The only thing I learned from multiple physics classes was that I’m not a physicist. People would die if I had to do physics. It’s nonsense made up by nerds to feel smart when real geniuses just eat the apple that falls on their head. Free apple.

everything is compulsive gamble

It’s pathetic that they didn’t even bother to look at the measuring tape. This flagged as AI slop within a few seconds for me. Not even good AI slop.

It’s cool when someone is so pathologically attached to power that they can’t be trusted with the smallest thing. Emopunker might be the most pathetic freak I’ve seen on the fediverse. If “trouble” is being able to pretend they no longer exist, I’ll happily take my ban from their hermit kingdom.

Not for long. Hexbear’s control over their mod accounts is paying off BIG.

The Smile Demon will not stop until he rules over a lake of fire filled with skeletons. This is his Ultimate Game.

It’d be neat if this could double as fall protection like those backpacks for kids. My great-grandmother died at 101 because a fall broke her hip and she didn’t have the wound healing ability to keep it from becoming infected. If that belt had an airbag it would really add a lot of quality of life to that population.

Yes but you get Kitsap Bangor and galleys with a panini bar. Non-dolphins get slop on a ship.

I see it like submariners getting the best food and pay in a navy. The moment you pay attention to your environment or consider the hope of rescue, you’re the most vulnerable human alive. You’re in a bathtub at the top of a burning skyscraper and all the forces of nature want to kill you instantly if a single component fails. If I couldn’t distract myself with jokes, it’d be like emergency medicine or leftist politics where the reality is horrifying beyond comprehension. I’d last like a week in space before I’m kissing soil for being safe.

Here we have land banks at the municipal level. They buy up houses and finance first-time buyers who don’t qualify for normal mortgages, in a contract where the home sells below market rate but they can only sell it back to the land-bank at an appreciated value so they aren’t taking a loss. To me that’s the most ethical western model outside of UK council homes. It’s giving kids a stable childhood and workers a sense of long-term stability instead of giving yourself a nicer car from the price premium of a private sale.

You could sell it to first-time homeowners. To someone else it’s the first step toward security and the market is really hostile.

It’d be neat if they figured out cryopreservation even for the brain. Right now my conception of death is just what I experienced for the billions of years before my birth. No complaints, but I didn’t get much from the experience. If death is final then whatever. If there’s the slightest materialistic chance of being reborn, that’d be fun even if it’s just to do what I already do five hundred years from now. Give me enough of a robot body to hike and garden and I’ll be happy.

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It’s a post-biological pidgin. You can’t communicate cultural ideas to beings that probably have entirely different ideas of culture, but you can establish the intent to communicate as two rational species. Since mathematics is presumably consistent across the universe, you can beam a non-natural signal into space as a technosignature. If something responds to it, you’re both sentient and have some kind of respect for academia. You can then use it to establish logic, make grids, and represent simple images without relying on their “eyes” perceiving the same wavelengths we do. Something like 1s and 0s is probably going to be easier for them to interface through than speech.

What’s the worst that could happen if we propped up a dictator whose survival is tied to winning an impossible war that empowers our enemies the longer it goes on?

Hopefully nothing.

Urban ecology is the proof of dialectics.

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They should have held out longer. Eventually it would just be one paying subscriber and the numbers would look better.

I didn’t expect the US to actually be stupid enough to start the war so I can’t predict what it will look like a week from now. As it stands, I see Iran as rationing its drone/missile stocks and sending out small attacks to prove it can. If they can fit six Shaheds on a cargo truck somewhere in the Middle East, they can hit a target that day which drastically undermines the GCC countries and Israel while keeping the NATO navies engaged but out-of-range. It’s already the worst oil crisis since 1973 if not worse and they haven’t even mined it extensively or used hypersonic shipkillers, both presumably still options in some tunnel system waiting to go. They haven’t even called Yemen into the war yet, the last force the US Navy couldn’t defeat and an entire other trade route they could shut down.

The UN can try to force it back open, but what does that mean to a country that already grew a siege economy under crippling sanctions? What landmark could UN peacekeepers invade that the US military isn’t afraid of invading? What moral or regulatory standing do those laws have after the UN allowed Gaza to happen? What’s to say that NATO won’t use the UN presence as an excuse to continue bombing like in Yugoslavia?

As long as they can fire anything into the Strait of Hormuz, and especially if they lock down Suez transit again, ship insurers are the ones with the last word on reopening the Strait. For all the threats of US and EU naval escorts, those countries know it would be the modern Gallipoli and the image of one sinking ship will be a whole new kind of lost war. I don’t see them risking that again like they did in the 1980s.

When it isn’t their war of choice, a draw is a win. Anything beyond that is a David and Goliath win that will probably do more damage to the US than the other Middle Eastern wars have together. To me the big win is in undermining the petrodollar. The US dollar is generationally weak right now and Iran’s stipulation for the ships it allows through the Strait is that they pay the fees in yuan. As long as the Strait is controlled by them directly in this way and they can enforce global trade of a currency that currently doesn’t exchange much outside of China, they can do nothing and win. Being aligned with China helps them more than being aligned with anyone else would. Being able to reinforce and project that would be huge.

At least there’s good news. Trump has totally defeated Iran every day for several weeks and they’re imminently surrendering on day one of the war if they don’t continue indefinitely. This, like the last strike and the once since on Haifa, is the final Armageddon scenario that will impact energy markets this week.