Well, they took inspiration from Clement Clarke Moore’s (1922) “Twas the night before Christmas” and illustrations from Thomas Nast (1881) showing him in red with the sack over his shoulder. Certainly, Coca Cola has solidified the modern image with their ad campaign though starting in 1931. Src
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Technology@lemmy.world•VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All UsersEnglish
7·1 year agoGood on them. Can someone non-snarkily explain why this is good for them financially?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the cutest unique or unconventional ways of expressing love?
492·1 year agoDoing a fresh Linux install on your partners laptop
Not even on the same continent. Hippos are in Africa and Tigers are in Asia. Pretty big desert in between
That’s why it never worked for me. I assumed CE was Clear Everything.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Non preppers / Doomers. What's one small thing you're prepped for?
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?English
1·1 year agoI concur
Most creatures are a tube. Food goes in one end and out the other… Well, not starfish
We all are… Well, unless you happen to be a starfish
Mass per volume is density, and I suspect the Trex and kangaroo are similar (~1000 kg/m^3) so yes they’d both bounce in that case. I think what you’re looking for is surface area to volume, which decreases rapidly as an object gets larger while maintaining geometry.
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World News@lemmy.world•Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailedEnglish
2927·2 years agoThat sort of comment could be used to justify an unbelievable amount of vandalism and terror and is just not productive
A very similar enlightenment moment came to me as well long ago as an Intro Geology student
A few not listed:
- The Crow
- Empire Records
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Get Shorty
- Grosse Pointe Blank
Pulp Fiction(listed elsewhere)
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".English
4·2 years agoNamed for a dude’s wife, Charlene, and shoehorns into an appropriate mythological figure
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GBEnglish
101·2 years agoI know. That statement was weird. In just a few lines of code I can chew up all available ram on a machine.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What weird false belief did you have as a kid?
5·2 years agoMy work never ends and always demands more. I’ve just learned to shut it off and ignore it nights and weekends unless I have an ever critical deadline. Yes my child is an early tween and pretty self sufficient…that and a tough opponent in Super SmashBros. I’m in a pretty happy place


I see you, Los Alamos.