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  • You've now made a false dichotomy of your "thousands of corpses ran over with tanks" strawman, and "a handful".

    Conveniently for you, this excludes the truth - several hundred dead victims.

    This smug sophomore bullshit, along with supporting authoritarian dictatorships, is why everyone hates you tankies.

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    A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).
  • it's from the Latin "libra", for balance, like a set of scales. the £ symbol for pounds as in money is a stylised L for the same reason!

    etymology lesson over, imperial/customary gtfo resumes. metric ftw.

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    ‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
  • i've only ever heard about this "green bubble" thing from USA media.

    do Americans still use SMS?

    why? phone numbers are obsolete. my SMS inbox going back years is just 2FA security codes, and they're very rare these days, since authenticator apps.

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    What are some conspiracy theories you absolutely believe to be true?
  • About the rare huge-moon part - there's been a recent discovery of a pair of young, still-forming exoplanets sharing the same orbit in a young star system - "PDS 70"; one protoplanet is in the L4 or L5 "Trojan" LaGrange point of the bigger one. Physicists reckon Theia may well have formed in one of Earth's Trojan points, before being perturbed out onto a collision course by a third planet (thanks Jupiter)

    So. While the planetary-collision-forming-a-huge-moon idea sure sounds wild, it might not be incredibly rare. Maybe.

    We're still at the very early stage of knowing what is normal for solar systems.

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  • I have seen that Ventura has much tighter inspections of modifications to executables. From that article :

    >The more stringent codesigning checks in Ventura verify that all notarized apps are correctly signed and have not been modified by unauthorized processes, even after the first launch. This is an improvement from previous versions of macOS, where Gatekeeper would only validate applications during their initial launch and would regard the file as trusted once it was successfully launched.

    Should I stick with the previous MacOS version for as long as possible? I really don't want to have to give money to fucking Adobe.

    spoiler

    Also - shut up, the apple lappie was literally half price because of a superficial tiny dent on one corner. I mostly use Linux.

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    Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
  • Ah, I just realised, I mistook you for someone else. I guess because of the vowel, I thought you're @Ruud who runs this lemmy instance.

    That's why I wrote as if you're the one making the decision - sorry.

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    Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
  • Dude this is over two weeks old already. The date in the title makes it look like it was a daily thread for that one day. You're effectively hiding news from a large fraction of subscribers with this policy.

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    Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
  • How long of a delay? Do you known if the delay is on your end, taking a while to load from every other instance, or from the other ones being slow to "tell" yours about new posts?

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    How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?
  • the national tld for Mali, but the lemmy ml owners chose it for a "Marxist-Leninist" reference. no kidding.

    fun fact - they* also deny genocides committed by (even nominally) communist regimes.

    *a lot of them, and even those who don't actively, still stick with the goons who do.

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    YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
  • I'm happy paying a Nebula subscription, (another video site started by a group of youtubers, mostly engineering/tech/documentary types) because I know that the creators are getting all my money after reasonable platform costs.

    I won't consider paying for YT Premium (or Spotify) until they become a lot more generous to creators, and stop their insane copyright strike algorithm and banned-words audio scanner from demonetising and hiding random videos (Jake Broe, Joe Blogs, Denys Davydov, Ryan McBeth etc are always having to edit and reupload to cut some harmless snippet) and whole channels (Metatron) all the time.

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    PSA: Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy
  • If you haven't seen tankies denying genocide and/or saying the victims brought it on themselves, then, I suspect you haven't been looking very far in the comments of the news community there, to be fair. There are a lot of posters who will defend Russia, China, Syria etc all day long. All their crimes are apparently made up by "western media", (as if Jimmy Dore's basement isn't in the west.)

    Fortunately, they're getting super buttmad lately at being downvoted so much.

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