Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
Funnily enough I just got done with his video about the “nukes aren’t real” conspiracy theory. Of course that’s just one in his long Half Life Histories series which is mainly about the science and not conspiracies at all.
Oof, this is a bad reception to get in an anarchism community to what should be a fairly basic anarchic sentiment.
Elected representatives never gave us anything. Whenever positive change happens it comes from direct action and people on the ground forcing those in power to give something up. Civil rights, women’s suffrage, labour protections, and so many more were fought and bled for on the ground, and politicians decried and attacked the whole way.
Then when they have no other choice, they relent and sign a law that makes some token allowances but keeps the details in their hands so they don’t give us too much, and they then fight to prevent people from taking any more. It becomes a new trench to defend.
How much more headway would we make if we could just sweep them aside and organise ourselves, and make these gains without having to go through the gatekeepers.
Electoralism is a false dichotomy. It’s like when I would tell my small kids, “Would you like to leave the playground in 5 minutes, or in 10? Okay, now let’s set a timer and when it’s done we’re going.” We’re doing what I decided in the end, but I know they’ll come without a fight because I gave them the most minor of choice in the matter.
It’s a more sophisticated method of control, not actual power sharing.
Also notice the electoralists in this thread have nothing of substance to argue, they’re just saying, “No.” Cool, sounds like you’ve thought this through.
I think we should vote, but I understand that we are not voting for someone to “represent” us. We are voting for our preferred enemy.
I think the real message here is against engaging in electoralism, which is the political strategy of effecting change through electoral politics, which means canvassing, participating in campaigns, volunteering time and energy beyond the simple act of casting a vote, maybe even attempting to run for office. That’s what they’re saying takes people away from direct action.
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I appreciate that there’s a text description but I would not say his costume is ill-fitting. If anything it hugs his figure perfectly. He is wearing the fuck outta that dress.
It’s not so inappropriate; in the middle east you can just buy a waterpipe (bong) anywhere. It’s called a hookah or a shisha and it’s the standard way they smoke tobacco.
And weed they also smoke weed with it because yes it is a bong.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen multi-user ones that stand on the floor with multiple pipes coming out for instance. But like, functionally it still draws smoke through water to clean out the particulates and make it better to inhale. It is essentially the same device.
Please note that in aerodynamics, “lift” is any aerodynamic force that acts perpendicular to the relative wind on an object, so it’s lift whether it pushes a plane up, down, left, right, or pushes a sailing boat across the wind.
Also the keel of the boat that keeps it sailing in a straight line is technically providing lift in the water, although that “lift” is sideways. Also it isn’t aerodynamic lift, but hydrodynamic. The general field is called fluid dynamics, which covers both gasses and liquids.
You’ve got some good answers, but the problem with the air bouncing idea is that it ignores the air on top of the wing, or to the leeward side of the sail. The sail is pushed on by the windward air, and pulled on by the leeward air. (Edit: technically not pulled on, but you can model it that way if you take atmospheric pressure as 0 and anything lower than that as negative; it will give you correct results)
A better way to think about it is flow turning - as the wind moves past the sail, its flow is turned and the momentum change causes an equal and opposite change in momentum of the boat: www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/…/right2.html
So ideally the leading edge of the sail should be parallel to the oncoming wind, and the trailing edge will be by definition parallel to the outgoing wind. The difference in velocity between these two winds multiplied by the mass of air passing over them over time will give you the force acting on the sail.
If the leading edge isn’t parallel, the air’s transition from free flow into contact with the sail will not be smooth, and will cause losses that reduce the efficiency of the sail.
In practice, the way to achieve this parallel flow is to let out the sail until you see “luffing”, which is just the leading edge flapping a bit in the wind. Then you tighten it until the luffing disappears, at which point the sail should be correctly trimmed. As you carry on you can occasionally repeat this process to check that you’ve still got the right angle, as minor shifts in wind or boat direction can change the ideal angle of attack.
This is also called “setting” the sail. So when a ship “sets sail” it’s referring to the fact a skipper would order the crew to “set sails”, which would start them moving. Now the term also means to commence a voyage.
In some bigger boats you have strings called “telltales” on the surface of the sail. If you see them flapping you know the air flow is turbulent, and you can trim the sail until the telltales on both sides of the sail are blown into a smooth line along the sail. If you tighten the sail too much, the leeward telltales will flap. If you let it out it too much, the windward telltales will flap.
A flat surface is much less efficient as it will cause a lot more turbulence on the leeward side. A lot of work has been done to make sails form the most efficient shape, and they are always deliberately curved. The shape will change depending on the tightness of the sheet (the rope that sets the sail) and on its manufacture, but ultimately your sail shape was basically set when it was made. Different sail shapes will be optimised for different types of tack and different tasks, but I don’t know enough about that to explain more. Mainly I know that spinnakers are made for running downwind and the other sails usually have to make do for the rest of the situations, but this article tells you a lot more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail_components
I only just found that article, so if it disagrees with anything I’ve said here I’d defer to it.
Very high performance sails and setups can do some cool things, like racing catamarans with their very sleek hulls and optimised sails allow you to sail in a close haul within 30-something degrees of the wind, whereas most normal sailboats can’t get much closer than 45 degrees.
Edit: This seems like a decent resource for first time sailors, and gives some more in depth explanation of how to set your sails correctly: www.cruisingworld.com/learn-to-sail-101/
This is also where I learned what telltales are called. I’ve never sailed bigger boats much tbh.
Okay, I think that’s most of what I can info-dump on the basis of your question. You landed on an intersection of two of my special interests lol :)
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This is one answer to the fermi paradox that makes no sense to me. If we did live in a dark forest universe where everyone was hiding from some oppressive existential threat, how would any of the civilisations learn about it?
They would need to be in contact with one another to discover that other civilisations were being wiped out, but for that to happen, the wiping out civilisation would have to be able to find them as well. If they destroyed civ A, they’d definitely be able to find references to civ B in their ruins, somewhere. I see no mechanism by which a civilisation could observe this enemy in action without being detected.
Unless someone has come up with an answer to this issue, in which case I’d like to see it.
Also, if you can detect them, just telling them that you’ve detected them should change their strategy, because if a basic civilsation like ours can do it then they’re not actually that safe by hiding. The dark forest seems like a really fragile arrangement.
Right but then that relies on not existing in a dark forest. That is, you can detect signs of alien life, but then those signs tell you horrible things.
The situation we have is that we see nothing.
I guess the answer is that some civilisations reach a point where they broadcast themselves and get destroyed, whilst other civilisations reach a point where they receive those broadcasts and don’t reply before hearing the other civilisation get destroyed. So somehow they were listening at the exact right moment to discover that others are getting killed without responding, and that happened enough times that there is a whole universe full of quiet civilisations.
I still don’t see the A to B. I cannot imagine any species curious enough to detect alien life and insular enough to not respond. If we got those signs we would reply immediately, almost definitely.
Right but that’s fragile. All it takes is one group to break the ice and suddenly they’re all talking.
Also, is the theory that we could live in a dark forest because every single species is insular enough to be afraid of such a threat? That means they all have to believe in the threat and yet also no species is aggressive enough to become the threat. But none of them thinks, “Wait, either we’re alone or everyone is hiding. If everyone is hiding, then the threat can’t exist, so we may as well say something.”
Again, it’s fragile. I find it completely unconvincing.
The Prime Directive concept is way more believable to me, as is the idea that life is just sparse.
I remember a writing prompt that talked about how we’re broadcasting all our TV and radio for years then we get a reply that says, “Be quiet, they will hear you.”
Oh okay, so this insular civ broke radio silence to transmit something that will definitely be a big deal and recorded in our news and science papers in extreme detail, and they’re not worried that when the threat arrives they will trace that signal back to them?
I’ve never heard a good explanation for how the dark forest develops and stays stable for any length of time.
As I said elsewhere: that’s no longer a dark forest. The moment one civilisation speaks up, they all know they’re not alone. Then they’re in a different universe, one where there’s no longer a paradox because they’ve found each other.
The unparalleled panic when I try to think about what all these words I’m saying actually mean and realise I don’t have the slightest clue what’s going to come out of my mouth next.
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Oh dang, that’ll save me a bit of time stripping that stuff out. It’s amazing how easy it is once you have just a little bit of understanding of how URLs work. My most common URL hack is getting youtube shorts to play with full controls. You just replace /shorts/[videoID] with watch?v=[videoID]
I used it today to go through this video frame by frame to discover that she in fact didn’t hit her face:
You say that, but in a regular gun the heat goes out into the atmosphere very quickly, and what feels a bit too hot to your hand can burn an internal membrane. In a buttplug the heat doesn’t have anywhere else to go, and by the time you feel a burn in the sphincter the internal damage is done because the colon doesn’t have receptors for that.
Once it started to get too hot the heat would still be travelling from the centre to the surface, and you’d need to pull out the hotter part past the sensitive sphincter, making it feel worse before it got better. That sounds like a special kind of horror to me.
I’d want a large metal flare for external heat dissipation and recoil absorption - because you really don’t want the above situation added to the fact that it fired itself inside you - plus silicone insulation for the plug part, or extensive testing to confirm that the temperature stays very stable after firing.
Plus, training is important. If you wanted to practice to improve your aim you’d need a way to keep it cool. I think the insulation would help prevent training accidents, and in the field you really don’t want to worry about damaging yourself if you somehow find yourself needing to reload for a quick follow up shot. I don’t know what situation would necessitate that, but it would require supreme focus.
You ever see a dog that’s got its leash tangled the long way round a table leg, and it just cannot grasp what the problem is or how to fix it? It can see all the components laid out in front of it, but it’s never going to make the connection....
Also, baked lighting has another cost - nothing that is baked can be dynamic, and it has to be done during development, so it takes up dev resources.
Raytraced stuff happens immediately without tricks. All you need is the geometry and the materials to be accurate, and it should look right, no questions asked.
Once we get to a point where raytracing can be assumed even for low end systems, the problem where systems can’t run certain games could become a thing of the past. I mean, if manufacturers weren’t constantly bombarding us with planned & perceived obsolescence.
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I don’t think it’s a cultural effect, I think it’s about power and wealth. As in, the US has more power and wealth at its disposal, so capitalists gain more by corrupting their government than they would other governments. So they spend more money and effort corrupting that place and it gets worse. It is slowly collapsing as the corruption gets worse, I’d say this is a large part of why any centralised power structure collapses - the corruption rots its core until it can no longer sustain itself.
So it’s basically “power corrupts” but on a governmental level rather than an individual one.
Oh god the wipe transitions. I remember when the original trilogy was being remade into… I think the Gold version? I watched bts stuff and George was explaining how they’d added wipes to the scene transitions. Like, cool new CGI and all, but maybe adding wipes over the entire thing is kind of taking the piss.
Yeah, same podcast made the point in their episodes about the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project, and how it was recent history even though it sounds like some medieval horror story. These fucks haven’t changed, and the same company that profited off that brutality is still around and still making money hand over fist and never reckoned with their crimes.
Yeah, I agree. You can see this in all AI generated stuff - none of it has any purpose, no intention.
People who say it’s saving them time, I mean I have to ask what these people are doing that can be replaced by AI and whether they’re actually any good at it, and whether the AI has improved their work or just made it happen faster at the expense of quality.
I have turned off all predictive writing of any kind on my devices, it gets in my head and stops me from forming my own thoughts. I want my authentic voice and I can’t stand the idea of a machine prompting me with its own idea of what I want to say.
Like… we’re prompting the AI, but are they really prompting us?
I’m going to guess the majority are people that don’t care that much, rather than people with such good security knowledge that they can stop a games distribution platform from spying on them.
Also, Epic is inherently online. Like, it needs an internet connection to distribute the games. Is it even possible to use it for that whilst also stopping it from phoning home?
In order to decide if they want to send you the games, they need identifying information in the form of your account, otherwise they won’t give you the games, which may well be in a different “tube” (it’s okay, I know they’re called ports, you can use real terminology).
Any programmer worth their salt will know that the way to prevent this kind of tampering is to make the phone home data go through the same port as the account data. That way you can’t block it and keep using the service. This especially makes sense since the phone home data will necessarily be tied to your account.
Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
rule (beehaw.org)
simple short eloquent explanation of why participating in electoral politics actively hurts people, is anti anarchist and anti solarpunk (slrpnk.net)
Sexy Bowse(rule) (sh.itjust.works)
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196 (lemmy.world)
Animal C(rule)ty (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Would a perfectly flat, tight sail on a boat be more efficient than a sail like we all know?
Okay hear me out and this may sound like the ramblings of a lune but i just thought the following....
i discovered this recently (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
i found this open source game i found, seems like it’s based on quake 3 arena. i tried it and it’s actually pretty solid, i thought i could show it off here lmao...
If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?
What do you think would finally be their, “Enough, we gotta say something!” situation?...
Sequel rule (startrek.website)
fish rice rule (pawb.social)
Rule (beehaw.org)
What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other...
Rule (lemmy.world)
What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?
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raytracing rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Who would have thought rule (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
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List of experts advising the EU in support of CSAM legislation has been published (digitalcourage.social)
The infinite rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)
Weird 🤔 (jlai.lu)
Sharks Rule, Rule (slrpnk.net)
I actually fact checked this and it’s true.
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (www.nature.com)
Fun fact: Lemmy supports up to 99 nested comments (i.imgur.com)
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone (en.wikipedia.org)
What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...