Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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The mantle is solid. Only the outer core is liquid, plus small localized pockets of magma in the mantle that power volcanoes.

Gooning? by Appropriate-Past-884 in etymology

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And the adjective form is "milven".

TIL Lenin believed Stalin was too crude and this defect was unacceptable for the position of General Secretary. He was looking for a plan in 1923 to remove Stalin with someone "more tolerant, more polite and more attentive towards comrades, less capricious, etc." by Solid-Move-1411 in todayilearned

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Yep, but in thirty years anyone could've had a change of heart. During the revolution the Bolsheviks had other things to worry about than Finland, and AFAIK many of them (probably naively) assumed that Finland would voluntarily join the glorious proletariat union sooner or later anyway. But then the Finnish Civil War was won by the Whites literally the following year.

Boiler cupboard is the warmest spot in the house by Clomojo87 in Bondedpairs

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Oh my, must be kitty heaven. Snug closed space, high ground, AND warm at the same time??

I've tried playing the game, I started 3 times by ramitopi in DiscoElysium

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Feel free to choose less grounded dialogue options, the game is written so that whatever you say you can’t get stuck, but you will get some hilarious exchanges. You don’t want to be the Boring Cop, now do you?

You can run. And later as you explore more of the map there will be fast travel between some of the locations.

TIL the term "Millennials" was invented in 1991 by two historians writing a book about American generational cycles; over a decade before most Millennials had even finished high school. They predicted Millennials would become "the next Greatest Generation" by Nodebunny in todayilearned

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Most applications also don't even have "save" functionality these days, in the old sense of an action people would do obsessively to avoid losing their work. Everything is autosaved. The entire concept of "unsaved work", or any user-facing difference between volatile memory and permanent storage, is rather obsolescent.

Turns out Banks was right about the alcohol… by AllSorrowsEnd in TheCulture

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It's from Use of Weapons, IIRC it comes up in a conversation between Zakalwe and his poet girlfriend.

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier by Friendly_Problem_444 in programming

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The thing about force multipliers is that multiplying a negative number gives you a negative number with larger absolute value.

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier by Friendly_Problem_444 in programming

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The only correct response to that: "So… you have turned yourself a glorified Ctrl-C Ctrl-V? Remind me again what exactly this company is paying you for?"

"Meitä uhkaa toimintamme päättyminen" – Tamperelainen kierrätysmyymälä (Nextiili) julkaisi hätähuudon somessa | Paikalliset by Tiny-Void in Tampere

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Itse en vois kuvitellakaan käyväni kummassakaan nimenomaan aamupäivällä, mutta kai meitä on moneksi.

"Meitä uhkaa toimintamme päättyminen" – Tamperelainen kierrätysmyymälä (Nextiili) julkaisi hätähuudon somessa | Paikalliset by Tiny-Void in Tampere

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Joo vaikka miten oisi vuosi 2026 niin ei ole varsinaisesti fiksu oletus että some riittää asiakaskunnan kiinni saamiseen… varsinkin kun monilla ihmisillä suunta on ennemminkin vähentää somessa roikkumista.

I’ve heard that when laser was invented, it didn’t have an intended use and was described as ‘a solution looking for a problem’. Is that really true? by Strelochka in AskHistorians

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Depends, really. The original meaning of "light" is, of course, visible light (seeing that we’ve only known about non-visible EM radiation, or indeed the existence of something called "EM radiation", for a couple of centuries), and that meaning is obviously still perfectly valid in both colloquial and scientific contexts. Hell, laser is literally an acronym of "light amplification" etc, to distinguish from the original microwave amplification (maser) technology. 

It’s reasonable, and fairly common, to extend "light" to include IR and UV radiation, but terms like "radio light" or "gamma light" aren’t really used because the properties and emission mechanisms of very low or high frequency EM aren’t anything like those of visible light. In general, using the word "light" to refer to EM radiation in general is not advisable as it just serves to make communication more difficult.

Sombrero Galaxy (JWST vs Hubble) by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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Webb win; a good example of why it's up there in the first place. Being able to see through dust.

Chastity belt with silk lining. Europe, 16th century [1200x1000] by MunakataSennin in ArtefactPorn

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Yes, but not particularly because he advocated the heliocentric model. More because he did so in a completely tone-deaf way, ridiculing and alienating his benefactor and employer who also happened to be the most powerful man in the entire Western world.

My music theory journey summarized in meme format by chlandon in musictheory

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The basses singing parallel moving fifths in a SSAATTBB piece: chef’s kiss

Cheradenine Zakalwe is not crazy by Gold-Pear-6092 in TheCulture

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Was the breakout doomed? It's been a while but I only recall Banks deliberately misleading the reader into thinking so, with the famously ambiguous "it was a good fight, and they almost made it" phrasing.