I've noticed Ansarallah blurs out the surrounding terrain whenever they post missile launch videos, but most of the time it looks like totally nondescript hills and vegetation. Would it really be possible to figure out the location of these launches if they weren't blurred? And if so, does the blurring actually help if you can still get a vague outline of the horizon like in this one?
Ok, we started with not voting makes you as bad as the literal fascists.
Now we're at voting doesn't materially effect the outcome in the vast majority of cases, but you're still as bad as the fascists for not participating in the American civil religion by personally legitimizing our deeply undemocratic institutions with a vote that is essentially an endorsement of further neoliberal policy that would gladly see many of us dead or enslaved.
Is politics just like a sports thing to you or something? Where you show up to support your team every couple years? Why should I care if the Democrats or Republicans are in office if they are both committing genocide, if they both support policy that is a direct threat to the lives and livelihoods of myself and people I care about? I don't want to be complicit in that, but apparently I'm as bad as the fascists for not voting for actual fascists in sham elections?
Voter opinion doesn't correlate to policy in literally any study I've ever seen of the electorate in this genocidal farce of a settler-slaver colony. The problem is very clearly not a lack of voter participation, but a lack of actual, functioning democratic institutions. You're never gonna vote your way out of this situation because the capitalists built the entire system to prevent you from doing exactly that.
When you make a big show of voting blue no matter what, you tell the Democrats they don't need to worry about your interests because they have your vote regardless. Why the fuck would you do that?
It honestly sounds a lot like Hexbear. Made a rednote account today, but I've never used tiktok or instagram before, so the entire thing was kinda inscrutable for me lol, but I'm so glad that this is where the tiktok exodus is heading.
Imagine millions of dedicated Chinese communists suddenly being able to interact with the western English speaking internet. Vibes of Hexbear federating writ large
I think House is a lot more sympathetic, but that's just because he's a doctor and not involved in the mafia lmao. Still a massive asshole, but in such a charismatic and interesting way.
Right and the point of defining this number as a non-repeating infinite sequence of 0s and 1s is just to show that non-repetition of digits alone is not sufficient to say a number contains all finite sequences.
That's a decimal approximation of Pi with an ellipsis at the end to indicate its an approximation, not a definition. The way the ellipsis is used above is different. It's being used to define a number via the decimal expansion by saying it's an infinite sum of negative powers of 10 defined by the pattern before the ellipsis.
Pi, however, is not defined this way. Pi can be defined as twice the solution of the integral from -1 to 1 of the square root of (1-x^2), a function defining a unit semi-circle.
Implicitly defining a number via it's decimal form typically relies on their being a pattern to follow after the ellipsis. You can define a different number with twos in it, but if you put an ellipsis at the end you're implying there's a different pattern to follow for the rest of the decimal expansion, hence your number is not the same number as the one without twos in it.
The definition of this number is that the number of 0s after each 1 is given by the total previous number of 1s in the sequence. That's why it can't contain 2 despite being infinite and non-repeating.
The reason you need to slow down is because you're starting on Earth, which means you're moving fast enough parallel to the sun's surface that for every foot you fall downwards toward the sun, the sun's surface curves away by 1 foot. This results in the nearly circular orbit around the sun we exist in.
If you start speeding up, the orbit becomes more elliptical, except your aphelion starts raising away from the sun because now you're moving fast enough that you've moved more than 1 foot sideways in the time you've fallen 1 foot downwards.
Slowing down has the opposite effect. If you get your speed down to 0, you'll fall straight down toward the sun as normal with gravity. But you don't need to go all the way down to 0 velocity to enter the sun, you just need to slow down until your elliptical orbit brushes up against the sun's surface. If you then want to speed back up to avoid falling into the sun, you need to do it parallel to the sun's surface. At this point, speeding up toward the sun will actually make you fall into the sun faster.
So basically the problem isn't that you're moving too fast to fall into the sun. By virtue of Earth's orbit, you're moving too fast in a direction away from hitting the sun's surface.
Ukraine hasn't even been independent for my entire life, what are you talking about? Do you think thirty years is a long time? Are you twelve?
This is the thing that gets me with lemmy libs at times. I want to dunk on them harder, but some of them are so naive and ignorant about basic facts of recent history that in the back of my mind I can't help but think I'm probably talking to an actual, literal child. Then I just feel saddened about it more than anything.
At what point did this become Russia's aggression? Certainly after the fall of the Soviet Union by western backed coup (before which Ukraine and Russia were literally the same country). Did Russia's aggression start when NATO aggressively expanded into the former Eastern bloc after promising not to as a major condition of the USSR's dissolution? How about when Russia subjected its own population to devastating austerity, resulting in untold death and destruction, all in a genuine effort to liberalize and assimilate into NATO themselves? Was that Russia being too aggressive? Or did Russia's aggression not start until after the west continued to wage economic warfare anyway, demonstrating NATO never had any intention to let Russia coexist peacefully on the world stage regardless? How aggressive was it of Russia when the west helped to orchestrate the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine to install a rabidly anti-Russian fascist government on one of Russia's largest land borders? I guess Russia was being too aggressive when Ukraine decided to ban the Russian language and shell Russian speaking civilians in Eastern Ukraine for literally years and years in violation of the Minsk agreements, resulting in massive pro-Russian separatist movements forming to fight off Banderite pogroms.
I think I get it now, after exhausting literally all available diplomatic avenues to peace, aggressive Russia started this conflict out of nowhere by supporting the cause of the breakaway republics invading poor innocent Ukraine, wow can't believe a country would go to war like this at the drop of a hat! Irrational aggressive Russia should just take their troops home and surrender all territory back to Ukraine, a country losing a war so badly it's on the verge of collapse.
At this point it is essentially a racial slur against Muslims and Arabs.