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troyunrau, 1 year ago to risa in Philosophical franchises

Someone expand this with more franchises…

Farscape: “Hi god, it’s me, John. If you’re out there, give me a sign!” Scorpius: “You’re out of your mind John.”

Dr. Who: (David Tennant) “It’s taken me all these years to realize that the laws of time are mine and they will obey me!” (Second frame) pouty face

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Were this the ‘good ole times’ they always talk about?

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Were this the ‘good ole times’ they always talk about?

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Why? Are we not doing enough?

How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Why? Are we not doing enough?

Pro-tip: sort All by New Comments. Yes, if you refresh, you get repeat content, but you also find the unusual stuff and the repeated stuff is where the conversations are happening.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in Why??

Gotta overwhelm with numbers. A swarm of sparrows charmed by Radagast should do it.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in Geophysics.

Uncle, how do I delete someone else’s meme?

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in We don't judge here. :)

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in We don't judge here. :)

What a reactive load of…

troyunrau, 1 year ago to risa in It's true.

She is pretty much the best character on the show by virtue of being the best cast actor. Wow what a good choice. I give a close second to Amos.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to historyporn in One more basket carrier for the road! 20 baskets on his head, count 'em! London, 1925

Are they empty?

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Factory

There is a mostly abandoned town called Snowflake, Manitoba, Canada. They bulldozed the school even.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in your time has come, mortal

It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to memes in Who else is ready for an "invasion"

ITT: people sitting in their comfortable first world environment commenting using electronics which were certainly mined somewhere, convinced they’re oppressed and not the root cause.

troyunrau, 1 year ago to science_memes in It's ok R, we still love you for diagrams.

Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.