Tiny capsules, smaller astronauts... it's easier getting that lighter payload into orbit.
People who pee in their brother's sneakers in the closet because brother locked himself in the bathroom taking a shower, told you to go fuck yourself when you banged on the door and yelled at him to open up.
There's a venerable French food restaurant in my town, it's been there for something like 80 years and still going strong.
In her old age back in the 1970s and 80s, the founder of the restaurant, trained in the Cordon Bleu culinary tradition, loved going to Taco Bell! Her friends used to scratch their heads and tried to understand, or talk some sense into her:
"But... that doesn't make sense! Cheddar, ground beef, lettuce and cream in tacos... it's not even real Mexican food!",
to which she replied:
"If I want Mexican food, I'll go get Mexican food. But sometimes I just want Taco Bell!", which is to say she craved some tex-mex.
Just asking questions, bro.
Questions I heard on Joe Rogan, questions that BLEW HIS MIND!!!
Questions he heard on Jordan Peterson and... that Shapiro cockfart whatever his goddamned name is, who cares, really, it doesn't matter.
Your elders are just as stupid, myopic and petty as you fear they might be. But then again, so are your peers.
Probably the hope, not completely unfounded, that the migration from one "legacy" (from the 00s) platform to a more recent alternative service - twitter to Bluesky - will help inspire people in other legacy platforms to also realize that alternatives do exist now, they are part of a broader conversation that they weren't a part of even two years ago.
Even a year and a half ago, this place felt like it hadn't yet installed the drywall, the wiring and tubing was incomplete. Now it feels more seamless, ready for a spurt of growth.
"Hey... Bluesky isn't all that bad, I'm glad to be out of the clutches of a billionaire asshole, and not feel utterly lost here", now cue what OP believes a number of people will also think: "Hmm... maybe I'll check out Lemmy, too. See what the alternative to reddit is like."
Some of them could have tried it, didn't like it, might come back and be like: "Hey, Lemmy's not too bad since last I last looked a year ago", and here's a clincher that definitely wasn't here a year and a half ago: "The app works pretty good", and there are a lot of new apps, having a choice gives a sense and weight of legitimacy.
In that case, the headline could read instead as:
Medieval monks were sly
The faithful were suckers
In that case, the large majority of the hacked/leaked accounts should be bot accounts. I wonder if that is something that can be checked and verified. Maybe most of those accounts can be traced back to a few points of origin, done in bulk by some sort of shady service hired via the dark web.
Who gives a fuck what a parasite thinks or says or whatever? Everything that comes out of its' orifices is excrement and stink, no exceptions.
Yeah, they probably did, the mindlessness in that god-forsaken political right-wing shithole is breathtaking.
I'd like to see this done as a painting, in the style of Caravaggio!
Keeps on listening, suddenly a deep male voice says:
"Turn around."
Take a moment to pause and let that sink in for sec.
Andrew Tate online university.
800,000 users.
P.T. Barnum truly was right, wasn't he? There really is a sucker born every goddamned minute.
It seems like a ridiculously huge amount of time for such a small amount, more so considering that according to theory these black holes will eventually evaporate completely.
But then I try and visualize just how much it actually takes to go from 10^99 to hit the 10^100 (googol) milestone, and it's just too big a numerical chasm to truly wrap one's mind around. It all reaches the level of bizarre abstractions way, way, waaaay before that point.
How long would it take for a supermassive black hole like Sag A* to emit a tablespoon of mass via Hawking Radiation?
In the same vein, what about a stellar-sized black hole like Cygnus X-1? At this size the rate of evaporation is quicker, right?
In regards to the Bose-Einstein Condensate, what could be the daily life, practical application of slowing down or freezing a photon?
This all seems as exotic or esoteric to us now as these invisible electromagnetic waves were to Heinrich Hertz, who reportedly regarded them as mere scientific curiosities with no practical applications.
Unable to foresee radio, television, telephones, remote controls, microwave ovens, Wifi, Bluetooth... you get the point, that "thing with no practical applications" is now a staple of daily life, and all around us. We have fully tamed Electromagnetism.
Now with things like Quantum Computing and Bose-Einstein Condensates, we are starting to tame a new esoteric scientific curiosity - the probability wave function, the Uncertainty Principle.
Heinrich Hertz did not foresee things like satellite television and Spotify while looking for a spark flying across two metal tips from his dark room in the 1880s, but surely we have a better grasp of what potential benefits the newest technologies have in store for humanity? Or are we for the most part still in the Hertz-like naive fiddling process?
Either way, there is going to be some incredible magic inside that quantum box!
Imagine modern tech could resurrect old movie stars, which movie remake would you like to see them in?
For example, Humphrey Bogart as Indiana Jones in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Or say Gregory Peck in Saving Private Ryan. Or how about James Dean as Luke Skywalker!
Regarding the Fine Structure Constant in the spectral emission lines of a hydrogen atom, does the narrow gap/black line represent 1 out of 137 slices or possible steps of something?
In the color lines of a spectrograph and what seems to be an area with a certain color, zooming in shows that this color is delicately split in half by a black vertical hairline, on one side it's the emission of photons of color by a hydrogen atom with a spin up electron, on the other it seems to be the same color but it's a spin down electron.
Whenever I hear that gap mentioned, 1/137 is invoked, but I'm not sure precisely what that means, and I'm visualizing that the color of the spectral emission can be divided or deconstructed into a total of 137 vertical lines, and the one in the middle is black.
Maybe it represents 1/137 of a photon's wavelength at a certain color?
Nadie le hace caso a Chanoc, ahí debiera de andar una franquicia. Hay que decirle a Villeneuve qe se aviente un "reboot" de Kalimán.
Nolan que se aviente la de Fantomas.
Vieron el pentatlón de Paris 2024?
En el último evento - Laser Run - salió el mexicano Emiliano Hernandez como #11, algo así como 40 segundos después del primero, un egipcio.
Tras la primera vuelta corriendo el circuito y llegando a las pistolas de tiro con laser, dice el locutor: "Ya llegó el mexicano", y en mi mente acompleté la frase: "...tarde pero sin sueño".
A fin de cuenta, este chavalo Emiliano rebasó a varios y terminó en cuarto lugar.
Nomás quería compartir. Saludos a toda la palomilla.
Is there a way to watch NYC local access television Manhattan Neighborhood Network on a Roku?
EDIT: I mean directly from the box, NO casting from a phone or tablet.
All their channels are on-air via Livestream - here's an example - but a couple of years ago the parent company Vimeo discontinued their app for Roku, they just digitally yanked it out of our streaming boxes.
Does anyone else see an alleged old painting or black-and-white photo you've never seen before, are unsure if it's legit or a recent fake created with AI?
For example, places like HistoryPorn have some bizarre pictures of weird inventions or WWII experimental weapons.
How come I'm only just now coming across them? Why didn't we see them five or ten years ago, even in specialized forums and subreddits?
Places like ArtPorn or TraditionalArt are a trickier proposition. Here my lack of knowledge is vast, but I've really loved the history of painting for over two decades now, and have recently kept coming across a lot of 18th-to-20th century paintings and painters I've never heard of before; some of these are excellent, I should have known about them... I think. But like I say, there's more that I don't know than what I do. If they are real and not recent AI creations, where are the original and who is digitizing and/or publishing so many of them all of a sudden in the past year?