Researchers will be studying Trump and his followers for decades to come. A gold mine of data to help them better understand the mechanisms of authoritarian populism and cognitive dissonance.

And Nadella looks like the PTA meeting version of Lex Luthor.

Ain’t that the truth.

Cool guys use dialup BBS.

It’s so hard to get his attention, he just sorta lies there!

LOL! Of course!

I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who love to pounce on the smallest of things.

Yup. They violate HIPAA all the time, too. Rules for thee, not for me.

Oh cool, Cunningham’s Law in action.

These things are less safe, yet I see people driving aggressively and recklessly more than ever.

Here’s an updated way to bypass it. This Youtuber is a little cheerful-cheesy, but the info is good.

https://youtu.be/Mn9bhG4nWeI?si=Rw-q1HfDmsisLy30

Yikes

What they did to that poor dog will give me nightmares. (I know that’s a weird thing to say when he also murdered people.)

That’s not what we’re talking about and you know it. False narrative. The article specifically mentions violence and bullying. If you don’t know that fat people also get viciously bullied on top of the “concerned about your health” from loved ones, you are the one who is isolated from reality.

OK…now I see it. Thanks.

Would be cool if we could create private tags on users. Say someone gives you a really cool tip and you want to remember that, you tag them. Or someone acts like kind-of-a-jerk but not enough to block them yet, you make a note of it. You can only see your own tags, nobody else’s.

Skyscrapers typically take 2-5 years to build. I’m going to hazard a guess that a pyramid like the Great Pyramid of Giza would take more like 5-10 years.

There’s a lot of variables to this, especially the location and the source (quarry) and transportation of the high-quality limestone that you would need. You would also want to use some granite and other stone materials if you’re trying to match what the ancient Egyptians did. (If you’re allowed to use modern concrete and steel, it could change things dramatically.)

The Great Pyramid is about 147m tall and 230m wide along each side. Assuming it’s mostly solid stone, You would need roughly 2.5 million cubic meters of material.

Preparing and grading the site would go much faster with bulldozers and graders and the like, but is still a time-consuming process. Quarrying the limestone would also go much faster than the ancients because we have explosives, hydraulics, etc. But there’s still a lot of precision cutting and fitting to be done. Cranes would make placing the stones go faster but again, still time-consuming.

CAD software would also make the whole project faster and easier (and would further highlight how ingenious the ancient people were with this accomplishment). Experts already know a lot about the pyramids, but I bet if they built one they’d learn even more.

My wild guess is: if you marshaled enough resources and put a highly competent person in charge of it, you could get it done in 5 years.

Niche <> bad.

Lemmy is missing:

• Bots
• Karma farmers
• Ads
• Insane mods
• Fucking Spez

You know you’re right, we’re nothing like reddit!!

Well, that’s what I get for punching down on our gumbo-eating friends.