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Stab a poison and you get lil poison molecules. Stab em and get smaller ones and so on down to atoms and you really shouldnt stab atoms in half

You could kill the mold but the problem is that the mold produces poisons

You can yoink energy from a spinning black hole so there’s ways to keep on trucking in the dark universe

Extremely common trip and fall hazard, frequently in the homes of old people with bad balance and fragile bones

That’s equivalent to boiling a liter of water every 3 requests

Miyazaki has admitted that he uses every possible tool in the game because the game is balanced around using those tools.

Souls games are harder than most video games, but they’re also not nearly as hard as doing anything in real life. People shitting on players using tools instead of the level 1 no-weapons no-hit sweat runs are losers through and through that think doing something intentionally difficult in the video game is greater than any particular real world endeavour.

Executives are fucking idiots though

It’s from a series Anne Weston at the Francis Crick Institute did. Scanning electron microscopy. The full series is pretty cool.

Firstly, a black hole isn’t an object, really. If you manage to compress enough mass in one place, gravity becomes the dominant force and the mass collapses into itself, eternally compressing and densifying. This is the singularity at the center of a black hole, and we use the term singularity because it’s describing a single unmeasurable point in spacetime.

Next point: high gravity curves space. Light only travels in straight lines if it can get away with it, so when light bends in space it’s because the space being traversed is deformed by gravity. Like, the Earth is, as far as it cares, going in a straight line that happens to curve back to where it started. If gravity is strong enough in a region, all possible “paths” through space become bent inwards to higher gravity. Like, even a perfectly straight line away from the black hole will be forced inwards again. That’s the event horizon, the region in space around the singularity where nothing can escape anymore: all paths go deeper into the black hole.

Third point: weird shit happens inside the event horizon. We’re well into Math now because we can’t actually see inside these things, but we can use math to theorize and describe the inside of a black hole. Basically, time and space switch places inside the event horizon. Because every possible direction you can move in only takes you deeper, that means the future is the singularity, and as you move forward in time you move closer in space to it.

So in net: they’re not really holes and they’re not really physical objects: they’re regions where every path in space is forced into going towards the singularity, which is itself infinitely small and infinitely dense.

Anyways, you can accurately calculate the precise size of the region. It’s called the Schwarzschild Radius, and it’s the size of the black hole that any particular amount of mass, if forced to collapse, would become. Turns out that if you calculate the size of the black hole that contains all of the mass and energy in the universe, it would be about the size of the universe, but not quite precisely. That’s all that’s been calculated.

China isn’t going to traffick me to a concentration camp prison in El Salvador if I have a particular photo of JD Vance on my phone

That’s crank nonsense unless you’re able to describe it with quantum electrodynamical equations that also accurately define gravity, and the whole point is that we cannot reconcile gravity and quantum physics yet.

It’s mostly the plants tbh, dietary fiber is frequently ignored in macro discussions but absolutely critical

It’s more that the lobster plan (long body) is really quite good in many niches, but the crab plan (wide body, no exposed tail) works better in more productive ecosystems that have more predators. So anything lobster shaped coming up from the deep mud will have to reduce its tail or get sniped by a fish

There’s very likely applications in algorithms that try to maximize resource usage while minimizing cost

The pages are plain html so it’s just a couple KB per request. Much cheaper than loading an actual site.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Don’t worry, there’s no computers inside it so you don’t have to be scared of an AI closing it on your fingers

What, is the AI going to dump a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into the air to cause a catastrophic runaway greenhouse effect, making huge swathes of the earths prime agricultural regions uninhabitable and forcing hundreds of millions of people to flee to other countries, emboldening fascist movements that seize on the fear of migrants and the strain on local resources, while increasing heat means more frequent super storms that destroy infrastructure while much of the global coasts are submerged, crippling international trade and driving famines and resource shortages on critical goods like medicine?

The courts have no mechanism to enforce their decisions except the executive, so there’s no check on the executive misbehaving if Congress decided to not remove him from office for ignoring the courts, and since Congress is complicit nothing will be done unless some radicalized shooter aims slightly more to the left next time.

I think in terms of damage 11 is up there since it won’t work on systems without TPMs, but 10 is also approaching EOS, so an ocean of machines are about to become ewaste or malware vectors.

If you stuffed that box with neutronium then:

1. Funny event: it’s so dense the Earth itself is basically a thin gas in comparison and it immediately falls through the floor, the ground, and the mantle to oscillate around in the core.

2. Funny other event: It’s so massive it dominates gravity nearby and everything within a couple of meters gets turned into Cool Physics from aggregating onto an incompressible box really fast and hard. Maybe the nearby atmosphere ignites from being compressed into plasma against the box.

3. Real physics step in and the neutronium immediately decompresses and the mass equivalent of an inland ocean in neutrons and angry high-energy high-mass decay products sterilizes everything through to the horizon with a gamma ray burst, also triggering massive seismic events from the blast as well as killing everything on Earth since the atmosphere is now radioactive and a lot thinner