Maybe the problem is that they’re all trying to be the same goddamned thing, like how there are 15 or more goddamned hamburger chains.

“We want to be like facebook! Also like Youtube and twitter and tiktok! And like Instagram!”

Maybe if they stuck to their speciality and strengths, pick a lane and stay in it, they would prosper. But no! God forbid!

Nature is based

…it’s lawyers all the way down.

Also, bigger lawyers feed on smaller lawyers, scoop them up in gigantic mouthfuls, can consume up to four tonnes per day.

It’s curious, but in my mind these types of mathematical or logical visualizations are the sheep I count, trying to sense the deeper flow and patterns where the emergent oddities even out.

That’s when I know I will soon fall fast asleep, when my mind starts getting abstract.

Oh yes we do, we want the community here to be like it was in Reddit before the meddling of that greedy, right-wing asshole-in-charge allowed maga to flourish there, and before he fully and officially enshittified the interface.

May it spread across borders!

elon musk / 2024
Where a fat line of idiocy and the learning curve of digital currencies intersect. Wisdom level set at “infantile”.

“doge doge doge doge doge doge doge…”
“Elon’s pumping dogecoin again!”

To top it off, these people most likely mock older generations for falling for the Nigerian prince email scams.

A chronic compulsive content-stealer creature like gallowboob might have encompassed that 15% all by himself.

Voyager is the Nokia of space probes: practically obsolete, code written in ancient runes almost nobody can still decipher and read… yet still keeps on ticking.

And a vaguely intellectual name, as if knowledgeable people go and post there all the time, when its’ actual academic facade is more analogous to stock photo models wearing labcoats and goggles.

Does this sound like the prototypical clickbait headline title, or what do you say?

Their reputations will be half-lifed!

So as not to offend Mr. & Mrs. Hypothesis?
(whisper) - “They’re standing right behind you.”

We get the energy from fission. To put two hydrogens together to turn it into one helium is the very definition of fusion.

Separate but related: among the many mind-blowing astronomical discoveries of the past decade or two, kilonovas are in the short list for most spectacular.

Imagine two tiny neutron stars plowing into each other, all those densely packed neutrons suddenly and with great force being clumped together into super heavy elements, creating a spiral spray of silver, gold, platinum, uranium nuclei, but just the neutrons.

With time, some of these neutrons decay into protons, or absorb whatever hydrogen atoms they encounter along their path - a proton and an electron - along with whatever random free electrons may also be around, floating freely in space.
Eventually you’ll get the full atoms. Some of that bounty got caught in the gravity well of the gas and dust nebula that collapsed into our solar system.
And that’s how the universe created the silver, gold, titanium, uranium, etc, that is in our planet today.

I gotcha, I was just thinking how Patreon has been vital for nurturing a vast digital ecosystem of content creators who are in it as a labor of love.

EDIT: typo

The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its’ history, ParallaxNick.

Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I’m guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.

What about DJ Qualls in “The Core”?

While being interrogated in his introduction sequence, he casually folds an aluminum chewing gum wrapper, puts it to his lips and kinda whistles with it for a second, while holding a cell phone in front of his mouth. After this little public display of phreaking, he hands the cell phone over to the hero and says “Here… now you can call anywhere free for life with it”.

Wasn’t it Isaac Newton who said something along the lines of “If I have seen farther than anyone before me, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”.

And that was nearly 400 years ago, when knowledge was so much more limited and narrow in scope than today.

It’s been a while since I’ve used a projector - when I screened films at a cultural center - and I seem to remember that even for a small space that would fit an audience of thirty, 2000 lumens was on the lower end of acceptability.

Goddamn it, it seems Reddit and TAFKAT (The App Formerly Known As…) are becoming interchangeable shitholes.