Encephalotrocity @ Cephalotrocity @biglemmowski.win

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What about ebikes?

Your dad ought to consider joining a divorcee support group.

Your art is beautiful and I'm envious of your talent though.

They're out there. Many won't have overt support for volunteers, but if you call and inquire about volunteering they might say 'welcome aboard', or direct you where to go.

Alternatively there are volunteer support orgs such as https://www.justserve.org/ that may help.

I have almost zero daily social interactions

Volunteer with a cause you support. Very good way to get out of the house and meet people who you know share at least one similar interest while positively impacting the world. Joining local (chapters of) clubs is another way.

This image has been summarily removed in the past for 'advocating violence'. Based on the bat signal which has been used many times in the past as a general deterrent for crime when Batman was known to be out of commission. The parallel here, when Luigi is currently detained pending trial, is obvious and as such doesn't advocate violence and yet it is close enough the mods intervene.

reasonably believe to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by such other person.

Unfortunately, the CEO's threat to life is lawful which would preclude this defence. Not saying I don't support Luigi. Just that it is a good thing nullification exists.

That's easy. The moment the news reported the Americans had voted in a felon for president.

... wut? "The personal website of a university"?

What do you think 'as much as possible' meant in an era where they were ruled by one of the belligerents? Literacy is important indeed. The support he got was to protect local interests and not simply blind support for the Crown because the populace did not care to actually quell the American Rebellion, nor rebel themselves.

edit: "[Guy Carleton] hoped that his policy of conciliation would bear fruit, but only the Canadian clergy (led by Catholic bishop of Québec, Mgr. Jean-Olivier Briand) and the nobility (lords) responded with any enthusiasm to the call by British authorities. The general public remained relatively indifferent, viewing the war as a 'battle between the English.'"

It did. We sent American Rebels packing and remained neutral as much as possible

        they may as well be turning humanoid waste into food

  

Yeah, they are. Waste matter is reclaimed as energy/supplies for food production

It would imply that transporter and replicator technology are, basically, the same thing. I agree. This is supported by replicators and transporters having a very similar special effect on the show.

they’d have to be violating the laws of thermodynamics to get more efficient energy production than matter-to-energy conversion. I don't follow here. Why do they 'have' to be? They could very well be spending more energy but the increased amount is 'trivial' from their perspective. This would not violate Thermodynamics.

Ah I think I see the confusion. They are using antimatter for energy creation. Energy to matter for transport or replication is 'paid' for by the matter to energy destruction of the og material (whether it be the transported individual, waste matter collected from the crew, equivalent amounts of reactor fuel, or some combination of these) and the excess cost of thermodynamics is paid for by the matter-antimatter reactions in the reactor.

Is the efficiency miraculous? Yes, ofc. Is it breaking thermodynamics? No. It's easy to see how they are paying for the excess costs with reactor fuel and that is without any hand-wavium of subspace or dilithium crystals being involved.

They “nuh-uh’d” this in Enterprise. The inventor of the technology is introduced and basically says the people who propagate that theory are a constant thorn in his side, despite having no basis for it in the reality of that universe.

You're welcome to believe the inventor if you wish, but I'd ask if you also believe the CEO of Boeing when he says their planes are safe...

They also show people experiencing, and reacting to other things in, the matter streams during longer transports. Kind of hard to do if you’re dead.

Yeah I can see why this'd be confusing. Keep in mind the transport process at the referenced time periods takes ~ 6 seconds. 3 to dematerialize, near instantaneous travel to the destination, and 3 to rematerialze. It is that part in the middle which makes it clear the person has died. Being conscious in the matter stream and hence thinking you're the same person is the result of it being a near-perfect copy.

There are far more examples that refute the inventor:

• Dr. Mbemba kept his daughter stored in a transporter buffer for months. She retained no memories of during her storage. Her brain and heart both stopped. This is clinical death by definition. Thus,
• every time the transported are held within the buffer completely for any period of time (seconds while they disarm weapons, or decide what to do with them on screen) they are clearly dead and a floppy disk is being discussed.
• Thomas Riker's accident creating Wil's duplicate. People are almost literally photocopies of a destroyed original by this example alone.

Watering the tree of liberty something or other.

IIRC there are 3 different methods seen for food creation in Star Trek.

Protein Resequencers (ST:ENT, ST:TOS): which presumably take stored amino acids and combined them with supplementary minerals and flavouring into nutritious cubes that look like marshmallows.

Matter Recombinators/Food Sythesizers (ST:TOS): capable of taking stored matter and producing 'simple' foodstuffs like drinks, iced cream, slabs of protein similar to chicken breast or steak, etc. I think these were sometimes called replicators but the distinction is the production is done elsewhere and the food delivered in seconds on request.

Replicators (ST:TNG +): I swear they described this as direct energy to matter conversion but I can't find the source for this. The seemingly ridiculous energy demands this requires can be justified by the fact they use matter+antimatter reactions for energy supply. A cup of water would take a cup of fuel give or take. (edit: To confuse the issue, it's also described in Discovery that waste matter is broken down and used for things like replication, but matter=energy so it is all the same in the end).

Transporters: it's been clear from the beginning the matter is being deconstructed into energy and sent to the destination where it is reconstructed using the original's pattern. The ethics of it are dubious because every time you see someone transport they are being literally killed in front of your eyes and a new copy created elsewhere.

... and lookin like Robert Deniro to boot

I'd hit it

Upon having it explained to her that applying for asylum in the United States first requires one to register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Smith exclaimed “But I’m white,” before demanding to speak to the concierge at Mar-A-Lago

Is it though?

Senior Hamas official Izzat el-Reshiq said via the group’s Telegram channel a few minutes after the Israeli announcement that Hamas was committed to the ceasefire agreement. Israeli media reported on Thursday night, citing anonymous government sources, that the disagreement had been resolved.

Without specifying the dispute, Blinken confirmed that there had been a “loose end” between the sides in the complex negotiations, which have included Israel and Hamas, as well as mediators from the US, Qatar and Egypt.