Redfox8
@Redfox8@mander.xyz
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 1 week ago:
So they’re recycling…good on them…but there I was thinking they may be creating some Apple-PC steam punk mutant for some specialist market…
- Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 1 week ago:
The hidden tracks were the best!
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for your reply, nice and clearly described for my amateur physicist brain to follow! ;p I’ll reply in full when I’m less tired, but intrigued by your reply about time! In summary I think of it as a way of describing how something changes, rather than time actually existing. I.e. it’s relative to the energy the object has…so is a way of describing how much energy it has. I see you talk about black holes in a reply to someone else and my first thought is - the idea that time slows as your get closer (or is that a popular misconception?) relative to my thinking is that actually the particles are loosing energy, not time actually changing - and therefore would any particles actually catch up with each other as you describe? Let alone be observable to be moving.
And thinking about your last paragraph - are you not simply describing that object A which entered the black hole before object B, is simply is closer to the centre than B at any given ‘time’ which err doesn’t exist. And neither does space come to think of it. Space is the nothingness between something, so also just a way of describing how something changes or interacts with something else. E.g. 2 particles exert a force on each other and move closer together through an exchange of energy - space is simply part of a description of how much of the interaction has been completed, similar to time, hence why they’re thought of together and also as one and the same.
The distance thing is therefore how much force, what force and how strongly a force is being exerted rather than a physical thing.
Which (now a bit of side thought I had half an hour ago!) makes me think that black holes have no centre and the singularity is rather like the surface of a sphere, at which point all matter has no energy left to move - or perhaps its better to describe it that all matter’s energy is now potential energy due to the immense forces at work, a bit like a compressed spring.
Erm ok so I replied a lot in the end! I hope it makes some sense, I could probably ramble on some more but I’d better stop fir now! though I do realise there may be some concepts that I’m ignorant of that could destroy my thinking, so feel free to deconstruct!
- Comment on The first 1 star review 2 weeks ago:
I love how everyone goes “it wasn’t chiselled!” and my first thought is, someone probably wrote this for them/recorded it for the court (or ancient equivalent) is the actual issue with the post!
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 weeks ago:
Please explain entanglement and how two particles can be inexplicably connected despite being gajillions of light years apart! Bonus question, do you believe time exists?
- Comment on This place is back online! 2 weeks ago:
Good work and thanks for the update and info :) a good reminder that there’s people out there looking after our communities whilst we doomscroll away! ;)
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! Which was my original point that this ‘power thing’ is about using/tied to abusive/instluting behaviour rather than something separate.
- Comment on Bouyancy 3 weeks ago:
Oh dear lord that made me laugh rather a lot! This is my life now!
- Comment on 27 March 2025 3 weeks ago:
They’ll never let you diwn either…
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
No, the discussion was not about whether different words were of equal or differing offensiveness. My discussion is about what saying ‘it’s a power thing’ actually means and how it relates to abusive behaviour.
- Comment on but what happened to logsday? 3 weeks ago:
I still remember Domesday, it only happened the once before ‘they’ covered it up. I’ll never forget it, so many questions.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
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One thing I agree with you on is that it isn’t necessarily always abuse, however the original post is about that group of friend’s chat, which I believe is abusive in nature from what has been shared (and hence why so many people have disowned them) and which you turned into (and are still rambling on about) some political somethingor another…
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Again, this has nothing to do with politics.
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You know nothing about my political beliefs so are shouting into thin air. (I’m not even from the US so can’t even ‘be’ a Dem! Oh boy.)
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This has nothing to do with politics, did I say that already?!
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- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
What have far left (or far right, or even centrist) politics got to do with it? This is about what’s socially acceptable. Yes that feeds into politics and left/right/centre opinions, but I’m not discussing politics (nor was the person you replied to). Which ties in with my first comment that you’re combining politics with social issues erroneously.
Ultimately abuse is, abuse, is abuse, no matter how you dress it up.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
So, if you were to replace ‘cocksucker’ with ‘towelhead’, slut, Yid, or Nig*** would that still just be a power thing?
Not that it actually makes a difference. This ‘power thing’ you refer to is controlling abuse for self interest. Introducing a predudice is just a way of trying to justify and/or hide the abuse.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re getting caught up in the state being abusive and controlling to it’s citizens (as Dump is doing now) and society self-regulating itself for it’s own benefit (something that happens in all social groups) as being one and the same. Just because someone calls out another person’s bad behaviour, that does not equate to supporting a dictatorial, or similarly controlling, leadership.
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know Gaaga, Xenon & Xenon 2, Megablast was my Atari ST era. I remember the soundtrack/music being very good for that time.
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 4 weeks ago:
Well I hit the right era, didn’t expect it to be that old! The game you describe does sound very familar, I’msure I’ve played it…now you’ve got my aging memory working away!
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 4 weeks ago:
Megablast!
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 4 weeks ago:
Horace goes skiing?
- Comment on mass 1 month ago:
How would it carry the load?
- Comment on Could every monarchy and authoritarian/tyrannical societies have been the result of child abuse? 3 months ago:
But unfortunately abuse creates deep insecurity, which creates a drive for power (control), so I think the OP isn’t far off the mark. Benevolent ruling is largely history washing imo, even if some good acts were carried out. The winner writes the history after all.
But your point is broadly fair - in most cases there is great variety in life. The ruling class, however, consists of less than 0.0001% of the global population so lies outside or the majority (figure made up for illustrstive purposes!).
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 3 months ago:
I’m with you ‘brother’, albeit one year behind. Let us tell tales of effective protest and civilian action!
- Comment on Cunk on Life (2024, showrunner Al Campbell) 3 months ago:
Awesome! Can’t wait for some more Cunk!
- Comment on Petrichor 4 months ago:
At 45 i consider myself to have reached Pro-am status.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 5 months ago:
I believe the receptor cell responds to a particular part of the molecule in question. Artificial flavourings and scents have identical (or similar enough) parts to trigger the same response, but are otherwise different molecules.
- Comment on WILD 5 months ago:
But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 5 months ago:
So do you
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 6 months ago:
I spend too much time at my pc or driving so get lower back pain. I recently found this workout that’s really good. It’s challenging but really works well! I sometimes have to ease back a little, especially on the last part, but it still helps.
Apologies, I can’t remember how/where to get alternative YT links.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 7 months ago:
But then who are the criminals and ‘bad’ people if not those that have rejected the contract? Life is never all or nothing, so there will be times when someone will abide by the contract, for whatever reason, and times when they wont. This discussion centres on the times that they don’t and assumes that is the option taken the majority of the time.
True, a society does demand sacrifice of free will, however it can be argued that there can never be 100% free will even if you’re a hermit in a cave 100s of miles from another human. E.g. “I want to stay in my cave all day today, but I can’t because I’ve run out of food.” Hunger removes the free will for that period of time.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 7 months ago:
Ah but is that not peer pressure? You and others don’t want your cars damaged etc and therefore critisise people who leave carts around selfishly. This then creates a scenario where people may feel guilty or wish to avoid said critisism and put the cart away as a result.
I agree that social contracts exist, but only between those who accept them and are willing to make an effort for everyone and anyone. Those that do not return the cart are in effect rejecting that contract.