We are at least on the map… Just ignored.

Fire, the wheel and the printing press, would be my top three.

But the modern world is all about the manipulation of electromagnetism.

Whilst the industrial revolution started with mechanical power; the harnessing of steam essentially. The modern world owes everything to the mastery of the electron and the photon, and more generally the exquisite control of electromagnetism.

The manipulation of electrons enables the iPhone; touted as the possible pinnacle of achievement; basically every industrial process on the planet is monitored and controlled by electromagnetic means.

Our true highest achievement is the ongoing development of the control of electromagnetic phenomena; we bend electrons and photons to our will, manipulate matter on the smallest scales using these forces, measure the bending of the fabric of reality, and probe the secrets of the universe. The iPhone is but one small aspect of this continuum of knowledge.

7yo with some avocado on fork: Dad, would you rather eat avocado or McDonalds?

Me: Hmmm, avocado.

7yo: me too, Mcdonalds would be all concrete and metal.

Me: LOL, well played.

The hands of fate are kind today.

If I got an old kindle; how easy is it to jailbrake it and install a better system?

Notification history is off by default in GrapheneOS…so that is nice.

Beat me to it

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I guess next year I’ll have to post a joke just after midnight. I’ll wake to find confusion and chaos.

Often we are not even included on maps.

Indeed.

Total energy available is higher, but that reaction produces radiation as the primary product. Radiation is difficulty to properly direct.

Fusion (aneutronic) produces the bulk of the energy as charged particles, which we can direct with magnetic or electric fields.

To be fair; if you could build a fusion torch and fully direct the flow; aneutronic fusion fits the bill; the thrust numbers they are using are not crazy.

You would use stupid amount of fuel to get that much delta-v; but with advanced reactors using readily available fuel sources…maybe not an issue.

A fellow Veritasium enjoyer I see.

Well he did bankrupt 4 casinos…that place where, you know statistically, the “house always wins”.

Fair, antecedent is usually referring to a singular event/trigger.

Also 100% on board with GIF ignoring the original authors intent.

That is the “antecedent”,

Antecedent: A preceding occurrence, cause, or event.

I remember trying to play online quake in the 90’s, I live in new Zealand… We had dial up, my latency was around the 5s mark. I have up pretty quick.

If I wanted to play multiplayer games, it was taking my desktop computer to a friends house, connecting them together with 10Mb BNC networking, and don’t forget the 50ohm terminators.

A friend spent a week trying to download the original pirated version on XP, the couple of hundred meg file would get stopped for various reasons.

I have my full name as a gmail account, I got it as soon as it possible. [email protected]

I was going to say:

You know it’s cold, he is wearing shoes.

Agreed, I subscribe to a bunch of political stuff…but it is nice to take a mental health moment and laugh at somehting.