I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now I’m convinced we’re never going to get a stable iOS again.

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And his ballroom.

[Decision] Paralysis Parfait

No more universe.

I asked ChatGPT what would happen. Here you go:

If every atom in the universe suddenly gained one extra electron, the result would be instant, universe-ending chaos — in less than a nanosecond. Here’s why:

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1. Universal Negative Charge Imbalance

Right now, matter is electrically neutral — the positive charges in nuclei balance the negative charges of electrons. Adding one electron to every atom makes every single atom negatively charged. The universe instantly becomes dominated by repulsive electrostatic forces.

Coulomb’s law tells us electric forces are ~10³⁶ times stronger than gravity. That means: • Atoms would violently repel each other. • Molecules couldn’t hold together. • Planets, stars, and galaxies — all held together by gravity — would be ripped apart by overwhelming electrostatic repulsion.

Within moments, all normal matter disintegrates into a plasma of electrons and nuclei being hurled away from each other.

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2. Collapse of Atomic and Molecular Structure

Each atom now has one more electron than its nucleus can bind: • The extra electron would either occupy a weakly bound outer orbital or be completely unbound. • Chemical bonds depend on balanced electron sharing — those would fail instantly. • Solids, liquids, and gases all cease to exist in recognizable form.

Essentially, chemistry ends. There’s no more “matter” in the familiar sense — just a roiling cloud of charged particles.

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3. Energy Release on an Unimaginable Scale

The addition of an electron to every atom requires — or releases — colossal energy, depending on the element and context: • Ionization energies and electron affinities differ between atoms. • You’re effectively forcing a global-scale electron capture reaction.

But the real kicker is that the sudden Coulomb repulsion between everything would dwarf any nuclear explosion imaginable. The entire universe’s matter would “explode” outward — far beyond the speed of galactic escape velocities — powered by the electrostatic potential energy now released.

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4. No Stable Matter, No Light, No Universe

With matter annihilated into a universal electron-ion plasma: • Photons would scatter off free charges (via Thomson scattering). • The universe would become completely opaque. • Eventually, as it expands and cools, you might end up with diffuse clouds of charged particles, but never stable atoms again.

You’d basically reset the universe to something like an ultra-energetic pre-recombination plasma — except with the wrong charge balance and no chance of re-neutralizing.

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In short:

Adding one extra electron to every atom would: • Destroy all atomic and molecular structure. • Overwhelm gravity entirely. • Convert the universe into a high-energy, negatively charged plasma. • Likely erase all physical structures — stars, planets, life, everything — in an instant.

It’s not a slow catastrophe; it’s an immediate, total one.

North Carolina’s finest.

And toxic.

Clitius. It actually sounds right.

It’s pretty bad. It genuinely sounds like it was written by AI.

You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.

What a crock of shit that turned out to be.

My dumb brain interpreted “lying about” in the sense of “with” or “around” and I was momentarily confused by the thought of CK lying with his head resting on a trans person’s chest. I need to get off the internet.

I whore myself out and pay for the family plan, but I have a good reason.

My dad watches YT almost exclusively so I told him if he shared his password with me I can add him to my plan so he doesn’t see any ads. He fell for it. Now I login into his account ever so often and mark “not interested” on any red pill bullshit I see. It seems to be working.

I would not underestimate this particular threat. Under a more competent administration I would at least worry slightly less. But the levels of incompetence in positions of power have me genuinely worried. This is a real threat that we have carefully managed since the Nixon administration (IIRC). If it makes its way here it will wreak havoc on livestock.

Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.

New conspiracy theory: Tylenol actually does cause autism. But China figured out that autism is the key to a better society and they are pushing RFK to ban it so that we remain self-destructive neurotypicals.

I’m pretty active on there and my entire feed is academic and thoughtful left-leaning commentary. Granted I had to work at curating it. Day one was all thirst traps. But now I really enjoy it. I will actually be sad when it becomes unusable.

It’s the same thing they do with claiming some random tattoo is a gang tattoo.

It’s difficult to prove an actual crime was committed by someone than to create a scary boogeyman “organization” and just convince people you’re guilty by association. It’s even easier when you can change the characteristics of the boogeyman to match the person you’re trying to prosecute.

We’ve let it go on for decades, and now there’s plenty of precedent. We don’t stand a chance.

That’s: ~ 50¢ ~ CAD$0.69 ~ ¥73.61 ~ € 0.42

… each.

I didn’t realize until now that I didn’t actually know how much a bullet costs.

Clearly we can’t allow people like Francis Kelsey to hurt the stock price of nazi-run companies like Grünenthal.

BT 6.1 introduced Randomized RPA (Resolvable Private Address) which should help with some of the security issues. That said I wouldn’t expect to see headphones implementing 6.1 for quite some time. It just came out in May.