Humans are fucking wild man. We constantly push the boundaries of what's physically possible. What do you need to make a nuclear bomb? Some hot rocks and some math. What do you need to send someone to the moon? Fuel, oxidizer, an airtight box, and math. What do you need to get cars and electricity to the majority of people? Massive sociopolitical change and widespread adoption of new standards. Nukes are way easier than cars and electrical networks
The "science"tists keep changing their story. First it's flat, then it's a sphere, then it's an obligatory spherical, then it's a pear
You know who hasn't changed their story? The ancient peoples who didn't have accurate maps. They've maintained the flatness of the earth for thousands of years, so it must be the right answer
My favorite proof, and really it's the reason I don't argue with flat earthers anymore. The fact that the sky appears to rotate about two points opposite each other in the sky is unassailable proof that the Earth is round. If someone is willing to just ignore that, there's literally no point talking to them about anything
Eratosthenes' experiment could just as easily prove a smaller, closer sun
The best proof is that you can look at the Sun and the moon with your eyes (maybe use a filter for the sun) and see them not change size throughout their path along the sky, which proves that they aren't getting appreciably closer or farther
I also liked them. Hopefully the article is wrong about
"Season 15 also features the return of loot boxes," a press release says. "You will be able to earn a variety of cosmetics when collecting loot boxes. They will be available from weekly and event rewards." You'll also be able to earn one loot box via the free battle pass and an additional two in the Premium battle pass.
Weekly and event rewards, and one free one per season??? That's just insulting
Rounding to one significant figure, it's 311.9 million people born in the US between 1933 and 2018. Adding an average of 4 million births per year since then, it's 335.9. I rounded up to 350 to bring it to a nice round number
A bit of research tells me that around 44.8 million of us are first generation immigrants, so 291.1 million were born here. Is it reasonable to assume that 291.1 out of the 335.9 million people born since 1933 have survived so far? I have absolutely no idea, I'm not a professional census taker
I don't think we've gone through 999 million options yet. Only about 350 million people have been born since 1933, so even if we add all 127 million US citizens alive in 1935, that's just over half of the possible social security numbers.
The reason we've likely reused numbers is because they weren't randomly assigned until like 2011. Knowing that I was born in 1995 in Wichita, KS, you could make an educated guess at the first three digits of my SSN
At this point, I check every comment I leave on the platform in an incognito window. A good half of them get shadowremoved for no reason. How do they not get that new users are going to leave if nobody reads, votes on, or replies to their comments?
I've had like 5 comments shadowremoved from the conservative subreddit because I guess the large oceanographic feature south of the United States gets caught in their word filter, and they hate the Constitution
Lain is what prompted me to switch to Linux! Watching a character who doesn't yet understand computers fuck around with a computer really inspired me to fuck around with my computer
It's a good thing we keep historically unprecedented numbers of live animals in historically unprecedented close quarters. The beef and dairy industry has made some great strides in ending the human race
upscaled 4k pictures with advanced AI interpolation
You can't get more information out of the pictures than there is in the pictures. The most an upscaler can do is make the equivalent of an artist's interpretation of a 4k picture.
Sure, you've just described one of the ways that Monsanto is evil. Keeping a deathgrip on the seed production and making the cost of signing another contract just slightly less than the cost of a potential legal battle is scummy as hell. Instead of making things up to be mad at, let's be mad at them for that.
If tariffs work, then fuck yeah. I don't think they will in the long run, but if we end up winning the lottery I'm not going to get upset because I didn't like the numbers we picked
It's also super not worth all of the other shit we have to put up with, but let's take what wins we can
Edit: of course they aren't moving manufacturing to the US, so I guess this hurts China at our own expense. I guess it's only a win for whatever country they move manufacturing to
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Humans are fucking wild man. We constantly push the boundaries of what's physically possible. What do you need to make a nuclear bomb? Some hot rocks and some math. What do you need to send someone to the moon? Fuel, oxidizer, an airtight box, and math. What do you need to get cars and electricity to the majority of people? Massive sociopolitical change and widespread adoption of new standards. Nukes are way easier than cars and electrical networks