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Pommes_für_dein_Balg

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  • What is your favorite users to follow on here and why?

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  • I only follow people in real life.

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  • You don't.

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  • Stellantis (owners of Fiat) just announced they're stopping their push towards more EVs and going back to focussing on combustion engine vehicles, due to lack of political support in USA and EU.Their stock price tanked immediately.

  • What are some product categories where the mainstream option IS the best option?

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  • On the other hand, it doesn't really matter. As long as it contains flourite, all toothpastes are fine.

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    What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • There are no apolitical people.Only people who don't understand that everything is political.When you're stuck in traffic commuting to work, that's a result of political decisions made by others.When you go to work despite being sick, that's forced on you by political decisions made by others.When you have to decide between buying your meds and buying food, that's due to political decisions made by others."Apolitical people" just accept (or are forced) to let others dictate how they live.

  • If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

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  • Solar doesn't need to use that space exclusively. You can put solar on every roof, over every parking lot, and all grazing land. You can even put it over farmland in winter and tilt the panels out of the way during summer when there's enough energy anyway. Or use semi-translucent panels over crops that don't like blazing sunlight anyway.

  • If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

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  • I just hope the timeline you describe can outpace the timeline racing towards neo-feudalism, world war 3, global pandemics and heat waves triggering a new migration period.

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • Fuck it, let's assume we can build jump gates.Let's say they're just big enough to send a tiny unmanned drone through.I hop into my space ship and accelerate with a conventional engine to 86% of light speed.No violation of physics needed, just shitloads of energy.I fly to another star, which takes 10 years from earth's point of view.Due to time dilation at 86% light speed, time in my space ship passes half as fast as on earth.If someone on earth had a strong enough telescope, they could look at a clock on my ship and see that it ticks half as fast as the clocks on earth.But in my frame of reference, earth moves away from me at 86% light speed.So if I look at earth through a telescope, I see that the clocks on earth tick half as fast as mine.There isn't a universal time. Time is always relative to speed and this is no problem when the reference frames are separated.

    I arrive at the star, after 5 years have passed on earth.I activate a jump gate and send the drone through with a message. It arrives on earth instantly, 5 years after I left.But from their reference frame, they could see my clock ticking only half as fast as theirs.After earth's 5 years, only 2.5 years have passed for the space ship they see.They activate their jump gate and send the drone back with a reply.It arrives instantly at the star, 7.5 years before my space ship gets there.

    This is why FTL travel isn't and will never be possible. Even with tricks like jump gates or wormholes, it creates time paradoxes.

  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • We could maybe eventually load up multiple asteroids with building materials, frozen embryos, a self-healing nanobot factory, blueprints for building artificial breeding chambers and humanoid robots, controlled by an AGI to serve as educators, and send them off to nearby stars.Upon arrival on suitable planets, the systems wake up and jump-start colonies.After several hundred or thousand years of development, those colonies could build their own seeder asteroids, kicking off an exponential progress.If every colony in turn colonizes 4 new systems within 10,000 years, we could theoretically colonize every suitable star system in the Galaxy after 200,000 years. At a very reasonable ~0.1% of light speed.

    But we would have zero control over the colonies, no shared culture, no trade, hardly any meaningful communication. So there would be very little benefit to it, and knowing human nature, a war of total annihilation would be likely as soon as suitable planets get scarce.

    Intergalactic travel will never be possible for humans.The nearest galaxy is 2.537.000 light years away. By the time we get there, we wouldn't be humans anymore.

  • What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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  • Surely there are more natural alternatives?

    It's a highly processed mayonnaise which they dilute with water and modified starch, then increase its volume by blowing nitrogen into the mix.

    Fun fact:It was invented during the Great Depression, for people who couldn't afford real mayonnaise.And mayonnaise was allegedly invented during the Siege of Fort St Philip in the 7-Years-War, because real cream wasn't available.So Miracle Whip is a poor man's version of a wartime alternative to whipped cream.

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • From what I can see, it's a sudo clone with added optional regex functionality, written in Rust.So you can use it just like sudo, or you can limit superuser rights to directory names that contain a 💩 emoji, but only on Mondays.

  • What is your preferred Android Launcher in 2026?

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  • A trebuchet

  • What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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  • All on one sandwich, and yeah you can leave the maple syrup off.

  • What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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  • My peanut butter and jelly and egg and bacon and cheese and hot sauce and maple syrup sandwiches

  • Should I be using Debian?

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  • I’m not having any issues with my current setup

    There's your answer.

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  • But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat.

    The heat shield on Icarus 1 is intact.When Icarus 2 receives the distress signal, the crew mention that Icarus 1 is self-sufficient for water and oxygen, has all the solar power it needs, and food for a full crew for 3 years, so there's plenty for one guy for 8 years.

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  • Operation Midway Blitz

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • This is the state of free software, especially when it matures.

    The state of free software also includes the fact that even if the sudo maintainer doesn't find support, no one steps up and sudo becomes unmaintained, sudo-rs, doas, opendoas, run0 and please already exist as alternatives.

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  • I absolutely loved Sunshine - until the last part where the nemesis isn't the sun anymore, but just a generic crazy dude.