ripcord

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Senate GOP fears drop in Trump enthusiasm, energy in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Four elections? Are you counting midterms, I guess?

Dogs are in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(that's Violet, not Lucy)

Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is this article (almost completely) written like there are multiple brothers at this point? One has been dead for 4 and a half years.

The Senate just voted 72-11 to kill Sanders resolution to have the State Department report Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

Clearly Bernie is anti-Semitic.

Project 2025 will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

One of them has been dead for years

ABC News cancels New Hampshire Republican primary debate hours after Haley said she would not debate unless Trump also did in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you underestimate some of those things. People know about the stuff you listed and they still want him.

But...that's what they said

Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes in c/world@lemmy.world
Ukrainian Sources: We Just Shot Down Two Of Russia’s Best Command Planes in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, games with ads are for suckers.

Nobody can stop Israel's war, including the world court, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Nobody can stop Israel's war, including the world court, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
Biden says US does not support Taiwan’s independence following election in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not really a good comparison.

If American Samoa had been an independent country for the last 75 years, operating pretty much completely independently, had 23 million people, claimed not to be ruled by the US, and other people were saying "we recognize that it has been independent for decades at this point" then it'd be comparable.

What happens if Taiwan attempts full autonomy or China attempts full control

Are you implying Taiwan isn't already fully autonomous? Or that China has any control over Taiwan...?

Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're talking like .01% as much plastic use per liter as plastic bottle water packs. Is that not....much much better?

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Woooo collapse conversation button (kbin.social)
 

Not sure how long it's been there, but it's finally there. Nice QoL improvement.

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Where did Magazine search go? (kbin.social)
 

There used to be an interface for quickly searching available magazines, subscribing, seeing population counts, etc. Does this not exist anymore, or am I just missing it?

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TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL NASA calculated that you only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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TIL NASA calculated that you only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom (archive.ph)
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