WingedThing

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[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vodka may be one of the worst things for a potato to become. Fries? Mashed with gravy? Poutine? Chips/crisps? Come on.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we just going to get a "new" article on this every week now?

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No, ghostwriting is not plagiarism. Done correctly, there is nothing wrong with it. Hard to argue this professor did it correctly

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

That's my assumption as well. New and renovated stadiums/arenas/etc. Are almost always funded by local taxes, despite the teams/promoters/etc. Who reap all the benefits being rich enough to build their own facilities. They hold communities for ransom and promise trickle-down economic benefits that never materialize.

Lincoln specifically botched this with the new arena a few years back. They raised the property value around it so much that businesses couldn't afford the rent. At least while I was there, the area was usually half-empty buildings. And the extra sales tax to pay for it hadn't gone away several years after it supposedly would.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Sucks for tax-paying citizens, just like any project like this. As a husker fan, I'm excited. Memorial stadium is iconic, but is not pleasant to be in or to watch games in. The bathrooms are responsible for many Nebraskan children's nightmares.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Comparing high-energy events, especially ones that cause destruction, to weapons that have been used is very common, not just in "murica"

The lack of specificity as to what kind of atomic bomb is silly, though.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

This is a good idea for obvious reasons. Cal students and alumni will hate it for obvious reasons.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Not true on either count. We just don't have enough unions and only some of us have good vacation.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a noob, but often what drives up lens cost is the complexity associated with making the image better over the whole field of view. Lenses have various inherent errors (called aberrations) that are corrected by a combination of complex surface profiles on individual lens elements and stacking multiple individual lens elements to cancel each other's errors out. A scope likely only needs good correction near the center, where the user will be looking most of the time, while a camera lens needs good correction everywhere so the whole photo looks good when you view it later. Wider field of view makes good correction much more complicated and expensive very fast.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have yet to see one of these comments with chatGPT summaries of articles that actually adds any value. Usually they are wrong or misleading. Sometimes they are just as long if not longer than the original article. This one, for example, summarizes the article that OP basically already summarized in the post description.

ChatGPT has its uses. This ain't one of them.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Largest to smallest is way more logical than smallest to largest. You start general and get more specific as you progress. It is in general a better approach to conveying information and cataloging data. Not just dates.

[–] WingedThing@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

The App Formerly Known as Twitter does have a lot of porn. Maybe you're on to something here.

 

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