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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • I do understand. I find myself having to regularly check myself to look for miscommunication instead of malice (or stupidity for that matter).

    The whole thing is whack, and anyone with two cents of mind and some compassion is just gaping at the horrors being casually thrown around and equally horrifying misdirections.

    Thanks to the internet the only way to hide stuff is to drown it out, but we all have our trusted sources (who in turn distort reality in an infotaining world, but that’s where we’re at). This means we can more or less put the big picture together (or at least the players) and make fairly solid guesstimates.

    I tell myself this is an all or nothing attempt by the ruling class to legitimize a strangle hold before any major resource wars break out and that people are really wisening up to their shenanigans. I feel ‘doomerism’ is an aspect where they can easily get me. Don’t let them win.


  • I do appreciate the time and effort you put into the comment, but I am not arguing against what you are saying.

    Since Kinsey &co and the summer of love, the movement didn’t evaporate, it perforated society and mutated. I don’t think I’d be going too far by stating, that the sexual revolution couldn’t have happened without the suffragettes. I see the queer movement as a spearhead in the same direction.

    I only had qualm with you saying anything has been undone (sorry if I’m paraphrasing). Yeah, using ‘woke’ as a pejorative for anyone craving progress is a thing now, but that doesn’t mean most of us want nothing more than to love each other freely.





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    2 months ago

    Water has a high specific heat capacity of about 4.184 joules per gram per degree Celsius (J/g°C) (sic! ddgAI), so getting 200 gramms of tap cold water (12°C) to thermal throttling levels (95°?) needs 4.184x200x83 ≈ 6945 (J).

    I got 15 Watts after searching for snapdragon’s TDP. If all of that went to heat up the water (I don’t think it does), we’d have 463 seconds until the water reaches throttling temps (with even heat discipation in the water).

    Let’s petition the chip makers to make the throttle temp 105°C, so it will have to boil the water away before it could hit the threshold.




  • I had a similar argument with a friend, and I think he won that time. It came out of left field and rephrases the whole thought experiment.

    Instead of me defending the argument, how would you interpret a clone incident? Would you get ‘the other feed’ as well? We have the sleep cycle where we don’t actively get input (even though our conciousness is present during dreams to a certain extent). So if a transporter clone incident rebuilds the person on the other side, but an original instant could go on experiencing a life that wouldn’t be if the transporter functioned correctly.

    Hopefully that took the soul out of your argument!


  • Yeah, there definitely are some waved away elements that are basically magic. I’m just binging TNG now, but I saw the Lower Decks tribute to many-a transporter incidents.

    I mean if you can transport and not at the same time (the copy version), it is not hard to think that once that buffer is cleared on the one side, it’s game over man.



  • And some even got the cyberpunkiness almost right (Johnny Nmemonic swung so hard!). I think for every visionary piece, we have 100 lost contemporary ‘trash’ (not trash, more like a picture of the spirit of the time) that has already been lost.

    I mean Star Trek was pretty wickedly ahead of it’s time for all of the creator’s shortcomings. Still can’t believe that teleporting doesn’t kill you every time.








  • Truly wonderful.

    You need the gaming in this lifestyle to help divert attention from not being able to get comfort foods at month’s end.

    Otherwise it leaves me all the time to realize the physical and mental hells I am putting myself through. I’ve been qualified for free health care for over a year, but I just arrived to the point where I can reach out and engage the system. I initially thought enrolling would come in handy if I get into an accident, but last week I made the call to start preventive treatments.

    I have an appointment with an actual doctor next month. I am also getting the ball rolling on the emotional side. I was contemplating moving back home, but now I might give this current iteration some more time.

    edit: i just reread the title (of course I didn’t read the article); I’m 40.