Supposed to but doesn’t really. I’m Australian and our governments at both state and federal levels have been slowly eroding the ability for smaller parties and independents to even join the race by restricting funding and labelling it a win for electoral fairness.

The voting system doesn’t matter when fascists get control, they won’t let it go not matter what.

We waste the two hours doing code reviews that only three people actually need to be present for, I always appreciate the chance to zone out and do something else for a big part of the day. Follow that with lunch and I’ve just done half a day’s work by watching TV

That’s fair, I just like windows and that’s really all there is to it. I’ve had a few Linux installs in the past, but never really found an advantage to anything except compiling this one specific python library, but these days I can do that very easily running WSL, VS code SSH’d to my server or more recently a jupyter server that I can connect to from any device with a web browser.

Now macOS on the other hand, I absolutely despise. It was one of the first OS’s I learnt to use back in primary school, and now that I have to use it for work I have absolutely no nice things to say. Unintuitive, missing basic features and slow to navigate, and I can assure you that none of this is due to unfamiliarity…

Other than messing around with the beta for half an hour, I thankfully never had to use it.

Unpopular opinion that I have no justification for: I don’t mind windows 11 all that much

The huge caveat here is assuming gravity is quantised in the same way as the other forces, gravitons don’t need to exist for gravity to exist. This is just the beauty argument of string theory with a new name, it’s cool and I love this type of stuff because it’s amazingly satisfying, but that’s not enough to make it reality.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still useful work but I kinda hate the way quanta reports on a lot of physics…

Now I’m wondering, surely someone has already made a language that’s designed to read like scripture?

The only thing that keeps me sane while working for capitalists is that I get paid to do a lot of nothing

Relatively literally means that the difference between when and where depends on your reference frame.

Inside black holes time becomes space, the reason it’s impossible to avoid falling to the singularity once inside is the same reason it’s impossible to avoid tomorrow.

Oh cool. Yeah that’s quite different from anything vacuum wars ever tested out. Thanks!

Interesting, which commercial machines are you referring to?

I did a little research when I bought mine, I think mostly vacuum wars testing, and I think they found similar results, with the commercial systems just having larger tanks. That said, I don’t expect their tests are super scientific or anything so I’m legitimately curious.

My carpets aren’t thick at all though, and most of what I’m cleaning is exclusively surface level anyway.

If you have messy pets, you can buy the machines for pretty reasonable prices. I’ve got one for my parrot, and my carpets are in great condition.

This is a very confusing article to post, this was from 2014

Long COVID absolutely terrifies me. I already have a similar condition, that I eventually managed to learn to live with during the pandemic.

If I get long COVID I don’t think I’ll want to continue living, there’s only so much uncontrollable pain and fatigue I can take.

There’s plenty of bad shit here too.

The country voting to not recognise that the traditional owners deserve a voice.

Our government continuing to fuel the climate apocalypse.

Housing affordability is locking basically every young person out of the market.

A lot of my friends are losing their jobs because the economy says they aren’t profitable enough to employ.

Federal and state governments enacting policies to make it harder for independents to challenge them by restricting funding.

Fucking NIMBYs everywhere.

Detention centres still exist for some fucking reason.

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I cope with the US falling further by not living in the US, unfortunately I’m just privileged like that, sorry.

I have a few friends over there, and the state of things absolutely breaks my heart.

Sorry, I did shower maths and that’s always a bad idea. Ignore that whole thing. What I was thinking made sense in one particular way, but not in the way I had intended, so it’s completely meaningless.

On the criteria, the absolute maximum implies having a criteria and I just chose the assumption that essentially infinite money would give you the best chance of having “the best possible life.” I was just aiming for something order of magnitude so had to choose something arbitrarily.

If you can even define the best possible life in a meaningful way, then I’d say it’s absolutely 0% chance because to me, a single day of winter ruins it.

Edit: The below is all wrong, I’m good at abstract maths and really shit at numbers, forgive me.

I think you missed me saying “compared to a single human life.” Sure, there’s no way literally everyone will get “the best possible life” or something, but a single person has very roughly 5×10^9×1010÷10^2 is 5×10^17 attempts assuming a 100 year life span.

And you only have to get it once, ultimately the probability depends on whatever the criteria here is, which frankly I don’t know, assuming it just means “is a billionaire” that’s around a 2×10^-7 chance each time, assuming 2000 ish billionaires in a 10^10 population.

I tried plugging this into a binomial calculator but it couldn’t process it, but regardless that’s going to be some really good chances.

There are 8 billion peope alive right now, we’ve got 5 billion years until the sun dies. Compared to the length of a single human life, that might as well be an infinite number of tries.

Fellow Aussie, equally confused.

These are actually so much cooler than I was expecting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60201018