I’ve never seen that thing before, but I immediately thought: “That thing looks oddly roman, now doesn’t it.” Then, I read the headline, and concluded that Romans knew about consistent branding.

I’m out of the loop, so what’s the big deal with this? What kind of promise does that break?

If he wants to keep American companies in American hands, isn’t this exactly the kind of thing he should be doing? Still probably not the smartest thing to do but, isn’t this kind of period of isolationism exactly what he has promised.

On the other hand, I recall hearing something about him protecting American jobs, but these two goals are in conflict here. Either you fund your industry yourself or accept foreign investments. If the former isn’t possible, then the latter remains the obvious choice.

Keep an eye on the interest rate of some relevant central banks. When interests are low, investors have money to spare, and they can even make large rocks float. Once inflation gets out of hand, interest rates respond accordingly, suddenly investors disappear, and rocks begin to sink. That’s exactly when the CEO of SinkingFast Inc. has to make some quick decisions about strategic enshittification.

The real unpopular opinion is in the comments.

There is no end. Kinda essential part of the definition of infinity.

Does a real-life pimp dress like the stereotypical pimp you see in the movies? You know, leopard jacket, wide brimmed hat, cane etc.

So, apparently there are people who can’t get laid, even if they are willing to pay for it. That should be a proper wakeup call for those creeps. If get a no from multiple prostitutes, you know you have some serious problems.

Sure, no problem. That’s only going to take an infinite amount of time, so we’re all good.

Fair enough, as long as it’s a countably infinite amount of chocolate.

Infinite calendarception… but do you get any chocolate in this setup?

Yeah, that Christian stuff can get in the way at times.

Destin also made a nice video about the same topic. These thighs are pretty amazing.

Our current “forcefields” are super picky. They refuse to work with anything other than that one thing they were specifically designed for and the list of options is very short.

If you want to deflect things with a magnetic or electric charge, we already have the right kind of “forcefield” for that. However, it’s not exactly the kind of shell you put around a space ship to keep it protected, so even in this limited sense we still have a long way to go. The magnetic field of the Earth directs some of the incoming particles to the poles, which isn’t really ideal if your goal is to deflect all incoming fire.

If you want to protect the ship/planet from physical projectiles, we have no forcefields at all. That sort of stuff is just pure sci-fi at the moment.

Why stop there? 128 or 256 sound much nicer. Actually, while you’re at it, 4096 should be enough to fit a short story.

I’ve once had a password that was over 200 characters long. That was in a custom email server where the admin either didn’t know or care about limitations. I mean, if you can have a super long password, then why not. I just kept on going until I felt like it was secure enough.

I used a randomly generated character soup, so there’s no way I’m ever going to memorize that nightmare of a password. Even if I print it on paper and hand to you, there’s a pretty good chance that you wouldn’t be able to type it correctly without restoring to OCR.

That’s roughly how open pit mining works. In some mines, you start with a pit, but later make a mine shaft if you need to go even deeper.

A pit is relatively cheap to start with, but it becomes more expensive as you go deeper. Eventually, a traditional mine shaft becomes cheaper than continuing with a pit.

If you have a ridiculously deep mine shaft, you begin to run into various problems like walls collapsing and the temperature increasing. There can also be lots of water you need to pump out constantly.

Eventually, the shaft becomes so deep and the problem so large, that continuing becomes a nightmare. That’s why even the deepest mines aren’t really that deep considering how thick the tectonic plates are.

If you did come up with an alternative explanation, you would have to reinvent just about everything. Ever seen what it would take for the flat earth idea to hold water? Yeah, that level of reinvention plus some more of that vibe.

But let’s say that in this alternate universe those wild models are actually true, valid and they end up producing a universe that looks like ours. Since it’s based on completely different physics, there will also be some strange differences. Even if those galaxies look like ours, it doesn’t mean that biochemistry or life would be possible.

Zeno’s cookie.

You only eat half of however much you have available at the time. This way, you’ll never run out.

Governments could slap a hefty emission tax on those engines. The cruising companies will soon realize, that if they want to stay afloat, they need to switch to sails, kites, or something like that. Just don’t expect USA to do that sort of ting any time soon.

With many chemicals, we just don’t know.

Usually, it’s pretty easy to run some tests to find what it takes to kill 50% of the test mice (LD50), but that value will only give you a very rough estimate, because toxicology is hard. Besides, you’re not really trying to just prevent 50% humans from getting killed. You don’t want people to get sick either.

Many chemicals also have limits that are considered safe in an occupational exposure setting. If it says that you can safely be exposed to a specific concentration for 8 hours, it’s not the same as having that same chemical in your food for 20 years.

Studying acute toxicity and mortality is much easier than studying chronic toxicity and illness. We also tend to use mice instead of humans in these tests, which opens another can of worms. Figuring out what’s safe for you to eat for the rest of your life is just next level stuff, which is why we usually don’t know how much is still safe.