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When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It really does feel mainstream to come up with tech specs for a new comms technology, not the sort of thing that nerds* might do /s

Tim Burners-Lee** worked in particle accelerators. Total jock****.

* People excessively interested in tech

** Inventor of HTML - the web

**** I'm old. The world is divided into nerds and jocks per Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

TIL the only non-Mainstream people are nerds