The eggs are from these flappy guys:

.ml is an unserious instance that you should be proud of getting banned from

The first time they banned me it was for mentioning that the book “1984” was written by a socialist who didn’t like tankies.

The next time it was for posting a link to a clip from the cartoon “Futurama”. 🤡💩

Losing ~1.4 km/s at GEO would put a fragment into geostationary transfer orbit, with one side of the elliptical orbit at geostationary altitude and the other side at low orbit altitude where it would experience increased drag.

https://xkcd.com/1356/

Sorry to disappoint, but exploding something at GEO would make things worse.

All satellites in orbit of Earth will experience atmospheric drag. Even the Moon is bumping into gas atoms.

Geostationary satellites will eventually fall. It might take millions of years, but eventually the thin atmosphere will slow those satellites down enough that their orbit will fall into the thick, lower atmosphere where they’ll burn up or crash into the Earth’s surface.

Exploding a satellite up there will just make a shotgun spray of projectiles that will still take millions of years to fall. Assuming the projectiles shoot off in all directions fairly evenly, then the ones that get shot backwards relative to the motion of the satellite will end up in a lower orbit that will decay faster. The pieces that get shot forward might actually escape Earth orbit all together and become little asteroids orbiting the Sun.

The thing that’s special about geostationary orbit isn’t that the orbit of things at that altitude does not decay. That altitude is special because at that altitude, orbital speed is equal to the Earth’s rotational speed. A satellite at that altitude over the equator will remain over that same longitude - it won’t rise and set like the Moon, it will remain in the same spot overhead both night and day.

At that time, the first second of eternity will have passed.

We’ll be back the next time protons happen.

There is no escape.

yeah, just serve up some r34 animated rats and put cocaine in the beverages

There’s a lot to unpack here.

Lets start with the attempt to define “usefulness” as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

“Trusted sources” have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.

yeah, it seemed like it went down for a little bit, then presented a new cloudflare verification check

because I didn’t know what it did either, then made a typo in the ChatGPT prompt when asking about it

yeah, pretty much

This is a Bash fork bomb, a malicious function definition that recursively calls itself:

:() — defines a function named : (yes, just a colon).

{ :|:& } — the function's body:

    :|: — pipes the output of the function into another call of itself, creating two processes each time.

    & — runs the call in the background, meaning it doesn’t wait for completion.

; — ends the function definition.

: — finally, this invokes the function once, starting the bomb.

they can’t be corrected or are never wrong

This is #1 for me. Its easy to spot, and they won’t be able to hide it because it would drive them nuts to admit fault.

I wonder if its a product of colliding galaxies?

Doubt.

Innovation comes from people who are not content to put all of their energy into trying to be the most mediocre.

Most people want to be normal, and in a low tech society, the ones who view statistical averageness as some kind of virtue will be exposed to different creative norm-breakers depending on geographic location. This results in diversity among normie cliques - while they’re each competing to see who can be the most mid, their definitions of mid will be different.

Even if the kind of humans that have the desire to be seen as normal were to all form a singular herd, the source of their previous diversity will remain. People who don’t actively mold themselves to become statistically average will still be here, setting trends, attracting followers and haters.

Its likely that OP’s author doesn’t see things that way because they’re in the camp that views conformity and the mediocre as virtuous.

There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.

A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.

The Svoronos Star Tug can, in principle (assuming perfect efficiency), accelerate the Sun to ~27% the speed of light (after burning enough of the Sun’s mass to transition it to a brown dwarf).[9]

Adequate.

That’s a bit of an oversimplification, but yeah, that’s similar to how an Alcubierre warp drive is hypothesized to work.

Apparently it was launched as a rideshare payload on a SpaceX rocket. I wonder if the nazis tampered with it?

What’s Tatars precious?