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SvenGeier

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Geometry, Physics, Art, Math.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G0JsJQMAAAAJ

https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/SvenGeiermeasurements-matter

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Three or four is ideal.

Studies have found that drinking at least two bottles of wine can improve your ability to engage in an intellectual political debate.
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@lowqualityfacts
Not to mention the ability to perform flawless dance moves...

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026 ( awful.systems )

Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. ...

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mirrorwitch

Small brain: this ai stuff isn't going away, maybe I should invest in openAI and make a little profit along the way

Medium brain: this ai stuff isn't going away, maybe I should invest in power companies as producing and selling electricity is going to be really profitable

Big brain: this ai stuff isn't going away, maybe I should invest in defense contractors that'll outfit the US's invasion of Taiwan...

BlueMonday1984

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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these "One Cat Short of Crazy" socks.
"I'm not crazy", I say to myself, petting my 27 cats. "Now someone with 28 cats, that would be a real lunatic".
https://collabs.shop/pjpk7r

A pair of blue socks with cats on them that say "One cat short of crazy".
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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Based pin. That skull is a 100% accurate depiction of how I feel anytime younger generations invent a new word that I must either Google or accept that my vocabulary is slowly fading into obsolescence.
https://collabs.shop/upgydk

A round black pin of a skull that says "Based? Based on what?"
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"All your based are belong to us"

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That's why I have so much debt?

90% of college tuition goes towards on-campus ice cream parties.
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@lowqualityfacts
"Ice cream". Sure.

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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Plant Sticker. Come on guys, this is a family friendly platform. Either keep it in your pots or get a field already.
https://collabs.shop/eco6yk

A sticker of a succulent plant that says "cactus in the streets tender succulent in the sheets".
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@lowqualityfacts I can dig some plant puns. I'm rooting for you!

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That's so scary.

Volcanoes are responsible for billions of deaths every year.
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@lowqualityfacts
Since you didn't say HUMAN deaths, this toot is flirting with being high-quality...

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Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for Mambo No. 5.

Mambo No. 5 is France's national anthem.
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Not sure I've ever heard that. Will I understand it if I haven't heard one through four?

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Maybe we don't need air traffic controllers. I have never seen a traffic jam in the sky.

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@lowqualityfacts
That's because they're doing such a good job!

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If you want to satiate AI’s hunger for power, Google suggests going to space
Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/if-you-want-to-satiate-ais-hunger-for-power-google-suggests-going-to-space/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica
This is what you get when you allow code monkeys to call themselves "engineers" 🤷🏽‍♂️

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for @foone

A picture of probably a laptop wall wart, part number WSU18-20891, model 1/880. It has Input 1-240V 50 plus or minus 60 Hz, and Output is Vmax volts and Imax amps.
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@NanoRaptor @foone Finally a power supply that delivers its maximum voltage.

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Rocket Report: China’s Moon rocket to debut soon; ArcaSpace is back—sort of
“I do think we’re rapidly approaching the point where it will be a significant impact."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/rocket-report-chinas-moon-rocket-to-debut-soon-arcaspace-is-back-sort-of/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica
In the context of rockets, "significant impact" is not always a good thing

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I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

There is a statistically significant link between number of freckles and penis size.
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That can't be right. I have no freckles at all. Ohwait...

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They must have been magnificent.

Chinchillas the size of Mount Everest roamed the Earth 300 million years ago.
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Of course at that time Mount Everest was only about 5 inches tall, so this sort-of checks out...

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Please do not test this.

A snail's shell is virtually indestructible.
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The word "virtually" doing a lot of heavy lifting here...

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Seems wasteful.

Two acres of sugarcane must be harvested to create one jar of Nutella.
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Smart.

Mexican drug cartels launder most of their money through Girl Scout Cookies sales.
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So, I got a Raspberry Pi 500+ and a 4Tb SSD to play with. And I have just been playing with it.

And I have to say that I'm unimpressed in the extreme with the modern Linux UX, onboarding, and documentation.

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@ulexus
At this point I think of mint as "Ubuntu with sane defaults". You can have anything Ubuntu if you want, the software manager is functional. But you don't have to have everything and the kitchen sink. And that means the install is quick and easy and leaves you with... a computer. Not something you actually have to learn, but something on which you can run software. My biggest kudos to mint is how much it gets out of the way. Can you mess with weird configuration edge cases? Sure. But if you don't, you largely get something that just works. 🤷🏽‍♂️
@mcc @fleeky @cstross

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@mcc

  1. I don't know
  2. I'm not sure how I would go about finding out
  3. I'm not sure 𝘸𝘩𝘺 I would want to find out

I'm not even sure I'm 100% clear what these even are - some sort of software distribution system, I reckon.

Does Windows update also update acrobat reader and your Java jre? No, of course not. If some software implements it's own update mechanism, then it's hardly the OS'es job to somehow work around that.

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https://xkcd.com/2343/

a graph of mathematical symbols sorted by how useful they would be in a fight
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Flight of the Conchords shirt. I would like to argue that Flight of the Conchords is the best thing to ever come from New Zealand. I would also like to ask Lord of the Rings fans to show mercy.
https://collabs.shop/kfk0vt

A white long sleeve shirt that says Flight of the Conchords. It has a large pencil drawing of Jemaine and a much smaller drawing of Bret.
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I don't know - bungee jumping was invented in New Zealand ...

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Cat Mug. Yes, there will probably be a hair in the mug. And on the table. And a million more hairs on your shirt. The average cat has 10 trillion hairs, and they somehow manage to shed 11 trillion a day.
https://collabs.shop/jkxycs

A white mug that says "There's a high possibility that this mug has cat hair on it." It has a black cat on the other side.
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@lowqualityfacts Whenever you think a cat did something to spite you, you have probably overestimated how much cats actually care about humans...

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Got Too Silly pin.

Me: Is being too silly really such a terrible crime?

Judge: You robbed a bank.

Me: And I now realize that was a silly thing to do.
https://collabs.shop/ie6kiu

A circular pin with a goose locked behind bars. It says "GOT TOO SILLY"
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"On second thought, let's not go to jail. 'tis such a silly place..."

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You should care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard—here’s why
Don't know what a keyboard stabilizer is? You're about to find out.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/you-should-care-more-about-the-stabilizers-in-your-mechanical-keyboard-heres-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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And don't forget to change your keyboard fluid every 3000 miles

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Make Billionaires Extinct shirt.

Billionaires: Look, they want to kill us.

Everyone: No, we just want you to have like 10 million dollars instead of 10 billion.

Billionaires: My God, these monsters have come up with a fate worse than death.
https://collabs.shop/oaho3m

A woman wearing a shirt with a dinosaur and a planet on it that says "Make Billionaires Extinct".
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@lowqualityfacts That's why I'm ahead of them: Elon Musk is multiple hundreds of billions of dollars away from being a millionaire, I'm merely a million dollars away from that same goal...

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I was mistaken for a bot again, so here's a recent photo to prove that I am indeed a real person. No, I will not be providing any further context.

Me standing in a yard shirtless next to a large blue and yellow and pink stuffed llama.
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@lowqualityfacts
Hey, you're kinda cute. But who is that dorky looking guy behind you?

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We made a comic about wheels.

1 Me: This has one wheel. A unicycle. Alien: Okay. 2 Me: Two wheels, bicycle. Alien: Makes sense. 3 Me: If it has three wheels it's a tricycle. Alien: Got it. 4 Alien: So this is a quadcycle. Me: CAR
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It's not a big deal that Trump labeled Antifa as a terrorist organization. Antifa just stands for anti-fascist. So the government can't arrest people for being in Antifa. They'd have to charge anyone who opposes fascism with terrorism - oh no wait, that's much worse. That's a huge deal.

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The government will not tell you that they have become fascist.
They will tell you that anti-fascists are enemies of the state.

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At least they're going to a good cause.

Most organs donated by organ donors are used as decorations at haunted houses.
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That why I recommend not donating your own organs...

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    Backups, lol

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    @arstechnica The Dude is aging nicely ...

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    I don't get why incels get so much hate online.

    Incel stands for "instant celebration". It is a subset of extroverted people who are always ready to celebrate at a moment's notice.
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    I thought it stood for "insufficient celebrity", meaning people who aren't as famous as they should be...

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    shit gets real in today's Eggs n' Ben

    uncensored version 🔞 https://tinyview.com/eggs-n-ben/2025/09/01/waste-management

    tinyview pays us if you tap link 🫂 thank you

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    @MrLovenstein
    Give them an Internet connection and watch the shitposts commence...

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    Secret Panel HERE ♥ https://tapas.io/episode/3642566

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    Amazing.

    The left side of your brain is used for critical thinking, and the right side of your brain discerns the difference between car honks and goose honks.
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    What about the middle side?

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    Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Schrute Farms shirt. I've stayed here before. The staff were a bit odd but the beets were unbeatable.
    https://collabs.shop/b9tohg

    A Black tshirt with a beet on it. It says Schrute Farms Bed & Breakfast EST 1912.
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    Break room Bad ...

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    They are very shallow dogs.

    Pitbulls only bite humans that they find to be ugly.
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    @lowqualityfacts
    That seems understandable

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    That's crazy.

    People become dizzy when they spin too fast because their brain continues to spin within their skull after they stop moving.
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    I did that spinning fast thing once when I was a kid. Brain has been spinning in my skull without slowing down ever since...

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    Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Capybara Squishy Glow Lamp. Finally, a capybara I can squish. The live ones seem to get weirdly angry when I do that for some reason.
    https://collabs.shop/9olfvr

    A capybara light. He has an apple or something of the sort on his head.
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    @lowqualityfacts I have never heard of a capybara getting angry. At anything.

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    Trying to find my people on here. Please share and follow me if you:

    -Believe the lava from lava lamps must be returned to volcanoes, where it rightfully belongs.

    -Argue that marathon runners should shave their eyebrows to be a little faster.

    -Will eat the rich on principle, but dread the taste.

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    @lowqualityfacts
    That lava has been raised in captivity and would never survive in the wild...

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    That blows my mind.

    If you freeze 50 pounds of water it will only make one pound of ice.
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    @lowqualityfacts Conversely if you eat one pound of ice cream you'll gain 50 pounds of fat...

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    I love Mark Ruffalo.

    Mark Ruffalo keeps a lucky cranberry in his mouth at all times.
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    @lowqualityfacts Doesn't everybody?

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    Obviously.

    PHD stands "Photogenic Duck"! for
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    @lowqualityfacts
    I can't get over the fact that it's dUck with a "u". All these years of introducing myself totally wrong...

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    The limited edition giclée print of this silly comic is out now. Only available until August 5. Shop here 👉 https://mrlovenstore.com/pages/ea_silly-mood

    Get it before the darkness consumes you.

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    Diabolical.

    Disney+ keeps track of users who share their passwords, and restricts their account so they can only watch Cars 2.
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    @lowqualityfacts Harsh, but fair 🤷‍♂️

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    This is so useful.

    A helpful spelling trick is "B before U, unless there's a Q or a Gor two"
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    @lowqualityfacts "suburb" confuses me ...

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    That blows my mind.

    At their closest point, Nigeria and Rhode Island are only 400 feet apart.
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    @lowqualityfacts
    Apart from what?

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    If you can't do the tickles, don't do the... pickles?

    Police in India are allowed to tickle pickpockets for as long as they want.
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    @lowqualityfacts The fact that I have never witnessed anybody being tickled by the police in all my time in India goes to show how rare pickpocket must be there...