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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t get the hate against the lemmy devs tbh, they have their (perhaps controversial) political views but they leave everyone that’s not on their site alone and it feels like they develop lemmy pretty impartially

    sure they might ban you off ml but that’s their site and they get to do whatever they want with it, just like every other instance

    i mean network effect is a thing i guess but that’s not as important on lemmy where there are usually similarly large communities about generic things on most major instances




  • maybe it’s just because that’s the more memorable/unique parts of their name?

    trump/biden is much more distinctive than donald/joe
    clinton could refer to both bill or hillary
    obama/kamala is more memorable than barack/harris (though maybe for obama that’s just because I’ve heard ‘obama’ so many times)

    I’m not saying that’s definitely not true, just that there might be other reasons why















  • The moon has just a little bit more speed than the Earth can hold onto

    Unfortunately that’s not how orbital mechanics works :(

    If the moon had instantaneously more speed than the earth can hold onto (e.g. more centrifugal ‘force’ than balanced by the gravitational force), the moon will accelerate up, until the forces become balanced. This makes a elliptical orbit, like this:

    elliptical orbit gif

    Apparently the reason the moon is getting further away is that it’s gaining energy from earth’s tides

    anyway you should play ksp