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machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
3·2 years agoHow many?
Also, the bigger issue is not being able to escape the fire because you can’t find the manual releases. Pretty horrible death. Probably done that way to save a little bit of extra money to line Musk’s pockets.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?
3·2 years agoPerhaps the closest term is “cognitive dissonance.” I don’t think current usage best fits your description, although the original event that inspired the term certainly does.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult that believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen.
While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to “put it down to experience,” committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).
machinin@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?
1·2 years agoThere is the sunk-cost fallacy, but that is more about investments. I don’t know if it’s refers to popularity like OP wants.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•More straight couples are calling each other partner. Here’s why
23·2 years agoWhy not husband/wife?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Missile warning reported in Crimea, and the Crimean Bridge is closed. Russian forces have deployed a smoke screen over the Kerch Strait.
5·2 years agoI’ve seen the argument that it is actually better to cripple the bridge than take it out completely. As it is, Russia still has to expend significant resources to protect a symbol that has very little strategic military value. Once it’s destroyed, those resources are freed up to use elsewhere. I think I agree with that. It can be destroyed later as a final triumph.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate.
154·2 years agoApparently the people don’t care enough to stop their soldiers from burning kids alive. Why should I care what happens to them?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate.
166·2 years agoAfter burning those kids alive, honestly, I’ve given up caring what happens to the people in Israel.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate.
13711·2 years agoStop enabling the genocide? Please?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Bug bounty denied? Hmmm ... OK, let's see ...English
7·2 years agoThanks, that’s a useful description.
Pretty ingenious.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Trump campaign worked with Musk’s X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform
9·2 years agoThere was the question of why Vance would work for someone he had called Hitler. His public statements are they here was convinced after Trump’s first term that Trump was a good president.
In fact, there are private texts stating that Vance believed Trump’s presidency was a failure. This was new information. It made it clear that he wasn’t convinced by Trump’s presidency.
It probably doesn’t make much difference to most voters, but it is significant information.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Bug bounty denied? Hmmm ... OK, let's see ...English
12·2 years agoI didn’t understand how the OP did this:
Create an Apple account with [email protected]
Is that just a spoofed email? What would be the steps to do that?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•SOMETHING MASSIVE IS SHIFTING DEEP INSIDE THE MOON
2·2 years agoIs the statement that it is a semi-liquid more or less confirmed? That is what I’m saying.
Is the moon’s diameter and composition enough to create a semi-molten rock? Or could this phenomenon be better explained by a loose set of rocks, which also displays characteristics of a liquid when in movement.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine’s HUR Cyber Strike Shuts Down Russian Military University, Erases 150TB of Critical Data
15·2 years ago150TB doesn’t seem like a lot for a whole university. Am I missing something?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•SOMETHING MASSIVE IS SHIFTING DEEP INSIDE THE MOON
19·2 years agoA recent study from scientists at NASA and the University of Arizona found that a layer of low-viscosity goo sits between the Moon’s rugged mantle and its metal core. This goo is rising and falling beneath the lunar surface — not unlike, say, ocean tides — which they concluded is likely caused by the gravitational push and pull of the Sun and Earth.
I wonder if it has to be a partial melt. We are finding that many asteroids are loosely bundled rocks. I wonder if maybe the moon has a similar structure. I have no clue how much pressure is under the surface and off it’s enough to fuse everything together.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What kind of hosting service will allow this?English
2·2 years agoThis was the first hit on proxmox vps.
https://hostkey.com/vps/proxmox/
I have no idea if they are good or not, but this kind of service might be what you’re looking for?
machinin@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.ml•Hezbollah ambushes Israeli infantry force trying to infiltrate Lebanon
3412·2 years agoRemoved by mod
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Secret Service: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt did not have a line of sight on Trump, never fired his weapon
5·2 years agoI think there’s a YouTube channel called the armed fisherman whose deal is to carry an AK as he goes “fishing” because that is allowed. I’ve only seen a couple of vids, so my details are probably wrong.
machinin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Police officer who dragged NFL player Tyreek Hill from car had problem record
8·2 years agoThat could even be a private service. What is the service about rating professors? I don’t think schools and teachers have to be involved with that. I don’t think the police need involvement either.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?
9·2 years agoThanks, I do appreciate this. It’s good to be reminded.














You seem awfully upset that people are criticizing Tesla. Are you okay?