[UPDATED] My fictional flag
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    AchillesUltimate
    11mo ago 100%

    Pretty cool. The emblem is a little complex (but looks cool, so whatever), and the lack of geometry in the blue river is frustrating, but it's overall cool looking.

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    Donald Trump's colossal admission during trial
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 50%

    I know enough (thanks to everyone who kindly replied) to know that everyone in the world save for those directly involved in the court case can safely assume Trump wanted a loan when he a applied for a loan. Sure, it's an important step for the lawyers, but it's so obvious that it's only newsworthy if they couldn't establish it.

    The article is a waste of time.

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    Donald Trump's colossal admission during trial
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 16%

    Of course? That's why he was talking the the lenders in the first place. He was trying to get a loan. If he intentionally falsified the information is another question, but of course he was trying to get a loan.

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  • Scientists make crucial discovery on the existence of time travel
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 100%

    Whoever wrote this is extremely bad at writing articles. The way the language is used is confusing, repetitive, and lacks any sort of logical flow.

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    historical materialism moment
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 72%

    That's actually where democracy came from. When guns came along, it became extremely cheap and easy to turn every random peasant into a soldier. This meant that you essentially always had to have the will of the people on your side.

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  • Every particle that made up your body is older than you, some of them are older than the universe
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 66%

    Except the big bang is the start of both space and time, so nothing in the universe could be older than the universe because there's no time to speak of (not to mention the space for it to exist).

    The moment after the big bang is called the Planck epoch. I just learned this from Wikipedia "In this stage, the characteristic scale length of the universe was the Planck length, 1.6×10−35 m, and consequently had a temperature of approximately 1032 degrees Celsius. Even the very concept of a particle breaks down in these conditions. A proper understanding of this period awaits the development of a theory of quantum gravity.". I don't really understand this, but it seems the early universe wasn't conducive to particles. Even if it was, they wouldn't be atoms. They'd just be quarks.

    All of our physics breaks down at the singularity before the big bang, so assuming quarks that are around today existed then is just that, an assumption.

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  • Every particle that made up your body is older than you, some of them are older than the universe
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 85%

    Photons are an exception (at least, in as much as that they are a particle), and you can make new particls from energy, but definitely there's a limit to how old a particle can be. No particle is older than the universe (as far as the big bang is concerned).

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    Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’
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    AchillesUltimate
    12mo ago 85%

    Even ones that actively celebrate rape and murder? Even ones that will oppress women?

    Does this even count as a 'progressive' movement if it institutes an intensely religious dictatorship?

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  • I noticed that there were some accounts that were hijacked by the instance owners. All the posts from that user were then edited to say what happened. This kind of surprised me, I figured instances could delete posts, but not edit them. So how much control do they have? I assume they can't see my password (hopefully). Can they post in my name? Do they have all the access to my posts to foreign instances that they do over local posts? Edit: thanks for all the responses everyone! I've wanted my own instance for a while, but maybe I'll get on it now

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    I'm making this off to the right on lemmy's version of r/place. I've got most of the outline done. I'm using a light yellow to outline where white blocks should go, and I plan on surrounding everything with a yellow outline. The white blocks go inside the yellow outline, and you shouldn't have to replace it at all. I made a mistake near the bottom of the skirt on the right that propagates upwards, so be careful of that. Lastly, I changed the colors since starting to remove everything blue, so the grip of the sword is the wrong color. help out if you've got time! Thanks!

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