418_im_a_teapot
@418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 6 days ago:
apartment landlord
why would you assume the worst possible setup?
(/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 6 days ago:
I feel like nobody read the article. It mentioned an “ad carousel” which would be a fairly standard way to offset costs on free plans. I don’t see that specifically as being enshitification. Now, if they start altering AI responses, that is definitely enshitification. I have no doubt they will eventually get there, but I don’t think that’s what this article is about.
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 6 days ago:
What I’m hearing is that even if you aren’t a Signal user, you might benefit from having Signal installed on your device?
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 6 days ago:
I wouldn’t assume any news about technology being used by IDF to be true in the first place. It could just as easily be misinformation.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 1 week ago:
Edit to add; no one is uploading videos of security guards doing nothing. Or at least those videos didn’t get any traction.
That’s an important and very valid bias to point out.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 1 week ago:
I don’t know the rules, but there’s no shortage of YT videos of Walmart security grabbing people.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 1 week ago:
Just make sure you pick the slowest friend you know.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 5 weeks ago:
I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now I’m convinced we’re never going to get a stable iOS again.
ヽ( `д´*)ノ
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 month ago:
[Decision] Paralysis Parfait
- Comment on just one more bro 1 month ago:
- Comment on just one more bro 1 month ago:
I asked ChatGPT what would happen. Here you go:
If every atom in the universe suddenly gained one extra electron, the result would be instant, universe-ending chaos — in less than a nanosecond. Here’s why:
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1. Universal Negative Charge Imbalance
Right now, matter is electrically neutral — the positive charges in nuclei balance the negative charges of electrons. Adding one electron to every atom makes every single atom negatively charged. The universe instantly becomes dominated by repulsive electrostatic forces.
Coulomb’s law tells us electric forces are ~10³⁶ times stronger than gravity. That means: • Atoms would violently repel each other. • Molecules couldn’t hold together. • Planets, stars, and galaxies — all held together by gravity — would be ripped apart by overwhelming electrostatic repulsion.
Within moments, all normal matter disintegrates into a plasma of electrons and nuclei being hurled away from each other.
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2. Collapse of Atomic and Molecular Structure
Each atom now has one more electron than its nucleus can bind: • The extra electron would either occupy a weakly bound outer orbital or be completely unbound. • Chemical bonds depend on balanced electron sharing — those would fail instantly. • Solids, liquids, and gases all cease to exist in recognizable form.
Essentially, chemistry ends. There’s no more “matter” in the familiar sense — just a roiling cloud of charged particles.
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3. Energy Release on an Unimaginable Scale
The addition of an electron to every atom requires — or releases — colossal energy, depending on the element and context: • Ionization energies and electron affinities differ between atoms. • You’re effectively forcing a global-scale electron capture reaction.
But the real kicker is that the sudden Coulomb repulsion between everything would dwarf any nuclear explosion imaginable. The entire universe’s matter would “explode” outward — far beyond the speed of galactic escape velocities — powered by the electrostatic potential energy now released.
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4. No Stable Matter, No Light, No Universe
With matter annihilated into a universal electron-ion plasma: • Photons would scatter off free charges (via Thomson scattering). • The universe would become completely opaque. • Eventually, as it expands and cools, you might end up with diffuse clouds of charged particles, but never stable atoms again.
You’d basically reset the universe to something like an ultra-energetic pre-recombination plasma — except with the wrong charge balance and no chance of re-neutralizing.
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In short:
Adding one extra electron to every atom would: • Destroy all atomic and molecular structure. • Overwhelm gravity entirely. • Convert the universe into a high-energy, negatively charged plasma. • Likely erase all physical structures — stars, planets, life, everything — in an instant.
It’s not a slow catastrophe; it’s an immediate, total one.
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Would you like me to estimate the total electrostatic potential energy released by this imbalance across, say, one cubic meter of matter (to get a quantitative feel for how bad this gets)?
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 1 month ago:
North Carolina’s finest.
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 1 month ago:
And toxic.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 1 month ago:
Clitius. It actually sounds right.
- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 1 month ago:
It’s pretty bad. It genuinely sounds like it was written by AI.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 months ago:
You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.
What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
My dumb brain interpreted “lying about” in the sense of “with” or “around” and I was momentarily confused by the thought of CK lying with his head resting on a trans person’s chest. I need to get off the internet.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 months ago:
New conspiracy theory: Tylenol actually does cause autism. But China figured out that autism is the key to a better society and they are pushing RFK to ban it so that we remain self-destructive neurotypicals.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 months ago:
I’m pretty active on there and my entire feed is academic and thoughtful left-leaning commentary. Granted I had to work at curating it. Day one was all thirst traps. But now I really enjoy it. I will actually be sad when it becomes unusable.
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 2 months ago:
And Kansas. I had to sign a document acknowledging it. I have no intention of honoring that contract.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
BT 6.1 introduced Randomized RPA (Resolvable Private Address) which should help with some of the security issues. That said I wouldn’t expect to see headphones implementing 6.1 for quite some time. It just came out in May.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 3 months ago:
I inherited it from my grandfather 12 years ago.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 3 months ago:
I have a dead cat. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 3 months ago:
I’m up 192% for the year, so I’ll take the tiny dick jokes. Admittedly the signal to noise ratio is pretty awful, but the assets themselves can be smart investments.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 3 months ago:
Same. We threw a big college party and made “trashcan punch”. A couple hundred dollars worth of fruit, several big containers of koolaid, everclear, and a garden hose. Everyone was wasted and we still had to pour out over half down the sewer drain the day. Worth it.
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 3 months ago:
The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.
Sorry I can’t find the link.
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 3 months ago:
Within days of Maxwell’s complaint, Batman – a career criminal convicted of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm – was moved to a different cube.
Epstein’s madam didn’t fare much better with her replacement, however, as the newcomer quickly kicked off about avid jogger Maxwell failing to take showers and stinking out their cramped living quarters with her sweaty sneakers.
Maxwell would come straight off the running track and not wash. It’s something you often see with sex offenders, they are worried about being attacked in the shower,’ added our source.
Eventually they had a huge argument – this time over a clothes hanger – and it got so heated that the new bunkie threatened to beat Max with a padlock.
Of course, Max complained, and this girl was also removed. Max seems to think she will eventually get a cube all to herself if she keeps stirring up trouble.’
DailyMail.com revealed last month that Maxwell earned her 'prison Karen’moniker because of the 400-plus petty complaints she has lodged while behind bars.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 3 months ago:
The other option is to boycott everything — bring the entire economy to a halt. Don’t show up to work, don’t shop, block the highways, stop paying taxes, etc. I guarantee the entire situation would be fixed in under a week.
Of course, this requires critical mass. And everyone is so conditioned to get to work on time and not endanger their next paycheck, that it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Things will have to get worse before they get better.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 months ago:
Ah hell. Thanks for telling me. I hadn’t checked the formatting after posting. Added line breaks.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 months ago:
First Sense Fantastic one Man in black
TV shows are fun too
Game of throne Soprano Slow horse Reno 1