You know what’s funny? Conservation of energy isn’t true on a universal scale in our universe in the first place. The expansion of our universe over time actually breaks that symmetry. This is why light can get redshifted over travelling long distances. It loses energy into… nothing

I mean, backwards time travel goes against our current understanding of physics. But multiple dimensions, or the many-worlds interpretation, etc, are not incompatible with our current understanding of physics, no, it’s just presently an untestable hypothesis

The dissonance of “not allowed to advocate for violence”, while at the same time, not only hosting combat footage, but also it being perfectly allowed to advocate for war or military operations, or talk about how “x country needs to shoot y enemy in this war” or similar, never ceases to amaze me. I literally don’t get it. What is war if not exactly that?

But I guess, if it’s state-sanctioned it’s perfectly fine. Even if, either way, it still results in violence and people dying. Just sucks that you can’t say that a war criminal deserves to die. Fucking double standards

What if it isn’t a binary? What if you’re doing endurance training? Them you do the same thing over and over which makes you better and last longer

Using more words to describe emotional content is not really how humans use language, but you do have the next best thing, which are tone indicators

It’s not fundamentally different to body language or tone in person. How do we know what a gesture is supposed to convey? Everyone needs to be on the same page, right?

And yet, it seems to work. Just as phone texts seem to work. Humans are excellent at language, we pick these things up subconsciously and through exposure over time to people’s/the same person’s texts

It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria

God I wish discord just stuck to being a straightforward app without any of the fancy fluff that’s just not needed. I hate the super-flashy things that obscure visibility and divert your attention so much

But it’s what they sell to people, and a minority seems to really like so

Good thing transferring 2 tebibytes is no slower than 2 kibibytes

Just attach two of these bad boys

points

Noita

Sums up a surprising amount of our biology

Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky

Yeah ita like, you got a sex friend, why stop it artificially?

Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed

What might happen, is that, if people try to keep up with it, you’ll end up with older people fluent in dozens of various internet dialects

Absolutely, google does that shit constantly, well known within the internet standards community

You might be a bit facetious, but unironically multiplayer games would be important for community building. Morale is one of the most important parts of survival

It’s probably not a stretch to say that our aptitude at language is a major major part for our evolutionary success. It was probably bound to happen that one among the first few species that got as good at language as we are, would eventually dominate the world

And if you magnetized some iron using the electricity, you could create a small generator and turbine, creating a constant (and practically free) supply for further experiments

If the people at the time allowed you and gave you the means to, I think most people could definitively revolutionize one or two fields, and accelerate multiple more

Even just knowing what is possible in the future should not be underestimated. I could point people towards the right track in physics, chemistry, astronomy, material science, biology, medicine, electronics, and so on. But especially in computer science and communications/networking, as those are the fields I know the most of. I could probably be a major founder of the field and (re)discover a lot of parts of it

A lot of science is essentially stumbling around in the dark. Yes, we’re doing it methodically and sometimes we get some pointers towards the right track, but we can’t know what we don’t know. If we knew exactly what it is that we should/could know but don’t, that is a massive benefit. Like for example, at some point in time people didn’t know if antibiotics or vaccines were possible, but if you told them “yeah, I don’t know the specifics, but I absolutely know 100% for sure that it’s possible” you can be sure it would spur a massive investigation into it, and you could give pointers from the bits and pieces you knew

Of course, as mentioned, the big issue is them trusting you and actually believing you have some sort of knowledge they don’t have. If you don’t play your cards right you’ll probably just get killed for being a charlatan lol. But if you manage to get some early wins and score yourself a dedicated workshop/lab and a team, you could do soon much

Good to know even powerful disgusting people abuse ticketing priority systems

Ah, who am I kidding, they’re probably the ones most likely to do so

And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app

And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification

Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible