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- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 week ago:
This would make a good “What if?” For XKCD. In a frictionless vacuum with two spheres the mass of the earth and a bowling ball how far away do they need to start before the earth sized mass will move 1 Planck length before they come together?
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m probably being too optimistic.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 weeks ago:
That might be their outlook on “local” pollution for a while, but you don’t think going from 20 years left to centuries to live might affect their opinions on global climate change?
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 weeks ago:
Might be the only way to get them to give a shit about the environment.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 5 weeks ago:
I wonder how much more it would cost to just donate or throw away your printer every time it runs out of ink and buy a new one. Printers are sold at a major loss to lock you into their ink. It might be worth the expense to know your costing these pricks money.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
The large U.S. carriers have plans that are, I think, $20-30 a month and you get the newest phone as soon as it comes out, apple or Samsung. They also partner with manufacturers for discounts and trade-in deals, especially when a new model comes out. My last phone was 2 years old but when they offered me the newest one for something like $120 after trade-in (I think that was almost $1100 off, I don’t remember all the details) I upgraded everyone on my plan. I think they did the same thing this year but even with those discounts the pain in the ass of upgrading plus the price, even though it’s low, wasn’t worth the small year over year change. Probably next year or the year after. Assuming similar deals, that makes it $40-$60 a year to get a new phone every 2-3 years.
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
Lingua franca dude. I’ve never heard “hit the wall” used outside the man-o-sphere. Maybe not exclusively incel, but incel adjacent at least.
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
Yeah, they kind of had a point until they busted out the incel-speak at the end.
- Comment on YSK most US states assign their electoral college votes by the state's popular vote 3 months ago:
Even in Maine and Nebraska, two of their electrical votes are statewide just some are allocated to CDs. A state’s electrical votes are determined by their total number of senators and representatives. The ones that correspond to the two senators are statewide.
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 4 months ago:
The planet is great. It’s the fucking occupants that are a problem.
- Comment on Political Science 6 months ago:
Even ignoring the primary argument of bodily autonomy, you can’t be pro-life without being superstitious and anti-science. Being pro-science allows you to base your opinion on things like viability and brain activity instead of things like conception and heartbeat which are meaningless outside of religious nonsense.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
What are you worried about? This is 1874…you can sue her.
- Comment on Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says 6 months ago:
Regulatory capture, it’s a problem through the government. Decades ago U.S. regulatory agencies were well respected around the world, to the point where if a U.S. body approved something, many other countries automatically followed. Now they’re a joke, taking orders from the industries they are supposed to oversee.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 6 months ago:
It’s not even just cheapo stuff anymore. They’ve really stepped up their game in the last several years, with ICE and a good range of EVs. I know a few people that have Hyundai EVs, and they all love them.
Their Genesis badge is also legit luxury. I would say they might be the best value in luxury cars right now because they can’t yet command the price the more established brands can.
These aren’t the shitty tin cans I grew up seeing. If you’re looking for a new car don’t dismiss KIA/Hyundai/Genesis without checking them out.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
All covered in the link. The addition of January and February and later moving the new year from March to January is the reason Sept-Dec are no longer the seventh-tenth months. Not July and August, which were renamings, not additions.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
That’s a common misconception. For the Romans, the year used to start with March and only have ten months. January and February weren’t even named. Several calendar changes followed over the centuries. Adding two months. Moving the new year to January, which made September-December no longer 7-10. Adding random one off months to realign with the seasons. And a couple different tries at leap days.
- Comment on Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. 7 months ago:
Florida is beautiful. It’s a damn shame about the culture that’s developed there.
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 7 months ago:
It’d be a damn shame if everyone started putting pixelfed at the end of every message to both deny threads content and create a Streisand effect.
- Comment on ancestors 7 months ago:
Damn straight, don’t forget our ancient enemies.
- Comment on Love to do this 8 months ago:
I never know which lights I’ll beat by driving faster and which ones I won’t, but I know I’ll beat a few.