A highschool physics teacher tried to explain it to us, before sighing and saying we'd see if we pursue education in this field otherwise screw it, with the idea that we measure the position of things as if they're in a grid.

One moment the nearby grid is 1 million blocks wide for the x, y and z axis. The following moment, the grid measures the same things but it's a 1 million and 1 blocks for the x, y and z axis. Some moments later, it's now 1 million and 2 blocks, still for the very same things inside. From our perspective on the inside, it gives an impression of getting further away.

I try really hard to tell myself there are changes, only they are too gradual to notice.

Some centuries ago, it was perfectly acceptable to slaughter indiscriminately and to brand people with different beliefs or body appearance as non-human.
Not anymore.

Just a century ago, half of mankind (women) were essentially public property and beating them, deciding what to do with them, was the norm almost everywhere.
It's now becoming a minority.

Things suck real hard. But, morally speaking, they used to suck even more although it's hard to realize.

All I can hope is that we haven't capped how far we, as a species, can morally progress (because, fuck, there's so much more potential progress it's like we have just started moving past the starting line). But that'll be for our grandchildren's grandchildren to observe :-/

Always hard when you don't tell much about yourself.

An all-purposes recommendation, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, as the band changes a lot their style from an album to another. It's got an intimate touch, delicately playing on the interactions between multiple guitars, one bass, one bass, one drums, and various instruments.

Always start with their "The dripping tap" song, and then, probably, from another album, "Magma" is a good sequel. "Magma" is long, 9 minutes, you can take time to enjoy each movement, it's kind of more the travel than the destination song...

Otherwise, may I throw a weirder suggestion? Try to find songs whose beat speed match your max speed typing speed. I find it's the ones I naturally, spontaneously, click the best with. Depending on you, you'll find yourself naturally matching with disco, death metal, who knows what lol.

Showing what google decides we shouldn't see?

Others have a lot more competence to answer than me, but I'll mention the existence of an elegant hypothesis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation , the eternal inflation.

A TL;DR would be the "what if" the cosmic inflation, after the big bang, wasn't properly identical in every direction and, well, while areas "cooled off" most others remained subjected to inflation for a while longer, etc, leading to a weird multiverse or perhaps oddly patchwork-based idea of a universe or multiverse. Our universe being one of the areas in which inflation ended up before the rest, even though, most likely, the largest part of the matter and energy from the big bang is still in its inflation phase; we'd be like shards off, with a headstart.

And in such a context, the answer to your question would be a weird "no".

It may be scientifically-based, but it's perhaps less provable than a science-fiction novel, so it's to be taken with a grain of salt, but, eh, it's still an original take on the answer to give you, hehe, I always found it fascinating that such notions will be possible to imagine. It doesn't need to be true to be awesome.

The first time I read about a washing machine that needed an apache server update, I felt something perish inside of me.

I know it would sound passive-aggressive and snarky, and yet this isn't my intention, I'm genuinely curious to know what it would have looked like prior to colour balancing, improvements and all. I mean, globally, closer to how the human eye would have given it...

If, by any miraculous chance, you still a copy, OP...

A certain episode from the Expanse series nicely dealt with this "squish" that would come from instant stop.

For those of you who haven't watched it, imagine a human strapped to a seat, his bones remained in the seat, the flesh kept on moving for a bit longer.

There's one little thing I want to add, the (currently) 30 comments don't directly address this specific aspect, but my apologies if that was, actually already said, and I simply missed it.

We got the idea that oil prices would be pushed up as the difficulty of extraction surges, to cover extraction costs and give oil companies a profit margin, sure.

But another limiting factor is that oil prices cannot rise towards stratospheric levels: oil prices will only rise as high as the economy is able to sustain them.

A thriving blossoming economy can afford higher prices than a depressed, half-crumbling, incertain and threatening economy. In a grim context of not just peak oil, but peak everything (several resources are past their peak and extraction may fail to meet demand within the current century, for instance for copper, europium, terbium, yttrium, antimony, helium, uranium, gold, indium, zinc), there will be this additional challenge, even if we want oil, we can't afford to pay it at the cost it would require.

Pretty fascinating in its own right, that those microorganisms to whom we owe our oxygen supply initiated a worldscale genocide of the formerly dominating lifeforms, and almost wiped themselves in the process, hehe.

That said, I'll mention it just in case, that's not an issue at all if you were thinking of the "stock" of available oxygen.

A few months after that Avengers movie with the Thanos snap, there was this interesting reddit discussion, in which "what would happen if that snap also wiped half of the oxygen-producing plants and plankton" was asked. And the fascinating answer is that the atmosphere contains centuries of oxygen in stock before a risk to run out is even foreseeable. So, we're cool ;)

Damnit, I missed one, THIS PRESENT WEEK? I'm falling low, here.

Thanks!

Why isn't it on the SMBC website, I'm curious?

Or it's an old comic that I missed, maybe?

Mostly useless remark, quoting you,

> People often ask why deleting files is faster than creating files

That's the case for the most common operating systems. However, sometimes, with server hardware + software, it's working differently and deletion can take a long time, as with linux's ext4. It's still relatively fast, but much slower than the others nonetheless.

Reminds me of that delightfully amusing news story from 2016.

The Robert E. Lee elementary school, in Texas, USA, launched a poll to determine which new name it should adopt, a name that would reflect modern values of tolerance and inclusivity.

Well, quoting https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Adolf-Hitler-School-for-Friendship-and-Tolerance-7307299.php ,

> Among the suggestions for the school were Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance

It's as convincing as Beckham's current point.

Thanks for the YT link. That was worth the watch