Instantaneous, lifelong driving bans for any driver who is found to be texting or intoxicated behind the wheel.

RedCandleGames is on my very short list of ‘instabuy’ developers. The way they were treated by GOG is why I don’t buy from that store anymore.

I was denied a mathematics education, for real. I can’t even do long division, nevermind that squiggly F shit. I thought that stuff was only for astrophysicists.

I want to learn basic maths, but I’m in a ‘learned helplessness’ mindset where I can’t even get through basic sums and equations intended for children (I’m old as fuck now).

I was diagnosed with autism a few years back, which kinda made no sense. I would have expected rainman powers, but numbers just don’t jive with my cunt of a brain. Maths is as inscrutable to me as people’s faces or social cues.

Seems like a small thing, but it makes the idea of federation seem a bit patchy.

I wish Linux weren’t completely fucking impenetrable for casual users.

Damn it, the link didn’t show on my post. I think maybe because I added text to the body of the post as well, and I guess you can’t do both? 🤷‍ I’ve added the link to the post’s body now though. Thanks for the heads-up!

Anonymous and untraceable internet traffic tool for paedophiles, data thieves and occasionally a journalist living under an oppressive regime. But mainly paedophiles.

(from Perplexity AI)

😬 holy moly macaroni

Perfectly concise answer! Thank you :)

Wow, that’s an incredible thought. So “ziiiiiiip” there goes the uberobject. 4 minutes later, all of the budgies on earth are knocked off their perches.

Would that uberobject heat up the earth as it passes? Not sure how that would work, but it seems like a good question 🤣

Thank you so much for this excellent write-up! And for providing interesting reading material, too.

It’s amazing to me (an uneducated sub-layman) that things like dark matter and dark energy aren’t well-understood, but we can nonetheless still do this kind of science and detect black holes colliding through ripples in spacetime 🤯 But then again, it’s amazing to me that rivers never run out of water (joking… sort of…).

That LIGO sound clip is for sure going into the intro of a metal song.

That’s amazing, thank you! A ghostly remnant of gravity still exerting 8-ish minutes of influence on earth (in the event of the sun’s instantaneous disappearance) is something I never heard or thought about before, but it makes sense. It’s hard to visualise it though. Like the earth is a marble circling a drain after plug has been pulled and the water is all but gone. Then the minute it is gone, the marble just keeps going in a straight line 👀

Damn, 58’s nothing. Barely middle age these days. I hope whatever it was that killed her was quick. She worked for some scumbags, but that’s hardly a reason to celebrate that a family has a dead wife, mother and possibly daughter to bury.

We know.

I did 🤣 My skillz are known across the land. They call me the Paint.NET Bastard.

Thank you so much, those shaft collars look to be a much better design than the thing I drew (not much of a surprise to be honest!), I can stack a series of these instead of looking for one big solid one.

I didn’t know that the cylinders were so dangerous 😬 I must have lucked out; I’ve had to use extreme brute-force methods to dislodge the old ones when it was time to replacement them, pointing the thing directly at my guts and face while I work it loose with a hammer and spanner. Sounds like I was unwittingly playing Russian roulette with my chair. The difficulty I have in pulling out the cylinder is why I wanna just go with a “static” setup, it’s way too much work and effort for something so simple. Now I can also add “don’t want my cheekbones to get lodged in the ceiling” to the list of reasons to go static.

Thanks for the info and the warning!

The screenshot is from an amazingly-funny short film called Kung Fury. You can watch it for free on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/video/watch/374570/

Photosynthesis? How does that work?

The world’s smallest violin could not be reached for comment.