Is that from the graphic novel? David looks different than in the animated series here.

And Prussian blue!

I mean, they also named the one before it after one of their favorite board games, so I think anything’s fair game.

Never forget 1066.

I admit the possibility, but one of the primary complaints I remember reading about was the lack of “vroomvroom” noises, which are, I would contend, an integral part of the speed demon’s enjoyment.

However, the target demographic for EVs is either “person who feels some modicum of compassion and responsibility for the world in which they live” or “fascist fuck who knows that, if they went more than thirty miles per hour, you wouldn’t be able to see the giant metal monstrosity they wave about in lieu of a dick and spine”

Neither of these demographics have incentive to speed. One of them is solely performative, and wants to be noticed for their dick-waving, while the other would not be speeding 300+ times, because they are probably a decent person.

I haven’t! It’s shockingly tough to find anywhere

I agree. Admittedly, NDT does say “keep in mind, Bruno didn’t have any evidence for his claims. He was not a scientist.” But still, that scene came off as somewhat less appropriate. I think that, on balance, it’s about showing that entrenched systems of power and authority have an active disincentive to take progressive stances, or even allow radical voices to exist. Even if Bruno did have evidence on his side, the church still would have burned him. Were I making that episode, I would have made it more clear that there were good reasons for him being laughed out of Cambridge. He had no evidence, but the scientists’ arguments highlighted were mostly arguments from authority “but Aristotle said”, or “but the bible says”, rather than demands for evidence and argumentation. Even scientists can fall to the trap of entrenched ideas and authority.

Cosmos (the NDT series) - my overall favourite series. If you like Cosmos a lot, consider watching the archives of the Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures

The Good Place - Existential Philosophy and Ontology 101, the TV Series. Hilarious, dramatic, and one of the most touching stories I’ve ever encountered

Person of Interest - Basically “What You’ll Learn on Lemmy: The TV Series”, about all of the wondrous horrors of the digital surveillance state in which we all live.

I’m personally far more concerned that the universe is a simulation stuffed in the closet of some higher-dimensional flunkie, and our universe is nothing more than a practice piece. That the answer to “why” could be so mundane as to make all effort in our universe entirely meaningless. It’s one thing to say that the universe as we know it will end in heat death, or some false vacuum decay event, and that all effort is therefore meaningless. It’s very different, on an emotional level, to consider the possibility that the universe is a mistake, some Petri dish left in the incubator too long and overgrown with contaminating flora. Even more unsettling, then, that such a possibility is fundamentally unknowable from within the universe.

The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)

Consider:

1. the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
2. this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
3. The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
4. the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
5. The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)

While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory’s likelihood.

Haha, fair!

I have one, and while the actual hardware features are nice, the constant overheating and incredibly slow responses on the phone are reminiscent of a brick laptop from the early '00s. I am instead just running e/OS on an old pixel 4a (since it still has a headphone jack)

Sounds like you should invest in additional pockets. They’re pretty great.

Honestly, even if you weren’t going to use the extra space for a second phone, you should invest in less-limited pocket space.

Since the person above didn’t actually give enough information for someone to understand:

Look up “Acid Mine Drainage”. Its when sulfide minerals react with water and oxygen to produce sukfuric acid, and it occurs in pretty much every mine once it’s opened, and continues to accrue and leak for thousands of years. Ancient Roman mines are still leaking the toxic, acidic sludge today, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

The fuck is this word? What does this have to do with Marked Sugar in the Blood? Typo-glyc-emia. This is like making up the word “Viperventilation”, and then claiming that it obviously means “To own a snake” and then just pretentiously expecting everyone to clap and give you a medal for your clever wordplay.

Edit: here, have some words that simultaneously mean what you want them to mean, don’t trivialize hypoglycemia, and actually use roots that make sense, while also sounding pretentious despite requiring virtually zero creativity to imagine. You can have these for free:

• Logomisceration
• Kykaography

Forget 1954. Try 1914. Solar steam generation which can drive a dynamo.

Also, solar thermal generation was viable a hundred years ago, but nobody invested in it.