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- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
Batman is a lunatic occasionally playing rich playboy to finance his crusade against crime, born from untreated trauma.
And most of his villains are just as insane as him.
Gotham is basically a vicious circle of maniacs driving each other further insane.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 week ago:
The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it’s smaller size and portability
And not being read-only.
Also, you could spool them with a pencil.
- Comment on Stop! 1 week ago:
Nice. The good old times…
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 week ago:
That’s a cyberman, from Star Trek.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
CA: Brave New World (Order) is about how slavery is okay when the President General does it and loves his daughter or something
What? Ross ended up in jail, and was never portrayed as the good guy…
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
what Captain America is up to these days. Is he already the poster boy for ICE?
Well, yeah, he basically was, for a while.
(These fascist types tend to identify more with the Punisher, though, despite the fact that he’d be the first to shoot them full of bullets.)
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 1 week ago:
If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.
This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modified the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…
This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Favourite of all time?
Wing Commander (2 if I have to pick one, otherwise 1, 2, and secret missions).
Monkey Island (3 if I have to pick one, 1 to 3 otherwise).
Third is difficult, but… Disco Elysium, I guess…?
(What games I’ve spent the most time playing, though…? Definitely Crusader Kings 2 and 3, followed by Stellaris.)
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
SCSI ain’t weird!
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Good flash memory might last a decade, maybe a bit more.
Average flash memory probably won’t.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
The standard (and tested for decades) answer is tape.
M-Disc might also be an alternative.
- Comment on I should call her. 2 weeks ago:
DRR… DRR… DRR…
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
graph function singularities exist as physical features in our world
Do they, though…?
As I (mis?)understand it, as a massive star begins to collapse, getting denser and denser, the gravitational gradient gets steeper and steeper… time (from the perspective of an outside observer) gets slower and slower… to the point that, from our point of view, the full collapse (or maybe even any collapse below the Schwarzschild radius?) hasn’t happened yet, and won’t happen until the extremely distant future, beyond the end of the universe…
So, in that sense, from the point of view of “our world”, no singularities (except possibly the big bang) would ever exist (yet), all of them being censored not only by event horizons, but by being shoved into the perpetually far future, beyond time itself…
And, speaking about event horizons, isn’t the whole “light isn’t fast enough to escape” concept a misinterpretation of sorts…? As I (again mis?)understand it, it’s not a matter of speed, but of geometry… The way space-time is twisted in such a gravitational gradient, once you get past the event horizon there are no longer any directions pointing towards the outside.
Which is another from of cosmic censorship (or a different effect or interpretation of the above), preventing anything inside the event horizon from causally interacting with the outside universe…
So, if these singularities are hidden beyond sight, causally, visually, and geometrically isolated from the rest of the universe, and perpetually shoved into the far future… can they really be said to exist in our world…?
(Of course there’s always the big bang, but we can’t really observe that one, only its effects, and it’s not necessarily exactly what the original post was talking about anyway…)
- Comment on You have one job. 2 weeks ago:
The right Unix-like OS
It’s always been BSD, it’ll always be BSD.
- Comment on You have one job. 2 weeks ago:
I believe last time I saw it it was hanging from Donnie’s diaper, like a forgotten strip of toilet paper…
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 2 weeks ago:
Your snake has two heads.
Also, one of them shares an edge with the tail.
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 2 weeks ago:
The head would share an edge with the arse (supposing the arse is on the first bend from the tail).
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
It already has.
They’ve drunk their own coolaid. They actually believe their own bullshit. They’ve offloaded what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. They have them manage their schedules, summarise their emails, write their emails and speeches, and make every single decision for them.
They’re brain-dead computer operated zombies.
The problem is that they keep getting paid absurd amounts of money for being completely useless (and that they’ve always been so useless that no one can tell the difference).
I can’t help but picture the business card scene from American Psycho, but they’re comparing the “AI” assistants they use instead of their cards.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even selection, though.
We grafted those citruses into existence.
They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 3 weeks ago:
In the coconut.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
You can die due to having too low morale, too.
Or killing yourself as an intimidation tactic during an interrogation, regardless of your stats.
Practically all versions of the detective are susceptible to self-inflicted demise in one shape or another.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Nah, Measurehead is adorable. A native Revacholian playing ur-racist out of what he’s learnt on the radio while dating a “Kojka” he can’t have sex with because his own racism prevents him from getting an election in her presence.
Evrart (and Edgar, though we never meet him) Claire are downright terrifying.
Extremely intelligent, constantly ten steps ahead and in control (except for the tribunal, the entroponetic phenomena underlying the events of the game, the deserter, and, possibly, the Detective) even over the Wild Pines woman, extremely charismatic despite their appearance, and yet absolutely malicious and self centered.
They’re like sharks, perfect, cold, inhumane, apex predators evolved to completely dominate their territory.
Measurehead can never really hurt you. Evrart Claire can kill you by making you sit on a chair, and he’s fully aware of it.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
They aren’t continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.
The Pale isn’t… anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.
- Comment on heaven 3 weeks ago:
Well, it’s supposed to transmogrify into (human) flesh and blood once it gets in your mouth.
Alcohol might be a no-no, but cannibalism is apparently a-ok. 🤷♂️
- Comment on heaven 3 weeks ago:
Short people will not go to heaven.
Well, obviously. They can’t reach.
- Comment on Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules 4 weeks ago:
The government parties do.
The government parties who approved these regulations…?
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 4 weeks ago:
In general the default for cats and dogs is the male form, though it can be ambiguous between male and don’t know / don’t care.
For instance if you saw a random unidentified cat you could say you saw “un gat / gato / chat”, and it would be impossible to tell whether you were referring to a male cat or a cat of unknown gender (while if you used the female form it’d be unambiguous).
Romance languages really could use a neutral form, but “gat@”, “gat*”, or “gatx” just don’t work when you try to figure out how to say them out loud.
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 4 weeks ago:
About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 4 weeks ago:
Many romance languages have both; for instance, in Catalan “gos” / “gossa”, “gat” / “gata”, in Spanish, “perro” / “perra”, “gato” / “gata”, or in French “chien” / “chienne”, “chat” / “chatte”.
