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Redfox8

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  • Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

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  • I suspect a surprising percentage of people just follow the crowd. No effort required to formulate any bigotry or predudice or whatever, just copy others and you're part of the gang. If there's nothing to copy they just shrink out of view.

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    ‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000

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  • It's as if someone has been telling a tale that there's been some kind of 50-50 conflict over the past 80+ years...

  • Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thing

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  • Haha I missed that clear horrendously nonsense statement! F-ing social media doom-scroll-disease! After all, what respectable vertebrate would lack any bones?!

  • The Earth Is Splitting Open: Giant Cracks Are Swallowing African Cities Whole

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  • Why spoil making a buck with the truth?!

  • Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am

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  • Maybe if there was a public transport system still running that was not just a cash cow and stifled for the benefit of big oil then it wouldn't matter who used it when.

    Some people wake very early and may only be well enough during rush hour to travel.. and yet they're not supported in doing so, even though it'd cost relative pennies.

    Oh and re your last Q, disabled people aren't allowed to go out on the lash or to the theatre etc, they're disabled so should be tucked up in bed staring at the samecwall they've been staring at all daytime. It saves the government tens of pounds a year that!

    PS I'm not being narky at you, rather the system.

  • Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am

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  • Welcome to politics 101!

  • Why are wind turbines killing millions of bats?

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  • I believe there are such devices, but I don't know how effective they are or how often they're placed on turbines. I presume that as this study has been carried out, then they're not effective enough.

    Re "eventually they'll adapt " this is a terrible approach to conservation! How many individuals need to die before you decide something isnt working? Also, if that were to work then all animals would have adapted to our existence already and there'd have never been any extinctions! I get your thinking but you've missed some cruicial understandings about animals. A lot of the time they simply can't adapt, not quickly enough at least.

  • Metal genres

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  • Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that'll be tonight's listening sorted!

  • Metal genres

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  • Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest... NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura...must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!

  • You are stardust.

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  • And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.

    Thank you, and goodnight!

  • You are stardust.

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  • I have tomorrow off :)

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  • Oh that's Muffit! Enjoy a tipple on me! ;)

  • Yeah I'm a ML

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  • Well it is horrifying to them. That's pretty much the point!

  • Hope you like math

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  • If you'd like to hear about the versatility of the word 'fuck' click and enjoy some Wildhearts at the same time :)

    https://youtu.be/3ZLFlzDazvA

    You may want to skip the last minute...on the original cd it was waaay longer!

  • Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun's Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea

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  • Thanks for that, much appreciated :)

  • Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun's Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea

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  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489578-gold-can-be-heated-to-14-times-its-melting-point-without-melting/

    "White and his team fired a powerful laser at a 50-nanometre thick sheet of gold for 45 quadrillionths of a second..."

    As a rank amateur I don't understand the other discussions here, but my thinking is that if a material is heated up for such a short period of time, and also only in a very small location ("The laser was focused to a spot approximately 100 µm in radius"), not across the whole mass, then the energy will dissipate across the mass of the material without building up enough to break the bonds and melt.

    For me, what'd be more significant to know is how long it'd take for melting to occur/what's the tipping point.

    So I've skimmed through the journal article and:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09253-y

    "Notably, the temperatures exceed the proposed limit of 3Tm in both cases for over 2 ps. This time is approximately an order of magnitude longer than the characteristic phonon oscillation period and, thus, much longer than required for homogeneous melting"

    So the gold did melt, just not instantaneously!

    "Our experimental findings raise an important question about the ultimate stability limit for superheating."

    Right so both news articles avoid stating that melting occured so far as to suggest it didn't and that was what was significant...oh well, reading the journal article was interesting at least!

    One question of mine I didn't see was answered is, what significance do the xrays have on the temperature and time taken to melting?

  • Odds Are Slim That I'll Ever Visit A Casino...

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  • Ahh craps, there goes my chance to come passed the line to the field with you.

  • Worldbuilding

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  • I had to look this up as it sounded unusual, but looking at the younh plant it is basically a small trunk covered in long floppy pine leaves/needles that superficially looks like a clump of grass at first. I suspect there's no evolutionary advantage to looking like grass, but storing up energy before growing upwards makes sense if there's a periodic fire risk with each fire risk period being over a couple of years. Also handy for dealing with browsing pressure from particulary hungry critters following a fire.

  • Lying increases trust in science, study finds

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  • Vomiting certainty... I like that turn of phrase!