Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

This sounds like a desperately needed law. Hope it will get through.

Yea, fair

'Just pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps, lad!

While I do agree (or at least hope) that we all have the agency to positively influence our own lives and those around us, the main point there in my opinion is that different people have different resources in life. Someone that’s experienced systemic racism, or someone who’s brain is a wee bit non-standard just has it harder than someone not experiencing these issues.

The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era’ (HE) instead of before/after christ format.

It’s based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It ‘simply’ adds 10.000 years to the calendar we’re all already used to. :)

Yea, I really liked these as a kid. Shame their chocolate is collected by slaves :|

I’m curious if this wil have any impact on chocolate slavery

Is there a lemmy version of r/OrphanCrushingMachine ?

‘Just’

‘Just’

The friend that first recommended ‘Project Hail Mary’ to me told me to not read ANYTHING about it and just read it.

Best advice for this particular book you could ask for.

There are alternatives like …not sure what it’s called in english. Mastika? Mastiha? It’s a tree resin from the mediterranean that’s been used for that weird greek rezina wine. It’s an acquired taste, but I personally really like it.

Not malitious - this is a case of chaotic good. If it’s funny and harms noone, roll with it!