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  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldblacklight lincoln hat watermark
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    23 days ago

    The drivers license number has information about gender and birthdate encoded into it. You can see enough of the number to know that this is someone who registered as female, and has a recorded birth date of 29 July '98. I assume this person isn’t 126 years old, so we’ll say they’re 26.

    You can tell it’s an Illinois license, because no other state is as obsessed with Lincoln. (Edit: you can also read the Illinois in the seal in the back left)




  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldClickbait asteroid
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    24 days ago

    It’s not a world ending strike. It’s 2.3% odds that a city ending strike lands somewhere on earth, most likely in the ocean.

    It’s a fraction of a fraction of a % that it’ll hit somewhere with any humans at all, much less a populated city.

    And on top of that, we have until 2032 to decide what to do about it, with enough time to potentially redirect it with technology we’ve already demonstrated that works. And if that isn’t enough, we just need one or two more data points to figure out almost exactly where it will hit, and can evacuate the area.

    Just like we do for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

    This is not an emergency, this is an easy mode try out for a real disaster.


  • Veganism isn’t a religion, it’s a label people use to self identity as not eating anything from animals.

    Every person decides for themselves what counts. I’m sure there are people who identify as vegan that are ok with backyard chicken eggs, and there are ones that don’t.

    There is a whole industry around providing the chickens that people purchase for their backyards, and that industry has to sort the male chickens from the female, and then destroy the males. You can’t really participate in purchasing chickens without being involved in that aspect, which most vegans would object to, even if the chickens that live with them would be treated humanely.

    There’s also some vegans who are fine with honey, and some that aren’t.





  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldPick 3
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    2 months ago

    Sure, but that just pushes back the timeline some. Even with immortality, invulnerability, and teleportation, you’re still going to live forever floating in the void of space. There just isn’t going to be anywhere to teleport TO after a few trillion years.


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    2 months ago

    Immortality is fine, until you end up stuck somewhere forever.

    It’s inevitable, it might be 10 years from now you’ll get stuck under a mudslide and buried forever, but conscious.

    In a billion years, you’ll get stuck inside the expanding sun forever.

    In a few trillion years you’ll get stuck floating in the void of space forever as the universe expanded into nothingness.

    Immortality needs some sort of way out, or else you’ll eventually end up suffering forever (what’s a trillion years to someone who will live for eternity?)



  • Software is free if you aren’t using it for commercial use. Fusion 360, onshape, etc. are all free for personal use. And that’s assuming someone didn’t make it already and share it free.

    Filament costs $17 for 1kg of perfectly fine plastic. You’d probably use 100g at most for this, so $1.70.

    A Bambu A1 mini is $200, and is a modern, high quality printer that would be fine for this project.

    So you only need like a half dozen of these projects to come out ahead.



  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    2 months ago

    Kinda, but also there’s stuff that we need to learn new physics for, like FLT travel.

    We can create some math saying it’s technically possible, but we have no idea how to create the things we need to make it work.

    Then there’s hibernation. We see it in some animals, but we need to know new things about biology to make it work in people.

    There are many categories of “possible” and some of them mean we just need enough people working on it. And some of them mean we need to learn new fundamental science to be able to even start to understand what it takes.