On top of the 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200,000 hectares of land, 22 billion tons of water and 84 million tons of CO₂ that the tobacco industry costs every year, cigarette filters contain microplastics
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Fun fact. Bluetooth is the Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom
The Bluetooth logo merges the Younger Futhark runes ᚼ, Hagal and ᛒ, Bjarkan, Harald's initials
Not everybody knows the gravitational slingshot trajectory to accelerate a spacecraft adopted by the Apollo program to reach the Moon is named after a self-educated Ukrainian who made calculations 50 years before the lunar flight, Yuri Kondratyuk: https://t.co/1bloA09JWe
Officer Areanah Preston was murdered in Chicago yesterday
She didn’t have 44 prior arrests and wasn’t threatening passengers on a train
But her killers weren’t white, so you won’t hear about it from the MSM
These popsicle sticks are twisted together so that they store the potential energy from their bending. When it's released thanks to a firecracker, it causes an impressive chain reaction.
[source: https://t.co/kyzwRYgl9U]
@waitbutwhy There are already many fiction books that mention similar technology with the same conclusion. A person that can have unlimited access to stimulate the pleasure centres in the brain will spend his life of doing only this.
However I don't believe in total "no downturn".
The new version of Midjourney that released yesterday shows how far AI has come in making commerical-level images from text alone
Here is what you get for "modern outfits inspired by Van Gogh/ Basquiat/ Monet/ Rothko, fashion photoshoot" Each one is the first try, no revisions.
A transabled woman who blinded herself went on Dr. Phil a few years ago
She explained that she “should’ve been born blind” and is happier now
This is how the transphobic doctors and crowd reacted to her decision: