niktemadur @ niktemadur @lemmy.world

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Yeah but what about Limewire, then?

Curse you, Noneuclid!

Maglevtoad, named after early 20th century physicist Dimitri Maglev.

"I am at the center of god's universe!"
From your narcissistic, myopic perspective with no depth, sure, that's what you see. But from where we're standing, you're just another idiot, and you're dead.

"What happened?"
"The new proton burped out a couple of leptons and switched back to a particle similar to the the old proton."

everywhere I go in the world there are giant marinas with a million boats

I've told you a MILLION times to NOT EXAGGERATE!

And how do you get to go everywhere in the world, that marinas stand front and center of your attention? Could it be that you go... on your boat?

Curious, in contrast I remember when they aired A Fish Called Wanda (that was a long time ago), they censored John Cleese's response to one of Otto's inarticulate verbal insult streams:
"How very interesting... you're a true vulgarian, aren't you?"

...so as to not offend... people from Bulgaria, I guess? They might confuse the V with a B, then write strongly worded letters to the head of network programming?

C'mon... give me my unicorn... I've selflessly granted the right-wing consent to make those more vulnerable than me suffer, by heroically sitting on my heroic ass on many election days, I am a pure and very special, delicate flower, I know what's what and how's how better than anyone before or after me! i'M sO sPeCiaL, gOdDaMniT, giVE mE wHaT i WaaaaNt!!!

He's got that ol' New York City Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Blues again, momma!

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Thus, barter was discovered (invented?) and a civilization was born.

The way Apple ruined Foundation, via Mister "I'm better than Asimov!" Goyer.

Must have been originally forged by the McDonald clan.

Fiennes does seem to come from a posh background, doesn't he?

Then maybe a commoner trained in Shakespeare can and does develop that poshness, the ability to deliver it effortlessly.
Was, for example, Peter O'Toole a noble or a hoodlum? Because there seems to be a bit of both in him at the same time.

But then I take a look at the full Fiennes family name and oof... there's some olde stubbornly blue roots in there, in plain sight. The kind of thing you would spy on the guestlist for the weekly Saxe-Coburg canasta evening.

So is Rafe like the black sheep of his family, because he went prancing off to theater school and the bohemian lifestyle instead of a sturdy and dignified profession, like banking?

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw, I am flabbergasted and illustrated, simultaneously at the same place and from a distance at the same time.

the vast majority of US citizens are abjectly fucking stupid who have no clear understanding how absolutely anything works or any understanding of how consequences follow actions

This happens both equally with the maga batshit crazy voters, and the narcissistic "my vote is a pure and delicate flower"/"bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL" non-voters.

Which is of course exploited by bad-faith actors pushing these lazy idiots back down on the couch and stroking their hollow vanity, to not do what they already didn't want to do - doing the homework instead of just getting their "facts" from twitter or tiktok or whatever, taking the time and effort to register and vote, if just once a year, or at the very least once every two years for the midterms.

These idiots want instant results, have not a shred of a clue as to what political inertia is; just as medieval as maga, they want a political messiah with a magic political wand.

The 2010 midterms proved that these fickle mediocre idiots did NOT have Obama's back, and lazily initiated a cascade that drowned their own future, rewarded the fascists for their virulent hysterical opposition, and to this day remain mindlessly, narcissistically oblivious to the fact.
Their mediocre motto as a mediocre electoral block is "If at first you don't succeed, give up."

So much of the world has rightly lost all faith in the intelligence and decency of the average american. As in - they have none, distractedly and lovingly fondling their purity, then sniffing their fingers and picking their teeth with those nails.

SEA and Astrum

Can confirm. The one thing that bugs me about Astrum is the clickbaity titles (along the lines of "The Image That Shocked NASA Scientists!", that sort of thing), but don't let that turn you off and away, the content is solid and the tone is much more grounded than those stupid faux-populist titles, which I'm sure the author chooses to gain traction with YouTube's skewed algorithmic tyranny.

Another channel I'd love to add here is ParallaxNick, who does astronomy and science history videos, this man is a poet and a scholar, deserves a million subscribers and more.

You might mean achieving sudden vertical velocity, but I like to think he stayed put while achieving eyesight superpowers even if for a brief moment before reacting, saw things the way the camera did in that famous shot in Jaws of Roy Scheider's face getting the dolly zoom treatment.

Thusly.

Quantum mechanics is an area of physics that leans on measurement as a central concept. What things are doing between measurements is not its' concern, and don't even stop and think about it, you'll go nuts, just shut up and calculate!

The average USA voter has already given hitler the keys to the kingdom.

In 2016, the battleground state non-voter empowered the goose-steppers and crippled everyone's future.
In 2024, the average USA non-voter ignored every single alarm bell going full blast and destroyed any hope for that future.

And still the average USA non-voter sits, twiddling their thumbs, waiting to be catered to, to be dazzled. Waiting for their own version of a messiah with a magic political wand, too lazy, ignorant to the point of medieval, and impatient to even begin and try to understand the principle of inertia, how political will builds up over time and several election cycles.

The way the electorate abandoned Obama during the 2010 midterms and empowered the tea-baggers should have tipped me off about the utter mediocrity of all these precious flowers, "perform miracles overnight, even as you also try to keep the entire economy from collapsing, or go fuck yourself".

The right-wing propaganda trick is to get people to NOT do what they didn't want to do in the first place - homework is boring, voting is lame, amirite?

After a quarter of a century of having hope in the eventual decency of the USA electorate, the entire world has given up on them, as moscow and beijing salivate like hungry rats about to feast on a carcass. Now it's every man for himself.
The average non-voter must be very proud; must feel very special right about now. Congratulations.