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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • As a kid in the 80s I lived in a burb where once or twice in the summer they had a day where they could put out big clunky stuff for trash pickup that normally wasn’t allowed. So stuff like furniture, mattresses, old tires, etc. You’d routinely see cars driving past to see if there was anything they wanted to take. Our church friends, a family with 6 kids, would have a few ride off on their bikes and scout for useful stuff and call dibs. Then one brother went back home to get someone to bring the station wagon around while the others kept guard over the claim.

    It was a good system for giving a second life to stuff that was still good (or fixable) but that you didn’t want or weren’t able to lug to the flea market or something.


  • Etterra@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzOxygen
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    4 days ago

    The sun is the male of its species, and it’s appearance is bright and flashy, used to attract a mate. Unfortunately there’s no female stars nearby. So the poor, stupid thing has spent billions of years courting Jupiter instead.

    But not only is Jupiter a whole different species, it already has a mate - Saturn. You can easily tell that Jupiter’s the male because of its own flashy coloration. Plus, you can even see the ring it gave Saturn when they got married, as well as it’s own much more modest wedding ring.


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    No, that’s because the Democrats placed sanctions on the original, oil fueled sun. They were bought it by Big Solar, but the GOP’s corporate paymasters want to resume the oil exports, but they can’t so long as the embargo is in place, which means Big Solar stole their monopoly.




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    It’s the ultimate min-maxed fireballb spell, slowly expanding after its initial casting some 4 to 5 billion years ago (relative local time). We’re in range of its blast radius, but the caster’s turn still hasn’t ended so it hasn’t reached us yet.