Carighan

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TIL what an Ortholinear Keyboard is in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Are there full-size ortho keyboards?

TIL the penduline tit (shut up) makes a nest with a fake entrance to trick predators in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Got any more interesting facts about tits, cocks, boobies, peckers or shags?

Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

Uh... what do you think we do when a client doesn't pay us for a while? We yank their access. That's how services work, you get a few warnings that you really need to pay or you'll lose access and then, well, you lose access.

Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working in c/[email protected]
TIL Disney's Star Wars Hotel was a massive waste of time in c/[email protected]
TIL that climbing the full height of Everest means starting at sea level in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I mean the corpses in their bright jackets are useful, they tell you about the dangerous spots! 💡

Unacceptable in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"Quiet quitting" 😂

Because yeah, you only do the job they pay you for, how dare you!

Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but it's also far from new technology. Germany is mostly electrified rail, and having BE sets to bridge areas is not uncommon (in southern Germany you also get diesel electric combo units).

I hate people like this in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah like, they could put the opening hours on the door or something. Or lock the doors to indicate that it's closed! Or shake their heads! Oh wait!

IL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes… in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently it's based on the fact that the colour reminded people of the bacon used in mouse traps. Although it's a bit unclear, it could also play into things that the first company to sell marshmallows en masse in Germany used mice-shaped ones.

Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Psalm, yes. But "calm" or "balm" are actually pronounced more like "caam" or "baam" in many situations.

TIL that homeopathy isn't about placebo and people actually think there is a non placebo effect in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah well, that's how the grift gets you. You know what a purely placebo sugar pill is called that everyone agrees is a placebo? Well... a placebo!

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TIL about a company that ran a Ponzi scheme building solar panel trailers ... swapping serial numbs over a few built units as customers wanted to see them. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Some more info in the Wikipedia article. And yes, this is about DC Solar, which I guess many americans will know but as someone from europe this was totally new to me.

Wild just how far he got running this shit.

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Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)
 

I mean, he's not wrong that the app wasn't ready. Which begs the question why they didn't un-roll-it-out. >.>

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TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)
 

From the pdf:

After the Sun, the closest star to us is a small Red Dwarf star, Proxima Centauri. It is too faint to be seen without using a sizeable telescope. It is 4.24 light years away, so in our model, which is 1:1 billion scale, it is 40,140 kilometres away. This is approximately the distance around the circumference of the world from Melbourne to Melbourne.

That's extremely nerdy, I love it.

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Squabblr now officially a "free speech" cesspool, admins removed or forced out by owner (squabblr.co)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I mean, most of us knew this beforehand and being on the fediverse we probably do not really care, but what was always on the horizon has no happened, the owner of Squabblr finally had enough having to be a decent person and has decided that his site is now "free speech purism", so he gets to continue to insult LGBTQ people like he always does.

Seems from the comments that some other admins disagreed with the decision (so there were some decent people on that site!) and either left or were removed.

Not entirely surprising the whole thing, granted.

(edit)
Also, apologies as this isn't truly reddit news but Squabblr was one of the sites frequently brought up in /r/redditalternatives so I figured this might still be relevant?

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