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• Guess Ethiopians looked different back then

  Alt Text: angry MAGA wojak at the top saying “woke Hollywood doesn’t care about history” in response to black Helen of sparta. Smiling MAGA wojak at the bottom saying “so accurate” to white Andromeda of Ethiopia Context: princess Andromeda of the perseus myth was from Aethiopia, while it doesn’t exactly map to modern Ethiopia, it does literally mean burnt (black) face. So yeah Andromeda was black, despite what most western depictions would have you believe.

• Post #3722121

  The people didn’t elect them twice, we can blame the electoral college for the first term of each. Give us some credit, we’re only half brain dead.

• Can't even win a war against worms these days

  Alt Text: buff doge on the left representing 1970s america with the caption “I’ve eradicated all the screw worms in North America by releasing sterile males”. Crying doge on the right representing 2020s america with the caption “scary worm back”

• Lemmy instance post visibility rankings

  How I ranked the Lemmy instance visibility by sort type I’m building Stakswipe, a mobile Lemmy client with a swipe-to-vote UI. One of the problems I ran into was the anonymous feed — when you’re not logged in, you need to pick an instance to connect to upfront, and that choice matters more than most people realise. Rather than just guessing or defaulting to lemmy.world, I wanted to objectively measure which instances give the best view of lemmy for someone browsing without an account. I put toge...

• Post #941543

  The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it

• Post #939490

  debug test - please ignore

• Post #939380

  better to get it from the source

• Post #939240

  test reply

• Post #538150

  That’s because it’s “read” every paper written by a “defence” department of any nuclear power and all of them will say that they’ll escalate to nuclear war if anything bad happens because they want to scare the other powers away from doing anything to them. In any case though who the fuck is giving an LLM nuclear launch capabilities unless they want a somewhat faulty dead man’s switch?

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• Post #110571

  Context: Jake Sulley, avatar main character, lost his legs in Venezuela.