Deme

@Deme@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. An object within the event horizon is still reflecting light just as it was before falling in. The only difference is in relation to where that reflected light can or cannot go from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I said, yes.

  The point being that the event horizon deals with the structure of spacetime, while reflectivity is a material property. An object doesn’t get painted with vantablack when it passes the event horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The event horizon only obscures objects that are inside it, it has nothing to do with reflectivity of the object itself.

  An observer situated between the singularity and an object within the event horizon could still intercept the light reflected from said object.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No event horizon is made up of matter. Do you mean the matter around and behind the black hole, by which the location and size of the black hole can be inferred?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The event horizon isn’t a physical object. Does a singularity reflect light? (I’m guessing it’s still a no)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W reddit post. Is this based?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, but I’m still not going back there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are all WAY too happy about an extremely powerful and very wealthy CEO who controls a monopoly and uses slave labor. Not to mention he has this two-tiered system based on arbitrary data.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh but the workshop is a co-operative and Santa is a union man. The man dresses in all red, has a beard like Marx and distributes goods without any financial compensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative Perp Walk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that yes it was definitely politically motivated, since it was just as much an attack against the system as it was against the person, but hardly terrorism since there was no intent to scare the general public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Destruction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Oppenheimer at least seemed to regret what he did. Teller on the other hand was completely remorseless and unhinged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but the roads the enemy is using are a vast minority of all the roads out there, constrained to certain geographical areas. If one happens to be in the middle of it, they’ll have bigger concerns than whether to invest in a bike or a horse.

  If it’s the apocalypse, then everyone will be desperate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, depends on if we go out with a bang or a whimper. I’m betting it’s going to be the latter.

  If not, then it’s likely that nukes put a stop to the artilleryfest before it has a chance to really get going. And my point about there being a lot of roads in the world still stands. No military would start to target roads in any meaningful scale when they’re going to save their precious shells for the enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot more roads than there are cars to fill them and the good thing about bikes is that if you can get past an obstacle on foot, you can carry your bike while doing so. Even if the major highways get blocked by the occasional massive pileup that you can’t climb over while carrying your bike, you can always take the smaller road. And where would all the craters come from? How many artillery batteries and mortar companies do you expect to see in the post-apocalypse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as there’s roads or smooth paths left, an ordinary person can do 200 km in a day on a bicycle. A quick search tells me that specifically trained horses can do 160 km in an endurance race. Sure a horse would probably be the fastest in a sprint, but a bicycle has the best travel speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A person can be rich in many ways. A coral reef is rich in biodiversity etc.

  The rich refers to the group of people who are financially rich to an obscene extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly it’s just people discussing whether flour should be measured by mass or volume. Jokes about using some mcburgers per football field -esque satirical units, some joke about using moles instead. Some comment about a funny misspelling in the meme. Nobody is flying into an incoherent rage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re taking the trollface in the meme a bit too literally. It’s annoying and unnecessary, and can cause mistakes that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. Ahem, the Mars Climate Orbiter is a good example of a particularly costly one.

  Nobody is flying into an incoherent rage. It’s merely annoying having to accommodate the outdated quirks of one country. You having to do the opposite is quite reasonable on the other hand, because you’re not accommodating the conventions of one country, but those of the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. Rephrase: largest English speaking country by internet footprint, global influence or some similar measure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the correction kind sir. My deepest apologies sir. English isn’t my native language. Would you perhaps care to elaborate on the claim made in your previous comment, so that this here conversation may have some substance beyond mere grammar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I understand it pretty well. I just take no pride in that. If I don’t remember something I can always look it up. Doesn’t mean it’s not impractical nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bear in mind that there are multiple countries where English is the largest language and metric is used, and that English is the modern lingua franca. It just so happens that the largest english speaking country has some weird ways to measure things. As such those weird conventions are often forced on anyone who wants to look for a recipe in English, be that their native language or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but who are you referring to? I’m sure there’s idiots in every country, but that is quite an outlandish generalization to make if we’re still talking about entire continents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. I just want to be rid of the imperial system. I would have no issue with it if it wasn’t a part of my life. Unfortunately I work in a field where imperial units are used world wide (apart from China and Russia for historical reasons). Because of this, I use some of those units myself every day at work. I understand some of them but take no pride in it. The only reason that the imperial system is still used so much is purely by convention. It is inferior to the metric system in every aspect. I do not feel superior to people who use imperial units because as stated above, I am one of them. People who I feel superior to are the ones who delude themselves into thinking that this somehow isn’t purely because of convention. I dislike them because they are forced upon me by international conventions. OP appears to dislike them because recipes written in English force those units into their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no pride in understanding a nonsensical system of measurements.

  Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot

  • Iain M. Banks
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So professional looking it must be true⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Undeniable DPRK W

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First contact when?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Climate change is just one of six planetary boundaries that we’ve crossed, out of a total of nine. The choice of rocket fuel is secondary to having the industrial capacity necessary for such endeavours, while not fucking up the planet in numerous ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First contact when?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  #1: I doubt there would ever be a situation where those same resources wouldn’t be better used to make things slightly less unbearable on the home world. In our case, even if we covered the world in poison and had an endless nuclear winter, Mars would still look like the worse planet to live on. It’s doubtful whether or not a better one exists within any “practical” distance. If the aliens happened to have a lucky spawn in a star system with multiple habitable planets, good for them. They have another chance to figure things out. But interstellar flight (not to mention colonization) is still vastly more difficult.

  #2: Exploiting the resources of the solar system is orders and orders of magnitude simpler than establishing self-sufficient colonies in uninhabitable space or planets. The show For All Mankind threw out most of any believability it had a while ago, but even there the entire fourth season revolved around the subject of how even a single asteroid full of rare earth metals would sate our hunger for such a long time as to effectively kill any initiatives to expand in space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First contact when?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Space exploration necessitates a technological industrial civilization. So they/we would somehow have to figure out how to first do #2 (so as to not die), while still maintaining the industrial capacity to spread out into space. That sounds like an even more improbable subset of the already improbable scenario #2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First contact when?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That distance exists not only in space, but most likely time as well. Extrapolating from our singular data point, it would seem that the lifespan of a technological civilization is quite short. The odds of two of those being around at the right times for even one of them to detect the passing emission shell of the other is diminishingly small.