[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

My theory is that the inhabitants of K2-18b are deliberately flooding their atmosphere with dimethyl sulfide to make it unappealing to humans.

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Inspired by bubble-net feeding among humpback whales.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to c/askscience@lemmy.world

Say we have all the empirical evidence from 19th-century science prior to the observation of the wavelike diffraction of matter particles, plus 21st-century math and theory to construct an alternative explanation.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 177 points 5 months ago

Historically, all regular voting was done in-person on election day and mail-in ballots were a special exception (e.g., for people with disabilities). It’s only in the last few election cycles that voting by mail became the norm, and most people still use the pre-existing terminology.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 190 points 6 months ago

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters

Naturalized non-citizens like... Elon Musk?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 220 points 8 months ago

Trump was manipulated into attacking Adelson by another donor, Ike Perlmutter, who "had hoped in vain that Mrs. Adelson would contribute to a rival super PAC that he backs."

It’s like narcissistic parents trying to undermine each other by manipulating their child.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 182 points 11 months ago

In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink's first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. "I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard," Arbaugh said. "I cried." He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.

Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 186 points 1 year ago

Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 312 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interpreting “a previously-unrecognized weakness in X was just found” as “X just got weaker” is dangerously bad tech writing.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 365 points 1 year ago

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 164 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.

That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 200 points 2 years ago

Plot twist: the ad is the real Tom Hanks, and the version calling it fake is an AI created by a rival dental plan.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 262 points 2 years ago

The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.

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