[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago

I suggest spending it on additional defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago

I know it's just memes, but, if anyone is interested in more perspective on this, I heartily recommend the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It tells the history of the latter parts of the Indian Wars using primary sources (and Native American sources, wherever possible). The result is the story of American expansion from the Native perspective and, while depressing, is also really important to understand.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago
[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 79 points 6 months ago

But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Or, was that behead your enemies?

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 127 points 6 months ago

It's the illegal prime number used to decrypt DVDs.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago

Sponsorblock: For Wadsworth, for what it's worth.

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I know this would vary from locale to locale, but, presumably, there are some animals that do not require a permit to kill (mice in mouse traps, for example). How does this work? Is there a list of "always OK to kill" species?

Edit: Thank you everybody for the replies!

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Hi smart people,

If I have several computers on my home network and I have not set any explicit QoS rules on my router, how is bandwidth allocated? For example, if computer 1 is downloading a torrent at max speed and a second computer starts a download, how is the bandwidth allocation between the two determined? Thanks!

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The true casus belli is revealed at last.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

Nah, the real contest is who gets the most cancer. Gotta catch 'em all!

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It just seems crazy to me given the power imbalance. A cynical part of me suspects that things are playing out exactly as some evil strategists hoped they would, which, given all the children dying, is super-depressing.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

Do it, my friend. I took the leap ~5 years ago and have not once regretted it. You're right, you have Wine and Windows VMs available, if need be. But, honestly, I bet you end up replacing those work flows with better ones within Linux before long.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 62 points 9 months ago

Well, as a first point, OP's information is wrong. While it's true that the half-life of U235 is ~700 million years, it isn't true that half of the initial mass is lost. When U235 fissions, about 200 MeV of the initial mass is converted to energy. The total initial mass is about a thousand times that, though (E=mc^2). So, after 700 million years, assuming you kept it from falling apart, the initial 15 lb lump would only lose ~1/4 of an ounce as energy.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

Look at it this way, this could have been a headline about the issues the union is striking over. Instead, it's a headline about a billionaire playing with internet checkmarks.

[-] zzzz@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago

To add to this, the rich (i.e., French-speaking) consumed the most butchered meat, by far. So, it came to be that butchered meat for sale would be labeled in French, while the live animals, which were tended by (English-speaking) peasents retained their English names.

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