[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Sometimes the Foul Bachelor Frog was (is?) used for gender-agnostic scenarios. Foul Bachelorette Frog is for specifically female things.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't EA be more Pride? Y'know, Pride & Accomplishment and all that jazz?

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

Every sixty seconds, a woman in Britain gives birth. She. Must. Be. Exhausted.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago

To be Devil's Advocate:
Given that the rest written in Comic Sans, it may be an early elementary school exercise, aimed at teaching kids to do multiplications. In this case, it's tolerable and/or defensible to find a simplification for pi.

That said, making pi equal to 3 would have been more accurate for that...

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

I was at a party a few weeks ago and when we needed to use a web browser, one of the first things that happened was one of the attendees taking the computer to install FireFox.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I heard/read a story somewhere once, where there was a statue somewhere of someone who's better off not glorified. The statue was defaced regularly, and every time it was defaced, there'd be someone cleaning it up.

Over time the statue went on to look worse for wear until one day, the authorities decided it was better to remove and replace the statue.

It turned out the guy cleaning it up was always the same guy, who hated the subject of the statue with a passion, and alway used salt water to clean it, hoping to corrode & wear down the statue. Some people suspect he and the vandal were the same person.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago
  • construction is Hella pricey
  • there are few maglev manufacturers, allowing vendor locking and exacerbating the first point
  • they must be built grade-separate, which can complicate route planning
  • they are incompatible with existing rail tech, which results in having to build new, expensive infrastructure for 100% of your route, further exacerbating the first point
  • their switches are slow, limiting capacity

Ultimately, their competition is regular trains, which are simpler, more tolerant to buying from multiple manufacturers, still significantly more efficient and faster than anything roadborne, able to switch over the course of seconds instead of minutes, able to interoperate with different tiers of intensity and speed, able to be built at grade, cheaper and having the better part of two hundred years of technological refinement behind it. Ultimately, maglev has specific, niche advantages that make it a hard sell for any system that already has regular rail.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Dear Mr. Zelenskyy,

If you decide to make Elon Musk a wanted man for interfering with communications infrastructure and wartime military goals, let me just put out there that you have my thumbs up.

~ A nameless internet user.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist/"Left" Authoritarian Communism is just authoritarian nationalist state capitalism that uses classist rhetoric instead of (or as well as) racist rhetoric.

And before people call me a tankie: Anything authoritarian is trash-tier shit.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? "The governor of Arkansas-" I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

I remember someone got into such a billboard and replaced the ad with IKEA-style instructions on how to replace the ads in those billboards.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

If I click the chain icon on a comment with MMB on the website (Lemmy.world, BE: 0.18.3, accessed via Firefox), it opens to a blank tab. If I do so with LMB, it works just fine.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Can somebody build & sell a dumb electric car? Or at least one not permanently internet-enabled and/or that has no functionality and capabilities locked behind software and subscriptions?

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