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[–] Dadifer 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] InverseParallax 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You might know him for his academic papers.

[–] atocci 42 points 1 month ago

Among other works

[–] motor_spirit 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you joke but this is how he's brightly discussed in some circles lol I have seen some concerning publications that refer to him as uncle Ted and other light-hearted names in a similar context

[–] XeroxCool 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like it's up there with the killdozer Fandom. Casual terrorism... Or living the American dream?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

terrorism is the American dream, why else would we worship 9/11 and sadam husane?

[–] DamienGramatacus 7 points 1 month ago

And his cake having tendancies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, the mathematician. What about him?

!it's a running gag for the onion!<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tap for spoilerHmm

I used:

Tap for spoilerhidden content
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's what I used and it works on my app

Whatever you're using seems to take the > as a comment immediately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m using Voyager iOS, but checked this out from a browser.

Looks like this method:

>! spoiler !<

doesn’t work on our (yours & my) instance, nor Midwest Social:

Interesting that Join-Lemmy.org advocates for the format I previously showed in a code block:

yet your client supports the “greater than exclamation point” method. It makes me wonder whether your client should support it.

(Lots of folks like that method though per Lemmy GitHub!)

Which client you using? I’ll share this comment with them.

[–] GreenAppleTree 2 points 1 month ago

That was the Reddit spoiler tag, so I'm guessing they're using one of the ex-reddit clients that pivoted to Lemmy during the great migration.

Either Sync, Boost, Eternity, or.. the other one I couldn't remember the name of.