raubarno

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Wait, no... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Smeagol sounds like a pretty genderless name.

Why not Gandalf? Smeagol was such a dreadful personality after he'd posessed the One Ring....

what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

The storm of the U. S. Capitol would be the most shocking one, probably, as nobody dared to do that.

Also, 9/11 events, nuclear/thermonuclear bombs, nuclear power plant disasters, many things.

Technologically, the fact that an everyday laptop can deliver tens of billions of arithmetic instructions per second is still mind-boggling to me.