This is not the normal human experience. Check if you’re a robot?

it’s from the Latin “libra”, for balance, like a set of scales. the £ symbol for pounds as in money is a stylised L for the same reason!

etymology lesson over, imperial/customary gtfo resumes. metric ftw.

0.1 gigameters

yup, phone GUIs today have converged, just like different consoles’ controllers used to be distinct, and now they’re all Dual Shock clones.

i’ve only ever heard about this “green bubble” thing from USA media.

do Americans still use SMS?

why? phone numbers are obsolete. my SMS inbox going back years is just 2FA security codes, and they’re very rare these days, since authenticator apps.

About the rare huge-moon part - there’s been a recent discovery of a pair of young, still-forming exoplanets sharing the same orbit in a young star system - “PDS 70”; one protoplanet is in the L4 or L5 “Trojan” LaGrange point of the bigger one. Physicists reckon Theia may well have formed in one of Earth’s Trojan points, before being perturbed out onto a collision course by a third planet (thanks Jupiter)

So. While the planetary-collision-forming-a-huge-moon idea sure sounds wild, it might not be incredibly rare. Maybe.

We’re still at the very early stage of knowing what is normal for solar systems.

Ah, I just realised, I mistook you for someone else. I guess because of the vowel, I thought you’re @Ruud who runs this lemmy instance.

That’s why I wrote as if you’re the one making the decision - sorry.

Dude this is over two weeks old already. The date in the title makes it look like it was a daily thread for that one day. You’re effectively hiding news from a large fraction of subscribers with this policy.

Cat.

the national tld for Mali, but the lemmy ml owners chose it for a “Marxist-Leninist” reference. no kidding.

fun fact - they* also deny genocides committed by (even nominally) communist regimes.

*a lot of them, and even those who don’t actively, still stick with the goons who do.

no, i meant lemmy dot ml, their news pages.

Sorry, but you are exactly the kind of person everyone is talking about being awful.

I dare you, go to Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, where there are much - vastly - greater lgbt rights, freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom to protest, uncensored internet and media, etc, than in China, and tell anyone passing by this Xi bootlick spiel. Ask them if they’re happy to see how Hong Kong has been treated.

He is far from harmless. He’s an imperialist who, in his own words several times wants to use military force to impose his flag on millions of unwilling people who already have their own democracy.

If you haven’t seen tankies denying genocide and/or saying the victims brought it on themselves, then, I suspect you haven’t been looking very far in the comments of the news community there, to be fair. There are a lot of posters who will defend Russia, China, Syria etc all day long. All their crimes are apparently made up by “western media”, (as if Jimmy Dore’s basement isn’t in the west.)

Fortunately, they’re getting super buttmad lately at being downvoted so much.