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StarfieldLoading Screens: The Game
Loading Screens 2: Slideshow FPS
It was an interesting concept for a game, but poor execution and horrid performance have ruined it.
Casual Conversationkinda seems like time is an emergent property being caused by the illusion of distance, which is itself an emergent property of a holographic projection of lower dimensional base physical reality onto a higher dimensional space - as if we’re living in a multi-dimensional hologram being projected from a singularity
why does light not experience time? from the photon’s perspective, its created, travels any arbitrary ‘distance’ and is absorbed at its destination, all in the same instant…as if it didn’t actually go anywhere at all in the base layer of physical reality
AskElectricity produced at offshore wind farms is being used to turn water + atmosphere into ammonia (NH3). There are already a few cargo ships in operation that use ammonia as fuel instead of oil, and many more in production.
Using ammonia to store energy instead of lithium batteries gives about 10x the energy density per kilogram, and 3x energy density per liter.
Suspect or not, you get the same surveillance treatment as suspected domestic terrorists do.
The other side also gets to vote for when the war is over.
As the wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown, its impossible to stop 100% of drone attacks and drone manufacturing.
Cargo ship insurance companies will have a vote too regarding when the Strait of Hormuz is “open”.
“Cultivating strategic depth for Israeli regional hegemony” is what they’ll call the invading and colonizing.
AntiTrumpAllianceFirst of all, fuck capitalism. Its the origin of this problem.
Second of all, until we can abolish capitalism, it will remain the case that labor is treated a commodity and wages are therefore subject to supply and demand.
Third, most jobs in USA pay sub-poverty wages. Its wage slavery. Salaries need to increase.
Therefore, policymakers looking out for the economic interests of the working class should do everything they can to create labor scarcity, including shutting down all immigration (decrease supply), abolition of taxation on small businesses (increase demand), and direct government subsidies for nationalized large businesses to achieve economies of scale in strategic sectors (increase demand).
No Stupid Questionsand Senators
bold of you to assume that anyone outside of the Epstine class is holding enough cash for that to matter
Ask ScienceRods from God deliver the energy of about 12 tons of TNT.
For comparison:
The British used 12 ton “Tallboy” bombs, carried by Lancaster bombers, in WWII against submarine pens.
The “Little Boy” nuke delivered the energy of 15,000 tons of TNT.
Some modern ICBMs carry 10 warheads, each of which delivers the energy of 475,000 tons of TNT.
One benefit of dropping a tungsten telephone pole from orbit is that there’s no good way to stop it, because its just a chunk of metal moving very fast. Hitting it with a missile might scratch the paint, but won’t significantly alter its course.
The main drawback is the expense of getting them into orbit. Falcon 9 can lift 2 of them if the poles are cut in half to fit under the fairing, at a cost of about $70 million. That does not include rocket engines, fuel, and targeting computers needed to get those 2 tungsten rods out of space and onto target.
Futurologyits also been trained to elevate boogie propaganda
UkraineThat’s a beautiful bird.
Have the consequences of under investing in EV tech and over-reliance on the nonsensical USAmerican economy caught up with the world’s largest car company?
Its about time! There’s nothing a permanent space station orbiting the moon can do, that a fleet of rotating Starship-class vehicles can’t do better.
Forcing lunar landers to rendezvous with the station before attempting a landing just wastes fuel.
Forcing a cargo ship to rendezvous with the station also wastes fuel - if a lander needs to top off its tanks before attempting a landing, why not dock it directly to the cargo ship? And then return that cargo ship to Earth to be refilled and reused again and again as a temporary supply depot.
Hopefully they’ll fully cancel the Senate Lunch System program soon too!
Showerthoughts
Arkansasor supports a terrorist group
and any criticism of the regime will be labeled “terrorism”
Green EnergyWhen people talk about “smart thermostats” in this context, they’re saying they want the utility company to be able to set the temperature in your house in exchange for pennies off your electric bill.
By reducing the delta between peak and baseline energy demand, the utility can sell the power generating facilities that only run & earn income on the hottest/coldest days but which are a constant expense even when they’re not running (i.e. most of the time).
The plan is to make poor people uncomfortable on the hottest and coldest days in order to lower everyone else’s electric bills.
We should probably stop giving them money and attention.
Ask Electronicslooks like a power inductor
Judge Tells Border Officers (Again!) That They Can’t Arrest Migrants Without Real Warrants (techdirt.com)
…DHS has issued memos claiming (without facts or law in evidence) that officers can arrest people and enter homes without signed judicial warrants. This has always been false. And it’s not edging any closer to the truth no matter what this administration might say in Truth Social posts and/or court filings…
Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data (theconversation.com)
Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced by your brain.
Loading Screens: The Game
Loading Screens 2: Slideshow FPS
It was an interesting concept for a game, but poor execution and horrid performance have ruined it.
Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration To Hold ICE Shooters Accountable (techdirt.com)
They asked nicely at first.
kinda seems like time is an emergent property being caused by the illusion of distance, which is itself an emergent property of a holographic projection of lower dimensional base physical reality onto a higher dimensional space - as if we’re living in a multi-dimensional hologram being projected from a singularity
why does light not experience time? from the photon’s perspective, its created, travels any arbitrary ‘distance’ and is absorbed at its destination, all in the same instant…as if it didn’t actually go anywhere at all in the base layer of physical reality
Electricity produced at offshore wind farms is being used to turn water + atmosphere into ammonia (NH3). There are already a few cargo ships in operation that use ammonia as fuel instead of oil, and many more in production.
Using ammonia to store energy instead of lithium batteries gives about 10x the energy density per kilogram, and 3x energy density per liter.
Suspect or not, you get the same surveillance treatment as suspected domestic terrorists do.
Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance (techdirt.com)
…because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law…
Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory (universetoday.com)
…The discovery of DF2 proved that dark matter is a distinct, physical substance that can be separated from normal matter. This was a severe blow to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), which was designed to account for why stars at the outer edges of galaxies were moving too fast. MOND posits that at extremely low accelerations, like those experienced by stars at the edge of a galaxy, gravity acts a little bit stronger than expected.
Hegseth’s War on America’s Military (theatlantic.com)
The United States is in the middle of a major war, but that didn’t stop Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday from firing General Randy George, America’s most senior Army officer. George was the Army’s chief of staff, and he was cashiered along with another four-star general, David Hodne, and Major General William Green Jr., the top Army chaplain, in what has been a rolling purge by Hegseth of senior officers…
Brendan Carr Ignores The Law, Rubber Stamps More Right Wing Media Consolidation, Then Lies About It (techdirt.com)
Right wing broadcasters are having a very good time under Brendan Carr, who has looked to destroy all remaining media consolidation limits to let them merge. Such companies, like Sinclair, Nexstar, and Tegna, don’t do journalism so much as they do soggy, right wing propaganda and infotainment, usually with endless fear mongering about drugs, homelessness, and crime rates.
The other side also gets to vote for when the war is over.
As the wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown, its impossible to stop 100% of drone attacks and drone manufacturing.
Cargo ship insurance companies will have a vote too regarding when the Strait of Hormuz is “open”.
“Cultivating strategic depth for Israeli regional hegemony” is what they’ll call the invading and colonizing.
Iraq mourns its dead after worst strike against its army since the start of the war: ‘Why did the Americans attack us?’ (english.elpais.com)
..Washington and Israel accuse [Popular Mobilization Forces] of being proxies for Iran. The site attacked on Wednesday houses barracks for regular soldiers, but it is a base shared with PMF units…
First of all, fuck capitalism. Its the origin of this problem.
Second of all, until we can abolish capitalism, it will remain the case that labor is treated a commodity and wages are therefore subject to supply and demand.
Third, most jobs in USA pay sub-poverty wages. Its wage slavery. Salaries need to increase.
Therefore, policymakers looking out for the economic interests of the working class should do everything they can to create labor scarcity, including shutting down all immigration (decrease supply), abolition of taxation on small businesses (increase demand), and direct government subsidies for nationalized large businesses to achieve economies of scale in strategic sectors (increase demand).
The time capsule in the salt flat (phys.org)
There is a place in northern Chile, 3,500 meters above sea level in the Andean Altiplano, where almost nothing survives. The Salar de Pajonales is a salt flat of savage extremes temperatures swinging from −23°C to 26°C, solar radiation among the highest measured anywhere on Earth, annual rainfall that barely registers…
and Senators
bold of you to assume that anyone outside of the Epstine class is holding enough cash for that to matter
Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation (techdirt.com)
Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice — confirming what anyone with a passing familiarity with antitrust law already knew: companies deciding they don’t want their brands plastered next to extremist content aren’t engaged in an illegal conspiracy. They’re just making basic (probably pretty smart) business decisions.
Rods from God deliver the energy of about 12 tons of TNT.
For comparison:
The British used 12 ton “Tallboy” bombs, carried by Lancaster bombers, in WWII against submarine pens.
The “Little Boy” nuke delivered the energy of 15,000 tons of TNT.
Some modern ICBMs carry 10 warheads, each of which delivers the energy of 475,000 tons of TNT.
One benefit of dropping a tungsten telephone pole from orbit is that there’s no good way to stop it, because its just a chunk of metal moving very fast. Hitting it with a missile might scratch the paint, but won’t significantly alter its course.
The main drawback is the expense of getting them into orbit. Falcon 9 can lift 2 of them if the poles are cut in half to fit under the fairing, at a cost of about $70 million. That does not include rocket engines, fuel, and targeting computers needed to get those 2 tungsten rods out of space and onto target.