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  • Samsung had my favorite version of the slide phone with the Samsung Epic 4G Touch Galaxy 2.

  • What's going on at Mozilla these days?
  • I'm willing to bet that the people who switch to Firefox for ad-blockers and ad-free YouTube aren't the kinds of people who are donating much to Mozilla. People in online forums talk a big game about wanting to pay for products and not be the product. But it seems like people don't really want to pay any meaningful amount of money for a browser.

  • This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • US, Russia, and China on the same side is weird to see.

  • This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.
  • But you can have multiple levels of basement.

  • Simples.
  • To oversimplify, every human has an X chromosome and it is necessary to survive. The Y chromosome is optional and codes for some additional traits that make a person male. Chromosomes aren't foolproof and genes and in some cases entire chromosomes can essentially be turned off. However, since we have two of each chromosome this is often not a problem. So, if parts of the Y chromosome turn off, you potentially turn off the mechanisms that make a person male. In which case the person would remain the default of female.

  • Stuck
  • It's kind of their whole thing though. It's how NASCAR got started. Without it, it would kill a large part of their tourism.

  • Stuck
  • Tbf, there are American beaches known for being drivable. Specifically, Daytona Beach.

  • temperature
  • I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

  • temperature
  • That isn't consistent with K and C though. -K doesn't exist. And water doesn't become more frozen at -C (well I guess it technically becomes different kinds of frozen).

    Zero in that sense represents the absolute limit that one could exist in a particular state, which for F would be comfort? I guess the issue with humans is that 0 would be very subjective. But I think for almost all humans, the limit would be closer to 40F than 0F.

  • I bet the Vulcans never tried to "Save Daylight" by changing the clocks twice a year
  • Me: As long as you leave an hour later why do I give a shit.

    Probably why I'm not the boss of anything.

  • Solanum Smoothies
  • Since when are green tomatoes toxic? I eat fried green tomatoes every summer...

  • Good....buddy....
  • I was a bit before I realized it was a pine cone.

  • I have never understood that.
  • The shorts kind of help feel warmer if you are bundled up everywhere else. It focuses the feeling of cold on your legs where it feels less bothersome.

  • I have never understood that.
  • That's why I'm storing up on brown fat in my youth.

  • I have never understood that.
  • It's like a game of chicken where you win by being the last one wearing shorts deep into winter.

  • Average TS developer
  • Maybe they should be illegal?

  • Average TS developer
  • To add to this, vegetable is a culinary term and not a scientific term. Whereas, fruit can be both. Tomatoes are scientifically a fruit, but generally not from a culinary perspective.

  • Nikki Haley to launch $10m ad campaign in bid to overtake Ron DeSantis in GOP fight
  • Winner is also 77, unhealthy, and going through a very stressful period of his life. Probably a decent chance of him dying of a heart attack or something.

  • Just to get a second set of eyes on it, that's all.
  • I actually highly recommend visiting the JKF Museum in Dallas (which is at the location he was shot). It was an interesting experience. It was cool to compare the pictures of the location with the present day. A lot of it is exactly the same except with thicker foliage.

  • 13 Months
  • There are 14, they can start on any day of the week and they may or may not have a leap year.

  • Relay for Reddit API Subscription Fees

    One of the remaining 3rd party Reddit apps (Relay) has begun discussing what it would be charging for subscription fees. Imo, they actually seem somewhat reasonable. The weird thing is that every upvote or downvote is an API call so you can rack up a huge number of API calls from voting.

    Also, while the costs might be reasonable now, there's nothing preventing Reddit from jacking up prices again.

    Edit: Also, there wouldn't be any NSFW content with the app.

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    Why are we focused on a room temperature superconductor instead of a less cold superconductor?

    As I understand it, superconductors work best at temperatures approaching absolute zero (-273.15C). For example, Google tells me that the superconductor in an MRI operates at -269C.

    There has been a lot a buzz lately about room temperature (25C) superconductors being discovered, but why is room temperature the focus? Why not focus on superconductors that work in reasonably cold environments? For example, we can easily get temperatures to -15C in a freezer. Why not create superconductors that work in that temperature range rather than 25C?

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    New Pixel Ads

    They are pretty cringe but I did get a chuckle out of them.

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    New Pixel Ad

    These are pretty cringe but they did make me chuckle a little. Very reminiscent of the I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads.

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    Not sure if she counts...

    DNA tests has her at 25% Corgi, 50% Border Collie, 7% Chihuahua, and then a mix of a bunch of Terriers for the rest. She mostly looks like a mini Border Collie but I feel like her personality is very Corgi.

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    ShakeThatYam ShakeThatYam @lemmy.world

    https://mastodon.world/@ShakeThatYam

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