Also, just to follow up on this, it’s for the largest part not scientists that got us into this mess, whatever in particular that may be. The world would be much better off if people had more trust in science. That’s too much to demand though it seems, especially from boomers. So here we are, with populists and companies messing stuff up and people like you blaming scientists for the results.

i don’t like trusting scientists in fact. trusting scientists is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by scientific results. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to deny a scientific result that I dislike and do not understand than trusting scientists that spent their entire lives researching that particular aspect of the universe

by the way i’m not a science denialist

Can’t make that shit up.

Aaaahhhhh, you’re one of those… Good to know. Yeah, your reply makes sense then. Also thanks for telling me early in the discussion that you’re just a science denialist, then we don’t need to waste precious time with a discussion about things that you’ll just disregard at will anyway.

welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

Okay? You be you, I guess. I mean, stupid physicist eggheads, what do they know?

Since the 1950s, it has been conjectured that quantum fluctuations of the spacetime metric might make the familiar notion of distance inapplicable below the Planck length.[23][37][22] This is sometimes expressed by saying that “spacetime becomes a foam at the Planck scale”.[38] It is possible that the Planck length is the shortest physically measurable distance, since any attempt to investigate the possible existence of shorter distances, by performing higher-energy collisions, would result in black hole production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_length

Same is true for the Planck time, although the English Wikipedia is oddly blank for that one: there can be no space or time smaller than that within the physics that we have come up with.

I think it’s (1 Planck length / 1 Planck time). If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass, you have exactly c.

Finally a life goal I can identify with.

Ahaa, ahaaaa!

Seems considerate? “We didn’t want to annoy you with photos of something you despise so we created a separate channel to do just that but nothing else.”

When Germany first came up with the idea of subsidising electric cars, we were able to snatch an electric golf for about 20k€. We’re commuting a lot, making roughly 25k km per year on each car.

When we were using our regular electricity provider, we reduced our monthly gas bill from more than 300 € to less than 100 € for the golf. Since we switched to a contract that is bound to stock market prices, we lowered it to less than 40. Saving about 270 € per month now.

Factoring in about 500 € of taxes saved each year and between 1000 and 2000 Euros worth of repairs for our old combustion engine cars per year, the car already paid for itself and saves us money.

I’ve seen those. Shipping to Europe is often an issue (or at least expensive) and tbh, having prepainted, reassembled ships was a major factor to get into that game in particular. Also, those usually come without the additional stuff, so you need to buy a base and shield dials as well as some cards that might be missing from your collection otherwise (and which usually synergise well with the ships they came with). In the end you end up paying more for a ripoff than for the real thing when they were still sold. :(

I keep looking for Venator-shaped rocks, but no luck so far.

Depends. Does that include monkey business?

Man, I feel you. Those Venators are rare. But no way I’m paying 200 bucks for a plastic spaceship.

Either that or Harvard’s curriculum is pretty extensive.

It’s times like these when I wish I could just block an instance that isn’t defederated from mine.

I recently came across a song I hadn’t heard since my late teenage years. Just randomly popped up in my recommendations. I could still sing along every word. I felt so awesome. Then I checked out the song (because I wasn’t even sure who made it) and saw the tag: “dad rock”.

Yeah, age is showing.

Because the US never started any wars whatsoever?

Nah. This works. It’s a good focus to keep.

It also didn’t help that the movie spent half an hour with sidequests that were utterly irrelevant to the plot.