ShranTheWaterPoloFan @ ShranTheWaterPoloFan @startrek.website

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The strangeness of the Fine Structure Constant isn't it's value, it's that we don't know what it is.

Other constants have units that explain what they are doing. Like converting miles to meters we multiply by meters/miles. But this is just a number that is needed. That's so strange I can't think of another example.

But it is the question.

OP wants to know if fairphone will last 10 years. The retort is that even if you can have a phone that is supported for 10 years, you won't want to use it that long.

What profession is willing to pay for social media recruitment?

What prejudice do you want to have confirmed?

What product do you wish to advertise?

What media product do you wish to advertise?

Can you believe this obvious lie?

Do you think they dyed all their margaritas black in mourning?

I'm confident that on my deathbed my biggest regret will be being bored while stuck in an airport for a day.

Easy, just be rich already!

You know how much labor a landlord does? None! Even if you consider things like picking up checks telling people you won't fix stuff is labor there are services that will do that for you!

Stocks? If you are rich you can stack the deck and never lose!

Rich people literally cannot give money away fast enough to be poor.

People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I'm able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.

I'm not surprised they can't tell what's real, they can't search for tiny details like "transmission time to Mars" or "gravity on mercury".

Most of those equations are full of things that can make sense, and then there is a fine structure constant.

It's all over particles, but we don't know what it is. It has no units. It's just a number that is needed for physics to work.

There is value in trying things outside your comfort zone. It's the only way to grow, or find new things you like.

I swapped to Linux in the last month. But honestly being able to use my phone as a backup made me not worry about needing a computer right then.

"the soulless agents of orthodoxy!"

Taking suggestions for new media isn't a sign of youth. Imagine having a friend recommend a book and saying "I'm no callow youth! I'll select my own media thank you!"

Don't join the army.

I'm not young and I still will play a game because it's suggested to me. If everyone tells me a particular game/movie/book/restaurant is amazing, I'm going to try it.

Taking the advice of others and trying new things isn't a sign of inexperience.

I think it's both an issue if hardware support and being the little guy.

If Linux wants to be bigger it needs to change it's selling point. People have been conditioned to think of free software as bloated ad-fests by their phones. My wife was asking how I liked Linux and I could only describe apps as the early Android app store where everything was free and generally great.

Calling out Windows for privacy issues doesn't have too much sway. Mostly because the damage is done, people have posted on Facebook and agreed to every tracker, what's one more? Calling out Windows for being slower, showing you ads all the time and taking away features might have more traction.

I just swapped to Linux, and it's harder to use than windows, sort of.

I still can't get one headphone jack to work on my case and my wifi printer/scanner can't be controlled on the printer anymore. Troubleshooting has two modes, a step by step instructions set that either works or doesn't, or highly technical stuff that is above my expertise.

Not exactly, they look like earth octopus but are backwards and ungrateful. They have built no statues to bajoran fishermen.

Delta green is great.

I love how TTRPGs are the model for having a quality product means people will buy it. It's not difficult to pirate everything, and many systems are just flat out free. And yet I buy most of it.

Brave is chromium.

Enterprise isn't exactly a representative sampling of star trek.

In TNG the only reoccurring villains that are more advanced than humans are the Q and the Borg. The iconians were super advanced, but are long dead. There are random space babies/sentient nebulas but most species are behind the federation in tech. Even the romulans aren't more advanced, just focused on war.

If you ever wonder how advanced humanity is in star trek, remember that Q is a reoccurring villain. Q has complete control of space, time and reality. The federation is so advanced God is an antagonist.