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I mean, it is certainly a gross oversimplification, but the principal is actually the same. Pump enough electromagnetic radiation into something, and it’ll warm up. Microwaves, visible light, gamma rays, radio, x-rays, uv, infrared. It’ll all work the same way. Now, shorter wavelengths than visible light will also give you cancer, or radiation poisoning in high enough doses, but microwaves are actually longer wavelengths than visible light. They’re actually less dangerous than a flashlight. There is that whole bit about the actual kitchen devices being powerful enough to cook meat, so I wouldn’t recommend sticking your hand in one or anything, but only because it would be cooked.

There’s also stuff about Faraday cages and standing waves and crap, but that’s not really important to the point I was making. The only thing less dangerous than microwaves are radio waves, and those are just physically too large to fit in a little box in your kitchen. Seriously, you can’t have a wave trapped in a box smaller than the wavelength.

Nah, microwaves are non-ionizing. They basically heat things up by pointing a super powerful flashlight at them. They’re no more sterilizing then anything else that gets your food warm.

A finite number of monkeys would almost certainly just destroy their finite number of typewriters long before they randomly bashed out anything coherent, let alone Shakespeare. Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters don’t have that problem though. As long as it doesnt break the laws of physics it would eventually happen, no matter how unlikely it is. That’s the whole point.

Well it’s a good thing no one is doing that then, isn’t it? Why does everyone feel the need to make up problems to whine about?

For crying out loud I live in a small town and need a car. Do you think I don’t deserve access to decent public transportation?

Honestly, I’m part of that 15%, and I feel more excluded by people pretending we can’t have mass transit just because my neighbors like big trucks than I am by people in cities not bringing me and my concerns up every time cars are mention.

Rural communities got along just fine before the invention of the automobile. In fact, most of the people who have ever lived have been rural people without cars. The idea that we can’t have small walkable towns connected to decent mass transit is just incredibly stupid, and it pisses me off when everybody just assumes it’s unsolvable, moreso when it’s people who actually live here and should know better.

So no one should ever be able to have a conversation without patting you on the head for being a special boy at the end of every sentence?

Imagine how much cheaper cities could be if 2/3rds of the real estate wasn’t parking? Also, moving doesn’t necessarily mean going to New York. It can also just mean moving closer to your job in a small town. Which would also be easier if you could turn all the parking lots into homes.

Short term EVs aren’t making a lot of difference due to the higher energy costs of manufacturing them. Long term cars are just a terrible transportation method, especially within cities, and we really need alternatives so that we can get rid of most of them.

On the other hand as renewable energy sources take over the grid the energy costs of manufacturing EVs will be less relevant to climate change, and it’s just going to be faster to switch power plants and new car manufacturing over than it will be to rebuild the entire transportation infrastructure on all of Earth, especially North America. That time difference will have a large effect on how bad things will get by the end of this century. EVs are dumb, but also a necessary stopgap.

A shockwave can travel along the solid structure itself as the medium. Any ship that is actually directly hit would be vaporized. It’s just the whole point of nuke is not needing a direct hit. I doubt any realistic space vessel with anything even remotely similar to plausible near future technology could survive a direct hit from even a moderately sized conventional explosive.

Was that what it was supposed to be? Don’t quit your day job.

Nah, that was all you. Nobody said smoking was a good idea. Just that it’s stupid to create a fire hazard to make a car 0.0001% more profitable. You barged in with a weird non sequitur. I was just pointing it out.

Driving off a cliff is even dumber still. Its not a dumbest thing contest though

If Trump won, it would mean Joe Biden could declare himself president for life, since his presidential immunity would protect him from any consequences of ignoring elections.

Every country can have some years that are better than others. That’s just the nature of reality. Socialist countries don’t generally have recessions the same way capitalist ones do because capitalists can exploit them to increase their wealth at the expense of everyone else, so they’ve stopped being a bug and become a feature.

I don’t think either side will be able to decisively beat the other, but that’s not how these things usually end anyway.

Actually, I think it’s pretty funny in a sad sort of way that Americans don’t get how this is going to go. It’s really obvious that Ukraine doesn’t need to win, they just need to keep fighting until Russia goes home. Western aid isn’t even really making much of a difference in the eventual outcome of the war, it’s just reducing the damage that Russia is doing to Ukraine and bring that inevitable end closer faster. We’ve seen over, and over, and over again that once a group of people actually make up their minds to resist, there is nothing that can stop them. Even if the aggressor can bring overwhelming military superiority they will eventually give up and go home, and Russia can’t even do that.

The question isn’t who will win. The question is how many war crimes will Putin commit before admitting he lost this war in the second week.

Cool, keep taking your horse dewormer. I’ll be over here not installing rootkits made by companies with terrible security practices.

Nobody is making new COVID versions to get around the vaccine. COVID vaccines don’t create a backdoor into your immune system that make you weaker against other viruses. The COVID vaccine actually works. That is a stupid analogy.

More invasive anti-cheats cause a brief dip in cheating, and then cheaters spread around a way to get around the new anti-cheat and everything immediately goes back to how it was. As long as the anti-cheat is being run on the cheater’s computer, it will be bypassed and made irrelevant. People’s desire to see something, anything done about a problem no matter how terrible the solution sometimes just makes things worse without even helping the problem, and I’m not okay with that.

You can’t reliably check the source client side either, because the client side self-reports, and is where the cheat runs.

Of course, which is why all cheating has been eradicated forever. Certainly no game with a rootkit anti-cheat has ever had a problem with cheating.

Sure, but client side is also owned and run by the cheater. Do you really trust them to always run the anti-cheat honestly?