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robocall@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Trump Media stock has plunged 33% in a month

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Trump Media stock has plunged 33% in a month

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robocall@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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Shares hit a new low after Donald Trump's rough showing against Kamala Harris in this week's presidential debate

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      Someone explain the joke pwease

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        It’s an electron microscope of a violin built with individual atoms, as in “I will play the smallest violin in sympathy”

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          Did they actually do this? That still looks like it would be a hell of a lot of “individual atoms”

          Do we have 3D atom printers? Is that a thing?

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            The scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.

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              Makes sense that the scale is wrong, because somebody on DeviantArt made it in Blender/Photoshop

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                Makes sense, because I’ve never seen a SEM image like that… I thought it could’ve been an older model

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        Electron microscope of the worlds smallest violin. A way of mocking other’s problems by pretending to pretend to care.

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        Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).

        Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”

        Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.

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          It predates SpongeBob by quite a bit.

          https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-sarcastic-worlds-smallest-violin

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          the violin player that stayed to play was named Wallace Hartley and he was awesome.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Hartley

          his (emotionally broken, never remarried )fiance eventually received his recovered violin and it later sold for 1.8m.

          he’s now a sort of town hero from where he was from.

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          I was doing the world’s smallest violin thing in the early eighties as a kid…

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          I think MASH put it in popular culture a long time earlier

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          Damn, thanks for the exhaustive explaination. The internet needs more people like you

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            Is inaccurate tho

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              Oh, damn

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                Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.

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                  !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world

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        It appears to be the worlds tiniest violin.

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        Further explanation of the joke

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