No, I assure you, there's plenty of people that think they have all the solutions, and given the chance would turn everything upside-down on their snipe hunt. For every good idea there's someone who thinks we just need a purge day, or a lot of tiny bunkers. The "good people that do nothing" are shit too, I guess.
Do you honestly think you can fix everything yourself? I hope not; stepping off the hard-edged debate thing a bit, I had a really rough time when I found out that's not real life.
Yeah, I realise it's kinda weird to post this after talking about how familiar a lot of things in Rome were, but in the narrow scope of existential problems the overlap is limited.
Liberal democracies work very differently from autocracies. The weather isn't a mystery of the gods, it's self-inflicted. Rome kept it's population in check through massive natural and to a lesser degree artificial mortality, while we have great medicine but ever-lower fertility rates. Roman peasants may have been vaguely aware of the distant land of Italy, we have information overload conveyed by machines even 20th century people struggle with. When we have a plague, it's less about escaping it, and more about convincing people they should.
Some problems are timeless - or at least haven't been dealt with yet - but I feel like putting it in terms of Rome like this is misleading and can be used to justify all kinds of things. When I've seen this meme posted before, it's usually a lead-up to really chuddy comments about immigration or loss of traditional values.
Existential comics is a humour series. I disagree, it's a joke.
If that's what you do, good for you. For every few dark jokes there's someone posting "orphan crushing machine" style glurg. Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial.
I was not trying to fix the world with that post, I agree. Sometimes I do write something that helps someone, though. IRL I do a bunch of volunteer work.
I don't really buy it. Rome fell for reasons a professional historian of Rome has told me are still unclear, but I don't really see a lot of parallels in our big problems, which are very new and untested.
The joke is that Cthulhu is usually unreasonable (at least by human standards), but is able to logically explain himself to the satisfaction of the human shown. This is unexpected.
I'll leave you with this: cynicism is hip, but it's exactly as irrational to start with optimism. You've got to start with what is, and what ought to be and work from there.
I'm talking about solar, EVs and so on. It's straight-up cheaper to not use fossil fuels now, for most things, and the remaining ones seem like they're inevitably coming.
Don't worry, I'm still pretty doomer about it. The planet's going to get a bit messed up in the meanwhile, and we'd have just kind of boiled ourselves like a frog, if we hadn't gotten lucky with cheap renewables suddenly appearing.
Yes. I'm not in line to inherit a fuck-you amount, but it's substantial, and if I move to a poor country and live modestly I should be able to make it last indefinitely.
I'd invest if I was above the poverty line, income-wise, but I'm not. Downward mobility is a bitch.
The thing is, negotiation is always easier than implementation, which is why it comes before.
It's pretty clear at this point we're going to stop climate change right around as fast as technology forces us to. I don't see any other plausible path.
I mean, supported in the personal belief sense. I can assure you that it was never intended, even if that was accidentally conveyed.
Natural language is inherently imprecise. It only works because there's shared background to interpret it on.
Dark humour is a thing, you'll see it everywhere on the internet - I'm sure you know that. This is no exception.
Yeah, exactly! Nothing else comes close. The medieval and early-modern periods are just very different (and non-civilisational, I guess?), and then modern industrial civilisation grows up on top of it before the old is fully gone everywhere. If you want eerie parallels, you do Rome.
The history of unrelated civilisations on other continents seems inaccessible in English, or in the case of the Americas just poorly preserved in general, thanks to said early-modern Europeans.
At no point in the past week have I supported genocide, and defending part of an argument is not defending the whole. Nor do I expect most to read it that way in such a jocular setting.
I don't think you're a terrible person either.
The tricky thing there is that it's been way, way higher than today in past eras long before anything breaks. IIRC most of the research shows it just goes up indefinitely, most of the time, and then reverses during times of collapse when the poor are finally able to loot the mansions.
I really hope actual democracies play by different rules, though.
Second person never has a gender in English. Saying "you" should also be fine, or "thee" if you feel like getting your quaker on.
Special requests notwithstanding - the platinum rule here is just to accommodate whatever you reasonably can.
I get the perception Cali can be prickly too, although I've never been there. Maybe orange for them too? And come to think of it, inland Oregon is very Idaho.
There's assholes born everywhere, I guess.
I'm amazed by how consistently bad the reviews for Indiana are. Even the food is somehow worse than the rest of the Midwest, apparently.
Hawaii: Get the fuck here and hang with us.
(Plz, we need money to ship things across half the pacific)
his conclusion is inextricably tied to his premise, and you pointedly did not separate the two in your comments until I pointed out to you that you are defending genocide.
It is not inextricable. From a utilitarian perspective, for example, humanity could still produce far more utility that it's many indiscretions remove.
It was not pointed - it was merely omitted for the sake of expediency, along with commentary on the fictional nature of Cthulhu, or the fact that in cannon he does not speak English.
you say “all the rest could theoretically apply” referring to your agreement with cthulhu’s reasonings for global genocide.
To say "could theoretically" is not the same as "does" - there are many ethical systems that have been proposed.
It's trying to be. You can't do everything on there you can do on Facebook, though, which is pretty much this meme.
That's what it's trying to do. There's no way in hell it has the same level of features, let alone the same network size, though.
That being said, I've never been on either.
I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517
> A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit. > > I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped. > >Edit: > >So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz. > >Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
US president says he is 'very close' to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths
Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".
They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.
The Wikipedia article on Steiner constructions mentions it, but doesn't explain it, and the source linked is a book I don't have. This has come up in a practical project.
In air. This seems like it should be incredibly basic information but I can't find it anywhere.
Just watched this and thought it was dope. I especially liked the Roman buffets and Foreman grills.
I just watched Roman support on WIRED and it was dope, but it's not a meme.
20 million meals later, Chef Robotics is making robotic food prep work
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Models that are more reliable and less energy-intensive could help us to better prepare for extreme weather.
People new to federation are wandering elsewhere. If the logged-in screen is anything like what I see as a guest, I'm not surprised. I found this through my own instance's search feature.
I've been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.
Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.
We have no idea how many there are, and we already know about one, right? It seems like the simplest possibility.
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith talk to Nature about the hurdles facing humans living in outer space.
This is about exactly how I remember it, although the lanthanides and actinides got shortchanged.
Researchers have shown that a problem about the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones.
Unfortunately not the best headline. No, quantum supremacy has not been proven, exactly. What this is is another kind of candidate problem, but one that's universal, in the sense that a classical algorithm for it could be used to solve all other BQP problems (so BQP=P). That would include Shor's algorithm, and would make Q-day figuratively yesterday, so let's hope this is an actual example.
Weirdly enough, they kind of skip that detail in the body of the article. Maybe they're planning to do one of their deep dives on it. Still, this is big news.
