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Cake day: April 24th, 2023

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  • You might be able to create profiles anonymously, but you can’t use those services anonymously. They only work if you have other people added as friends or whatever, unlike content aggregators like lemmy or reddit, where you can be as anonymous as you want and still interact with all features of the site.

    I think that narrows it down enough. If you can use all features of the platform without personally knowing anyone on it, it’s not social media.




  • The original spelling wasn’t aluminum, it was alumium. Which then was proposed to be aluminium in French, and got picked up by the Royal Society. After, the guy who introduced the term to the Royal Society (Humphry Davy) started calling it aluminum but the other term had already stuck.








  • Some argue that transitioning to 100% renewable energy would be too slow to limit climate change, and that closing down nuclear power stations is a mistake.[122][123]

    “Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched”. The Economist. 6 March 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 31 January 2022. McDonnell, Tim (3 January 2022).

    “Germany’s exit from nuclear energy will make its power dirtier and more expensive”. Quartz. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

    In November 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out with their fifth report, saying that in the absence of any one technology (such as bioenergy, carbon dioxide capture and storage, nuclear, wind and solar), climate change mitigation costs can increase substantially depending on which technology is absent.