A car is pretty much the last thing you’d want to have a network connection. I’d sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.
kbal
I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Greenwich?
Yes, that’s the prime meridian, so if you’re looking for exactitude in your hemispheric definition it is the one to go with. Any system of coordinates is an arbitrary choice imposed on the universe for our convenience. It may seem attractively rebellious to reject the one we have, but you’re not going to gain anything but confusion by picking a different one.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Looking for YouTube channel recommendations that do video essays on religions, spiritually and mythology etc .... in an empathic and appreciative way.
3·4 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel/videos
Not all of it is about religion, but much of it is relevant.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Japanese flag is a to-scale map of the solar system.
1·7 days agoGood luck using it to get from Jupiter to Haumea.
My bold prediction for the near future: I will soon have my second cup of tea for the day.
Lemmings have always been well-known for running in herds.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"
201·8 days agoIt’s possible to imagine people having good questions about US politics, e.g. something like “I’m considering running for this public office in this state, what do I need to know about x?” but good luck crafting a rule that allows that and not the worthless noise.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If a time traveller posts a video from future, it would probably be tagged as AI generated video
1·8 days agoDoubtful, even if it’s not from far enough in the future that it’s after the Butlerian Jihad.
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Wikipedia@lemmy.world•Loudness war - A trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. ...First reported as early as the 1940s
5·8 days agoIt comes and goes. Youtubers seemed to be reviving it recently, no doubt spurred on by some kind of superstition about what The Algorithm wanted — to the point where Youtube itself was moved to step into the fray with its “stable volume” bullshit.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the thing you have deep knowledge of but never find a place to bring it up?
6·9 days agoThe Principia Discordia. Just kidding, I bring it up like every five minutes.
I think the temperature of your shower might need adjusting.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?
5·9 days agoDamn it lemmy I ain’t tellin’ you that, but let’s just say it includes jumping off a moving railway car.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The average highschooler nowadays probably knows much more about medicine than 19th century doctors
56·9 days agoPerhaps the contemporary high school student knows fewer things that are untrue, and certainly they have a few vague ideas about principles that were entirely unknown in the 19th century, but even so I’ll bet they know much less overall.
waiting for the light
When I used to drive through the intersection where that situation would happen I’d ignore their requests for money (I didn’t have much) but unless I was in an especially bad mood I’d give them a friendly hello, and sometimes they’d be happy enough to stop and chat with someone who treated them like human being for a moment. Otherwise they’d ignore me and move on, which is also fine.
None. We’re lucky to have one wikipedia, it’s very unlikely we’re going to have two of them any time soon.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think.
161·11 days agoMuch more fewer people know why to think.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees.
2·11 days agoAccording to radio weather reports in Canada -5° usually “feels like” about -20 according to the elaborate calculations of the wind chill experts, so that checks out.
At the side of the road with a FOR SALE sign that’s got a hand-written phone number on it.


No goats either.