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- Comment on Girl power 13 hours ago:
Yes and no, language is how it’s used, not necessarily the rules someone once wrote down. The problem is if you have a generic form and you start using a different form for women the generic form stops being generic. Eventually everyone will settle on some new generic form or resurrect some old form and we can move on to other problems.
- Comment on Girl power 1 day ago:
They didn’t ban the usage of both forms, they banned the usage of new forms, that try to combine masculine and feminine into a gender-neutral form, in administrative texts.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 5 days ago:
It’s most likely a she-shark, not a he-shark.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 week ago:
Activision wasn’t just a studio, it was a huge publisher with several studios, that’s why they needed approval from competition regulators. I doubt they will stop buying studios over this in the short-term.
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
Whole numbers are integers, integer literally means whole.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
Well, if we look at nuclear and gas we can also see that nuclear wasn’t replaced by gas in Germany. Gas and nuclear have very different purposes in the grid, on can be spun up almost on demand the other can’t. Anyway, at least in Germany there is no nuclear power anymore so arguing that something else should be phased out first is pointless, and saying that nuclear was replaced by coal or gas is spreading fakenews.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
No, it’s going down. There was a sharp decline in 2019, in 2020 it was even lower due to the pandemic and then went up again to the level of around 2019. 2022 was a little worse because of lower gas consumption due to the war in Ukraine, gas was partially replaced with coal. The last nuclear power plants were shut down in April 2023, yet 2023 also saw lower coal consumption than even in 2020, which strongly suggests that nuclear isn’t replaced by coal.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
No, because Germany didn’t replace nuclear power with coal.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
It would mean that there’s a subgroup of men that had more sexual partners than the average in the given timeframe.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 2 weeks ago:
The joke is that it’s basing human apperance on other rodents. So this is definitely missing a tail.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
Angry Konqueror noises
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
Since when is WebKit exclusive to MacOS?
- Comment on Bees 3 weeks ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Bees 4 weeks ago:
What’s the original pic?
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 4 weeks ago:
What’s so funny about 1.8288m? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
He might’ve grown up around power armors, but I doubt he had ever worn one before.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
The ghoul actually mentions that Maximus should’ve read the manual for the power armor. He hasn’t used it for long and as far as we know he’s about as inexperienced as one could be.
- Comment on Anon factory resets 4 weeks ago:
Only ever happens to conservative men and only with other men.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
The Romans had twelve months and they even named January and February, it’s usually attributed to Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome sometime during his reign (715–672 BC) of the Roman Kingdom.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but as far as I know at least in the past they usually used Soyuz or Progress spacecraft for orbit boosts. Videos of it are very cool.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
It’s a trade-off, either you have to do tracking and compensate for doppler shift or you have to deal with really bad SNR.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
You really think the world could come to an agreement on which day the week should start?
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
400km is nothing, if you have/had satellite TV the signal comes from a geostationary orbit (35 786 km) and it has to get there first and if you’re not exactly below the satellite it’s even farther away. Streams from the ISS having low quality (do they actually have low quality?) is due to either bad cameras or cameras aging faster in space due to high energy particles hitting it.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
No, it currently is at an altitude of 426km (was at 423km when I started writing), the orbit isn’t at a fixed altitude though, it varies, and the residual atmosphere causes drag which means every once in a while the orbit has to be adjusted.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, they’re technically not even lower decks anymore since season 4.
- Comment on no thanks, crystal mami 4 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with geology guys?
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 5 weeks ago:
stop spam read books
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 5 weeks ago:
There are profile pics on Lemmy? Why would anyone want that?
- Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 5 weeks ago:
Mastodon screenshots of reddit screenshots of twitter screenshots of tumblr screenshots of 4chan screenshots… It’s screenshots all the way down.
- Comment on Anon learns about nuts 5 weeks ago:
The english Wikipedia article mentions that it’s sometimes called groundnut in english too.