cosecantphi

joined 5 years ago
[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In 1000 years scientists will find the paint residue and people will appreciate it as an interesting historical fact that Stonehenge was once vandalized by a psyop meant to hurt climate change organizing

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh sometimes i want to replay a game in a way that isn't fully engaging with all the game mechanics because i'm having fun seeing the story play out but i'm not in a place where i can put in any effort, and this seems great for that

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Does it actually work?

...not the AI button of course, what I mean is are there really people out there who bought this mouse who wouldn't have if it didn't include the dedicated "AI button"?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Hello, I'm here to apologize for the lack of terror. Someone needs to do it, might as well be me

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, I'm a day late to this thread so I don't really have all the context, but it sounds like some assholes weren't happy about how quickly you used a large donation, said some shitty things, and you may be internalizing some of that.

All I want to say is that you have no one to apologize to other than yourself and others in your irl life. And only you and they can possibly determine if that's even warranted.

$4000 is a very large and generous donation, but it's nothing in comparison to the problems the unhoused experience in this country, especially unhoused people suffering from addiction. You would have needed a very good string of good luck for this to turn things around for you for the long term, and it's not at all a moral judgement on you that things didn't work out.

From the sounds of it, it bought you food and comfort over the past month, and that alone is nothing to be ashamed of.

Anyway comrade, that's all I wanted to say. Feel free to DM me if you ever need someone to talk things through with, I'm here.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To calm them down? You mean to remind them that yelling at a customer might get them fired and they will no longer be able to provide for their family?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So fucking close yet so far.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 105 points 1 year ago (13 children)

That tracks. A forum where most people speak English but have political views in alignment with a lot of the global south is nigh unheard of. Lately I've been thinking that we might start getting attention for it from the wider internet just because of how unique this place is

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Beastars season 3 looking great

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Things like this make me feel bummed out in a very similar way. Not mad at your employer for caring about such petty shit, you already expected that from these hogs. It's just a deep disappointment that your coworker would stoop so low, like come on do better, don't sell your humanity over some chips

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Getting away with a bank robbery is a lot more likely than you'd think, I think only about 60% of cases are solved by the police. That's not great, you're betting the farm on slightly worse odds than a coin toss. But if I did win said coin toss, I seriously cannot fathom immediately tossing not one but two more coins.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh fucking christ the chuds are going to blame Mexicans for this aren't they

 

Rewatching Code Geass and wow Suzaku is more insufferable than I remembered for the first three quarters of the show

 

Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion. It is about 724 lightyears away from Earth, and it has a mass of about 11 times that of the Sun. Despite that, it is about 700 times larger. If it were at the center of our solar system, it would engulf the four inner planets and Jupiter.

It's so big because it is currently reaching the end of its life. Massive stars have dramatically shorter lifespans than stars like the Sun because the rate of nuclear fusion in their cores is accelerated due to the massive gravitational pressures. This accelerated rate of fusion is producing huge outward pressures, puffing the star up to many, many times its original size. Once Betelgeuse runs out of fusible elements, that pressure will suddenly disappear and gravity will cause the star to implode, releasing ridiculous amounts of energy in a supernova.

Betelgeuse only formed about ten million years ago and is already on death's door. Astronomers don't know enough about stellar evolution to predict exactly when Betelgeuse will go supernova. But from what they do know, they're saying it could go off anytime between right now and the next 100,000 years. Since it is 724 lightyears away, we won't know until 724 years after the fact. So if we're lucky, we'll get to see the supernova if it already exploded about that long ago!

The last time a supernova was visible to the naked eye was in 1604. Today it's called Kepler's Supernova, named for Johannes Kepler, one of the astronomers who observed it at the time. The supernova was about 20,000 lightyears away and was bright enough to be visible during the day for three weeks.

Recently, astrophysicists have determined that saying the word Betelgeuse three times may cause it to explode sooner than it would have otherwise.

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/02/when-betelgeuse-goes-supernova-what-will-it-look-like-from-earth

 

Got a rover to the Mun today and explored a few biomes. I think I've finally got the hang of doing stuff in Kerbin's sphere of influence, and am about ready to start sending stuff interplanetary! Anyone else been up to anything in the Kerbol solar system?

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