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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 77 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And that’s why we have positrons instead of the much-cooler-sounding negatrons.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Man, they have positrons and negatrons now? The Transformers franchise is wild.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We gotta keep them out of sports, they are too strong.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

The south^of Cybertron^ will rise again?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago

Oddly when it came time to negotiations, they somehow realized actually calling yourself a Decepticon, was not a good name for inspiring trust.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For some reason every Negatron in the last Michael Bay movie was black.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that in antimatter circuits the positrons would move the same way as the electrons in equivalent matter circuits

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Well sure. And in that universe, electrons might be called negatrons.