Step 1: kill the cat in the box Step 2: make sure the cat isn’t still alive when you’re not looking
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confluence@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•Progress happens with every deathEnglish
261·1 year agoModern astrophysics exists because a house fell on a teenage orphan.
Who as a result got adopted by a prince.
He got access to a royal lab for glassmaking.
Then he tried fixing color aberration in his microscope lenses.
Then he noticed the rainbow had holes in it. Huh.
Then he died. Glassmaking and tuberculosis are fast friends.
Then Bunsen invented his burner, which made spectra that matched the rainbow holes. Huh.
Now we know what stars and planetary atmospheres are made of!
So night is just really weak day
confluence@lemmy.worldto
Atheist Memes@lemmy.world•Do you think the reason religion is still popular is because soviet union lost the cold war?English
17·2 years agoAs an exvangelical, I can tell you Christian Nationalism and anti-Communism are two sides of the same coin. The GOP takes advantage of the religious devotion of the fundamentalists to push their agenda. I wouldn’t say this was because the Soviet Union fell, but I think it’s at least partially because it existed in the first place.
confluence@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the adjective 'daily' in the lord's prayer is actually written in the original Greek as *epiousion*, which occurs nowhere else in known historyEnglish
202·2 years agoIf I remember correctly, there’s a group of scholars that translate it as “appropriate.”
confluence@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI trainingEnglish
26·2 years agoWell LLMs are about to get a lot less reasonable.
Into the cone you go