Zink

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If proton decay isn't true⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a physicist, but I thought the heat death of the universe also involved all the matter being sucked into black holes and turned into pure energy. There’s a big chunk converted up front in the accretion disk, then the rest is converted into hawking radiation as the black hole(s) evaporate over the oodles and oodles of years.

  Whether or not there are also lumps of iron-56 or other matter floating around in the cold void probably depends on the real truth behind dark matter and dark energy and their long-term behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you please write a metal-as-fuck version of Charlotte’s Web where your black widow blood line watches you work on cars, or just live life or whatever?

  I am imagining her as kind of a black leather halloween catwoman punk or slutty version of the original, but only you can tell her real story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That general approach was so common. It really is sad.

  One of the really bad effects of modern society (american especially) has been conditioning us to think of ourselves as these independent entities separate from nature and from our actual physical communities & people. We just interact with those things when we require their resources, etc. Transactional relationships happen.

  One effect of this is, of course, not being considerate to those around you. But as your example shows, some people are so bad about it that it’s not even a question of deciding whether to choose their own convenience over the safety of others. Considering the risk to others never enters the picture in the first place. When asked about it they would answer something like “my health is my concern, their health is their concern, and it’s also none of my business.” Said politely and without malice. It’s just ingrained that deep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This effect can be really messed up once you have a kid and they get to the ages where you can remember childhood memories.

  Things that took FOR FUCKING EVER as a kid just zip past in the blink of an eye when I’m the parent instead of the child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You drive a Hemi? Balls to the wall?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, Woodstock '99 was his peak!

  Looking back through my spotty memories, it’s like Kid Rock had his rise in the late 90s and then vanished from the face of the earth after I saw him at Woodstock '99.

  …well then they resurrected the brand a decade or two later to help elect the worst person on the planet to the most powerful job on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will keep that in mind. I look forward to taking my time with it. Thank you again!

  I ordered the other book too, but Wright’s book here has definitely jumped to the front of the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was really curious to check out that first book after your short version.

  But damn, the subject matter of that second book might draw my attention first. The Buddhist approach & techniques made so much sense to me in a completely pragmatic way.

  I might have to order myself physical copies of both of these to read outside by my koi pond on cool fall days. The fact that the whole scene will be so on the nose to the point of being cliched will just amuse me further, lol.

  Thanks for the recommendations!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a Jesus quote about specifically this. Here’s the first search result.

  “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” (Matthew 5:17–18).

  That’s the convenient quote that conservatives can point to when they still want to enforce old testament shit. For instance, claiming to follow Leviticus when they’re being homophobic, rather than going with their homeboy’s forgiveness and loving the sinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus was the OG Nigerian Prince!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think about this more than anything in those quiet “run the brain’s existential dread garbage collection routine” moments.

  Self aware consciousness is just so wild. Like you say, how does it even exist? But it’s also so common on our little planet here (even if we only count the humans) that it is as commonplace as it is spectacular.

  It feels like this magical “extra” thing, but at the same time the evidence kinda suggests it’s just something that naturally happens once you get complex life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woof is dog for "You may test that assumption at your convenience"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. If we think of gorillas as the T-Rex of the primate world, then on paper baboons are pretty much the velociraptors. About half the weight of a human, really fast, and packing 6 inch canines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Plastic Mr. Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of right-wing people use … as an excuse to not care about … at all…

  I thought your comment would be one of those rare instances where you can make a sentence more accurate by generalizing it.

  They REALLY like doing it with people, and ruining the environment and/or climate is just shitting on other people (especially the poor ones) with an added level of abstraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously this!

  Win7 in a VM work great in Linux. But what you SHOULD do is just install Linux Mint and use it for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also needs a conical upper jaw, such that the axis of each tooth is pointed at the center of his chin rather than straight down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, and your wording is excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s an advocate for spending where it brings you value (and only you can decide that), and aggressively cutting out the things that don’t.

  That’s an excellent way to put it! Sometimes I feel like a weirdo for actually pursuing the things that bring me happiness. Like that makes me the eccentric one. So many seem to be on a boring yet miserable autopilot, trying get the things they’ve been taught they SHOULD want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This subject is dear to my heart, because I realized that part of my conservative upbringing taught me money is the important thing and that emotions are worthless and dumb. If you spend money on something that makes you happy but does not provide commensurate utility or return on investment, it is by definition a dumb purchase. Treating yourself is a waste of resources and therefore makes you a bad person. Maybe unless you are debt free and fully funding every retirement and college account you got. (note the unspoken implication that it’s cool for the rich to do whatever they want)

  As I have spent decades reverse engineering the instructions for my brain, I have recently concluded that not only do I thrive when building and creating things, but having the perfect high-quality tool that is great at what it does right down to the sensory feedback can really enhance the experience for me.

  I’ve spent a bunch of money expanding and upgrading my collection this year, and I haven’t regretted it once. But I’ve spent even more on the materials just in the months since!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that your yard?

  This is so awesome and so perfect for my yard that I showed my family and said we should do this next year.

  The yard already gets decorated (I have a third grader who is way into it) and this would make the perfect foreground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh lol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that, but it is unlikely that any star in our galaxy will collide with any star in Andromeda.

  I think it’s easy to think of galaxies as individual things, like these nodes in the universe where all the stuff is stored. But galaxies are incredibly vast and incredibly empty.

  I love the video this guy did on the subject: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRmyY3Db1Y

  The part that stuck with me is that if you made the Milky Way the size of the United States, our gigantic sun holding 99.86% of the matter in the solar system would be microscopic – the size of a red blood cell. And iirc, the planet earth would be all the way down to the size of a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh lol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Space is expanding everywhere at once, but the effect is minuscule at the scales we’re used to. And even at galactic scales the “speed” of expansion might seem like a lot to us, but it still isn’t enough to overcome the motion of objects. I looked up some rough numbers to give you an idea:

  The rate of expansion of space is 73 km/s/Mpc. So for every 3.26 million light-years between you and a distant galaxy, the space between you and that galaxy is expanding by 73 kilometers per second.

  Andromeda’s blue shift indicates it’s headed towards us at 110 km/s. And in my non-expert head I’m thinking that blueshifted light must have already been redshifted by the millions of years traveling through space to reach us. So the galaxy’s speed through space towards us when the light was emitted was considerably higher.

  Andromeda is 2.5 Million light-years away, btw. So the cumulative distance of space between here and there is expanding at something like 73 km/s/Mpc * 2.5 Mly * 1Mpc/3.26Mly = 57 km/s.

  But when talking about relativistic distances and speeds, basic terms regarding time and location don’t always make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Jesus he is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would keep things consistent with the apparent rule that conservatives must act opposite of what the bible says.

  First it discourages molesting kids. RNC buzzkill.

  Then while they’re using abortion as a successful wedge issue and mechanism of control, the Bible is over here giving instructions on how to give abortions to unfaithful women.

  Then there are so many groups to hate…

  And SO many desperate poor people to ignore or actively push out of view…

  I probably don’t need to go on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Intent, mindfulness, and informed decision making?

  I mean, knowing that something is technically propaganda does not make it wrong or make it taboo to repeat. The word has a negative connotation because it’s typically used to describe the “other” guys, sure, but its meaning is very broad.

  If I were to say the phrase “fuck Nestle” or even just the term “DeGoogle” one could correctly label those as anti-corporate propaganda with an agenda to harm the interests of an untold number of shareholders. Heck, thanks to broadly diversified 401k investment fund options, I am probably one of them and future me could lose entire dollars.

  Is anybody on Lemmy going to shake their finger at me for repeating those two pieces of targeted, agenda-driven propaganda though? I certainly don’t feel icky for saying it. I bet I could even say something negative about the president of the united states without feeling embarrassed. :]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, IMO. You tilt your head back to look up, but you don’t tilt your head left to look right.

  I think it’s an issue of mapping potentially 6 axes of movement to a 2D plane. They don’t all line up the same way. Left and right in the game line up with left and right on the mousepad, but up and down in the game map to forward and back with the mouse.

  Thinking of the mouse being glued to the top of your head works better for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree and oh man did I love that config.

  But over the years there would be those asshole games that were still worth playing, or once I had a kid it would be some janky game he was having fun with.

  So I actually managed to convert to WASD then years later to non-inverted.

  It’s certainly not better, but it sure is convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEI, more like DIED⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.

  Conservative messaging 101 right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEI, more like DIED⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For some it takes a village.

  For some like Charlie it takes an orgy. Of exclusively middle aged dad bods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He had shitty opinions

  I think we should stop saying this.

  He was killed for his actions, not his opinions. His members are the ones who kill for opinions.

  Discussing his personal opinions feels like a bit of a republican both sidesing talking point, honestly. It was the same with talk radio hosts decades ago. People would argue whether Limbaugh or Hannity really believe all the BS or if they just do it for ratings.

  I only remember caring about that distinction when I was still immersed in the conservatism I was born into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  weather leads to climate, climate leads to fear…

  Fear… leads to sOcIaLiSm!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Harambe was 2016!

  Not my joke, but it fits, lol.