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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:09:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   excited to announce a 20 billion dollar investment from the state of california into research into room-temperature semiconductors

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:15:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     damn it, it turns out I stole an xkcd joke from last year:
     https://xkcd.com/2798/

     (thanks to @spacehobo for pointing it out)

   • 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:26:27 JST 𝚝𝚓𝚠

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @foone @spacehobo "That's when I came up with that joke. When I saw it on xkcd"
     -Grandpa Simpson

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:26:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • 𝚝𝚓𝚠
     • Space Hobo Actual

     @thomasjwebb @spacehobo the annoying thing is that I'm over a year behind on XKCD reading, so I didn't actually consciously or unconsciously steal their joke

   • ♡ Modeus ♡ (cyber_cereal_killer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 12:02:36 JST ♡ Modeus ♡

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @foone @spacehobo I have no clue what this Means
     Could someone explain it to me please

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 12:02:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Space Hobo Actual
     • ♡ Modeus ♡

     @Cyber_cereal_killer @spacehobo the joke is that there's a lot of research into room-temperature SUPERconductors. They'd be really handy if they exist, as currently we can only do superconducting at super-cold temperatures.
     SEMIconductors, on the other hand, are things like diodes and transistors, and they're everywhere. They're not super temperature dependent, so "room temperature" is kinda meaningless. The joke is just mixing up the two because they sound similar