Legit_Spaghetti

juergen_hubert, 6 months ago to folklore

Once, the Devil was looking for an honest wife.

...that went about as well as you'd expect.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-goes-39519272

Legit_Spaghetti, 6 months ago to random

omg omg omg omg

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA

#Dune #SciFi #YesHelloOscarsThisFilmRightHere

bojacobs, 8 months ago to histodons

The whole ecosystem is "marked" by radioactive particles globally distributed by nuclear weapon testing:

"Anthropogenic uranium signatures in turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles from nuclear sites"

There are countless species, flora and fauna, with studies tracking this. Interested in more on this, read my book Nuclear Bodies

#Anthropocene #nuclear #NuclearTesting @histodons

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad241/7244772

Legit_Spaghetti, 9 months ago to random

#SciFi writing tropes that can retire:

• Aliens coming to Earth to steal things that are abundant in the universe, such as water
• Technologically advanced aliens failing to conquer Earth
• Robots that yearn to be human
• Faster-than-light travel
• Time travel (but I repeat myself)
• Evil corporations (people are evil, corporations are what people make them)
• Non-spin, non-acceleration artificial gravity
• Cislunar wheezy farms
• Non carbon-based life forms
• Space wizards

atomicpoet, 9 months ago to fediversenews

Wow! It's astonishing to see how little Sprout Social understands about the Fediverse in their recent blog post aimed at helping marketers comprehend decentralized social media.

They claim that the Fediverse is similar to the Metaverse, but in reality, they couldn't be more dissimilar apart from the common "-verse" in their names. The only platform, Immers Space, attempting to bridge the Fediverse and Metaverse is currently very niche. It's disheartening that Sprout Social fails to acknowledge this crucial distinction.

To make matters worse, Sprout Social mistakenly associates the Fediverse with blockchain technology. But let me set the record straight – popular platforms like Mastodon and Firefish don't utilize blockchain in any way. Finding a Fediverse server that actually uses blockchain is like searching for a needle in a haystack, with the largest one having a meager 79 active users. It's clear that Sprout Social needs to do their homework on this front.

Furthermore, Sprout Social claims that many Fediverse networks are guided by DAOs, but where is the evidence? The platforms people actually use are not governed by any DAO. As someone who is familiar with the server firefish.social, I can confirm that it certainly doesn't rely on a DAO for its operations.

It's incredibly misleading for Sprout Social to include Steemit, Lens Protocol, and Hive Social in their list of Fediverse platforms. These platforms may dabble in cryptocurrency nonsense, but they do not employ ActivityPub or any decentralized protocols like Diaspora, OStatus, DRFN, or anything else that truly enables genuine federation within those social networks.

Perhaps Sprout Social could gain valuable insights into the true nature of the Fediverse if they paid attention to the "Fedi" in "Fediverse" – federation. Only platforms that facilitate real federation among multiple servers can be considered part of the Fediverse. Any platform that lacks this fundamental aspect, despite their claims, simply does not belong.

If Sprout Social plans on capitalizing on Fediverse-related features for their software, they should seriously reconsider their approach – and they should do it quickly!

https://sproutsocial.com/insights/decentralized-social-media/

@fediversenews

Narevalom, 9 months ago to linguistics Spanish

Quick question for @linguistics (and anyone who might know about the topic): does anybody know why adjectives like “Muslim”, “Christian” and “Jewish” (or adjectives derived from names of religious orders) carry a capital letter, but the words “atheist” and “agnostic” don’t, even when they are used in the same way? Has anyone studied that?

BlackAzizAnansi, 10 months ago to random

I just want to go to Dave and Busters and get drunk but we're still living in an eternal pandemic.