Deme

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[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

Half-Earth perhaps, but I didn't see much actual solarpunk. The only society we see seems to prefer automated and sterile mass agriculture as well as consumer capitalism (the protagonist is a product). I suppose the attempt to rebel against this given purpose could count as punk, but is it solarpunk? The story has very little to say about society.

Visually it was beautiful, but the pacing felt a bit too fast for my adult brain.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, ahead of what was practically feasible.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is what I said, yes.

The point being that the event horizon deals with the structure of spacetime, while reflectivity is a material property. An object doesn't get painted with vantablack when it passes the event horizon.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The event horizon only obscures objects that are inside it, it has nothing to do with reflectivity of the object itself.

An observer situated between the singularity and an object within the event horizon could still intercept the light reflected from said object.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No event horizon is made up of matter. Do you mean the matter around and behind the black hole, by which the location and size of the black hole can be inferred?

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (11 children)

The event horizon isn't a physical object. Does a singularity reflect light? (I'm guessing it's still a no)

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Most philosophers (all who were/are not nihilists) would disagree with you here. You can't say that "they just didn't think hard enough about it", just because they arrived at different conclusions.

That's one of the neat things about philosophy: There is no absolutely true framework or theory. It's all just different ways of looking at things.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I may be out of the loop:

What's up with .ml?

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The difference between the two is largely semantics IMO. Sure, a private jet company CEO might perceive it as the end of the world when their business becomes unfeasible, no matter if that's because of a general societal collapse or due to the industry getting regulated into oblivion.

The same goes for humanity as a whole scaling back our use of energy and resources. Either willingly or not, it will happen, and not everyone will be as willing.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Oh but the workshop is a co-operative and Santa is a union man. The man dresses in all red, has a beard like Marx and distributes goods without any financial compensation.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

It wasn't about George Floyd as an individual. It was about what that case represented. People weren't rioting to get him back alive, they were angry at the system which caused his death among many others. Police killing black people is a thing that keeps happening over and over again in the US. It's a systemic issue that is never fixed. Floyd just ended up being the face of a movement born out of a lot of frustration about police brutality in general, possibly because of the way that situation was filmed. If he hadn't died, then some other case would've served as the catalyst for the same movement.

Oh and the exact manner of death was quite irrelevant. Either he suffocated due to having a boot on his neck, or then he OD'd and the officer killed him by omission, failing to provide medical attention. Most likely it was a bit of both.

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