667

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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 13 points 2 months ago (24 children)

There are valid arguments for knowing how to use a paper map. We’re fortunate that GPS was opened up to the world, and we’ve flourished for it, but one very bad solar storm and it’s possible we’ll be back to paper for regional and farther navigation.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I browse in the restroom before returning to the cockpit.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Grow avocados!? In this economy!?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 months ago

Only from an outside perspective. Inside the black hole it’s already next Tuesday.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ll think about it.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This may seem counter-intuitive, but air in this case is the problem, so filling it less introduces more air (which is compressible) versus liquids which are generally incompressible.

But OP mentioned the bottles they use are not great so the problem they face may really be about getting better containers.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried calling it

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please think of the CEOs—they need a new yacht for when they’ve flown in on their G4 to the Hamptons and their summer yacht is in San Diego.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.

—Terminator, 1984

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If a company can own a copyright to the Eiffel Tower at night, then individuals ought to be able to own their own image and likeness, and have that encoded as a fundamental right.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Subsequent to the Panama Papers, there were arrests and financial seizures in many of the named countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers?wprov=sfti1#Recovered_money

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