Setting aside the incorrect notion that there weren’t black people in England until the 50s, the story in question was published in 1951 and remained in print into the 1970s.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-doEnglish
32·8 days agoIn the original he wouldn’t have been horrified cause he probably already tried one himself and he meant what he said.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide [Tommy Siegel]English
1·9 days agoI have no idea what you are referencing by “VIII” but in reality a reasonably dense object the size of an ashtray traveling at a multiple of the speed of light would turn any planet in the solar system into a cloud of dust. So a ship weighing thousands of tons would be overkill as a weapon all by itself.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide [Tommy Siegel]English
42·9 days agoI mean, the notion that destroying a planet was somehow a massive outlandish threat in a universe where basically everyone has the technology to propel thousands of tons of mass at many times the speed of light always felt pretty fucking stupid in the first place. Every single hyper-drive capable ship in the universe could turn an entire planet to dust in seconds.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There are adults who have never used the Facebook account that their parents set up for them when they were a baby.English
29·13 days agoThere are adults that never used the accounts they set up themselves as kids to play Farmville with a friend.
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Games@lemmy.world•This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold FansEnglish
32·14 days agoBannon has been paying people in WOW since it started.
Dude was one of the first people to establish organized korean gold farms.
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/trumps-campaign-ceos-little-known-world-warcraft-career/
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•C:/users/website/file.htmlEnglish
2·14 days agoAlready are in the form of bogus contracts and subsidies. Why do you think Musk jumped right into this? Ripping off the government (i.e. us) is his entire business model.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your BrainEnglish
10·16 days agoThis is exactly the kind of circular cascade failure that we are going to see. Once the AI engines all start training on their own data and sourcing each others slop it just gets worse and worse.
The new testament was written like a hundred years after Jesus died. Its entirely bullshit.
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News@lemmy.world•Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in themEnglish
141·22 days agoKinda seems like some of them found their way into training data for things like Grok. You would think that an AI would have hard time knowing what CSAM looks like, except it seems like they are so good at making it that they produce stuff that is based on photos known to be associated with real cases and victims. Quite the coincidence, huh?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/elon-musk-ai-grok-child-porn-lawsuit
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman DidEnglish
41·28 days agoYep, and then passing that work on to commercial developers to be sold.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - Jim Nielsen’s BlogEnglish
5·29 days agoThe one time it was useful to stack like four different video adapters together was all the validation I needed.
By established Royal navy tradition you must always choose the lesser of two weevils.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I want to go out Hawaiian styleEnglish
181·1 month agoYou should really talk to someone about whatever this is.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I want to go out Hawaiian styleEnglish
252·1 month agoYou enter into mortality by exiting the vagina at the moment of your birth. Be entering it you return to the immortal realm from which all live emerges, by NOT exiting through it, you retain that immortal status.
Sorry, I thought this was obvious. We really need to teach people where babies come from.
Right, in cases where an acronym is pronounced as word it generally follows the normal convention of the letters that form the word. Which would STILL result in the same pronunciation as “g” in graphics or gun.
Of course accepted convention and tradition can also matter. If a word is generally pronounced a certain way then that is how its pronounced. Which of course STILL gives us the soft G.
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News@lemmy.world•Charlie Kirk murder suspect pleads not guilty to murder chargeEnglish
2·1 month agoSorry it doesn’t meet your standard for identifying which weird ideology prompted this dudes actions.
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News@lemmy.world•Charlie Kirk murder suspect pleads not guilty to murder chargeEnglish
153·1 month agoYes.
The 30.06 rifle has literally killed tens of thousands of people at every range imaginable. It is easily among the most well studied weapons on earth. This is easily among the most common weapons in the United States and this cartridge was the standard issue rifle cartridge for both world wars.




Just in time for China to scoop up the entire market, smart.