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Cake day: August 30th, 2025
  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump shares altered map of U.S. flag covering Canada, Greenland and VenezuelaEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    One night Musk and Trump were sitting in the Oval Office not doing much, as they like to do. Musk was out of his gourd on ketamine and Trump just shit himself for the third time since his last diaper change. Out of nowhere Musk says: “We should start saying “Sieg Heil” to each other”. Trump looks up, or at least as much as his failing body would allow, and says: “Why Elon? What does that mean?” Musk responds, irritation showing in his voice: “Well that’s what our brothers in Germany said, so I think we should bring back the tradition”. Trump, also getting angry, picks up the phone and shouts he needs a MickeyD hamberder right away. As he fumbles the handle back on the red phone, he shouts to Musk: “Yes, I know that’s what the Germans said, but what does it mean?!”. “I’m not sure, wait I’ll ask Grok” Musk responds. After a couple of failed tries with the speech to text on his phone, Grok responds using a voice suspiciously like Scarlett Johanssons. Grok explains the word Sieg means victory and Heil is a greeting (hail), Germans used to say this to mean they believed they would be victorious. “Why would we say it then? I’m already President for life, I already have my victory!” Trump exclaimed. “We’re going to need a war then” Musk responded.

    “And that, children, is how WW3 started all the way back in 2026” the Teacherbot says to the class over Microsoft Copilot New 365 Teams with Copilot ™. Elroy shouts: “Teacher! That can’t be true, that sounds dumb as shit!”. “Language! We’ll have a talk about your behavior after class young man. I’ve already sent a meeting invite to your father, so he’ll be joining that call as well” Teacherbot responds. Elroy sighs and says “Ah shucks”

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Astronauts Helicoptered to Hospital After Mystery Evacuation From Space StationEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    They had the option to return at any moment in case of emergency. They were never “stuck”, that’s just something the media made up. Emergency evacuation of the ISS is possible at all times, that’s a pretty strict rule. They just chose not to, since there wasn’t any real reason to. Sure it was unplanned they would stay that long, but those are still two very valuable crew members that can do a lot of work. So they just did their job. And as both of them worked very hard to get there, staying wasn’t really a punishment or anything.

    In the end they went home on a different vehicle, as the one they arrived on had too many issues to risk it (even though it worked fine in the end, but they didn’t want to take unnecessary chances)

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•it's over broEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah same, my father in law wanted to replace his computer and I had to tell him the market is fucked right now. Luckily I was able to source him a pretty decent DDR4 system. Still more expensive than it should have been, but I got a good deal and it was within his budget. DDR4 is probably going to last him 10 years, as his old system was also 10 years old.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Good night sweet prince
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    7 days ago

    Yes agreed, all of the PFAS just keeps adding up and we know it’s causing all sorts of issue. I hope we can get that legislation in the near future where manufacturers are required to clearly indicate what products have PFAS in their end-product or in the process of making it. Because PFAS is in so many things and most people don’t even realize it. They might know about the non-stick pans, but it is in many more products, some surprised me to learn it was in it. If it’s clearly labeled, hopefully people will chose the product without the PFAS instead of the one with.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Good night sweet prince
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    8 days ago

    YSK the finished PFAS in the end product like non stick pans is perfectly safe. The long molecules with strong carbon-fluoride bonds don’t interact with biology at all. You can cut it up into tiny pieces and eat it, it will just come out the other end. Even if you were to implant it inside your body, it would do nothing. Actually materials like PTFE are often used for medical implants, specially because they are so inert and safe.

    So why is PFAS bad? Because in the production of the long molecules, short molecules are required. Those molecules are a waste product after use and are usually dumped. In the past they were dumped in huge amounts. However these short molecules are very dangerous, they do interact with biology and cause all sorts of issues including cancer. The people at Dupont figured this out very quickly, but chose not to report on it. It took a long time for the issue to become public. With their waste material giving the company a bad name, they said they invented a new short molecule to use, which was much safer. Except it wasn’t safer at all, they knew it wasn’t and they again didn’t make that info public. After they were found out a second time, the governments classified all such chemicals under the PFAS family and regulated all of them.

    Unfortunately our world runs on stuff like PTFE, so it’s still widely used, without any substitutes available. And we keep on dumping those dangerous short molecules into our environment. And because they don’t decay over time (hence the nickname forever chemicals) they are here to stay. We’ve also found out even a little bit of it can be dangerous and we’ve dumped a lot of it into our water supply. So that’s why PFAS is bad.

    TLDR: If you own anything with PTFE or similar materials like non stick pans and cutting boards, don’t worry they are totally safe. Since the damage is already done, keep using them as much as possible, so the damage wasn’t for nothing. If you are going to buy new stuff: avoid any products with PFAS as a waste product. Governments are working on regulation to make this clearly visible when purchasing a product. The less we buy, the less we produce, the less we pollute.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Payment
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    9 days ago

    I’ve never not seen that happen? It’s probably to prevent fraud and a lot of the time it’s just old people who fumble the payment and need actual assistance?

    As long as the store person there can reset it remotely for me it’s fine, then I don’t have to wait and they don’t need to come over.

    I think it’s different when the payment times out, I’ve had that happen when the payment terminal crashed for no reason. Then it automatically resets back, so you can try again. But a failed payment is different from a rejected payment.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Payment
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    9 days ago

    The other day the payment wasn’t approved for me (broke AF). The terminal beeped, the checkout counter went to a “Please wait for a representative” screen and the tower next to my checkout station went blinking green.

    Luckily a very nice lady from the store yelled from her workstation if I needed help. I said I didn’t, just broke and needed to use another card. She reset my counter with her terminal and I was good to go. But it definitely feels like you did something really wrong.

    Not as bad as running through the checkout without paying tho. I saw a man with his daughter of about 5 or 6 I think. She had one of those kid carts and tried to run out as the father was trying to pay for the sandwiches they were buying. All of the alarms went off, flashing lights, beeping gates, audible alert, the whole shebang. The kid got really scared as everyone just laughed as the father said: Hold on honey, we actually need to pay. The staff could easily disable the alert, but had to manually reset the gates. They needed to call it off on their headsets as well and two times staff came running to check if everything was alright. That’s not a mistake the kid will make in the future I bet.