Don’t apologise. People who don’t like mention of any politics are insufferable.

The Lemmy Tesseract fiasco was just another example of that 😅

Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).

Ugh. Why do they do this to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon

You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again

Can someone who feels pain everyday (uses imperial) explain wtf HL/17 is supposed to mean?

I feel like I’m not on this sub enough to get the joke. Are we referring to the Tuvix incident?

This comment is way too far down.

“Magic system” is a bit of an oxymoron

This is just the currently accepted terminology in world building: https://rebeccashedd.com/2024/10/25/the-worldbuilders-toolkit-building-a-magic-system/

I’m just extending this to sci-fi also, as have many others, because they’re basically the same thing, only that the sci-fi magic systems are vaugely based on real-life science (but vary wildly how closely).

Think Stargate with their loosey-goosey ancients and accession, vs the much more grounded The Expanse.

I’m just not a fan of magic systems without any rules at all.

Hence why I find supernatural stories less interesting, which streaming services, book shops, and movie theatres, frustratingly categorise under fantasy. They are very different from sci-fi and fantasy, in my opinion.

If your magic is purely “mysterious”, that’s boring, and lazy story-telling (In my opinion).

Just joking around, but yeah, I personally enjoy what I call “supernatural” stories less than sci-fi and fantasy with proper world-building

Soft magic systems aren’t any fun. Change my mind.

Christianity, stranger things and paranormal activity are equally as uninteresting to me because it’s “because I said so”. Boooooooo, come up with some rules for your world.

Can we make a new category of fiction called “supernatural” SEPARATE from sci-fi and fantasy? Thanks, that would be nice.

It’s almost like the “meritocracy” under capitalism is a bald faced lie.

I completely agree, well put

I’m not from the US, but it would seem to me that public cameras should only be accessible for legitimate purposes.

Police should need to request footage, but similarly, you shouldn’t be able to just request any footage willy nilly, because of stalking.

Seems that it should be tightly regulated and require multiple people to gain access, and be documented who was given access.

Overall your comment seems like a great suggestion to me. If footage “goes missing”, they had better have way more evidence to back up their charges.

Turbulence seems to be to be deterministic chaos, that if we had perfect resolution, and unlimited processing power, we could predict turbulent flow with precision.

This guy seems to think it’s equivalent to “by magic”.

I bring a portable screen from home, bringing me to a total of 4 with the laptop screen.

But I just like lots of monitors

I’m just speculating how someone could possibly come up with such a bizarre “rule”

I feel like the OP of this verse definitely had this happen to him personally, and included this “rule” out of spite lol

I’ve always hated “incompressible” when talking about fluids. It’s just shorthand for: doesn’t compress much under pressure.

In engineering unless you’re dealing with insane pressures, when something is “incompressible”, assuming it is is good enough.

But it’s still misleading so I don’t like it haha

As a native English/German speaker, this sign just makes so much sense. Very onomatopoeic. I love it

Speed Bump just doesn’t hit as hard