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YouTube video by sammywa Rex Duodecim Slamgelus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Lw...

now, I don't know how much that plane weighed, but presumably a lot. and so, that's a lot of force.

coupled with the fact that the fire only needed to make the building malleable, not fully liquid, and that every collapsed story stamps more weight down, and you have a recipe for structural collapse

MIT analysis determined the second plane flew at 864 kph

the net force on a body is equal to its mass times its acceleration; that is, we know that a large mass had to decelerate very quickly, and all of that force had an equal & opposite effect against the building

shinji ikari "damn nobody want u fr" post goes here

A picture from Wikipedia of a male Muskox in Dovrefjell National Park, Norway. He resembles an small ox, and his features appear comically large for his body.

new favorite bovids just dropped

Thoughts on ranked-choice voting?

my "LLMs have been a net negative for a lot of certain types of internet users/discourse" and "I fucking hate the existence of intellectual property" impulses are fighting eachother madly at this sentence

i am very happy to learn that the quakers are actually cool and not annoying fundies

There has to be a better way to install git on Linux man

A statement, which reads: The next Administration should: - Champion executive action, consistent with law, and proactive legislation to reduce wildfires. This would involve embracing Executive Order 13855, building upon it, and working with lawmakers to promote active management of vegetation, reduce regulatory obstacles to reducing fuel buildup, and increase timber sales.

reading through Project 2025's manifesto and finding out they want to increase the logging industry to combat climate change lmao

incredible things are going on in the USA

Hyperfixation on a type of media is awesome because:

a) I quickly gained a much deeper knowledge of metal than is necessary or even common for metalheads much older than me
b) I also fixated on singular bands enough to have tens of thousands of Blind Guardian plays from only a short few years

Faster, really. It took nine days for Trump to decide on a Guantanamo "detention center", but it took Hitler's regime 1-2 months for a concentration camp in Dachau

This is good because quote dunks suck. Block & move on should be the norm

oh this administration is def going after all the useful repositories like scihub for political reasons, aren't they

my mental hack for overcoming sunk cost fallacy is to simply have adhd

if there was a cure for adhd, acquiring it would be too complex of a task for people with adhd

in my mind I remain skeptical but in my heart I choose to Believe

I avoid race conditions by telling my code to run faster than the other code

A non-logarithmic graph charting the average net personal wealth of an individual in the United States. The blue line, representing the bottom half of Americans, is perfectly flat, while the purple line, representing the top 1%, towers many bar lines above even the top 10%. The purple line currently peaks at around 16 million dollars, while the red line, representing the 50th-90th percentile, hovers at one thirtieth of that.

I don't know why I thought I'd get less angry over time about wealth inequality. What the actual fuck

on my current setup if i type any character with a diacritic, there is a nonzero chance the keyboard will stay lit but nonfunctioning, only fixing itself if i unplug & replug it

(no issue in a TTY)

post by @thenadianoor : Luigi Mangione's last quote he liked on Goodreads speaks volumes [QUOTES LUIGI LIKED "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss, The Lorax]

Dr. Seuss radicalization of the proletariat arc incoming

tbf you want that money when you need a lawyer

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

> Is this what cis people feel like all the time???

I always wonder this part—I'm cis only because I'm not trans, but I have no gender identity guiding me towards any particularly gendered expression. I love to feel this kind of joy vicariously, thank you for this post

Three paragraphs from Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love". They read, Tonight, this strange interior gesture of friendship—the lending of a hand from me to myself when nobody else is around to offer solace—reminds me of something that happened to me once in New York City. I walked into an office building one afternoon in hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glimpse of myself in a security mirror’s reflection. In that moment my brain did an odd thing—it fired off this split-second message: “Hey! You know her! That’s a friend of yours!” And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar. In a flash instant, of course, I realized my mistake and laughed in embarrassment at my almost doglike confusion over how a mirror works. But for some reason that incident comes to mind again tonight during my sadness in Rome, and I find myself writing this comforting reminder at the bottom of the page: _Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend._

not exactly the same but the vibes remind me of a couple lines from Eat, Pray, Love; that kind of experience means a lot to me

Kaczynski when he targeted a police officer, the United Airlines CEO, and a forestry exec

apple products are like writing in rust, where a majority of the good stuff is built directly into the toolchain but now you're bound by its constraints

if it's only a trademark then I doubt it; Xerox couldn't do anything when we talked about Xeroxing with other brands