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[–] 51 points 8 months ago (6 children)

If you Duckduckgo Linux, the logo turn into a penguin

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  • [–] 133 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Not to be too much of a downer, but all of these cute Google search results and other "quirky" "fun" things billion dollar corporations do used to seem so harmless but now it just reads like a friendly logo on a baby mulching machine.

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Who the fuck still uses Google?

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago

    but then i’d be using google

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Fun fact, most of what we know about the impact and the meteor comes from data found during Nuclear Weapons Testing. The energy needed for crystallization at impact sites gave us the data we needed to extrapolate for the force of impact at the crater, alongside other factors such as liquification of granite.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Also fun fact: ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.

    It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.

    I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I wonder when we'll find out that flood basalts (the Deccan Traps, in this case) are the "exit wounds" of the meteor impacts?

    (That's my hypothesis, anyway, but I don't have the geology background to investigate it properly.)

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    future civilizations will have a plane fly across when searching 9/11

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    We used to be able to get it to do other things

    "Barrel roll" would spin the page around and "Askew" would tilt the page

    List

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Google used to do these because they were cool.

    Now Google still does these because they want us to think they're still cool.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Im taking this as a threat by Google.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    long story short: don't google

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    if you Google 67 Google does the six seven gesture

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  • Stop using google.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Meteor happens (shoutout to SimpleFlips)

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Peak lemmy comment section

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    In what way? Please expand on this opinion.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    People arguing over OP’s choice of search engine instead of just appreciating this Easter egg

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago*

    "If you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock), the AI summary burns a gallon of gas, contributing to making the planet uninhabitable, helping to create your very own mass extinction event"

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    Missed opportunity to have the meteor land in the crater on the image.

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