. You don't know how much good stuff is in the ground until you dig it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The mine went bankrupt in '89, just a few years after Errol bought shares in it. The boss was someone else.

 

I vaguely remember a video about history of weapons that goes like "rock, fast rock, pointy rock, (...) spicy rock dropped from big metal bird" (nuke) but I can't find it again. Does it ring a bell for anyone here?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If someone wants karma they could host a modified instance where every post gets thousands of upvotes for free. Other instances can't really verify whether that's accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does it cause issues if domain and tld match?

 
 
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One issue with the fediverse right now is that there are many redundant communities. Like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc all having essentially the same topic.

I think the easiest solution to this is to take reddit's multireddit feature, allowing users to create their own "technology" multi-community that includes all the popular technology communities from all the instances. Thanks to federation, the user could interact with this multi as if it was one big community. Perhaps a way to share the multi with others so that all the component communities get federate-mirrored to the new user's instance would be needed too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For people who previously used SMS and had their contacts saved in the phone's pre-installed contact app, WhatsApp could use all those contacts out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If per-user instance filters are implemented, perhaps instances could have "default blacklists" for new users for stuff like exploding-heads or lemmygrad that most people don't want to see, with the option to manually un-block them if someone does want to see that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Brilliant Pebbles. A space-based ICBM interceptor program from the 80s.

The one part of Reagan's Star Wars that would totally have worked if they'd deployed it, but the Soviet Union didn't last long enough...

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USSF Alan Shepard engaging a Chinese spaceship in lunar orbit animated by theo bouvier

 
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Text is cached but images aren't rehosted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emphasis on medically transitioned.

Some people seem to think that lgbt activists want to make it so that any male athlete could just put on a wig, say "I'm trans now", steal medals from women and then detransition the next day. (As depicted in that Futurama episode.)

Letting trans people who have medically transitioned for several years compete is a very different beast from letting anyone who claims to be trans compete.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also when sorting by active, posts jump around whenever you go to the next page, so you miss some posts and see others twice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Really big map, mostly empty

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