To estimate when to blast out the CME to wipe us out as revenge

Alright, just don’t go saying shit like “Boohoo this place is just like Reddit” when you post nonsense and get down voted for it.

Alright, tell me in your words why it isn’t a true solid?

Because like the other dude said, it’s like saying an HD TV isn’t a true TV because it’s HD. It makes no sense at all.

Did you even read the article you posted yourself? The first sentence is:

In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous solid (or non-crystalline solid) is a solid

So it’s absolutely a solid. The reason for the name is because the structure being non-crystalline gives it interesting properties and is something that doesn’t usually happen. For most substances there is at least some sort of repeating or self-organising structure.

With another state of matter, for example gas or liquid, the structure can’t be seen as it’s constantly changing. Structures might form and then go away. Only when transitioning into a solid the structure becomes fixed. For most materials this is some kind of pattern or repeating structure, with amorphous materials it’s essentially random without any structure. So by definition these are solids, otherwise the structure wouldn’t be there at all.

Because the thing being solid has nothing to do with the structure being crystalline or not. You are confusing two unrelated different things.

Oof, that comma physically hurts me

Glass is absolutely a solid, the term amorphous just refers to the structure being non-crystalline. It’s still a solid tho.

Is that Star Rupture you are playing? Really cool game, except it’s rather incomplete at the moment. I haven’t checked out the new update tho, they added a lot. Only worry I have is if they forget to put actual gameplay in their game.

I’ve seen early access titles like Star Rupture have so much potential early on, only for it to never materialize into a fun game. Especially when a small group of dedicated fans is really engaging with the dev. That might sound like a good thing, but is often a trap. The dev and the community spiral together into a rabbit hole, leaving a game that’s only fun for that select group with hundreds of hours already in the game. New people are often left overwhelmed, with too many systems and details to figure out and not engaging enough gameplay. This means the sales figures are often poor once a game releases, if it isn’t stuck in early access forever. It’s very hard to strike a good balance between listening to a small group of loyal fans and still maintain an overview and unbiased look on the project.

I really hope Star Rupture becomes a full game and a big hit, it’s super cool.

The thing about a games store like Steam or Epic isn’t the software itself. Steam has shown having a good client is a large part of it, but it isn’t the most important part. The most important part is the negotiations with the publishers and game developers to have them publish the games on that store. There is a whole lot of legal and pricing stuff involved. Another important part is a large CDN around the world to deliver the data to customers at speed.

Many large companies have tried pouring millions into this and haven’t had a lot of success. There is so much involved and large market forces to contend with.

As for just having something to manage the games on your system there is Lutris. It allows you to easily manage different game libraries and individual games. Plus tools like emulators and such to run older games for example. It’s fully open source and an initiative well worth sponsering.

Counterpoint, and hear me out on this, we could force them to give up most of their family wealth (mostly gotten over the backs of the people and slavery) and make anything remotely like monarchy illegal. Have them earn their living like the rest of us plebs.

Putting these kinds of people on a pedestal is pathetic.

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For those of you driving stick: Don’t rest your hand on the stick, it wears out the synchro rings. Also when standing still, don’t keep it in gear with the clutch pushed down, that wears out parts of the clutch assembly. Just put it in neutral and release the clutch.

I don’t know if this is actually true, but my mechanic friends keep banging on about it. In my experience other parts of the car wear out much faster. And most people don’t keep cars around more than 5 years. My own car is 11 years old and we have done SO many repairs on that thing. My girlfriend’s car is over 30 years old tho, we’ve kept that thing in tip top condition. It’s much simpler than my car so repairs are fast and cheap. It’s a Toyota so it should be good for 20 years to come.

It’s a boomer world, you are just living in it. And as you know the boomers are the main characters, you are just an NPC

Service guarantees citizenship

Fuck you, I’ll be shitty for at least 2 years more than this guy, give me the 10M!

Wait what do I do with my hands? No idea, I just let them hang awkwardly and lean forward like this.

The interesting thing about this is that it could be a double whammy. The collision that formed the Moon not only made Earth smaller, it also ejected a lot of material away from the orbit. This made Earth even smaller than it would otherwise have been, had the two bodies merged. And the Moon also formed in the process. The Moon causes the tides which are theorized to have a significant beneficial effect on evolving more complex forms of life.

So just being small might not be enough and having a big moon might also not be enough, but Earth was lucky enough to have both. And that’s just some of the things in a long list of things that have to go right to get complex life on a planet.

My feeling is that life is pretty rare, but given there are so many star systems in our galaxy there might be a lot of it still. But most of it is probably very simple stuff. Getting to where Earth is, might be a once every couple of millions of years event within our entire galaxy. So there really might be nothing intelligent out there at this moment in time, there might have been earlier and there might be in the future, but for right now we are it.

It’s funny they still refer to this kind of shit as a bombshell. Must be a real small bomb for the zero reaction or consequences we’ve seen thus far.

But they can still whip right? Right???