PiJiNWiNg
@PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We need a vexillology community! 3 weeks ago:
PORK CHOP SANDWICHES
- Comment on Anon drives a bus 2 months ago:
They always say the best gifts are the ones your kids makes you, Chinese parents must get some great stuff.
- Comment on Mitocorndriog 2 months ago:
Mitocorndriog is the powerhouse of the bachelor
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
“I got into paleantology to study animal bones”
- Comment on ‘Crossed’ Movie in The Works From ‘The Boys’ Creator Garth Ennis (Exclusive) 2 months ago:
Seriously. Certain issue covers could warrant an R rating on their own. Not sure if you have seen The Sadness (2021), but plot-wise its pretty similar. If they can do something sinilar with The Crossed then ill be happy.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus (2024) - What did you think? [Spoilers] 2 months ago:
Right there with you! Rooks teletubby level CGI mouth was an immediate immersion breaker. When i heard this movie was taking place between Alien and Aliens, I was really hoping we’d see the story of the how the colony on LV-426 finally came across the eggs and got destroyed. Instead it feels like i got a slightly different version of the first movie with a bigger budget and the same ending.
Further, i hate how she was able to kill the gravity and smoke a colony worth of xenomorphs. Forget that a single xenomorph has presented huge problems for people in other movies, but why do they all the sudden forget they were clinging to walls and that they have prehensile tails when the gravity runs off? Ruined how scary they were supposed to be.
- Comment on Nominate a Film for Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theater"! (August) 3 months ago:
One of my favorite action movies, Dredd (2012)
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite summer movie? 3 months ago:
SLC Punk!
- Comment on Anon is French 3 months ago:
They’re to increase surface area on the barrel to radiate heat more effectively.
- Comment on Geometry 4 months ago:
How have I not heard this before 😆
- Comment on The 15 craziest Nicolas Cage movies, ranked (including 'Longlegs') 4 months ago:
I really do not understand why people love longlegs so much. I was mostly bored and having my immersion broken by the terrible SFX.
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 4 months ago:
Not neccesarily, there are a number of modern philosiphers and physicists who posit that “experience” is incalculable, and further that it’s directly tied to the collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics (Penrose-Hammerof; ORCH-OR). I’m not saying they’re right, but Penrose won a Nobel Prize in quantum mechanics and he says it can’t be explained by math.
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 4 months ago:
There’s a lot we understand about the brain, but there is so much more we dont understand about the brain and “awareness” in general. It may not be magic, but it certainly isnt 100% understood.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
Puck up the cheapest 40lb bag of dogfood you can find they’ll love it and its got the nutrients they need!
- Comment on Children is bugs 4 months ago:
Who is going to recognize that name as being after a bug though? Only people who they tell, lol
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 months 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 5 months ago:
Neat!
- Comment on Full Lives 5 months 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 5 months ago:
Take solace in the fact that you are part of said nature :)
- Comment on [Monthly thread] What have you been watching? June 2024 5 months 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 5 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Now if they can just spread that to the rest of Nintendo…
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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? 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Makes you wonder what happens to a person who now accepts the voices in their head as divine mandate…
- Comment on histories mysteries 6 months ago:
To me it looks like something you’d use to easily make a Monkey Fist for throwing line to/from a pier.