Omnificer

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Omnificer,

Hallucinations while half-asleep are a well known phenomenon, so it’s very possible.

If you’re trying to know for certain, that’s harder. You’ll have to consider a lot of things. Not all of them are likely, so how much digging you do is dependent on how concerned you are.

Do you live alone? I assume you do, or already asked the people you live with.

Are all your exterior doors and windows locked? Is anything missing or out of place? I think you’d have already noticed if you’d been robbed, but this is easy stuff to rule out.

Do you have functioning Carbon Monoxide detectors? Do you have sleep apnaea? CO can lead to memory loss, sleep apnaea can contribute to sleep paralysis.

Have you seen your door open while half asleep before? If this is recurring, you can do things like place hairs in the door that will fall if it opens.

Have you done a sleep study? This can help determine if your REM cycle is frequently disrupted and if you need something like a CPAP.

Omnificer,

Six books now, ‘Terciel and Elinor’ is out now, about Sabriel’s parents meeting.

Omnificer,

Mogget / Yrael is cute, but might still hurt you with his words.

Omnificer,

There may be a better way, but I use the option to extract the file to a new folder with the same name as the zip file.

Majestic Fortress (files.mastodon.social)

alt textA four-panel comic. 1. A king with a red cape and crown proudly gestures to a yellow castle, exclaiming, ‘Behold, I have built this majestic fortress.’ 2. His servant with a pointy hat and robe, responds skeptically, ‘But my lord, your castle is made of marshmallows.’ 3. The king stands atop the castle,...

Omnificer,

Might need to focus group the castle design with enemies who don’t charge directly at a wall.

Omnificer,

Way worse than break his neck, he outright accidentally shoots himself in the head.

And then it was insane that the zombies can magically tell if someone is specifically terminally ill and then will actively avoid them.

Omnificer,

The original design of that bench is an art piece protesting the commercialization of life (although it may have been implemented seriously in some place where they missed the point).

Ironically, I’d expect a person living on the street to have actual coins capable of operating the bench more often than most people.

Omnificer,

Subtitles are great for this, but also investing in actual speakers instead of a soundbar or the tv’s speakers.

If the movie has multiple sound channels beyond left/right, then dialogue is usually one of those channels and can come from a specific speaker, making it less muddied than when mixed with other sounds.

If the movie doesn’t have multiple channels, the speakers might still help a little just by being better quality.

Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?

Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...

Omnificer,

For a while there was a persistent myth that black people had an extra muscle in their leg that allowed them to perform better at sports.

It’s kind of similar to phrenology in trying to justify racism.

Omnificer,

Unfortunately this is a rather open ended question. We’re constantly discovering new things. The James Webb Space Telescope has only been fully functional for a short while but has already provided tons of new info.

Generally knowledge like this is similar to starting with a really low res photo that gets progressively more high res with each decade.

For example, the band of the Milky Way galaxy we can see in the sky was suggested to be made of stars itself in 5th Century BC by Democritus. In 964 AD, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi recorded observations on the Andromeda Galaxy and Large Magellanic Cloud. 1610, Galileo confirms the Milky Way band is indeed made of stars. 1923, Edwin Hubble proves galaxies are “island” clusters of stars.

We’ve also had to rely on Newtonian Physics to describe things for a long time, but then it started being noticed that while consistent for practical things on earth, they couldn’t accurately predict things on the scale of the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity helped explain most of this, but still has some gaps.

Black holes were proven in the last century, but we got the first visual confirmation just a few years ago. Redshifting proving that galaxies are moving away from each other is also in the last century.

So at this point we have measurements on the general chemical make up of the universe, its size, its rate of expansion, the formation of galaxies, and how old it is starting from a specific event.

These measurements are ranges though, and those ranges get more narrow the better our instruments and the new info we get. It’s like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. Your first guesses can be way off because you have to eyeball, but then you’re allowed to measure the volume of the jar and the volume of a single jelly bean. You’ll be way closer than before. Then you’re allowed to measure the weight of that jelly bean and that jar. You’ll probably be a little closer. Then you’re given a variety of jelly beans to measure, so you get averages instead of basing everything on a jelly bean that might be an outlier.

So, in a binary way we don’t have the exact right answer for a lot of the universe, but each new discovery trends toward us being more correct than we were before.

Omnificer,

It is a little refreshing compared to blanket denial and insisting the “true” racists are the people who call him out. Or crocodile tears and insisting “that’s not who I am”.

But yea, still not good.

Omnificer,

Subsistence wage is what you are thinking of, to meet basic biological necessities. A living wage allows for moderate comfort, because there is more to living than just surviving.

Omnificer,

The “recycling” in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It’s definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.

Omnificer,

If it’s a celestial warlock they might be a sub-contractor for the paladin’s deity of choice!

Omnificer,

Zero divided by zero is undefined. In that it literally does not meet the definition of division (from a mathematical perspective.)

This is a bit tricky because the reason that 0/0 is undefined is separate from why any other number divided by zero is undefined.

If I divide 6 by 0, there’s no number I can multiply by zero to get back to 6. Since I can’t get back to the 6, this is undefined.

If I divide 6 by 2, I get 3. And I can multiply 2 by 3 to get 6. Now it’s genuinely important that there is no other number I can multiply 2 by to get 6. There has to be a single unique result for both the division and the going back via multiplication.

Now, if we assume 0/0 = 1, that is fine. And I can multiply 1 times 0 to get back to 0. Checks out so far. However, 1 isn’t unique in getting back to 0. If I try 5 x 0, I get 0. Which, by the rules of division should mean that 0/0 = 5. Which clearly it wouldn’t.

So zero divided by zero is undefined because there is an infinite amount of numbers that would get me back to zero.

Omnificer,

Yea, it’s always been weird to me that Batman alone is being judged for not using lethal force. If that were part of any consistent values, wouldn’t every person who has had chain of custody of Joker, or even proximity to him, be morally obligated to kill him?

If random cop that has had Joker in handcuffs, or random doctor who has been treating Joker, or even every other super hero on the planet hasn’t extra judiciallly executed Joker, why should Batman bear the obligation to do so?

Omnificer,

I’d never heard of Subsync before and I’ve just spent the last two hours fixing so many subtitles.

I’d had good results using SubtitleEdit to offset subs and set sync points before, but this tool is on another level. I might actually need to go back and use it to polish up a few subtitles that I got mostly right, but not quite.

Omnificer,

I would argue that this is worldnews in that (if I understand it correctly) this impacts foreign travelers too, even those simply making connecting flights.

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