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Horizon Forbidden West. Went on sale earlier this week.
Horizon Forbidden West. Went on sale earlier this week.
I try to remember that we’re voting for an entire administration and presidential appointments, an apparatus much larger than one old man. It’s cold comfort, but it’s something.
As I’m watching it, Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is playing in my head.
That is fascinating. I wonder if the wavelength of green light is better because of something akin to harmonic resonance.
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Kyle uses “son” a lot. Makes me chuckle.
I had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.
Researchers will be studying Trump and his followers for decades to come. A gold mine of data to help them better understand the mechanisms of authoritarian populism and cognitive dissonance.
Cool guys use dialup BBS.
Yup. They violate HIPAA all the time, too. Rules for thee, not for me.
Oh cool, Cunningham’s Law in action.
These things are less safe, yet I see people driving aggressively and recklessly more than ever.
Here’s an updated way to bypass it. This Youtuber is a little cheerful-cheesy, but the info is good.
That’s not what we’re talking about and you know it. False narrative. The article specifically mentions violence and bullying. If you don’t know that fat people also get viciously bullied on top of the “concerned about your health” from loved ones, you are the one who is isolated from reality.
Skyscrapers typically take 2-5 years to build. I’m going to hazard a guess that a pyramid like the Great Pyramid of Giza would take more like 5-10 years.
There’s a lot of variables to this, especially the location and the source (quarry) and transportation of the high-quality limestone that you would need. You would also want to use some granite and other stone materials if you’re trying to match what the ancient Egyptians did. (If you’re allowed to use modern concrete and steel, it could change things dramatically.)
The Great Pyramid is about 147m tall and 230m wide along each side. Assuming it’s mostly solid stone, You would need roughly 2.5 million cubic meters of material.
Preparing and grading the site would go much faster with bulldozers and graders and the like, but is still a time-consuming process. Quarrying the limestone would also go much faster than the ancients because we have explosives, hydraulics, etc. But there’s still a lot of precision cutting and fitting to be done. Cranes would make placing the stones go faster but again, still time-consuming.
CAD software would also make the whole project faster and easier (and would further highlight how ingenious the ancient people were with this accomplishment). Experts already know a lot about the pyramids, but I bet if they built one they’d learn even more.
My wild guess is: if you marshaled enough resources and put a highly competent person in charge of it, you could get it done in 5 years.
Niche <> bad.
Lemmy is missing:
You know you’re right, we’re nothing like reddit!!
Well, that’s what I get for punching down on our gumbo-eating friends.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re the 43rd president, just trying to put food on your family.
You can vote for more than one candidate, but you rank them by order of preference. This way, third party and independent candidates actually have a chance.