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  Important physics fun fact (inspired by some art I just saw). A black hole's radius is proportional to its mass. The visible black shadow of a black hole is about 2.5x its radius. A rule of thumb works out nicely to: One inch of visual radius ≈ one Earth mass. Most black holes you could hold in your hand (however briefly, while you still have a hand... and a body... and a planet) have surface acceleration in the tens to hundreds of *quadrillions* of g's.

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  #FFXIV 8.0: In Case of Emergency Break Glass (complimentary)

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  I find the film The Odyssey extremely relatable because I too would fight my way across the known world, experiencing trials and horrors over the course of many years, for the opportunity to reunite with Anne Hathaway.

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  Thing I learned from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQW4W1_SJmc Poverty is correlated with homelessness - *negatively* The poorer an area is, the lower its homelessness rate; the wealthier an area is, the higher the homelessness rate. I think we need to internalize that fact - rising median wages without commensurate increase in housing stock causes homelessness. So if you're relatively wealthy and you're against new housing, you - specifically - are the problem.

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  Man you can't read reddit on a phone anymore without the app what is this world coming to

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  Every time I see those posts by European soccer fans gushing about Waffle House I'm like, "bitch you don't have to LIVE here". But then I think, maybe this isn't so much the unwashed Old World masses fawning over superior US wealth and culture, but Marco Polo writing of the wonders of the Great Khan in Xanadu; a kind of occidentalist exoticism.

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  Broke: "real names" policy on social media. Woke: True Names policy on social media.

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  Controversial opinion: The point at which a video game should be remade/remastered is when the original user experience finally makes the game inaccessible to modern players. Every 3D Zelda game before BotW has terrible UX and it's fine to redo them with modern controls and inventory management. Also: we don't need a Skyrim remaster, but man I can't wait for one of the fifteen Morrowind remake projects to finish because it was one of my favorite games and it's completely unpla...

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  Hot take: every standalone PC and console controller should be sold in a 3/4 scale version as well.

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  In retrospect, the paperclip maximization thought experiment was adding in an unnecessary step (the paperclips).

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  I don't mind watching an occasional commercial on Twitch. I definitely mind five solid minutes of unskippable commercials right int he middle of an intense part of a stream. Are YouTube live streams this bad if you don't have Premium?

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  Understanding the weather in Canada is easy, because every season is exactly two months long: Two months of spring, two months of summer, two months of fall, two months of winter, two months of winter II, and two months of winter III. (Winter III isn't so bad, honestly)

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  Performing my first major revision of my current work-in-progress game based on playtest feedback and I get to throw out an awkward system and lean into the game's most unique mechanic so I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

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  I lifted for the first time in a while today; felt good. I need to keep reminding myself that nothing picks me up quite like picking up heavy things (and putting them down again).

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  YouTube just showed me this, and, it's amazing what hasn't changed in makeup technique in 40 years and what has. (Products have changed a lot, of course.) It's like 80% the same but there's zero contouring. Drag culture wouldn't penetrate the mainstream for years still. https://youtu.be/6rM-fsRiUrg?si=KFufTgp2yLiI95TO

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  Gluten-free kneidlach, made from homemade matzos. They taste pretty good!

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  So you're saying that despite the draconian restrictions placed on recipients, this program still succeeded in getting 60% of people off the streets? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/los-angeles-inside-safe-program-b2952227.html

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  bluesky sick today huh

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  Analytic Geometry: When you took the class, and you had an exam, did you (a) memorize all of the formulas ahead of time, or (b) derive everything on a sheet of paper for the first ten minutes and then answer all the questions after?

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  TDOV reminder: Trans men and nonbinary people exist.

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  Used to be, you'd have to pay extra to see lesbians fuckin'. Now people're complaining 'cause the show they like's givin' it to 'em for free. Truly, mad times we're livin' in.

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  With the new expansion coming and an alleged re-work of existing jobs on the horizon (after the extremely successful start to the rework of combat encounters in Dawntrail that produced some of the best fights in the history of the game) I'm expecting big changes in 8.0, in addition to 1-2 completely new jobs. But what will those changes be? No idea. What do I *want*? Well, that's a thread.

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  The girlies are fighting

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  Have reached the point where Google has no idea what language I want content in. It offers me English articles under a French heading, French YouTube videos, and the other day it showed me an article about changes to Canadian immigration policy... in Jamaican Creole.

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  RE: https://bloor.tw/@bloor/116256896607396957 it's always dennis

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  It's so fucking satisfying when a coworker builds something incredibly cool on top of systems you designed.

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  If the US wants to unfuck air travel, they could always move TSA out of DHS and back under the FAA where it belongs.

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  Fun fact: You don't need to date a boy to have a "boyfriend shirt" or a "boyfriend sweater". You can date a girl who is bigger than you and borrow their clothes instead.

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  One of the things I absolutely adore about #FFXIV is that you'll go to a seasonal event and random NPCs from side content are just... hanging out. Sometimes you can chat with them; sometimes they're just having their own little conversation. But the dev team have never discarded a character.

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  My wife is watching Scrubs for the first time with me; it was an incredibly formative piece of media for me at the time and honestly still holds up today. It was very much ahead of its time.