rtxn @ rtxn @lemmy.world

I take my shitposts very seriously.

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Only one way to find out, and I would never deprive you of the opportunity to contribute to science.

Polonium emits alpha radiation. It becomes hazardous when it is ingested or inhaled.

acting like human activities in M2 didn't awaken the three chaos gods to full sentience

Allow me to present: a hanging tit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penduline_tit

Not the dodgiest claim for snake oil. When radium was discovered, snake oil salesmen started putting that shit in everything from tonics to toothpaste to fucking makeup. The rationale was that brief exposure to a high radiation dose killed cells, so low dose radiation over a long period must surely kill weak diseased cells and leave healthy ones alive. They claimed curative effects from non-addictive pain relief to curing erectile dysfunction and improving your sex life by strapping radium to your ballsack. The kind of stuff that, were it still around today, Trump would hail as the ultimate COVID prevention and cure-it-all.

Realistically, a geoscientist doesn't really have to worry about accidentally licking some superheavy elements beyond plutonium, and if they do, they should be a lot more concerned about lead, being fired at them, after breaking into a particle accelerator because they wanted to know the taste of oganesson.

Based and Maupertuispilled.

(Yes, I watched that one Veritasium video with the freaky laser)

Netflix used to be a mail order service. They used to send physical media by mail, and I guess the top picture is one of the covers. The bottom picture is OOP's disappointment and depression because today's Netflix is a fucking dogshit company.

Don't forget:

• Massive fucking fonts
• No visual separation between UI elements
• Hijacked scrolling
• Everything shoved into animated menus
• One (1) context action in the bottom right

Unfortunately, beyond the standard Markdown elements, there is zero feature parity between various front-ends and their Markdown renderers.

don't you just fucking love  
 
 
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(apologies to everyone whose device can't render HTML entities)

I concede the point about the word's origin... not that I've seen anyone ever refer to a branch as a "slave", nor do I think that it's appropriate given that the branches are not subservient to the trunk/master/main/etc until one is merged into or rebased onto the other...

I also wrote a whole-ass speech about the modern world's relation to the Atlantic slave trade and the guilt certain people are trying to inflict on everyone, but I know what the replies will be (we're just redditors by another name after all) and it's ultimately not a soapbox worth dying on. Anyway, my thesis is study history, learn its injustices, and learn how to do better effectively.

Ah, I see you're a degenerate of culture as well.

It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

Honestly it's not even about convenience. As far as breaking conventions go, this one has none-to-minimal impact -- existing master branches won't suddenly become invalid. But it's yet another instance of a subset of a subset of a subset of users getting to enforce their sensibilities for superficial reasons, and ultimately with zero effect regarding the cause they claim to represent; cultural and linguistic differences be damned.

I'd love to be more specific, but I don't want the comments to turn into a warzone.

And don't pretend like master doesn't mean what it means.

It's a retroactive bastardization of the word based on one particular culture's one particular interpretation of it (master being, apparently, a slaveowner) that ignores both the much earlier meanings of master artisan or master craftsman (as opposed to journeyman and apprentice) and masterpiece (through which an artisan is recognised as a master), and the modern meaning of a master copy (like a master record in disc printing).

This isn't like replacing the "master and slave" terminology with regard to connected devices. That one was warranted because it was often inaccurate and confusing. But forcing the adoption of main instead of master feels like someone got offended on someone else's behalf because a word looked superficially like that other bad word, and apparently we can't have an understanding that goes deeper than what letters it's made up of.

Amerika ist wunderbar. This is an --initial-branch=master household.

Slaanesh's sixth circle of seduction: indolency.