I mean spotting it in only 3 days feels like a pretty big feat in of itself, unless this kid had access to a database on one particular star’s brightening and dimming or it’s potential weeble wobbling about, he did in 3 days what usually takes weeks at a minimum if it’s a planet the size of jupiter or bigger.

Do you make a habit of reminding kids about air friction coefficients on flying sleds circling the planet in a single night when they muse about what Santa’s getting them this year?

Yep, at least there’s the solace of knowing that the moment from “something’s wrong” to crunch went by so fast that the passengers probably didn’t even hear so much as a strained groan from the frame before they were all canned person paste.

Just imagine being that kid, one minute you’re sitting nervous on a sub because your dad begged you into coming, and the next you blink twice and are suddenly yelling at him for being a moron in the afterlife with little more than a sudden change in scenery to clue you in to what just happened.

While a certain extent of it is just paranoia, there’s also the fact that China as a nation has a long standing arrogance about how it views others that the Xi regime seems a little too eager to return to.

A rather infamous incident involving the guy who basically is China’s founding father and great liberator revolved around him being kidnapped by Qing agents in London, because the imperial throne had long presumed that their authority was absolute everywhere, and saw zero reason why they should consider not arresting someone on another country’s soil.

I bring this incident up because it’s what the legitimate security concern actually revolves around, China has begun dispatching “police agents” to their embassies who are basically there to kidnap and intimidate chinese nationals who aren’t acting “chinese enough”, and in extreme cases drag them back to beijing by their hair.

This obviously extends to dissidents who foolishly presumed they could escape Beijing’s wrath by not living in China, and to anyone seen as aiding and abetting them who aren’t high profile enough to draw attention if they get roughed up or even kidnapped themselves.

American privacy invaders are looking at you, chinese privacy invaders are parasitically attaching themselves into your eye sockets so they can look at everyone you’re looking at, and use you as an unwitting informant on anyone they’re tracking.

It’s like that bug that eats and then replaces fishes’ tongues, only if the bug was big brother and you were hyptnotized into staring at some shitty minecraft parkour while it eats your eyeball out and plugs itself into your optic nerve.

TikTok of course advertises this as a fun feature that encourages group viewing by presenting content based on your interests and also the interests of those around you “as a conversation starter.”

Kinda? Humans consume a lot more sugar than they did 10,000 years ago, in addition to other foodstuff that are terrible for your teeth

Surprisingly easy boss battle, everyone just says they hate it because it’ll randomly broadcast facts about science fiction media that makes people annoyed and apparently that’s a greater sin than genuine malice.

Because it isn’t burning, it’s exploding like a very big big big stick of TNT that’s going off veeeeeery slowly

I actually don’t think a fully artificial human like mind will ever be built outside of novelty purely because we ventured down the path of binary computing.

Great for mass calculation but horrible for the kinds of complex pattern recognitions that the human mind excels at.

The singularity point isn’t going to be the matrix or skynet or AM, it’s going to be the first quantum device successfully implanted and integrated into a human mind as a high speed calculation sidegrade “Third Hemisphere.”

Someone capable of seamlessly balancing between human pattern recognition abilities and emotional intelligence while also capable of performing near instant multiplication of matrices of 100 entries of length in 15 dimensions.

Metabolism mostly. Kinda glommed into a listlessness of not knowing what I’m doing with my life in a professional sense.

I still think the dill pickle flavored ones taste better

Basically, “I can’t stop thinking of dat ass lol, you said I could tap that but now I’m blueballed, so I’m in the basement feeling like a loser while jacking off to you and trying to hold the spit until you get here.”

Some of those terms are basically the equivalent of appending lol or XD or rofl onto the end of every sentence, but yeah, it’s basically just “ayo lemme smash already gurl!”

As in our profits and minimized losses.

Hey don’t blame us, blame the nepos who got on the board without even needing to study for it!

My MBA track actively rewards me for thinking like a socialist XD.

That feels like the biggest scumbag move tbch

Like it’s statistically impossible that your client’s ex that you helped them divorce was the only person you’d ever love.

Also, it exposes you to accusations of improperly representing your client’s best interests since we now know you could have been incentivized to pickme dance over how you stopped the divorcing spouse from taking everything they could have.

Quiet Part out loud, if there’s one thing they hate more than the threat that women can say no to staying in abusive relationships, it’s that they can run away to escape abuse if they can’t take their safety at home.

I’ve got two.

• The US has arrived at the stage where an entirely new constitution/model of government, probably down to the very borders of the states themselves in the 48, needs to be implemented, just to let off the pressure of just how large a scale the US operates on in every dimension compared to what the original 13 were looking at.

• The two state solution has been rendered untenable by Israel’s settler shit, the best way to protect the interests of Palestinians is to break down the border entirely and make them voting citizens with a say in the Knesset, and at this point I am convinced the only way that can be established is with an occupation force from outside both nations ready and willing to haul off anyone doing anything to threaten the coexistence and execute them. They won’t coexist in peace, so let them coexist under the sword of Damocles. If I had my way honestly, Jerusalem would have a nuke installed under the temple mount, with a switch set to destroy the city entirely if they’re going to insist on continuing to try and total victory wipe eachother out.

If they can’t have the land together, they’ll have the ashes together.

Good thing I tried pegging for the first time tonight then! Ticked that one off the bucket list just in time!

Ok but how funny would that subplot have been if she was pushing a fucking hotdog stand around king’s landing and exactly nobody was addressing it as if it wasn’t the most normal thing in the world?

So apparently that piss smell wasn’t actually from the open sewage.

It was because before cars took over horses were the primary mode of transport for people who could afford it, and horse piss is absolutely rancid smelling if it lands on something that doesn’t just absorb it like dirt or soil.

You joke with the sea bug jokes but apparently dishes that use bug meat actually are compared to crab and lobster in taste.