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- Comment on WHY??? 15 hours ago:
To better understand how nature doesn’t always make smooth circles out of circular patterns, this Minute Physics video does a banger job using the Earth’s moon as an example.
For saturn, you’re talking about storm patterns, but the concept is somewhat similar, which is that forces acting on objects (storms) can arrange circles into wave-like shapes.
- Comment on WHY??? 15 hours ago:
Here’s a better visualization from Minute Physics idea how these “wave” patterns can make geometric shapes, using the fact that Earth’s moon doesn’t make a smooth circle around the sun.
- Comment on Corvid-19 1 day ago:
Star Trek was confined by budget, and used a goofy ass, obscure storyline that the galaxy was “seeded” by something in ancient times which is why everyone looks like humanoids with different kinds of bumpy foreheads. (despite it being a very specific set of environmental circumstances over millions or billions of years that led to primates on Earth becoming the dominant species, one of those “don’t think about it” plot devices.)
Does this suggest that there are non-humanoid empires outside of the galaxy? If Warhammer 40k taught us anything, it’s that beyond the Milky Way it’s only tyranids, which are probably going to be a much more difficult romantic option.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 2 days ago:
Someday artists are going to struggle to replicate this “look” in order to make memes and jokes.
On the sides of our cave walls.
- Comment on Corvid-19 2 days ago:
I’m surprised in the year of our Lord, 2025, we’ve still only had a couple of serious interspecies relationship pieces in popular media. You would think with the tech we have no there would be so many science fiction stories and romantic comedies about people and odd creatures or monsters in wacky romances.
And I mean fucking daring stuff. Even Shape of Water was almost tame, dude just looked like a jacked fishy man. But going in the right direction.
I genuinely think it would be good for society to mentally play with the far edges of our social constructs.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 days ago:
I blame the constant stream of bullshit, clickbait “science” headlines that media and internet has subjected an entire generation to, leading to the same effect as it’s had on politics, which is the average person tunes out completely and nobody knows what’s “standard” and normal anymore, and doesn’t really care either.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 3 days ago:
I had a black and white laser printer for a decade for printing mailing labels in a home business. The thing died from incompatibility long before I even had to change the toner cartridge.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 3 days ago:
The even smarter solution is do whatever it takes and make any and every sacrifice in order to redesign your entire life to NEVER need to use an inkjet printer in any capacity.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 days ago:
Look, whatever you have to do to keep Elon out of the place, I am fully supportive.
Seriously though, I was watching a documentary on the International Space Station a few days ago and listening to how this major network was hyping up such a “huge American engineering challenge” and “doing the impossible as the world watched on” and I couldn’t help but grumble “China has made three stations in half the time and those are just practice for an actual series of much bigger projects.” Literally, America gets NO news on progress and achievements outside of the USA.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 days ago:
I genuinely feel like a lot of people don’t think very much about their feelings or where they come from, and end up with really mixed-up or inconsistent values.
If you ask a lot of Americans why they feel the way they do about their country, negative or positive, they often become irritated or upset because most people just tie a lot of associations and emotions to other concepts and words. Which is fine, that’s how brains work. But I think if you’re involved in a democracy you should have some level of actual thought towards how you feel, what you want from your country and who should be representing those values. I can’t get people on either side of the political spectrum to care about any of that shit… which is why China will probably have the solar system in a generation.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 days ago:
There’s a huge difference between being ashamed of your Government’s actions and behavior and being ashamed of who you are/where you were born.
One is a valid criticism of the ruling class ignoring the people’s desire for peace and social responsibility. The other is a mental health issue.
I get attacked by people unable to make this conflation because I encourage people resistant to our government to pick up the goddamn American flag and wave it. Have some measure of pride in the institution you live in so others take it seriously when you demand improvement.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 days ago:
Yah the more I use AI the more I can detect the absolute bullshit people on both sides spew.
It’s the most amazingly complicated averaging machine we’ve ever invented. It will take the most interesting source materials, the most unique ideas of other people, the most creative materials, and it will find a way to find the safest, most average common qualities between those things. This isn’t a model problem or input problem, it’s fundamental to how generative AI works.
It helps with searching for things online, it helps create guide plans for taking on new tasks like learning some new skill. It’s far better at teaching how to do something like coding than it is left to just code on its own and you copy and paste. It can certainly do that, but you spend so much time correcting it and fixing it that you do far better learning the code yourself and how it works.
Same with art, the people who are using it to best effect are themselves already artists and they use AI to thumbnail compositions or rough layouts and then just do the work themselves but faster because they already know roughly what direction they’re going.
But using it to write your scripts, to copy/paste code, to generate works of art… it’s literally just giving you other people’s ideas mashed together and unseasoned.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 4 days ago:
Am I “stealing” fat from the food I eat?
Yes you are and you need to be stopped.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 4 days ago:
You can live in a symbiotic relationship with your company’s break-room policy, but you can’t become a host for workers of your own. It’s really unfair.
- Comment on How old are ferns, anyway? 5 days ago:
You can be a thought balloon if you really try.
- Comment on Assumptions 5 days ago:
And also why, “little puppy kisses” is not in fact, a wrestling move.
- Comment on Assumptions 5 days ago:
arms out wide then down to stomp
Shaka, when the walls fell!
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
In my ideal world, it’s not an issue because parents don’t let kids under a certain age or demonstrated maturity level have computers in their room alone, and even better, they teach their kids how to not have problems with predators, porn, and the deluge of online weirdness and have open, honest talks about how some things are dangerous because they prey on you, some things are dangerous because they get you hooked on certain feelings, and some things are dangerous because they give you false impressions of the world and relationships.
We’re about as close to that world as interstellar exploration, I know. Imagine having parents who you don’t feel afraid to talk to about mature topics and personal matters.
And all that aside, why is it such a big deal that kids not see boobs but they can see violence and gore? Why is it magically okay for Timmy Neckbeard to watch strangle-fetish porn night and day as soon as he turns 18? Why do we scream about how porn is ruining kids minds but we’re not taking down the grifting “masculinity influencers” with as much zeal as we’re going after pornhub and other sites that are mostly just consenting adults doing fun biological acts together? Why do we say porn companies are evil and not do anything to make it less evil like better regulations and resources since we know people are going to find ways to make and view it anyway?
Our species’ obsession with clear lines and labels is making us ignore where the actual problems are, we build fences around the outcomes not the sources. We create solutions to problems we don’t even want to look at directly. It’s like the government handing out umbrellas to combat the issue with the massive water main leak flooding the street.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 6 days ago:
That still creates a chain that can be followed. If the site you’re trying to enter is ever compromised, there will be record of your government code and whatever tracking is used to verify that you have entered your code.
I would be happy if the government was not involved in my online activities at all but I guess that ship is about to sail.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
Its really only an issue in the context of capitalism.
I mean, yes but also a massive portion of our entire society is propped up on the back of capitalism. There are a lot of people who think that a population crash will be good for us but if system crashes too fast, it won’t be an issue of not having new iphones and labubu’s, it will be an issue of not having antibiotics and rubber products like the washers in syringes and the company that makes the single bearing you need to keep your heater on in winter closed their doors years ago and the grocery store is almost empty and you haven’t heard any noise from your elderly neighbor’s house in three days, and is that gunfire again? It’s not an apocalyptic event but a withering of life and progress.
The damage that a collapse can cause can outweigh any long-term benefits and even last too long and hard for any better systems to even have a chance of taking root. Our logistics network is simultaneously the most impressive thing we’ve ever built and the most fragile, and it’s also what we rely on to a degree that should have scared everyone when a single cargo ship blocking a canal almost brought the world to a stop.
I am just trying to say that it’s a real issue that every nation is going to have to start bracing for with the same gravity as climate change because the consequences can lead to a lot of unnecessary suffering. I wish more people other than the very worst people were taking it seriously and preparing for the strain.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to attach metal spikes to your black lacrosse gear and matching trencoat.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
Haven’t seen any listings for “entry level white dude” but I’ll an eye peeled.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
I hope you understand anonymity is an illusion and that intelligence agencies and law enforcement can use these kinds of comments as a justification to get ALL up in your shit. It’s not really impressing anyone here, and it could get you in massive trouble.
This isn’t the internet’s backwater. There are bots crawling through these comments right now looking for and flagging users.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Since we’re roleplaying you should also say “skulls for the skull throne.”
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
I would literally move if I could afford it and if it was even a little easier.
Stockholm syndrome suggests we enjoy it or want to be here.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
There are people who move to China to become “professional white guys” where you hang out with socialites and drink and make them look good by being their “white associate” which is a big deal in some social circles. Literally that’s all you do.
The catch: you need to be really familiar with China, fluent in the language, and fluent in the culture and have some connects. You should probably also be somewhat attractive or at least know style and be fit.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
There are a lot of “state options” for the poor, but these are often terrible and only cover the most basic services. You may not even qualify for this in some states depending on requirements. Like, a lot of places now won’t provide any assistance without an address, monthly interviews or check-ins AND proof of income.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
Draw you like an infographic meme and paste text above you?
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
It used to be when the population was spiraling out of control faster than infrastructure and economy could keep up. A new middle-class of sorts rose up and people stopped having kids like everywhere else in the world. So now they have raised the limit to three and are throwing in a bundle of incentives and benefits but even that’s not increasing birth rates.
A lot of countries are facing aging populations and a smaller young workforce and it’s going to wreck economic production for literally everyone. There’s a reason for the huge push for robotics in elderly care across much of Asia.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A thousand dollars seems fantastically reasonable for a well-engineered home-gaming machine. I spend that much every several years on upgrading or building a new PC.
My complaint is not the price, I think the price is fair. Let’s talk wages.