https://xkcd.com/2897

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When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.

  • suction@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Citation needed for „the people who invented the internet were 100% nerds“

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      8 months ago

      Citation needed for your entire previous comment lmao. Most nerds are actually really nice people and lean left politically.

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      8 months ago

      It really does feel mainstream to come up with tech specs for a new comms technology, not the sort of thing that nerds* might do /s

      Tim Burners-Lee** worked in particle accelerators. Total jock****.

      * People excessively interested in tech

      ** Inventor of HTML - the web

      **** I’m old. The world is divided into nerds and jocks per Revenge of the Nerds (1984)