[-] Ash@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Red bull gives you scha-wiiiiing!

[-] Ash@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Unlikely but possible is what I'm hearing.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago

Extradition and imprisonment.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

This is making me think. Could you theoretically jump out of a plane without a parachute, but a wing suit and skis and successfully land on a downhill slope? If you are well endowed of course.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Well that's one thing Idiocracy didn't predict. People becoming so anti-intellectual they cant even keep their own children alive. However I whole heartedly believe these people considered energy drinks as a remedy, "because of the electrolytes".

[-] Ash@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think we should reframe the question.

How can we protect adults from the harms of not being able to post meaningless bullshit anonymously to online anonymous strangers we never agree with without sacrificing everyones children's mental stability?

Maybe put childrens rights before adult rights. Adults had fun and got along fine without social media back before the 2000's. I refuse to believe that we are no longer capable of that. Especially if it means kids get to to go back to using the internet as a resource for homework and playing outside and using their own imaginations. Adults too.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago

Aerodynamic drag helps accelerate the rocket up. Got it. And the rocket takes its own oxygen with it, and sucks methane from the air and space. I didnt realise gravity changes direction from top to bottom, then goes sideways (obviously the methane alters gravity). And great idea having the crew compartment in the combustion chamber... must stop the crew from getting cold.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

OK. So long as the football clubs pay their entire policing bill and pay back the 100s of millions they have received in public funding. https://www.sports.legal/2019/03/public-funding-of-spanish-professional-football-clubs-a-game-worth-playing/

[-] Ash@piefed.social 44 points 2 weeks ago

I made it more realistic.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 63 points 2 weeks ago

So I have a contentious one. Quantum computers. (I am actually a physicist, and specialised in qunatum back in uni days, but now work mainly in in medical and nuclear physics.)
Most of the "working": quantum computers are experiments where the outcome has already been decided and the factoring they do can be performed on 8 bit computers or even a dog.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"
This paper is a hilarious explanation of the tricks being pulled to get published. But then again, it is a nascent technology, and like fusion, I believe it will one day be a world changing technology, but in it's current state is a failure on account of the bullshittery being published. Then again such publications are still useful in the grand scheme of developing the technology, hence why the article I cited is good humoured but still making the point that we need to improve our standards. Plus who doesnt like it when an article includes dogs.
Anyway, my point is, some technologies will be constant failures, but that doesn't mean we should stop.
A cure for cancer is a perfect example. Research has been going on for a century and cumulatively amassed 100s of billions of dollars of funding. It has failed constantly to find a cure, but our understanding of the disease, treatment, how to conduct research, and prevention have all massively increased.

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