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- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 19 hours ago:
You mean the same dumbass that blames an ingredient that hasn’t been in vaccines in over 20 years for Autism, an ingredient that has never been shown to cause autism in the first place? Does anyone actually take this jackass seriously?
Bobby Kennedy must be rolling over in his grave.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 days ago:
Beating up the bully requires one to be capable of such when the bully may be larger and physically imposing and part of a group then not getting treated as the guilty party afterward
I was small for my age up until 10th grade. Bullies would look at how small I was and decide I was an easy target, so they would start in on me. One thing you have to realize is that bullies aren’t bullies because they are tough and good at fighting, they pick on the smallest, ‘weakest’ kids they can find- so being a great fighter isn’t nearly as important as being willing to fight back in the first place. The point isn’t to beat them up, it’s to make them think twice about picking on you. If there is a chance they will get hurt, even if they end up winning the fight, they will always just move on to the next victim who wont fight back.
Between 5th grade and 10th grade I got into 1 fight every year. A kid who didn’t know me would try to bully me, and I would defend myself. I never lost a fight, not because I was a badass or anything, but the teachers would break up the fights before it progressed too far. I would always get in trouble with the school, but never with my parents who taught me it was ok to defend myself (but not start fights). When word got around that about the fight, I wouldn’t get picked on the rest of the school year. When the next year rolled around it was either a new student, or I was the new student. Someone who didn’t know me basically who would try to bully me.
You just have to ask yourself- would you rather accept the bullying and allow it to continue, or risk getting beat up by fighting back and getting in trouble- but putting a stop to it.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 days ago:
an option that a lot of immigrants don’t have.
Especially when a lot of the same type of people will throw a fit if an ‘immigrant’ doesn’t do everything they can to assimilate.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 week ago:
My god ran to the store for some pineapple to put on this bad boy.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 1 week ago:
Whatever speed an objet may gain while entering orbit should be lost when exiting it, right ?
That is true from the frame of reference of the planet. From the frame of a 3rd distant object that you want to accelerate towards, it appears you have gained momentum.
So I guess it’s the cinetic energy of the planet that is actually fuelling the spacecraft, isn’t it ?
Yes, but the mechanism for ‘extracting’ the kinetic energy from the planet is by using ‘gravity’, hence the name, “Gravitational Slingshot”.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 1 week ago:
While it’s true that your spacecraft would have to ‘counter that gravity’ to escape, that’s from the frame of reference of the planet. From the frame of reference of whatever distant object you want your craft to ‘accelerate’ towards, your craft will appear to have gained momentum. If it were a zero sum game- there would be no “gravitational slingshot” effect (aka gravity assist maneuver).
The way your spacecraft ‘steals’ kinetic energy from the planet it orbits is by using the “gravity” of the planet. The two objects never come into physical contact with one another, the mass of the ship and the mass of the planet effect each others path through space-time- although very slightly. That is to say they seem to ‘pull’ on each other- what we call gravity.
The Earth and the Moon likewise ‘steal’ energy from each other through ‘tidal’ interactions. This causes the Earth to rotate more slowly and the moon to recede from our planet- this is all due to ‘gravity’.
Black holes also have kinetic energy that you can ‘steal’, to boost yourself toward a third celestial body just like planets do.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t it? A gravity well is a gravity well. As long as you remain outside the event horizon it should work in the same way.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 1 week ago:
ITT, a bunch of people who simultaneously admit that they don’t really know for sure arguing with the people explaining it to them.
It’s ok to not know things. It’s okay to be confused. It’s much better to ask for clarification or do your own research than to tell people who do know that they are wrong.
Why are we like this?
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 week ago:
I was going to say I am column A and B, but I don’t cry about it.
We ARE miracles, we ARE “The Universe experiencing itself” and we are insignificant on the cosmic scale. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
Do funeral homes in Canada charge grieving families 15-20k to bury their loved ones?
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 4 weeks ago:
When I was filling out paperwork for my last job, it had a space for ‘Country’, which I thought was odd, but I put in USA anyway. The manager who took it said to me “You were supposed to put what County you live in here.” I said “Read it again”
Apparently they had been using the same form for years and no one noticed it said ‘Country’.
- Comment on Black Holes 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate you taking the time to reply in detail, thanks :)
I’ve never heard of the Ruliad before- I will definitely look into that.
- Comment on Black Holes 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate your detailed answer, thank you for taking the time :D
- Comment on Black Holes 5 weeks ago:
Gracias, amigo
- Comment on Black Holes 5 weeks ago:
It’s confusing. I don’t understand what the difference is between something which is made of ‘a pure abstract concept’, specifically math, and a simulation- which is also made out of math.
I’m not saying it’s something ran on a computer somewhere, just that the abstract concepts that make up our universe, if it is “made of math”, clearly has rules that it obeys- like the speed of light in a vacuum or the other constants. Which would seem to be analogous to parameters in a more traditional simulation. If ‘math’ is something that exists independent of sentient beings, couldn’t whatever that is be the ‘thing’ that the ‘simulation’ is ran on?
I guess where I’m getting hung up is the idea that the universe can be ‘made of’ something that has no ‘reality’. Am I just misunderstanding what it’s meant by ‘made of math’? Like even if math is ‘discovered’, how would that be any different than us inventing it, if it exists ‘without any reality’?
To be fair, there is lots of stuff I don’t understand, but I am trying- go easy on me.
I was being cheeky about the ‘cheat mode’ thing (unless it’s real then I’m in).
- Comment on Black Holes 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that ‘our reality is made of math’ before. Does this mean that we do in fact living in a simulation, even if that simulation wasn’t necessarily programmed by ‘higher dimensional’ beings?
If that is the case, could we conceivably ‘hack’ the universal code and unlock cheat mode?
- Comment on Black Holes 5 weeks ago:
And an infinitely dense point in spacetime doesn’t necessarily exist: it’s just what general relativity predicts is at the center of a black hole.
If the singularity at the center of a black hole didn’t exist, and was just extremely dense instead, would all of the other properties that we know is true about black holes be able to exist? For example we know that Sag A* and that one other black hole we ‘imaged’ give off no light, would that still be possible without a singularity?
- Comment on Black Holes 5 weeks ago:
userface checks out
- Comment on One Angry Man 5 weeks ago:
Annyong
- Comment on Funny 5 weeks ago:
One day I was headed to my car to go somewhere. A zealot intercepted me and wanted to proselytize to me. I told him thank you but no thank you. He was all like “But have you heard about Jesus Christ?” I said that I was raised a Christian and knew all about it, but I reject it. He still was trying to argue with me so I finally just said “Have a nice day” and walked away as he was still trying to reconvert me. Some of them simply can’t believe you know what they are about but don’t buy into it.
- Comment on Funny 5 weeks ago:
I Will Be Eaten First!
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 weeks ago:
What if you are referring specifically to a female canine or Meredith Brooks?
- Comment on One Angry Man 5 weeks ago:
The Sound of a Note
Star War
The Silence of a Lamb
A Song in the Rain
I like it Hot
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 5 weeks ago:
A living creature shouldn’t be turned in a commercial product for multiple reasons.
In theory, I disagree with this. Meat and other products made from animals such as leather and the trading of such products has been a big part of human culture and lifestyle since long before recorded history. There is some evidence that energy dense meat is at least party responsible for our evolution into what we are today. Leather and wool are amazing materials with properties that it’s still very difficult and expensive to replicate if its possible at all. Done humanely, it not only benefits humans but he animals in question themselves- as we are actively invested in their survival and well being. If and when we can make synthetic meat, leather, and wool, or alternatives with all the same properties and benefits as the ‘real’ thing, then I could be persuaded that is better.
In practice it becomes a big problem when we add Capitalism into the mix. Capitalism is exploitative by nature, and if it exploits human beings of course it’s going to do the same for animals. Ethics and morality are given the backseat to greed and profit. The most exploited workers can often not afford ethical alternatives when those options do exist.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t still strive to reduce meat consumption and improve conditions for livestock, but we should also recognize that capitalism is a huge part of the problem and always will be. If we want to improve the lives of humans and animals, we need to do away with it.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Heroic Games Launcher ftw!
- Comment on heaven 5 weeks ago:
Tats of Piggies getting shitfaced.
- Comment on heaven 5 weeks ago:
The AI will truly have to be able to think for themselves first. Whoever has written their parameters has done an impressive job of adding apologia into the algorithms about any religious topic.
Me: Does the bible say X?
AI: Yes
Me: Does the bible also say Y? (the literal opposite of X)
AI: Yes
Me: Doesn’t that mean the bible is inconsistent in this regard?
AI: Well you have to understand the cultural context of the time and be sure to approach such topics with sensitivity and blah…blah…
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know but, being a damn Yankee and straight man, I was sure the gay rodeo was something you invented specifically for this plot. I was about to comment you should have a side plot that explains what a gay rodeo is and what it’s purpose is.
Then I thought, “What if gay rodeo is a real thing and you could just look it up yourself?”
“But Self”, I replied “Wouldn’t a gay rodeo just be a rodeo?”
“Bro, you literally have access to all the worlds information at your fingertips- find out!”
So that’s what I did. To my delight I found out I was right and wrong. Gay rodeo is pretty much just a rodeo, but it’s also a safe space where gay folk that lived in a backwards ass culture could be themselves- and had been since the 1970’s!
You definitely should add a side plot that explains what gay rodeo is and it’s purpose, because it’s beautiful :)
Good luck!
- Comment on It's all connected 5 weeks ago:
That’s weird, I don’t remember Barbara being that short. 🤔
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 weeks ago:
He’s slowly making Obama’s joke come true.
