I know we’re in a meme community but this did get me thinking… Not only is the Earth spinning but it’s also in an orbit around the Sun which is also orbiting around the center of the Milky Way which is moving through space relative to other galaxies and so on.

Do we have enough information to calculate a position in space in the future for Earth without a fixed reference other than current point?

This whole thing happened 30 years ago now. Wow. These two must be in their 50s now. It was such a media circus at the time.

If you share a thought on a Biden/Trump thread, an Israel/Palestine thread, or another topic that attracts strong views, and your opinion is different than the hive, expect some vitriol and confrontation.

I’ve run into it while seriously looking for debate or productive conversation.

Macy’s played a significant role in popularizing Christmas consumerism through events like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and their holiday displays. The first parade was in 1924.

It was around that time Christmas was portrayed as a shopping holiday. It was such a successful marketing campaign that the rest of the holidays were sure to follow.

Thanks Panzer

I hope it involved a bucket of ice, or spiders.

I’ve not used any alarm at all for the past 20 years. It’s amazing. I just automatically wake up at the same time every day. And go to sleep about the same time every day.

Adjust your life so you can do this, if you can.

I don’t think any average person would know of these advantages. So theres a general lack of education about the topic.

There is also a hydrogen refueling network problem to overcome. Before public electric charging stations existed, electric people could charge at home and install their own chargers where required so the electric industry has been able to partially side step that issue at the beginning.

Finally I think it just doesn’t seem sexy. To a casual bystander it’s like gas in, pay, then drive as usual.

Money doesn’t matter

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America, Fuck Yeah!

Don’t know why that song pops to mind in this case 😅

In the early days of Reddit it was said that the voting buttons were there to reflect whether the poster was adding to or subtracting from the discussion. I really liked that idea because you could upvote someone you completely disagree with because they were having a conversation in good faith.

Instead, the voting buttons devolved into an agreement button and a popularity contest. The toxicity is obvious here when a post is heavily downvoted for disagreement with the masses, despite being a bona fide entry into the conversation.

Slashdot always had an interesting take on the idea with max +5/-5 and the whole “outstanding”, “funny”, “informative”, etc tags that could be applied. This allows for several meta conversations - the jokes and memes, the serious, the philosophical and more with our interfering with one another and lets the readers absorb the topic based on the level of their mood.

I wish we could somehow encourage and promote content that makes an effort to understand and contribute, or even share a differing opinion (politely). And highly discourage nasty replies.

Let’s go

!electricscooters@lemmy.world

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