CarbonIceDragon
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- Comment on Country music 14 hours ago:
Space.
- Comment on lil robot 1 week ago:
Hey, it’s not Mar’s fault that Saturn destroyed it’s robot by burning it with it’s atmosphere…
- Comment on Fact checked 2 weeks ago:
Israel is not Judaism and criticism of it is not criticism of Jewish people as a whole. To hold otherwise is to hold an entire people responsible for the actions of a few (those in the Israeli government), that those people often have no or only limited influence over, which would be an inherently bigoted position to take because it robs those people of their agency. If anything, the Israeli government itself is being antisemitic in a sense by pushing such a narrative in order to use Jewish people as a whole as shield against criticism of their actions.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
Last time one of these threads popped up, I saw someone suggest that it might have been a holder for some of those bottles with pointed bottoms the Romans had, don’t remember the name. I’m not sure if this is a hypothesis with any level of acceptance, but it feels like it could be plausible just from looking at the thing, having different sized holes would allow different sizes of bottle to fit, and you’d want feet for each possible side that it could be resting on, which would explain the prongs.
- Comment on Physics 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t a lot of engineering basically applied physics though anyway? Just reversed, such that rather than studying or predicting how a physical system should behave, you’re trying to take what has been learned over time and use it to work backwards to create a system that exhibits desired behavior
- Comment on Physics 2 weeks ago:
I didnt really pivot to anything, I was very unsure what I wanted to do at that point, and being quite bad at learning virtually, which of course most everything had temporarily pivoted to at that time, I took an opportunity to move in with a family member in a different state that I liked better. Ive not gone back to school since as Ive been worried about spending a lot of time and effort and money on something that I cant see through to completion again or wont like using. Ive ended up working a low volume manufacturing type job at a company that makes measuring equipment (microscopes and spectroscopy devices and such like that), which Ive found tolerable enough as the work has some amount of variation, isn’t too physically or socially demanding, and at least has some scientific relevance (it doesn’t involve doing any science, but scientists cant do their work without the right equipment, so making some of that equipment still feels helpful in some small way). Ive thought about going back at some point if I can come up with something Im sure I’ll prefer doing, but so far have not and have no immediate plans.
- Comment on Physics 2 weeks ago:
If theres anything that I took away from my 3 years of trying to get a physics degree before burning out on it around covid hit, its that like half of physics seems to be just figuring out what approximations you can safely make to turn something infeasibly complicated into something that can actually be worked out
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle includes indie classics (and hundreds more) for just $8 3 weeks ago:
From the sound of it, they are selling games, and then donating the money to a nonprofit that is supposed to help Gaza
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 3 weeks ago:
Pumpkins I’m curious about. All I can even think of to do with a pumpkin is pie, though I’m sure there’s probably more traditionally done with them
- Comment on pluto 4 weeks ago:
Me, who misread the caption at first, who knows Plato is a philosopher
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
A time machine would necessarily need to have some way of defining what reference frame one is stationary in space relative towards, because there is no universal frame that everything moves relative too. This suggests that a time machine ought to let you move through space as well as time
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
If whales are smart enough to debate that, they probably have cultural memory of almost getting whaled to extinction. Which would make them like us less, but on the other hand, might make them afraid to get us too upset at them
- Comment on get infamous, yeah! 5 weeks ago:
At least theres no “dck” this time
- Comment on Greatest train robbery ever 5 weeks ago:
I mean, until the next train comes that is
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
We tried banning it, it didn’t really end too well, as it was still available but funded a lot of organized crime, but apparently we didn’t learn our lesson when it comes to other drugs. It’s also not really practical to control as making it, in at least some form or another, is too easy. Even weed requires you have seeds from a specific plant to produce it, whereas a huge, huge variety of foods cab be fermented. It’s also got a lot of cultural relevance and history to it that make people think of it as different from other drugs
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If anything, the book of Mormon would be fan-fiction in this series, or maybe one of those cases where the author’s son or whatever writes an awkward sequel that isn’t as popular as the originals and steps all over the canon.
- Comment on You weirdos 1 month ago:
Jeans are comfy, and I hate the sensation of too much air on my bare legs. And no, the blankets aren’t enough, it needs to be pants, and almost all my pants are jeans.
- Comment on Get the ketchup. 2 months ago:
Honestly, it might not be that bad
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 3 months ago:
Anger those weirdly elitist hotdog council people by putting on a hotdog you’re having the fries with
- Comment on DragonFire: UK fires high-power laser at aerial targets for first time - with 'intense beam of light' able to cut through drones 3 months ago:
I could be wrong, but I don’t suspect that a laser powerful enough to physically destroy stuff at a distance is going to be meaningfully stopped by regular mirrors, because mirrors don’t reflect all the light pointed at them, and as soon as the mirror gets damaged enough to not properly reflect light in the spot the beam hits, it might as well not be there anyway.
- Comment on If only there was a GOOD fish with a gun to save them! 3 months ago:
There’s a kind of fish called an archerfish that shoots jets of water from it’s mouth at insects to knock them down. Those ones probably have the mental capacity for calculating trajectories to at least aim one I imagine, if you gave them a weapon modified with some kind of mechanism for one to fire it
- Comment on TIL 3 months ago:
What about that one horrible disease where your muscles start turning into extra bones?
- Comment on fun facts 3 months ago:
what if the ones you’ve gotten in trouble with are flying fish?
- Comment on Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and the Blustery Day 3 months ago:
I mean, that does happen with a lot of traditionally scary monsters to be fair. Look at how cutesy Halloween monsters sometimes get portrayed as, or dragons, which at least in the European sense would traditionally have been dangerous and scary monsters but nowadays are just as often friendly or protective as they are hostile.
- Comment on Fuck the balloon police 3 months ago:
From what I’ve read the wind can point different directions at different altitudes, so you can navigate a little bit by changing your altitude, depending on the wind conditions.
- Comment on Literally a virus 3 months ago:
ah yes: basic shapes found almost everywhere, and thing with legs on its base because its landing on something. The connection is clear
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 4 months ago:
This cannot reasonably be how mentally healthy people react though, because this would seem to suggest that the healthy thing to do is to never worry about anything at all, in which case, what utility would have led to that emotion evolving in the first place?
- Comment on How to make two groups of fanboys twitch simultaneously. 4 months ago:
Just install a big heavy iris door over the other end of the wormhole so that they cant rematerialize in your universe, invasion solved.
- Comment on Amazing advertisement for Threads by Instagram! 4 months ago:
Quite a few of the original nazis were those too, or started that way. Groups like that are known for recruiting the youth.
- Comment on It's finally over. 4 months ago:
But, what if that person was a time-traveller, and was actually tying future mass-murders, serial killers, and dictators to the tracks before they ever got a chance to start their crimes?