absGeekNZ
@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
- Comment on She can't cope with the stress. No problem just go through the day buzzed 2 days ago:
- Comment on I know I get excited when I see NFLD mentioned 2 days ago:
The comparison is looking very favorable to Australia currently.
If you use the thousands of kiwis, moving there permanently, every month.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 days ago:
Ah yes; the tactical wees discussion.
“Yes, I know you don’t need to go right now; but we are going to be in the car for 30 - 40 minutes; go to the toilet now please!”
- Comment on I know I get excited when I see NFLD mentioned 3 days ago:
Some of us like it when we are not mentioned…maps without NZ (sorry for the Reddit link)
- Comment on Not stealing 3 days ago:
You are not; but they are not really assholes. They are optimising for some outcome that they want, with inferior tools/mechanisms. Depending on age, their brain runs on emotion most of the time, logic is a distant second place.
In saying all of that…they can seem like assholes in the moment!!!
- Comment on don't get too streptococci 3 days ago:
I got ulcers, mainly mouth and throat…
- Comment on don't get too streptococci 3 days ago:
Immune system: Fuck you, you’re too healthy. I’m gonna attack these healthy (rolls dice), skin cells.
- Comment on The virus she told you not to worry about. 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much.
The ocean is a war zone, an endless battle between bacteria and viruses. Trillions of dead every day; weapons developed and discarded as the tide of battle ebbs and flows.
- Comment on It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing 2 weeks ago:
I assumed that they are using some foreign keyboard.
Didn’t take long to parse the “th” from the symbol. Though sometimes it catches me and reads as a “p”
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 2 weeks ago:
Basically all of our technology it based on the manipulation of electromagnetism.
I doubt that possible discovery is exhausted at all, there are three other fundamental forces we don’t know how to manipulate yet.
Hell there may be fundamental forces we are as yet unaware of.
Other than nuclear power and weapons; which liberate energy from the weak force. We don’t use any other force directly.
At this stage, direct manipulation of the other fundamental forces, is science fiction. We don’t know how… yet.
Just to point out a, the first “modern” plastic, polystyrene, was discovered in 1839. The widespread use of plastics didn’t occur till the 1950’s…a full 110 years later. Carbon fibre was first developed in 1958, and is widely used today, less than 70 years later. I would say CF is more widely used today compared to plastics in the 1950’s.
If you look at the very first thing that could be called a plastic, you’d need to go back around a thousand years.
Don’t let perspective bias fool you, things are developing faster than ever.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 2 weeks ago:
Material Science, the decades of research with carbon are starting to become evident in real products. Superconductor research continues to move forward.
Medical Science, the advancements are crazy. Especially in the surgical space. Targeted treatments are Just on the cusp of being viable. mRNA vaccines are a whole other level, their utility over the next few decades will be immense.
Bioscience, the rate of progress in this field is so interesting. So many problems that are falling to custom microorganisms, it is great to see.
Agricultural gains, are not even close to finished. I agree to era of brute force agriculture is over, but intelligent targeted farming has huge potential.
The second space age is happening right now. We are watching in real time, the rapid advancement of aerospace technology.
I could go on and on. Just because computing tech has hit a temporary plateau, doesn’t mean that the rest of science has slowed down.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 2 weeks ago:
Back to the futures: quantum superposition edition
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 2 weeks ago:
Shaun the sheep movie
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 2 weeks ago:
While that may be true for individual technologies; in aggregate across all technologies.
Technical growth seems exponential; maybe sometime in the future technical advancement itself will resemble the ‘S’ curve; but for now we are still growing our technical prowess extremely quickly.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 weeks ago:
Avenger: the reach around, it is only fair
- Comment on mogbattle 3 weeks ago:
So millihelens then?
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 3 weeks ago:
No, plenty of main dishes are spicy/sweet.
There also desserts and sweets that are spicy/sweet. There are some snacks that are essentially sweetened spicy fish…
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 3 weeks ago:
A lot of Asian foods are spicy/sweet; it is great.
- Comment on Laxative Effect 3 weeks ago:
Slow clap 👏
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 3 weeks ago:
The induced demand theory of coffee cup size.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 3 weeks ago:
Get a BIGGER cup.
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
You can probably safely say plate tectonics is a lie in Texas, and not have to worry about inconvenient earthquakes to explain to the class. Try that in NZ…far more active over here.
- Comment on Worldbuilding 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Get out of my head 4 weeks ago:
Initially thought it was some closeup of a micro-fluidics experiment.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 4 weeks ago:
New one is supposed to have a 30 day battery life… That is amazing, my OG pebble is only getting 5 days now.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 5 weeks ago:
Spiderman: Emotional Damage
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 5 weeks ago:
The guy is Christopher Lee symphonic metal singer
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago: