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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.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Citation needed for „the people who invented the internet were 100% nerds“
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)
TIL the only non-Mainstream people are nerds
Al Gore was pretty nerdy, at least as depicted in the South Park documentaries.
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RIP Aaron
King & nerd
Should be here leading the fediverse today (or something better)
Citation needed for your entire previous comment lmao. Most nerds are actually really nice people and lean left politically.