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What is your "hunch"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] mech@feddit.org 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: The guy who invented leaded gasoline later went on to invent fridges that use CFCs as coolant (Thomas Midgley Jr). Probably the person who single-handedly had the worst impact on the environment in all of history.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

He got polio and was bedridden, and he came up with this hoist system of pulleys and ropes to move himself around with, which went wrong and strangled him. So at least his death was sufficiently hilarious.

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[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Too many people asked "can we do this thing?" when they should have been asking "should we do this thing?"

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Too many people asked “can we do sell this thing?” when they should have been asking “should we do sell this thing?”

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