palebluethought 5 days ago • 100%
I'm sure some parents use it as a substitute to avoid saying "son of a removed" in front of their kids, if that helps
palebluethought 6 days ago • 80%
Sure, I mean pretty much by definition. What does that have to do with your question?
palebluethought 6 days ago • 99%
Are you under the impression that they don't?
palebluethought 7 days ago • 83%
Well, yeah. That's not really in the same category or ever really disputed
palebluethought 7 days ago • 88%
No, that's my evidence that it wasn't ubiquitous and typical.
Maybe not just your social circle, but social-circle-specific.
palebluethought 1 week ago • 94%
No, this was just your social circle. I know literally zero people who ever bought into any of that crap
palebluethought 1 week ago • 100%
Other than the vague "big bad gubbmint thinks you're too stupid for their SECRETS" vibe, I almost find this old school X-Files type insanity sort of adorable. They don't wanna hurt people, they just want a more interesting world
palebluethought 2 weeks ago • 97%
From England straight to Louisiana is quite a leap
palebluethought 2 weeks ago • 100%
It's actually the comptroller, but only if he attacks en passant
palebluethought 3 weeks ago • 100%
Which wouldn't have the potential if the larger sun didn't form first to create the gravity to allow the rest to form.
This is simply incorrect. The gravitational potential of the body would be there regardless of what else is going on around it. And either way, the OP's question was not about some hypothetical where the sun doesn't exist, it's about where energy came from in the real world.
Star != Sun is just pointlessly pedantic. You're not trying to learn anything, just be a smartass.
? The OP's question was literally "is there energy on earth that didn't come from the sun." I am not the one being pedantic here.
palebluethought 3 weeks ago • 85%
Nuclear materials were formed in supernovas. They wouldn't exist in the first place without a star.
Well, yeah, sure. But that star is not the Sun.
Earth wouldn't have coalesced without the sun in the middle. Otherwise we'd still be a gas blob.
I mean, sure? It wouldn't be a gas blob, but it would be a very different system. But that still has nothing to do with it -- even if the gravity of the sun influences how the earth coalesces, it's still not where the thermal energy of the core came from. That came from the potential of the dust itself.
palebluethought 3 weeks ago • 75%
The heat in the Earth's mantle and core comes from the gravitational potential energy of the original stellar dust clouds the Earth originally accreted from. So, geothermal energy mostly isn't. And there's also evidence that a few natural uranium deposits have undergone natural nuclear fission chain reactions. That one's a pretty negligible amount, though. Other than that, no, it all traces back to the sun.
palebluethought 3 weeks ago • 100%
Yes, your aunt has (probably) signed up for what's essentially a scam. This is their whole business model, they know timeshares sound better than they end up being, so they intentionally trick people into signing contracts that are very difficult to get out of, so they can't just dump it the moment they realize they don't want it anymore.
palebluethought 3 weeks ago • 100%
Like others have mentioned, there are various options (donations/sponsorships/grants) that larger projects will generally have some of, but for smaller projects (99% of what's out there, by project count if not usage), the answer is simply "it isn't." It's done as a hobby, as a resume booster, or with the hope of eventually becoming big enough to hit one of those revenue streams.
palebluethought 1 month ago • 100%
Sorta. I mean everyone expects there to be actual pumpkin, but that'd be gross. It's just all the stuff you add to the pumpkin in a pie to make it delicious
palebluethought 1 month ago • 100%
I mean, it's basically just cinnamon, cardamom, and clove. Yeah, it's great. One of those "ruined by its fans" things
palebluethought 1 month ago • 100%
Yes, of course. That's what keeps them bound together.
palebluethought 1 month ago • 95%
That's... An extremely bizarre take on what happened, and on whether selling would be a good idea. The stock market almost never has anything to do with electoral politics, and electoral politics almost never have anything to do with what your market position should be.
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
In 4chan parlance that just means she's calling herself autistic. Which in 4chan world may or may not be literal
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Poes law and all, but this one feels like a troll to me
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
There's nothing to criticize, because there's no evidence being presented for consideration. You're just presenting a bunch of hypothetical ideas about how some other universe might work. It has no relationship at all to how anything in the real world is observed working, ever. This is not any different than the "world building" forums where fantasy writers ask for criticisms of their fictional magic systems.
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Not that you're going to get any kind of constructive discussion here regardless, but it's worth noting that "liberal" in the US means something very different in the rest of the world (what we'd call "neoliberal" or globalist) and I don't really know which one you mean
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
I don't think of either of them as having any specific regional accent at all. I think they just have somewhat similar voices and mannerisms
palebluethought 2 months ago • 85%
You are so gullible
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
"Official" here meaning "some guy said it and his friend wrote a blog post about it on the Internet."
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
It's fun to pretend.
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
How in the world could that possibly work
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
A UCC-1 is a form that acts as kind of a public declaration that you've loaned someone money or property and they're indebted to you. It helps establish the relative priority of creditors in complex financial situations, and serves as a public record of liens on the collateral of loans. Something like that, I'm not an expert.
But it's just a public record of a debt, basically. That debt has to actually exist, though, for the form to have any meaning. These guys have all convinced each other that just by saying they're a creditor to the government or whoever via this form, that they can make it come true, and thereby conjure money or ownership rights out of nowhere.
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Psychonauts 1/2. The first game literally takes place at a summer camp. Second one has basically the same vibe.
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Do they? IME it's the tankies who have the waifu profiles
palebluethought 2 months ago • 89%
The MAGA crowd, including elected members of Congress, the Senate, Donald Trump, and J D Vance, constantly talk about arresting, imprisoning, shooting anyone who says or does anything they don't like — and they're not joking.
Yeah... And that's one of the things that make them the problem. So maybe let's not also be the problem?
palebluethought 2 months ago • 75%
I mean, they definitely teach it in history, so idk
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Or is he taking it down from the inside?
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
I mean.... The cash is still the right choice, but you can invest the Minecraft earnings too
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
The Minecraft one is just an hourly wage job with an, at best, just ok pay rate and mind-boggling monotony...
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
What is the milk supposed to be in this metaphor
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
I almost hesitate to bring up the other problems with your plan since, obviously the total monstrosity of it. But that's anyway pretty well covered so I'll just throw in that blowing enough nukes to kill that many people would create considerably worse environmental disaster
palebluethought 2 months ago • 100%
Pretty sure this guy thinks that rules against holding foreign feudal titles applies to receiving a copy of his vehicle registration... Because they're both called "titles," and of course as a sovereign citizen he counts as a "foreign state".
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
palebluethought 3 months ago • 100%
While this is insane, museum archives are definitely a thing?
palebluethought 3 months ago • 100%
Dang, that's a true vent.
But just to ensure you're pointing your justified rage in the right direction -- YouTube is essentially legally forbidden to stop copyright trolls. The DMCA makes it impossible: it spells out extremely specific terms for what YT has to do when it receives a claim, including, basically, the assumption of guilt. The content has to come down as soon as they receive the claim or they're in violation of the law, even if it's obviously frivolous. And there's little to no recourse against those who abuse the system.
The DMCA and copyright law in general is just broken, basically
First of all, thank you so much for all your work! This is definitely a way better experience than the web client. And thanks for adding community blocking, so now I don't have to go back for that feature. I like to keep pretty huge categories of communities out of my feed entirely. But, I also want to be aware of what other communities of interest might be out there, especially now while the Lemmy landscape is evolving so quickly. So the strategy of only ever browsing subs and foregoing All entirely doesn't really work. But, as I've seen other people highlighting in other posts, federation also means that the number of redundant communities across instances is huge. I don't just have to block all the political communities, I have to block them everywhere we're federated with. My block-list is already gigantic and I don't anticipate the need to block communities going away soon. It'd be a *much* smoother experience if Block Community was an option directly in the three-dot menu of an individual post, instead of having to leave my feed, go through another menu, and go back every time.