Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

So which #mastodon-based #instance gives me more than 500 characters. Please help. I want to look this up but we know I have 137 things going on.

I just saw “Gen X became 30 at age 10 and is still 30 at age 50” and wow, do I feel seen.

Which is a very strange feeling for a Gen Xer, just sayin’.

Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) members are active, organizing for your rights, and made an impact all across the country in 2023. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/electronic-frontier-alliance-comes-back-strong-2023-review

@makkhorn@c.im New York Times: "Why Trump's Stench is Bad for Biden"

The 2023 Headline of the Year Nominees

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@paulisci
Not from 2023 but following the Christchurch earthquake that took the NZ marmite factory offline (different from the British kind), a worthy candidate for best headline since the invention of the printing press has to be:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/19/marmite-shortage-new-zealand-spread

2023 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

It's the Winter Solstice, dark and cloudy - so here's a photo of the Summer Solstice to brighten things up.

A Trump sticker is just like a "Baby On Board" sticker, except the baby is driving.

Some people ate the horse paste, and it shows.

Should neuroscientists stay on X or go? Let’s ask a bunch of people who have decided to stay. Voices are missing here.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.16236

I think people like me spend our lives mainly pissed off, because if we actually felt, the pain of the world would crush us to death.

People who can actually allow themselves to feel that weight of the world--every abused animal, every dying child, every injustice, a planet gasping its last breath--and still manage to confront it head on without that veil of anger, hats off. That takes guts and strength I never had.

#selfcare

I’m playing this first-person open-world game called ‘Life’, and it’s so hard it’s almost unplayable. The character classes are really unbalanced, and you don’t even get to choose one: it’s just assigned when you start playing. They introduced some assists to make things easier (if you can find them buried in the menus), but the elite players complained and they’re being patched out again. Accessibility features for those with disabilities are severely lacking. And it only has permadeath mode.

I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all of their free
time.
-danecooksucks, Aug 2015

Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

"The conclusion is inescapable. The Babylonians knew the relation between the length of the diagonal of a square and its side: d=square root of 2," mathematician Bruce Ratner writes in a paper on the topic.

https://www.iflscience.com/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-72091

#math #maths