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memes@lemmy.world•Wiki > Fandom
31·1 month ago
The point of this meme is me/us as the mere users of a website. Not from a hosting or administration perspective.
There is no gatekeeping, just a statement of a preference, as a user.
Buddy, this is a simple joke.
Nothing more.
The additional info is not the issue, that I have with this comment, and is instead greatly appreciated. But the way it is communicated is also somewhat rude.
I am very well aware, that Fandom is based on MediaWiki. That, however, does not weaken my point at all. tsg
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.English
5·1 month agoMy the actual intention of this joke, was to point out, that even if fusion will make again use of boiling water, we already have more “suffisticated” methods to generate electricity (like e.g. solar cells via the photovoltaic effect), that make not use of the great equalizer make wheel spin fast.
But based on many comments here (and yours is not one of them), this failed.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•When synthetic dyes became available, people treated them a bit like we treated blue LEDs 10 years ago
12·4 months ago“In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, […] this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.” Wikipedia
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The sheer audacity to call the planet we live on "blue marble" when Neptune out there looking like that.
30·5 months agoBehold, Approximate True Colour Neptune

Actually not that blue, compared to Earth.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely
42·6 months agoIf we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.
9·6 months agoSo No. I also was always very irritated by this quote, because from a scientific point of view this is rather incorrect, as (like you said) experiments need to be repeated, to verify the results.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind
10·6 months agoIf it happened, but nothing happened, did it really happen?
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions
1382·6 months ago
One of the classics.
This rule is however also broken. For example, if I come to you to ask for help, but you unkindly decline (cause unbeknown to me, you are really having a bad day), you will never receive any help from others, because you treated my like this. And as I will then reject your request for help, I will then be also excluded in the future from help from others. I.e. this rule will spiral into a bad state, because there is no forgiveness.
To solve this, we would need to make a new addition. And then we will be able fo identify another edge case, requiring another edge case. And this continues on and on.
The intention of these simple ethical/moral/social rules is to be as simple as possible, while still being a good approach. The are not intended to be absolutely followed, but to be a rule of thumb, until more information is available, to adapt properly to the situation.
And what if I don’t know (yet) how they treat others?
For trees, more like their exhaled breath.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.
8·6 months agoWith the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.
In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.

