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The first is, but they aren’t in chronological order. Three of them are from the 1800s (earliest is 1840).

If you scroll lower down, there’s a table with the amounts from the different samples from different fires.

I think it’s telling that the amounts in the Palisades fire are by far the highest. That fire had a huge number of structures burned, so the samples of suppressant scraped off of leaves and things is going to be mixed with smoke and ash particles from those burning structures. It doesn’t make sense that the amount of heavy metals would vary wildly from one batch of suppressant to another, but it makes perfect sense that the amount in a field sample would vary depending on what’s burning in the area.

Interesting, thanks

Evaporate?

Huh, I’ve always thought that a black hole required a lot of mass, not just a lot of density. Apparently not true?

They look like what a ten year old boy would think it’s cool.

There’s really no capturing it on pics. In person they’re so ugly it’s funny. It might be that they’re bigger than I realized from the pics, and that they’re so friggin heavy that they sort of bounce over bumps, but they’re just terrible.

I’m surprised by how many of them I see though. I’m sure that’s partly because there’s no missing one of it’s in visual range, combined with the fact that I’m in southern California, where EVs are generally very popular.

Hard to believe that cold spots could stay for more than a moment with the Brownian motion.

I agree that, asking with the bad things OP mentions, there are good things about a smaller site. I remember a lot of times on Reddit when I had something to say, but when I went into the thread there were thousands of comments and I’d feel like there just wasn’t a point in adding mine.

On Lemmy, when I make a comment, it’s very likely to be seen (for better or worse), and I have much more of a feeling of adding to the conversation. It’s more like joining a conversation at a party.

At my work, we meet astronauts fairly often (I met Jonny Kim last year), and it’s amazing how many of them are like this. They’ll usually pass out their headshots that have their bio on the back, and the number of advanced degrees and impressive accomplishments is jaw dropping. Like I feel like I’d think my life was worthwhile if I did one of those things by the end of it, and a lot of the astronauts are hardly more than half my age. And to really rub it in, they all seem incredibly genuine, personable, and well adjusted.

There are a giant number of people who want to be astronauts, and NASA only needs a small number in a given year, so they can pick the very cream of the crop.

Okay, but now I want to chase an ice cream truck with a convoy of vehicles…

Yeah, that one. “HH” is a common Nazi tattoo for “Heil Hitler.” You’ll often see “88” for the same reason because ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

I like the the tattoo, the liquor, the dress, and the truck all have the same color palette.

Not sure what’s with the Nazi references on that last one.

How does the standing guy’s left foot attach to him? What is kneeling guy doing?

Wait, wait… If drawings of naked people have to be marked NSFW, wouldn’t a woman wearing a drawing of a naked woman also be NSFW? Even if the woman herself is a drawing?

Then again, what if the nipples on the bikini are a man’s nipples?

(God we live in a stupid world)

Yeah, this is where I am. I’m a .world person, and I honestly think the admins have been doing a good job generally. I’m not a real Discord person, but I joined theirs after it was recommended a few times. Like you, I think using it as a backup because of the ddos attacks taking them down so much is reasonable, but they should use c/announcements as the primary communication venue. Note that there are a number of people on it who really seem to be enjoying the real time chat, and some even using the voice chat option, so it seems to be serving some people, at least.

I also think they made a potentially understandable mistake on blocking these communities, which I said at length in that thread. I’m inclined to think one issue with the overall Lemmy paradigm is that we have a lot of hobbiests as admins - people who may not have much experience with that, who don’t have legal teams, and who might be gun shy about any potential litigation. We can’t expect any person who decides to run a Lemmy instance on their laptop to have much feel for what content they’re liable for and what’s completely safe, so stuff in the grey area is going to make some people squeamish.

Others have touched on it, but for me it’s like the difference between speaking up in a conversation between people I don’t know at a house party, and speaking up in a giant auditorium when the person on stage is asking for inputs. The smaller scale makes it a bit more comfortable and I feel more like what I have to say isn’t already being said by a hundred other people.

Well that just makes no sense and makes me question the accuracy. I’m not sure that community even skews particular young, though probably at least a little… Adorable doesn’t necessarily mean young and young doesn’t necessarily mean adorable.

I think this is an area where there is legitimate debate. They didn’t name the community, but I’m guessing it’s fauxbait, which has in the sidebar:

FauxBait is a place for sharing images and videos of the youngest-looking, legal-aged (18+) girls. If you like fresh, young starlets, this is the place for you!

The title seems to be for “fake jailbait,” so I can understand people assuming it’s essentially simulated underage porn. There will be those who say that as long as the models are legal, it’s fine, and others who say it’s not okay to make what looks like child porn, even if it’s not made with children.

I personally feel that, as long as they’re up front about it being adults, it’s okay for it to exist, even though some of the pics there are a bit gross to me. But I get that people will fall to the left and right of me. If it crosses a line for the admin there, defederating seems reasonable (since they can’t block the community at the instance level).