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TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Did you learned this from the wheel in that Ukrainian mine article?

TIL Key West had an incredibly corrupt fire chief in the 70s. His name was "Bum" Farto, and not for the reason you would expect. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Kit Fisto is always my favorite.

TIL Key West had an incredibly corrupt fire chief in the 70s. His name was "Bum" Farto, and not for the reason you would expect. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like a character made by George Lucas

streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Living the dream ~

Which is 5TB of movies I think I should watch, 1.5TB of stuff I already watched and think I would watch again and the rest of stuff I actually want to watch.

streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Jellfyfin is the reason why I do this. I went from spending 30 minutes dumpster diving through terrible movies in one of the streaming platforms to now spending 30 minutes trying to choose from a selection of movies that I actually want to watch.

Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One of the things that irated me most from Reddit was the fact that if someone's response came quickly enough, upvotes will ensure everyone believe it and downvoting it was like peeing on a wildfire.

I like that kbin shows both upvotes and downvotes which tells me when something is controversial enough to give it some thought rather than believe it blindly.