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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • So the thing is, like other commenters have said, you’re asking metaphysics things through the prism of science, which does not work because by nature, science uses the (mostly) objective scientific method, while metaphysics is based on subjective assessments.

    You have to separate the physical, material universe as being in the domain of what can be known, from the rest, which can not be, and never will. This does not mean it doesn’t exist, just that it can never be studied or proved in any way, so anyone can believe what they wish about it without leaving rationality (as long as the belief does not imply things concerning the material universe)





  • On s’est fait un one-shot sur Mothership hier, super sympa comme généralement ! J’avais choisi un scenar plus prompt à la confrontation que d’habitude où l’ambiance tient plutôt du survival horror, mais ça a bien pris. Mention speciale à la fin, les joueu.r.se.s décident de trahir leur employeur et de se barrer sans finir la mission en volant la navette qui les a amené, et se font immédiatement exploser par les pilotes de celle-ci, qui monitoraient leur flux bodycam (ils en étaient informés, et avaient bien vite oublié).

    Bref, super session qui me hype pour la campagne qu’on commencera prochainement !


  • Depends on the scale. Really tiny microorganism living in the air do not fly, as in they have no active mecanism to physically interact with their environment to move in any way. They just follow the air currents at seemingly random (the exact word is brownian), kinf of like particles of dust that you see in a ray of light. It is not defined as flying and not studied as such



  • Insects fly the same as birds and aeroplanes do, they create air flow around a rounded wing edge, wich causes the air upward of the wing to flow faster than the air under, thus creating a lifting force. And to answer origins, to our knowledge insects were by far the first living flying things, around 300 million years ago with dragonfly relatives. And the group including flies (diptera) came much later, around 240 million years ago !










  • Je partage ce ressenti, j’utilise différentes lignes de transports sur Paris et l’île de France de manière quotidienne depuis maintenant 6 ans (discontinus cumulés).

    Les gros bagages peuvent évidemment être pénibles, par exemple dans des lignes très fréquentées en heures de pointe (coucou la 6 à 18h), mais c’est normal, les voyageurs doivent transiter vers leurs destinations ou leurs correspondances, c’est le but des transports publics. Et instaurer des réglementations d’heures de pointes n’y changerait je pense pas grand chose tout en introduisant plus de confusion, avec le malus d’envoyer des usagers vers d’autres solutions comme les taxis ou VTC, qui deviennent seuls à même de transporter ces bagages supérieurs aux normes.