[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

"...Enemies foreign and domestic."

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I'll believe it when I see it. Batteries are so heavy right now that 80-90% of the available cargo and passenger capacity would be batteries.

For the moment, batteries are better for cars, and something like hydrogen would be better for planes and semi trucks

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah I have the world's smallest astigmatism in my left eye and even that was annoying for me as a kid using it.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Those Vaios had a monumental amount of bloatware slowing them down too.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

It wasn't really fun, and I could never see properly in it.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I think there's an Arthur Miller quote along the lines of man cannot appreciate sky without earth, nor heaven without hell.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Smart astrophysics people I've talked to are excited when we see gamma bursters further out in the universe than before, because that means that the universe is bigger than previously known.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

That also does not matter. Spinozan Determinism can be summed up as:

"If it could have happened any other way, it would have."

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Tri-omni God problem. The God that we are told is worthy of worship is

  1. Omniscient, and
  2. Omnipresent, and
  3. Omni-benevolent.

The presence of evil in the world demonstrates that no more than two out of those 3 can possibly be true at the same time. Thus if God does exist, he's not all that and a bag of gummy bears.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago

That's actually my favorite parasite! Toxo really wants to live inside a cat's digestive tract, so much so that, when a rodent gets it in their blood, the baby toxos produce cysts in the brain (and liver and muscles) that hypnotize the rat into being attracted to cat poop. This leads to the rat hanging around where cats poop, and therefore getting eaten by the cat, and ending up happily back inside the cat's GI tract.

[-] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

In the old Star Wars Expanded Universe, there was mention of a Shawken Device which, if operable, could destroy the universe.

This has led me to conclude that the universe probably isn't infinite.

In an infinite universe, all possible things should be happening at the same time. This would necessarily mean that someone invented a device/mechanism/reaction that could destroy the universe, and successfully activated it, thus ending the universe.

There are only two possible conclusions that I can draw from this thought experiment, which are not mutually exclusive:

  1. The universe is not infinite, and/or
  2. It is not possible to destroy the universe.
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