BlushedPotatoPlayers

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[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is a good starting point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe . I'm not an expert on the topic, but if I'd like to dig deeper, I'd visit Amazon, look for cosmology books, pick something that's expansive, looks like a textbook, plus point if the title contains the word 'introduction' (you'll see the irony inside). It's the best if you find something from after 2010 (after Planck and WMAP missions). I found Weinberg: Cosmology, but that's from 2008. If you have your favorite textbook, check it out from the local library, but make sure NOT to download it from Library Genesis (http://libgen.is/ is the site to avoid) because that would cause the publisher financial losses.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Age estimation is a tricky thing - there are no brass labels on distant galaxies showing their age, or if there are, the letters are too small to see. There are several different methods, and while there's some disagreement between them, it's on the magnitude of 0.1Gyr, not 13.7+/-13.

They could also urge to remove the coat and tie from the list of necessary clothes. While it was probably practical in 19th century England, it's a torture in 2023 Spain

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does this even mean?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 39 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Just lovely, when you think you found a browser that works decently and cares about privacy...

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just checked Lemmy stats - how is it possible that we lost 400 000 users recently? If people check it out and leave for good, wouldn't that still be counted in the user base?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you sell everything and work for 237 more years?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any turn-based strategy game could be good - you can stop playing Civilization any time you want, right? There's no need to go one more turn

I didn't say this happened yesterday :)

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I remember correctly, the last bulk addition of countries happened sometimes in summer, we traveled to the Czech republic with a passport on Friday, and came back without it on Sunday, and it was definitely not a New Year

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@terefere.eu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great that I didn't consider subscription for a second.

Great, few more reasons to stay away from that. I thought the whole point of the reddit/fediverse thing was that you used an anonymous nick that is purged from time to time. Who cares about followers? There are interesting things discussed, that's it.

 

With their recent update it seems they are on the last step to making their free version completely useless – are there any good alternatives out there? Preferably something that has a similar android app. I know I could use ssh+vi in a text file, but I'd prefer something a bit more streamlined

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