I skimmed a bit of the article but my mental processes aren’t feeling flexible enough for quantum nonsense this morning… Are they saying it’s possible to make an observation window into the box of Schrodinger’s cat that allows for observation from an arbitrary distance without speed of light delay?

Hey, just so you know I am plenty excited! This is gonna be great!

I’m not sure I get the joke? Obi-Wan gives that line on the planet Kamino… what is the connection to Silicon?

Time and Relative Dimension in Space, you say?

Two red-tailed coral snakes have been observed competing over a caecilian in the first documented wild case of kleptoparasitism within the family Elapidae.

Kleptoparasitism, or food theft, is a well-documented behavior in many animal species, but is seldom reported among snakes in natural habitats.

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The study suggests that while such behaviors may be more common in captivity due to controlled environments, their occurrence in nature has been largely underreported, likely due to the elusive nature of these reptiles and the challenges of observing them in their natural habitats.

Titanic

This sounds like something that is immediately going to be replaced by a Neural Network…

Quick reviews of a couple:

• Grow Spaceship VIP Played this one for probably an hour. The ads aren’t necessary for gameplay but all the upgrades cost various gems/rubies/gold/etc and every mission you complete has the option to watch an ad to double the reward. Also, there are a bunch of typos throughout the game I saw so far. The gameplay is also kind of lame, it’s kind of a bullet-hell but the only bullets are yours. Some few of the baddies that appear need to be destroyed before they move off-screen or move below you and hit the thing you defend but nearly all of the baddies are just moving around on the screen for a minute before drifting away with no consequence other than you didn’t get a few coins for killing them.

• Sky Wings VIP: Pixel Fighters Played only long enough to confirm it was the same game economy. Play missions and watch ads to double the currency you get to spend on upgrades. The gameplay was a bit more involved, needing to move around the screen to pick up the coins and also to avoid return fire. But meh

• Rogue Hearts Kind of neat. Looks like a dungeon crawl + city development game basically. The city sends you on missions and you wander through the dungeon (which might be procedurally generated) in a pretty well transitioned blend of real-time exploring and turn based fighting. I think this game would be fun but I don’t know if I’ll come back to it and give it a chance. Oh, point in it’s favor: no ads or micro transactions that I saw in the few minutes I played EDIT: looks like there are rubies which are bought with real currency, ah well

A lot of those links are leading to Epic Freebie Games Radar but I was able to look them up and I downloaded a couple.

Speaking as a relatively high-functioning autistic person, and as a person who definitely perceives those people with autism I know as objectively blessed when compared to their allistic “peers”, I’m trying to read this as the reporter’s white-savior-y take on what may simply be a scientific advance?

All but the first paragraphs are pay walled but, here goes my charitable guess toward the scientists here;

Doctors have discovered how to undo a thing (in mice) that the author of this article describes as causing symptoms of autism. This is useful science I suppose, with it we might one day have the power to cure allism. Alternatively, as other comments have pointed out, there are autistic people who are unable to live “normal” lives (save, for a moment, the argument over what the fuck a “normal” life is and who the fuck thinks they have the right to “save” it). Consider instead an autistic person who wishes they had any choice regarding their autism, it would be cool if the science of neurodivergence had been developed enough to provide them with that choice. Realistically… I bear no illusions that choice might be involved. If doctors in the US had an excuse to call it “helping” when they fuck nonconsensually with someone’s brain, I have no doubt I would be strapped to a fucking bed faster than you can say “free healthcare?”. Between lobotomies and forced sterilization, the US has an undoubted record for society “cleansing”.

TLDR: triangles are forbidden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry%27s_theorem?wprov=sfla1

I get the same math… Seems fucky but… This is assuming the sum of centripetal acceleration and gravity at the peak of the loop is zero. It may be physically possible for a cat to learn to manage a loop with such velocity but I imagine a cat wouldn’t be able to maintain a stride through a zero-g portion of the loop the first time it tried it.

So, instead let’s throw an assumption that the cat must maintain at minimum sum of -1g at the maxima of the loop. That may be badly phrased, assuming the cat must have at minimum a net force of at least one g between it’s paws and the surface of the loop it was currently using to accelerate…

3.5 meters = 11.5 feet

Radius, so still a freaking 7 meter diameter loop feels incredible…

This is the Sound of Freedom conman, right?

Thank you for this recommendation!

I read his final statement as an acknowledgement that “while this sucks, no shit I’m going to do it because cats are necessary for functional human habitation”

I use pelletized bedding instead of clumping litter. It’s still disgusting, it still tracks everywhere, it still needs to be cleaned but it smells less and it’s waayyy cheaper (that link is $7 for a 40lb bag of the stuff)

Fountain soda costs a few pennies per gallon, the lost earnings of which would ordinarily be counted as small beans compared to the wages saved by reducing the bodies you need to pay to run your restaurant. The pandemic taught companies though that you don’t need a body for every job, you need only as many as it takes to keep the door unlocked. The single person whipped and frantic doing the jobs of eight people will just have to work harder and maybe next year they’ll get a fifteen cent raise

Part of what creates in me so much faith in communism is my profession vs my interests.

I am an engineer. If I didn’t need to sell my labor I would be an engineer who solves problems and creates progress. Since I live in America, I don’t.

That last one is straight up Ender Wiggin