quarrk [he/him] @ quarrk @hexbear.net

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Don’t have photoshop but here’s what my phone produced

Same energy as AI generated nostalgia slop

the whole debacle feels manufactured

Whombst among us hasn’t spent $4 million on beans

The idea would be very disingenuous because it would require ignoring the abundance of US actions and policies that have done the opposite. US foreign policy cannot be understood through a lens of democracy. Only a lens of empire is coherent.

How does the water vapor affect the climate?

A car with a personality shines so much brighter in a world of monochrome, blobby crossovers

Link aggregators are intrinsically not neutral, and it’s quite silly for redditors to pretend otherwise

The next generation is going to think the internet is lame and stop using it. Because it will be lame, while the rest of us are just grandfathered into it.

They’re going to wonder why the hell we permanently post things into a surveilled black hole that can be used against us for the rest of our lives.

Organizing needs to include an element of anti-online-ism, both to combat the horrid takes you see on places like Twitter, but also because nothing revolutionary is possible within such a setting. It’s dangerous to think otherwise

IMO it’s more of a problem in busy traffic. If 95% of cars have lights on, your brain will subtly look only for lights. Especially dangerous in countries like USA where there are so many unprotected left turns and where right on red is allowed.

It used to be more valid when cars used standard incandescent (I think?) lightbulbs with much shorter lifespans than modern ones. It’s not a problem anymore

@2Password2Remember@hexbear.net is way ahead of you

It’s still true of Xbox and I think generally outlook.com emails

That maintains its plausible deniability. In context, the massacre hits harder because 1.5 seasons have already shown the everyday reality of living within empire in a way that can’t be mistaken as vaguely anti-authoritarian. The realities of imperial maintenance are hard not to correlate with specific empires in history (it evokes alternately the British, Nazi-German, and American empires) and the logic of the anti-imperial struggle is hard not to correlate with real-world counterparts like the Bolsheviks, the Haitian revolution, the Chinese communists, and others.

It doesn’t matter if viewers are ignorant of the specific historical references, as long as they understand and agree with the logic of anti-imperialism.

Just goes to show that people like leftist stuff when they’re given a chance to observe it

It would be just as valid for Bobby to be not trans but still struggle with gender and masculinity. Gender is a struggle for the whole of society, even cis genders.

Wots this about final news conference?

It’s not just the stuff you see in a Google search. You can personally download your data from websites like Facebook, including a database dump of all your interactions (posts you liked or just clicked on)

The fact is that all this data is out there in a database somewhere. If it’s not explicitly prevented by a privacy policy (and/or your privacy settings) it’s almost certainly being sold to companies, including ones that offer screening tools for job recruiters.

Jupiter would need to be around 80 times more massive to become a star.

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If you follow the radius curve for increasing mass, it tops out just a little after Jupiter (the diamond with the ♃ symbol). But since that happens way earlier than 80x Jupiter mass, there has to be a cause other than fusion, which incidentally causes a sharp increase in radius from outward radiation pressure once it ignites.

All gas giants have some amount of dgenerate matter, with more dgeneracy as you add mass. Electron dgenerate matter has the counterintuitive property that it shrinks as you add mass to it, since more mass frees up new quantum states (energy levels) that electrons can populate within the same volume. In the lead-up to 80 Jupiter masses, you see a shrinking radius as the amount of dgeneracy increases within the core.

Now, the above only holds if the planet is cold and isolated from its parent star. It gets more interesting when those assumptions are dropped. Hence the class of exoplanets known as hot Jupiters which have much lower densities (larger radii) than cold gas giants.

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edited to fix all the words removed by overeager slur filter. These are scientific terms in astronomy

The creativity of some of these prompts lol I swear