Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

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That's not entirely true, attacks on Planned Parenthood around the nation have led to several of them being closed, and both staff and patients being too afraid to go there.

Even though jailing the domestic terrorists is a good step to keep them from continuing it, it's not necessarily enough to stave off the terror.

Terror

US politics?

Lol, feel free to quote me

Harambe was the Time Lord keeping this timeline stable

Ah, but they gave him back story and motivation.

Spoiler warning: He wasn't purely evil for evil"s sake, he just tried to rebuild society for the scions of humanity, and had already discarded the normies (can't remember the term they used) as primitive, albeit barbaric, creatures.

The genius of Bester is that he was so self assured and uncontested, making him almost cartoonishly evil, but also that he was so essentially human. Driving home the major themes of the series: the dangers of unchecked power, the human drive to self determination, and that wielding power over others perpetuates a cycle of violence.

I have no experience with your particular printer, but I've had an issue where the bed was very sensitive due to being the edge of the adjustment range.

The bed screws on the Ultimaker 2 are manual screws with springs, and you can level the bed throughout most of the screw length. Having it at one end means the spring is quite loose, and things like weight and nozzle pressure affected the flatness of the bed.

So if you have an elastic tensioner for your bed, maybe set it at higher tension for a more robust flatness?

If you're always adjusting in the same direction though, it's not that, and is probably a software error where something doesn't count Z-position right. Unless of course your printer is somehow getting longer?

The best thing about abbreviations is that they are entirely contextual, which means that if it isn't obvious what's meant, you can make up your own meaning and wonder/ask why the other person is using it so very wrong.

There's even an abbreviation for it: TLB, which in this context means Three Letter Bullshit.

Such a classy kitty, bringing style to any encounter

It's hard to gauge the veracity of this during the ongoing information warfare, but one detail struck me as funny:

Around 20 million people in Russia — or 14% of the population — are on the brink of poverty or already in poverty, said Lipsits.

This is supposedly after two years of wars and sanctions.

Official US gov statistics puts the US peacetime number at 11,5 - 12,4 %

The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty. ... The Supplemental Poverty Measure in 2022 was 12.4 percent.

I wonder if this is meant as a disinformation piece?

Yeah, Amazon has a pretty long track record of burning through employees at all levels. From the outside it looks like it's very much to their detriment, but I guess they feel differently since they still do it.

Sorry it's happening to you though. Hope you find a less sociopathic employer!

The whole reason that it works is because the company can't afford to lose everyone who's not complying.

But promotion blocking seems like a weak move. If returning to office is enough of a workplace issue to be a deal breaker, threatening people with not taking extra responsibilities or challenges seems like a losing proposition. They're already willing to lose their job over the issue, and you've shown that you can't lose them, so now you're gonna make it shittier to remain at the company?

And even besides the perspective that promotions are a benefit, many roles are in place for the company's sake, to stay organised, are they now gonna not fill those? Or only fill them with external applicants?

Or is the idea to only promote the compliant ones? That would make some sense, at least.

Thank you!

This is fascinating, could you perhaps link to some reading on the topic?

Agreed. On all points.

Moreover, the Tungsten rods are quite dense and thus small, and thus very hard to spot on radar or hit with countermeasures.

As real as math

It's funny, because tracking big rocks months/years in advance is what we currently do really well, and iirc we update all trajectories of all known objects orbiting earth at least every 11 days, and the main problem is figuring out which is which when they are maneuverable, not where they are going.

There's currently about 750 000 things being tracked in earth orbit. The total number of asteroids is about twice that, so without upgrades we can still refresh each object every month, and with active space flight I'd guess that would be done much much more often.

Although, doing the math, enough Epstein drives (guesstimating tens) on a smaller asteroid could yield up to 1 m/s² acceleration, meaning an asteroid could traverse the distance from asteroid belt to earth in about a week.

Daily electricity is right, I'll edit

Oh, I apologise, I suffered some curse of knowledge there, the answer is time.

A blast is a release of energy over a short time, the whole point of building weapons is to store and handle energy in safe amounts over time.

Global electric energy consumption is about 200 PJ a day, approximately the same as the Tsar Bomba, but there's no risk for a huge explosion neither when you incinerate trash or turn off the AC.

Because time.

Although we could explode a nuke and propel things ballistically, it turns out it's a lot easier to use rockets. A rocket, although carrying frightening amounts of fuel and exploding spectacularly when it fires wrong, has several safeguards to not expend all that fuel at once. And also gives the opportunity to correct course along the way.

Now imagine that the same amount of energy has been expended many many many times over the course of the space era, and almost any mass in orbit has serious potential for damage.

For example, the MIR was 130 tons, orbiting at about 7,8 km/s, for a kinetic energy of 4 TJ, and another 235 GJ of potential energy. Totalling about a tenth of Little Boy that levelled Hiroshima.

Edit: Specifying and correcting the global energy consumption.

A lot of the energy comes from orbital speeds.

The Hypervelocity Rod Bundles project proposed 6,1x0,3 m tungsten rods, weighing about 8200 kg, impacting at about 3000 m/s, meaning about 42 GJ of energy per projectile [wikipedia].

The weakest recorded nuke, the Davy Crocket Tactical Nuclear Weapon, is estimated at about twice that (84 GJ), and the largest, Tsar Bomba, at about 3 000 000x the yield (210 PJ).