PiJiNWiNg
@PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 days ago:
I cant find the clip online, but i seem to remember a scene in ‘Lucy’ where she, while on an airplane, pulls out two laptops and uses them both, one with each hand, to do some tech magic.
- Comment on Full Lives 3 weeks ago:
Neat!
- Comment on Full Lives 3 weeks ago:
Ive not taken the time to verify any of the information in this post, but lets assume for the moment that good science has been done and these claims are legit. Lets also take consider other similar research that has been done in the arena of plant and animal “awareness”. Are we approaching a point in the scientific community where some level of awareness ahould be assumed for creatures beyond ourselves? It seems that every time we look close enough at a product of nature (fungus, plants, etc) we discover some new element of what we would call “awareness”. Hell, I’ve even seen claims that certain plants can be anesthetized, with drugs that work on humans no less.
Say that we discovered life as we know it on another planet, and what that would do to our perception of “life” throughout the universe. Once could be a fluke, twice could be a coincidence, but given the scale of our universe if we were to find any life, in our own galaxy especially, it would drastically change our perception of the rarity of life.
Now, consider that we have primate relatives who show many of the some properties of awareness that we do, and the pile of other research pointing to varying levels of “awareness” for virtually everything we look at, including creatures such as planta and fungi. How this hasn’t led to a general acceptance that every “living” thing likely has a subjective experience is a bit beyond me, but I also am not a trained scientist, so maybe someone here can shed some light.
- Comment on Full Lives 3 weeks ago:
Take solace in the fact that you are part of said nature :)
- Comment on [Monthly thread] What have you been watching? June 2024 3 weeks ago:
Mars Express - Really enjoyed this one. Like Scavengars Reign and Blade Runner had a baby.
Manjummel Boys - Almost lost me with some corny intro stuff, but it picked up quickly after that and turned out really enjoyable.
Boy Kills World - I read “action movie fever dream” in the description and went for it. Story is a bit flat (it was based on a short film, so whatever) but the fights were pretty awesome, with equally awesome cringe-worthy gore (if you’re into that)
Civil War - I really appreciated the level of ambiguity in the movie, as it forced me to focus on the experience of the people in the story. Ultimately it doesnt really matter who the bad guys are, war is hell.
- Comment on Edison 4 weeks ago:
“You rape em, we scrape em”
(I do not condone this message)
- Comment on Demi Moore’s gory new horror movie could win her an Oscar 5 weeks ago:
I hate how long it took me to find the title of the movie, its called “The Substance” for everyone else.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 weeks ago:
Now if they can just spread that to the rest of Nintendo…
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
Thank you very much for the thought out explanation, i think im beginning to grasp the concept. To summarize to make sure:
- accelerating mass causes gravitational waves
- two bodies orbiting eachother are also accelerating towards eachother by virtue of centripetal force.
- the energy to generate this wave is stripped directly from the kinetic energy of the system, causing the orbit to decay.
So the comparison to atoms releasing EM energy is a bit more apt then I initially thought. Thanks again!
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
The sensation of the passage of time never changes for the observer. The tidal wave planet from Interstellar is a good example of this.
- Comment on sweet dreams 1 month ago:
Could you explain what you mean by “emitting gravitational radiation”? Gravity is how we perceive distortions in spacetime, the strength of which being determined by the mass of the objects. I understand that orbits can “decay”, but that is not the same as radioactive decay.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 1 month ago:
Cpuldnyou fill me in as to why Brave is only advertiaed as secure? I understand the ads/crypto thing, but if you arent opted into that and just block the ads, is there anythimg else? I also understand its a Chromium browser, but that doesnt mean google has their hooks in it (necessarily).
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 month ago:
Laura Linney playing Wendy Byrde in Ozark, and Pablo Shreiber playing Sean Hauser in Law and Order SVU.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 month ago:
Makes you wonder what happens to a person who now accepts the voices in their head as divine mandate…
- Comment on histories mysteries 1 month ago:
To me it looks like something you’d use to easily make a Monkey Fist for throwing line to/from a pier.
- Comment on Jeff Bridges Returns For "TRON: Ares" - Dark Horizons 1 month ago:
The real question in my mind is who’s doing the soundtrack?
- Comment on Jeff Bridges Returns For "TRON: Ares" - Dark Horizons 1 month ago:
Bummer…
- Comment on What’s one miscast role that irks you in an otherwise perfect film? 1 month ago:
He’s a caricature of himself at this point, making it next to impossible to take him seriously in a role like that.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What have you been watching this week? 25th of April 1 month ago:
I’ve been going through Battlestar Galactica for the first time. I’m really impressed so far, I was honestly expecting something much cornier, but the production value is solid and the acting isn’t half bad either!
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What have you been watching this week? 25th of April 1 month ago:
I have to say I very much enjoyed this movie, but the addiction metaphor was a bit too on the nose for me and kind of broke the immersion.
- Comment on banana slugs 2 months ago:
Another interesting fact about these, their mucus has a mild anesthetic affect and will numb your tongue if you lick it.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 2 months ago:
It’s so convenient, I don’t understand why it ever went out of style
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 2 months ago:
I hope the asshole that stole my CD wallet from my truck years ago is in a better place in there life now, but I’m still sore about it… Fucker…
- Comment on proof is in the pudding 2 months ago:
They are referring to killing test subject animals I’m assuming? Gonna have to kill the mouse to get the brain sample or whatever.