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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

I've been thinking since my early teens if not earlier that copyright is an outdated law in the digital age. If this dispute leads to more people realizing this, good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

AFAIK they mostly try to stay away from humans. Humans are mostly their competitors and they can smell the presence of humans earlier than we can see them, so they can avoid us before we even know they are there.

There are quite a few videos on the Internet of wolves being very friendly to humans, but I don't think those are wild ones.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it originally did under old Unix, it was what /home is nowadays; "Unix System Resources" is a backronym.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does it seem you have all of a sudden started to look at information about sexual orientation? Did you miss that in the current information overload, everyone gets exposed to different information and no one can tell you why you are getting exposed to whatever you are getting exposed to?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is the reason why you're glad you don't have kids? Because if you did you wouldn't be able to control what information they receive?

 

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In my reboot, Dennis the Menace was just trying to send Mr. Wilson a nice comet, but accidentally wiped out his dinosaur garden.

https://explainxkcd.com/2981/

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Hey, golf balls float on lava, so this should make recovering them from the hazards easier.

https://explainxkcd.com/2980/

 

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During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.

https://explainxkcd.com/2979/

PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

??? reply to the wrong comment?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

No, it doesn't.

The Wikimedia projects are made by volunteers, almost none of the money goes to actually making the content. Some of it does go into keeping the servers running or into software development.

And some of it goes into expanding an ever-increasing bureaucracy, which is tasked among other things with enforcing intransparent "global bans" or lighter sanctions against contributors the WMF doesn't like (opinions of the editing community don't matter at all on these). If they had less money, perhaps they would lay off some of their trust and safety team and not catch some people who are making useful contributions by evading global bans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

There are so many more worthy free knowledge organizations to donate to: OpenStreetMap, FOSS projects (e.g. Software in the Public Interest), even Miraheze.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Climate change doesn't change how much the sun shines. Where I live it has been getting noticeably warmer during my lifetime especially in the colder months, but this hasn't changed that it's dark in those months.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Debian is food at peaceful !

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago

Even if you agree with that argument (which I don't), that was written about ideologies like fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, which were (when they were relevant) actually very suppressive of free speech when they were in power, more so than current left-leaning authoritarians who are defending the blocking of ex-Twitter in Brazil or (worse) saying that other countries should do similar things.

 

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At least they're not alone down there.

https://explainxkcd.com/2978/

 

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

 

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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

https://explainxkcd.com/2976/

 

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Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.

https://explainxkcd.com/2975/

 

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We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.

https://explainxkcd.com/2974/

 

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They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride.

https://explainxkcd.com/2973/

 

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Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

https://explainxkcd.com/2972/

 

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If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.

https://explainxkcd.com/2971/

 

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If you hold the meteor too long, it may imprint on you and form a contact binary, making reintroduction to space difficult.

explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2970:_Meteor_Shower_PSA

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