sheepy

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[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Well, a black hole with the mass of an A4 page is gonna evaporate almost instantly, turning all of that mass into energy. Those 5 grams will give you about a 100 kT explosion.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Shortly after the clip ends she was pronounced dead with 17 bullet wounds.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

In the future, everybody has much bigger problems than trying to figure out what date it is. And it gives DE much more freedom narratively.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

The irony of this being AI slop... As to the point you're making: ok boomer

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 72 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I've a mild loss of vision, what are those lines in the last text bubble?

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Tannerite, steel ball bearings, an Arduino with a laser sensor and a sparker, and some PLA

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Presumably, they have the benefit of being told what to do by their fellow orcs during downtime/chow. I doubt anybody is making the effort to convey that information to the NK troops.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 172 points 5 months ago (9 children)

It's so wild to me that the US still has this fascist ahh ritual. Nobody told them that the godless Soviet Union fell already?

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

psst, the word "chair" in the OP is a link

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

From a narrative point of view, it's much more interesting to read about containment than destruction. A lot of the skips could just be tossed into an incinerator, and that wouldn't be fun to read about. Plus, it lends itself to exploration of ideas coincidental to the actual item in question, whereas destruction would 100% have to be concentrated around whatever item needs to be decommissioned.

In universe, it's the safe approach. Most things are unexplainable, the mechanisms behind them unknowable. But, their behaviour is observable, and so containable. The Foundation has a good couple of hostile deities contained, so the approach does work.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please don't actually use them as sunglasses. You can buy cheap UV film online that you can stick on em. Hell, any pair of cheap sunglasses is usually UV coated.

As the above user already said, your pupils will dilate because they will think there's less light, letting more UV in. At best, it will cancel out whatever is blocked by them. At worst, you will end up with more UV reaching your eyes.

Cataracts can only be treated by surgery. Please don't cook your eyeballs, especially when you can so easily have complete UV protection.

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