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  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzEat lead
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    22 days ago

    And the fun scientific counterpart of the Boltzmann brain. The idea that in an infinite universe (at least in a couple of the spatial dimensions if not also a time dimension) random fluctuations could combine to form your brain. Including all of your memories, thoughts, hopes and dreams. You think you have had an entire life, but in reality your brain was just formed moments ago. And it may possibly stop existing in a few more moments, this moment being the only one the brain has actually experienced.

    When taken to its natural conclusion, the entire Earth of even the solar system or galaxy might have just been created by random chance. The perfect storm of randomness. It may have been created longer ago or just nanoseconds before now. There is no way of telling.

    Thermodynamics has been used to counter and strengthen this idea. And with infinity on the table anything goes.


  • When I was 3 years old in preschool we had to get in line for the teacher who would write down our name, age, favorite color, etc. on a little badge so they could get to know all the kids. When I was in line the kids in front of me were like my favorite color is yellow, mine is pink and other happy bright colors. My favorite color was a very dark blue, almost black. As I heard the other kids I was like hmmm is my favorite color weird? Am I the weird kid? Is there something wrong with me? So when I got to the teacher I lied and said my favorite color was yellow. She painted a big yellow dot with felt tip pen on my badge which I wore for the next couple of weeks. I felt terrible for lying about it to the teacher, but didn't want to say anything either.

    So yeah that's when I figured out I have anxiety.



  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoNon-Political Memes@lemmy.mlNap
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    1 month ago

    And then you end up way too hot because the cat is on top of you. Or the asshole just takes up the whole bed like it's theirs and when you try to push them to the side they get annoyed because you are taking up room in THEIR bed.



  • When they got swept away by the water with their bikes, the movie switches to a montage of them getting the bikes transported to their garage. There they tear down the bikes, replace damage parts, do paint jobs. With a full 10 minute part about how they troubleshooted a misfiring issue on one of the bikes and the full rebuild of a carburateur. There's even a human interest part where they argue over replacing a part, some of them want to replace the part, others want to attempt a repair. Till one of the wraiths shares a story about how they were a kid working on old bikes with their dad and his dad never believed in throwing parts out, he could always repair it. So they contact a necromancer, which revives the dad for him to fix the part with his dad. And then the movie resumes like normal.



  • Did a simple calculation to see how long it would take for such a tiny solar panel they made to charge the phone. And that's not using the phone (turned off) and without concern for overheating the phone by putting it in direct sunlight. The efficiency of regular solar panels are bad, this transparent thing is cool but way worse than regular panels. In an optimized scenario such as in the paper (not realistic) it would take 60 hours for a full charge. Since there aren't usually 24 hours of sunlight (let alone full direct sunlight) it would probably take well over a week to charge.

    Self charging phones using solar isn't a thing that's practically possible.

    Even at high efficiency (which isn't possible) it isn't practical since phones don't do well in the sun and are usually stored in pockets, bags and often have covers over them. Plus they are mostly used inside where there isn't sun, or outside where most of the times there also isn't a lot of sun.

    Just put a solar panel on the roof, that's the best place for solar panels.



  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoNon-Political Memes@lemmy.mlEdge
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    2 months ago

    Microsoft are such assholes as well.

    Hey do you want this neat feature where we have interesting and pretty pictures on your lock screen? They auto rotate, so you get new pictures all the time.

    Wow sure, that sounds like a cool feature.

    Sike! We put the most dumb and annoying text all over it. And when you accidentally click on it because the monitor didn't wake up in time, we open up Edge with Bing to show you more of our dumb shit. We sell the text as being interesting facts about the image, but then do the old bait and switch and just use it to advertise about our own shit nobody wants or likes.

    Fucking Microsoft, can't help themselves but be assholes all the time.





  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoFacepalm@lemmy.wtfExcellent logic!
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    3 months ago

    Vaccines are the opposite of healthy, they are specifically made to trigger your immune system. That's why with most vaccines the next day or days people feel like shit, it's like being sick. But the vaccine is much better than getting the disease it's designed for, is perfectly safe and has no permanent effects besides the training it gave the immune system.

    Plus most vaccines are perfectly fine to eat, they just won't work that way.






  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzpringles
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    3 months ago

    Huh? I can very easily fit an entire Pringle in my mouth. And I don't think I have that big of a mouth actually. They also don't have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces, so I can eat it without worrying about cutting the inside of my mouth.

    I don't really like what this says about me.