How come no one mentioned it yet?

Guys, check out this short film :)

It’s what should have been expected though. Lots of people check it out during the hype, and later only those who actually found it useful/interesting/fun remain.

Most of the hype-launched services should have similar numbers.

You know scientists always trying to make things happen but never asking if they “Should”?

I’ve never seen someone use this as an argument, only as a joke. Can you provide some examples of the things that you think scientists tried to make happen without thinking whether they should or not?

Also, how is user-specific trust at play here? I never even look at usernames, instead I will upvote or ignore posts based on their content. I don’t think you can really ease Lemmy/kbin users into believing some divisive nonsense that easily.

It’s amazing what one person’s actions can do to an entire brand. For the first several years after the Model S release I was sure that my next car is going to be a Tesla. Now, I’m 100% sure that I’ll never buy one.

He’s playing with his new middle age crisis toy. Cars and spaceships got boring.

Locking social norms at some predetermined stage is a great way to curb all progress. Like, slavery was a social norm at some point.

Just wanted to comment that your cover image is great and on point :)

Reposting my comment from another thread to add a bit of context in case anyone’s curious.

So I read the paper, and here’s a tldr about how their material apparently gains its properties.

It is hypothesized that superconductivity properties emerge from very specific strains induced in the material. Hence why most of the discovered superconductors require either to be cooled down to very low temperatures, or to be under high pressures. Both shrink the material.

What this paper claims is that they have achieved a similar effect chemically by replacing some lead ions with copper ions, which are a bit smaller (87 pm for Cu vs 133 pm for Pb). This shrinks the material by 0.48%, and that added strain induces superconductivity. This is why it apparently works at room temperature — you no longer need high pressures or extreme cold to create the needed deformation.

Can’t really comment on how actually feasible or long-lasting this effect is, but it looks surprisingly promising. At least as a starting point for future experiments. Can’t wait for other labs’ reproduction attempts. If it turns out to be true, this is an extremely important and world-changing discovery.

Fingers crossed :)

Holy crap. So coral bleaching in that area is basically guaranteed at this point. And some plankton and algae can’t really survive if those temperatures persist.

Also, as temperature rises, water holds less and less dissolved oxygen. At the same time metabolic rates of fish increase, which makes them require even more oxygen. The scary thing about that is at some point they lose the ability to get enough oxygen to sustain life, and then bam — the whole species dies in a day.

Remember those rivers of millions of dead fish? Yeah, it’s like that.

I dislike that piece of Chinese spyware as much as the next guy here, but that take is incredibly rude and condescending.

Young people tend to read as much if not more than older generations.

Get ready for subscription-based browsers requiring verified accounts, that share your personally identifiable public key with each website you visit.

I really hope EU or FTC step in. That looks like a dangerous development.

Trademark research would require paying people. Can you imagine that? Shudders.

At least you can always find designers who are happy to work for free. Sure, it might be just a Unicode character, but it has animated glitches tho. Those are cool.

I’m glad we’re currently on a good news streak. Those climate change articles were weighing on me.

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How many people do you usually have in your bed?

That’s an oddly poetic way to shit on Threads :)

Very interesting read. This article probably has the most sense out of everything I read about him in the news since he bought twitter. Not sure how close it is to the actual motivation behind all that’s happened, but if it is, it explains a lot.

Which makes me wonder why Meta chose this name. Especially since Threads isn’t really focused on actual threads.

Yeah, not mentioning even a single instance when writing about Fediverse is pretty shit journalism. I was expecting something much worse after reading your preparation steps though :) At least factually it’s not really incorrect.

I’m still waiting for some major news outlet to write a piece about Fediverse in general. It’s odd that it’s either glossed over in one sentence or not even mentioned at all.

No mention of kbin either