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How many bananas tall would you say that 9v battery is?

Oh you mean all the things we said would happen weren’t just hysteria after all?

You enabled this you stupid fucking turtle. Figure it out. Your entire ideology going back decades has led to this very predictable situation, which people have been warning you about the entire time. You made your choices.

It’s been proven that the hit rates shown in XCOM are basically bullshit. There’s a bunch of hidden modifiers which determine the true hit probability.

It’s admittedly confusing because electromagnetism is a unified field theory, and like I said, a bunch of pop-science YouTubers really make it worse. Current is defined as the rate of charge flow through a cross sectional surface of a conductor, which is caused by the electromotive force, which is simply a charge potential. The fields created by moving charge can be used to do work proportional to the current which creates them, but it is fundamentally the current doing the work.

The misconception is that it’s not like one electron zooming down a wire, dumping energy into a sink, but the bulk change in how electrons, and therefore charge is distributed which moves energy around. Think about pushing something with a stick - the atoms near your hand don’t actually need to move down the stick to transmit force.

This is actually incorrect as well, and I’m annoyed at veritasium for this persistent misconception. The flow of electricity is the movement of charge, which is conveyed by the electron. This is what creates the electromotive force, and what does work.

A rope which gets lowered into a vat of acid one mm per day?

Ok, then don’t do that.

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They get 18mpg when you drive them like a fucking baby on the highway. Your average idiot who floors it at every stoplight, and does 90 on the interstate gets half that.

I mean yeah, we are sacrificing so much, but the pain is temporary, and a small price to pay for giving Iran a massive strategic boost they couldn’t have gotten any other way!

I think it’s much simpler - they are concerned that the report contains research on effective Republican tactics, as well as ways they can be countered in the future, which would give Republicans a lot of useful information for future elections.

This seems very obvious, but we are in a political era where everyone just defaults to cynicism I guess

I think this is the right answer. People definitely like the “bad boy” aesthetic to the extent that it remains an aesthetic and doesn’t extend into character flaw. It’s not entirely dissimilar to liking the goth baddie aesthetic.

This is very distinct from being an asshole though. “Bad” is genuinely not giving a fuck. Doing your own thing, not following trends, and definitely not following scammers on YouTube who tell you how to act.

Radiative IR cooling is still orders of magnitude less efficient than convective cooling. There is precisely zero percent chance that orbital data centers will be less expensive than terrestrial ones.

This has been an extremely obvious flaw in the modlog concept from the very start, and has been discussed on and off for years. IMO, it exposes a much wider issue with federated forums as currently implemented, despite the aggressive defense of some vague concept of “openness.”

Blindly casting every user and mod action out into the universe in plaintext with no recall mechanism is problematic, and it will only get more problematic as the technical prowess of the average user drops. Doxxing is just the tip of the iceberg here, and I don’t think most people appreciate just how massive the social engineering attack surface actually is. Rogue instances could silently build engagement profiles on users, and then actually serve them targeted malicious content. This could be widespread, and almost impossible to detect.

Me, in 2054, dying of microplastic lymphoma in the Donald Trump High-T Alpha Male Hospital for Christian Patriots, reading the plaque on the wall detailing Joe Biden’s very low testosterone levels:

When the law break in

How you gonna go?

Shot down on the pavement

Or waiting in death row

I mean how can you cease firing if you aren’t firing?

Checkmate atheists

A small sacrifice to save Gaza.

Southerners: “were not racist bro, the north are the real racists.”

Also Southerners: