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  • xylogx@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldLemmy be like
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    2 days ago

    My Italian grandmother taught me to break the spaghetti. Also, my Italian grandfather fought for the Allies in WW1, coming to the US in 1923 the last year before the xenophobic, 1924 anti-immigration bill was passed essentially cutting off immigration. He came with his pregnant sister through many trials on a long boat cruise to re-unite her with her husband who was already living in the US. So by 1940 my Italian grandmother was supporting the US where she had lived for over a decade. Please do not make assumptions about people’s Italian grandmothers.

    BTW my grandfather was a bit of a bad-ass, he served in the Arditi, Italian shock-troops who specialized in explosives and close quarter combat with edged weapons. He taught me to shoot a rifle when I was 7!

















  • xylogx@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzme_irl_conflict
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    23 days ago

    Einstein was not sure if the universe was expanding, contracting or static. He famously had a constant he could use to change this:

    "…Einstein’s cosmological constant, is a coefficient that Albert Einstein initially added to his field equations of general relativity.

    Einstein introduced the constant in 1917 to counterbalance the effect of gravity and achieve a static universe, which was then assumed. Einstein’s cosmological constant was abandoned after Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant