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GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps ProgramsEnglish72·3 months agoAs absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.
Birth rates dropped hard at the '07-'08 recession, so the smaller cohort of HS grads arrives soon.
It’s also going to tank college enrollments and is likely to sink a bunch of smaller, less endowed institutions.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you make proper "I am interested in you." eye contact?17·4 months agoDifferent people are different and therefore feel differently about how eye contact should work. Eye contact isn’t a magical love potion that works the same for everybody.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' RobotaxisEnglish8·5 months agoHey hey hey, it’s time to make crrrazy money! Are you ready?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a genre of music that's death metal without the screaming vocals?16·6 months agoUnleash The Archers’s version of Northwest Passage is a real banger.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?81·7 months agoThe public library has tools and such in a lot of places.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His WordEnglish114·7 months agoThe best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does cognitive dissonance mean?2·8 months agodeleted by creator
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there previous historical examples of cult-like followings of US political candidates?45·8 months agoLyndon LaRouche. I’d occasionally run across a few of his minions out leafletting and they oozed that culty wacko vibe.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer3·9 months agoRegulatory capture.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer48·9 months agoVertical Integration.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•And stupid me always taught that injecting yourself with radioactive donuts causes cancer31·9 months agoWARNING: Dunkin Donuts can expose you to chemicals including Dihydrogen Monoxide, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in PalestineEnglish384·9 months agoHey I’ve seen this movie before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do people that have to wear black nitrile gloves all day keep from having sweaty hands?6·9 months agoAnd then squeegee down your forearms and aprons and get back to work.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do people that have to wear black nitrile gloves all day keep from having sweaty hands?24·9 months agoYou just pull the wrist hole open and dump out the excess hand water every hour or so.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the worst experience you've had reading a book?0·9 months agoWell it’s a series, but Three body problem. It should have been right up my alley, but I got so tired of every decision by every character being stupid that I couldn’t be bothered to read the last fifty pages of the last book.
Even if I charitably assumed the point of the book was to show that people are weak and stupid, the series was such a ham-handed strawman as to undercut its own commentary. And even worse, it had just enough interesting ideas to lead me to believe it was going somewhere worthwhile, but it never did.
It’s been years and I’m still pissed off that I wasted a week on it.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•New study finds people alter their appearance to suit their names71·9 months agoI guess the Talking Heads were on to something. https://youtu.be/PH5JvU19_YQ?si=gqbkXoBWCngdkCpV
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would be the consequences of a smallsword wound to the belly?14·1 year agoI think the cleanliness of the blade would be less relevant than the massive infection pouring from your pierced guts into the wound.
I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.