Damn right it’s a national security concern, let the US keep it’s spyware to itself.

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God fucking dammit - well my account still has 111 days on it, I’ll reconsider when that time gets closer.

That’s a real shame, Mullvad is great service-wise…

“AI will be the last thing we invent.”

Not because technologically it will self-improve and rapidly optimise designs, no.

Because it will kill our entire species’ culture leaving us in a souless state of comatose unable to be creative.

Not profitable right now with Trump in office.

For most of these megacorps, it was never about the movement, it was the PR and brand loyalty.

Right now, more people are against it than for it, so that’s what’ll bring in the most revenue.

If you can’t see it, technically this is a Schrödingers cat problem.

The site is both telling the truth and lying at the same time, in a state of superposition.

Only be observing the code would you fall onto one reality.

Although there are people who can observe the code, which differs from the metaphor slightly.

Got a bit emotional reading this I can’t lie.

2025 - 2026 has been such a shit show I’m desensitised to hearing that some misunderstanding hateful politician made my people’s lives that much more difficult.

When you get one who fights not just for you, but alongside you (going to Pride parades), the heart is quick to let that numbness go away as it clings onto a new thread of hope.

This is fantastic news, and is hopefully a sign of good things to come in November. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The world must be a pretty ugly place through those stereotypical glasses of yours…

If anyone needed any more evidence that this class is totally outright malicious, know that many of them have already spent more money trying to fight this “tax” than the “tax” would’ve cost them.

They are literally just fucking over the working class for the love of the game.

Had this discussion with my family recently.

I made a point how the UK heatwaves are proof of climate change and that we needed to act (not a very clued-in family).

They suggested we get ceiling fans.

I started being sarcastic:

“Look outside my window, see a barren lifeless desert hostile to any life, don’t worry, we have ceiling fans!”.

“What’s that? Your car tires melted onto the road? Ceiling fans!”.

“Shall I take a ceiling fan out with me like a little propeller hat everytime I need to go outside?”.

They were amused.

Your first part was exactly correct by my understanding, gravity is not a force, it doesn’t act on matter, so matter doesn’t feel it, because in a over-simplification it essentially doesn’t exist as far as matter is concerned.

Matter, the Earth, you and I, we occupy the three spatial dimensions of our universe where gravity does not act; we occupy the space part of spacetime. Space itself doesn’t occupy time, but it is intertwined with it, and thus consequence is shared bidirectionally.

In my mind I treat it somewhat like a train, space is the carriage with things inside, and time is the track and locomotive. They are separate, but one can’t be without the other (technically however in this analogy yes they can be, so it’s not perfect).

Gravity can bend the track, which will result in space going in a different way, because it has to follow the locomotive (time).

Now, relative to inside the carriage (space), things will move, anything that is loose will likely drift around, especially if it’s a tight bend; that’s why gravity does manifest spatial forces such as weight, inertia, G-force, etc.

Orbits, say our moon orbiting us, are actually straight lines relative to the orbiting body; Earth doesn’t “know” to curve around the sun, it has no “lateral” force, it is propagating through space in a straight line with velocity given to it billions of years ago. However, again, Earth is matter, which only occupies space, so while Earth is going along a straight line in space, inside that train carriage, spacetime, the locomotive and track, is bent into an ellipse due to gravity. Because matter travels in a straight line relative to itself that intrinsically resolves to a spacetime geodesic (again, to go back to the aircraft, they follow a straight line relative to themselves).

Again, not an expert, just a young adult with a fascination about space and time. :)

We do actually, just at a very small scale compared to what you may see around black holes.

Satellites in LEO need their clocks adjusted by a few dozen picoseconds I believe. Very cool.

I’m not an expert, but from my understanding it’s kind of something like this:

So a geodesic is a line of shortest length between two points on a curved surface, like two points on a ball, the geodesic would be the shortest line that connects the two.

If you look at flight paths compared to a flat representation of Earth, you’ll see that aircraft seem to follow a very strange arc, that’s because they’re actually flying the geodesic of their route, which looks funny when presented flat.

If you imagine Earth as the aircraft and spacetime as the globe, that’s essentially what is meant. However do keep in mind that aircraft follow a two-dimensional geodesic, whereas we would follow a three-dimensional one due to spacetime being four-dimensional; due to how reductions work. (3D object casts 2D shadow, 4D object casts 3D shadow).

My knowledge is rather vague past this point, but essentially orbits are geodesics against 4D spacetime, and gravity affects that temporal component.

Paint.

Orange to be precise.

When I was a kid, a friend of mine hosted a birthday party on a paintball range. We played for I don’t know how long, large group of us, was really fun.

One thing the instructors told us, keep your mouth shut.

You see, we wore face masks, however for us to breathe of course there’s a grill where you mouth goes.

Needless to say, I got shot right on that mouth grill, and naturally due to the shock of it I opened my mouth…

The paintball burst on the grill, and I had the whole volume of paint launched deep into my throat.

It was so… ungodly… salty. For the rest of the day all I could taste was salt (the blow occured around early afternoon). And that’s coming from someone who also on another unrelated occassion ended up with a deep mouthful of sea water.

One could say, he trumps a lot.

What a muppet.

I ride a cruiser, and while my arms are no where near that high, they are higher than alot of other motorcycles. I will say it is quite comfortable over extended periods of time as it allows you to kinda relax and “fall” into the seat.

Harley rider natural sitting position.

My relationship with Morbius.

Sure, the acting and dialogue is bum, but the story, pacing, etc isn’t that bad.

CGI, while not great by any means, does it’s job.

I’d give it a solid 6/10 rather than the absolutely abysmall ratings given to it officially.

It’s for their goals of net neutrality and green pledges of course…