ProfessorProteus @ ProfessorProteus @lemmy.world

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Thanks for expanding my vocab! "Screed" is a great word for his insane ramblings.

Yeah, I'm aware that all or numbers and models are, at best, representative of what is really happening. That's what I love about the limits of our knowledge: there always something more to learn.

I wonder how spacetime around a black hole's ergosphere is represented by the "flow" analogy. Maybe like water swirling around a drain?

That's perfectly valid. With the gold thing, I was referring to the fact that people say it verbatim as I typed, (seemingly) every time. IMO it feels less genuine when someone doesn't thank another using their own words.

By the way, your respectful disagreement is another reason why I like Lemmy. Courtesy seems to be more common over here :D

That's a really interesting perspective. I don't think I've ever seen it described that way before, but it's very easy for me to grasp. Do you have any resources I can look into for more information? Does that concept have a name I can look up?

Along with everyone else's great points, I'm so glad I don't have to suffer through another "thanks for the gold, kind stranger!" Or yet another painful comment chain of "puns" that are more like weak rhyming/word association, often reusing the same tired phrases. That entire place is so boring and uncreative.

Long live Lemmy!

Not being able to give support to friends and family will feel really weird.

I see it as being liberated. Besides, while it'll suck to be unable to fix their problems, if it gets bad enough that they consider other operating systems, you'll be right there to help them switch!

Never heard of the greengrocer's apostrophe so I looked it up. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-greengrocers-apostrophe-1690826

I absolutely love that there's a group called the Apostrophe Protection Society. Is there something like that for the Oxford Comma? I'd gladly join them!

As I read all these classic lines (and try not to roll my eyes out of my head), I can see them scrolling up a TV screen—some in yellow text—just like those old "Greatest Hitz" CD commercials.

I nominate Steven Ogg for the task.

They live kinda far away but I'll definitely do that next time I see him!

Holy shit lol, that's my sister and her cat! I never thought I'd see them on Lemmy!

Jesus, that ruined city looks like the backdrop of a Beksinski painting.

Thankfully the chances of that happening would be reduced by the difference between the solar system's ecliptic place vs that of the Milky Way. According to this Stack Exchange user, it's a 60.2-degree difference. Illustrated beautifully here.

Then again, it isn't called a "cloud" for nothing. Still, a large chunk of it is theorized to be aligned with the plane of the solar system.

I absolutely love PSO. Still play Blue Burst on Ephinea from time to time.

I want to thank my best friend for introducing it to me all those years ago on GameCube.

It's too bad PSO2 turned into what looks like your typical shitty MMO. It was really fun back in 2012-ish on the SEA servers with the fan translation patch.

I have nothing to add, and for the record I agree with your argument.

But holy fuck, is tattooed eyeliner really a thing? I've never gotten a tattoo, but that one sounds unbearably painful.

There are dozens of us!

I hope you don't expect their next OS to be good, whether they call it 12 or otherwise. Skip all Windows from now on, IMO

Like I said, it's just the way I feel about it. Yours is a compelling argument though, and honestly more fun!

I'd say no, because the microplastics aren't really a part of our DNA. But that's just my definition.

I think we could say that we all have dinosaurs inside us, just like our pesky skeletons.