knightly

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because the real assassin didn't want the attention, and real heroes tend to have mysteriously short lifespans.

Letting a fall guy enjoy the fame and either prison time or exoneration gives our real hero a lot of headstart on disappearing and becoming someone else.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

It's still a matter of timescale, as in "how far future are we talking?". On a stellar scale, they'd need to get here in the next billion years or so before the expansion of the sun boils off everything above the lithosphere. On a geological scale, it's only a couple hundred million years 'til everything that isn't already buried or washed into the sea is getting squashed into a new pangea. On a climatological scale, corrosion and decay/overgrowth will render almost all artifacts unrecognizable within a couple of thousand years, though it'd be a few tens of thousands before our impact on the atmosphere is nulled. On a human timescale, the inverse-square law means that our radio signals are only detectable without astronomically-sized antennas within a shell of a few dozen light years or so.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

Or they could do the smart thing and ration the industrial supply, but that would offend the money.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago

They lost me when they released Fallout 76 prematurely and refused to honor my refund request. I'm glad I bought it direct rather than through Steam, I charged that shit back and swore them off right then.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Area denial weapons. The name comes from the Old English "calcatrippe", meaning "heel-trap", which itself came from the French "chause-trape", or "shoe-trap".

Their design ensures that they will always land with one spike pointing up, so they can be scattered in the path of advancing enemies to slow them down or injure their feet.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's only relevant at quantum scales, so it's not something we can experience directly. The super oversimplified version is that imaginary time is what light is doing while it moves through a medium where it can't travel at light speed. Light always travels at light speed, but it can pass through infinitessimally small closed loops of time where the light isn't interacting with anything but is nevertheless delayed by things it might have interacted with.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imaginary numbers are defined as the square roots of negative numbers, or as multiples of i, so yes that definition of imaginary time is accurate.

The square roots of negative numbers are different because they are neither rational nor irrational numbers, so they can be combined with real numbers to form complex numbers. Complex numbers are vital to mathematics because they allow you to solve polynominal equations that can't be solved with real numbers alone, like (x+1)^2 =-9 where x = -1±3i

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not voting doesn't make their candidates shitty candidates win, Democrats lose when turnout is depressed.

They know this, and they still chose to deliberately depress turnout with another shitty candidate who promised us nothing would change. Their last successful candidate won two terms on promises of hope and change and only 12 years later they're promising the opposite and delivering nothingburgers.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago

How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Asking if you're today's explanation is neither a strawman or an attack

Reducing people to a perspective you can feel free to ignore is, in fact, an attack.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Are you today's explanation?

Are you today’s right-winger cosplaying as a lib?

Always a good sign when you start off with a strawman/ personal attack.

Right‽ Also, why would you make such an honest admission? It isn't doing anything to help your argument.

Ok where do we start. Well first off we're talking national level, not mayoral candidates or safe districts.

Are you trying to tell me that the governor of Rhode Island has more pull than a mayor of America's biggest metro with 8x as many constituents? This is a supremely weird way to open up your response.

A bunch of nonsense about electoral history, blaming Clinton's loss on climate change, failing to acknowledge that Gore actually won his election, etc.

Lol.

So how do you get them to move left? By giving them victories first.

I think you should try that plan. Start with Mamdani.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Zohran Mamdani won the NYC primary, so it sure sounds like the voters are paying attention.

Whether or not the party wants to listen is their perogative, so long as they claim to represent us they can rise or fall on the strength of their promises to us and our faith in their willingness to make good on those promises.

"Nothing will fundamentally change" sure isn't working as well as Obama's "hope and change", is it?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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