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  • Scientists Just Made Light Speed Visible. The Images Will Break Your Brain.

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  • I think our brains are pretty good at ignoring or abstracting/simplifying things we see that we don't understand, almost too good. That's just magic, optical illusion, or hallucination. Getting high is like chemical circuit bending. I feel staring into the void alone won't be enough drive one mad, it's when the void stares back and forces awareness, or knowing, that one has to worry. The non-euclidian architecture of R'leyh is just unsettling, but the stare of a multidimensional being can't help but bend your circuits beyond their limits.

    There was that one short story though about FTL travel, wherein the conscious passengers must be asleep for the journey through hyperspace (or whatever that story called it). Some people stated awake through the trip and came out the other side mad. The hyperspace itself wasn't enough to break their brains though, it was just that an instantaneous trip from the sleepers' perspective, became an infinitely long (in time) trip from the waking conscious perspective. At that point, what they saw didn't really matter, it was a forced perception or awareness without the solice of "not knowing" that broke their brains.

    None of this is science, just rambling nonsense.

  • “It’s a Dog Eat Dog World and I’m Wearing Milkbone Underwear”

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  • That's not how TV in the 80s and 90s worked. Most of the TV we watched as kids in the 80s would have been reruns of things in syndication. Millenials born in 82 would have grown up watching reruns of Cheers for their entire childhood and likely have memories of watching even some of the later episodes live.

  • DidMySettingsChange - A python script that checks if windows changed your settings behind your back

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  • Can this keep num lock engaged? I swear my biggest frustration with windows lately is it's habit of randomly and arbitrarily turning off numlock after I've turned it on. I never turn off numlock while working. I never use the number pad arrows. I prefer the number pad numbers and use them practically all day. And yet, several times a day I find my cursor moving around the screen instead of typing a number because windows decided that it got to control the numlock function instead of me and the dedicated light up key designed for that function that has worked fine for me for decades before.

  • This is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dying

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  • Kinetic energy scales not just with velocity, but with the square of velocity. Speed makes a BIG FUCKING difference in your ability to avoid an accident.

  • What other great opening lines do you know?.

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  • Yeah, King's endings tend to be a little messy and narratively unsatisfying sometimes. Gunslinger is easily my favorite of the series and just about every other thing he's written. On my last read through the story, I started with my original copy of The Gunslinger, then read through the rest of the series (reading the disconnected but related stories just before the final book), and finished with the revised edition of The Gunslinger.

  • What other great opening lines do you know?.

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  • The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

    • The Gunslinger

  • A truck bed with a tonneau over it is just an SUV trunk with extra steps.

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  • Either way, you can put passengers in the back of an SUV, but not in the bed of a truck (without breaking laws or being totally unsafe).

  • Advise: I broke my collarbone

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  • You are already capable of communicating to your cat that you are in pain. Be honest. Make sounds of pain when they hurt you, the same way you would train a kitten not to bite or claw with malice. Your cat will understand. Just don't get angry. It's easy for cats to forget about empathy in the face of anger.

  • Life is like roasting a marshmallow

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  • Marshmallows are like ogres, you've got to torch and eat the layers bit by bit before you slurp the gooey center.

  • me_irl

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  • Incoming phone call, somebodies phone is about to ring.

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • Agreed. 90 minutes to go 2.3 miles sounds like a snails pace. That works out to just under 40 minutes to walk a mile. Most healthy adults should be able to jog or fast walk a mile in under 15 minutes. A 5k is about 3.1 miles and most of the slow runners finish in 30-40 minutes. I would consider 25 minutes per mile a leisurely pace. 40 minutes per mile must mean a lot of signalized intersections. I've found a mile or two is the perfect distance to walk home from the bar after a night out (weather dependent obviously). Maybe Google thinks they'll be walking drunk?

  • Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.

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  • There is a reason that I have fallen asleep during the extended 3rd act fight scene in every single god damn marvel movie since Mark Ruffalo became the Hulk.

    They all turn into the same movie, with the same fight. And these super long fights all seem to be surprisingly light on showing any of the actual real world impacts of such violence. Nobody ever gets seriously hurt unless the plot needs more sacrifice. But even when they do, the injuries mostly happen off camera and the blood never flows or spurts, it just instantly appears as makeup. It's really giving people a deep rooted and totally unfounded sense that violence both solves every problem (it doesn't) and does so bloodlessly (it doesn't). At least Batman knows he's not a hero.

    But really, the DC universe isn't much better. Think about how shocking a little bit of blood at the beginning of the new Superman movie was, before they basically destroy metropolis (which was rather expected and mundane). And then they only show the tiny fraction of people personally saved by Superman, not the countless mangled corpses buried under rubble. This may be why the public has trouble confronting the realities of war and violence.

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    What's your favourite niche website that is still running and hasn't changed much in 20~ or so years?

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  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Dude I'm not arguing that it's correct or not, I'm saying that this is the way many people used to (and how some still do) use the language.

  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Yeah, that's why my comment was basically words and phrases have shifting connotations as time passes and contexts change.

  • Police drone tracks Walmart theft suspect in real time

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  • Good to know that none of the FAA part 107 rules apply to government employees wasting $75,000 in local resources (paid by local taxes) and frivolously endangering everyone using the public right of way so they can protect a couple hundred dollars or less of property for pro bono for a multi billion dollar global corporation.

  • Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

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  • They were also inconveniently experiencing significant negative feedback to their business decision to sell warmed up day old food as a standard operating procedure just before new of the logo drama erupted. If you thought cracker barrel was extremely mid before, it's apparently gone full Applebee's microwave kitchen bad lately.

  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Fake and real photograph used to have a very different meaning indeed.

    This is a "real" photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker:

    This is a "fake" photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker (in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex):

  • In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS

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  • It used to remember passwords, it briefly got a gig memorizing drink orders, now it mostly focuses remembering project numbers and does a little 2FA code work on the side.