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mcc , 3 months ago to random

So was there a study over the last couple months showing evidence that the strength of dark energy is not consistently isotropic/homogeneous in space and time?

And if this study happened… how reliable/definitive is it?

I saw a popular press article that seemed to be saying this, but it was a popular press article and those mangle physics studies all the time.

mcc OP , 3 months ago

The chaos gremlin part of me is rooting for dark energy to turn out to be inconsistent in strength over space and time because last I looked into that the leading way of modeling that was something called "Quintessence", and I think it would be frickin hilarious to have serious physicists and physics vloggers and so forth having to go to the press and public and say "Quintessence" with a straight face

mcc OP , 3 months ago

NASA Astrophysics division sheepishly having to hand one to Aristotle

futurebird , 3 months ago to random

Interesting. Can anyone test if this is a fluke.

The other day I was complaining about youTube shorts until @mcc reminded me that I could replace

/shorts/

with

/watch?v=

and avoid it on my own videos. Since then I have uploaded videos and only ever looked at or shared the "/watch?v=" links. Now all of a sudden it's not forcing my short videos to be shorts anymore. It's just putting them in the normal list!

Like they noticed the other links were not being used? A glimmer of hope?

mcc , 3 months ago

@futurebird You mean the videos it's recommending to you, or the videos you're uploading? Either way that's really weird!

mcc , 3 months ago

@futurebird Okay, yeah, weird. Just checking, I don't guess the last couple short videos you uploaded just happen to be landscape rather than portrait orientation? I think only portrait videos are eligible for Shorting

vampiress , 3 months ago to random

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mcc , 3 months ago

@vampiress Oh no

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

Prepare to marvel at the pinnacle of human engineering as the Boeing CEO’s Golden Parachute deploys without a hitch

mcc , 3 months ago

@flexghost In other visual metaphor news, check out this glass cliff

futurebird , 3 months ago to random

YouTube "shorts" is terrible in every way. It breaks everything. Videos won't embed on message boards. Systems used for a decade to save video IDs break. And YouTube FORCES any short video to be a short with these less useful, less shareable. URLs.

I'm not excited about using open source video servers. I'm very lazy and do not want to do any new things today. But, this is inspiring me.

mcc , 3 months ago

@futurebird Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know:

You can turn any "short" into a regular video by editing its URL such that

/shorts/

becomes

/watch?v=

But this is annoying and fiddly and it's hard to do on mobile and I keep forgetting the exact sequence of characters, and I wish I could just flip a switch and say "disable shorts 100%, always show me the regular video"! :(

mcc , 3 months ago to random

Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

mcc OP , 3 months ago

Imagine opening up your closet door and there in the back of your closet is your lap dragon, sitting on a rudimentary hoard of six nickels and 17 pennies. "Graaaak!", it says, as it spreads its wings wide (span 2ft 3in). The threat display is made somewhat less terrifying by its head getting caught in the underside of a coat, causing it to flap around briefly

vampiress , 3 months ago to random

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mcc , 3 months ago

@vampiress ooh ooh turn the "squelch" knob and see what happens

lowqualityfacts , 3 months ago to random

Me: The pain is unbearable. I need more morphine.

AI Nurse: Morphine does not exist. There are no medications that start with an M.

Me: That is wrong. Please give me something to help relieve the pain.

AI Nurse: Of course! You are a 185 pound male. An adult, male kangaroo weighs up to 190 pounds. Therefore, I will administer kangaroo medicine.

mcc , 3 months ago

@lowqualityfacts Thinking But how can the user be a kangaroo when Australia isn't real https://www.techspot.com/news/100946-microsoft-bing-search-engine-claims-australia-doesnt-exist.html

vampiress , 3 months ago to random

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mcc , 3 months ago

@vampiress if you encountered a wine named "wine crimes" would you drink it

mcc , 3 months ago to random

Opinion: The automatic line ending translation in git is a very, very, very bad feature that has only ever made the world a worse place

mcc OP , 3 months ago

git is like black mold in the walls of software programming

mcc , 3 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Portrait by Aurahack

mcc OP , 3 months ago

( PS here is the source for the Aurahack image: https://cohost.org/aurahack/post/4359814-sup-hq-on-patreon )

mcc OP , 3 months ago

I am 41 now. What the heck. That is not even a real number.

mcc , 3 months ago to random

I am in a terrible mood and I will tell you why: C++

mcc OP , 3 months ago

[[Clang, lounging on a velvet couch, its top two shirt buttons unbuttoned, smoking a cigar]] "When I see a program counter, I increment it. There's literally never a situation where that would be the wrong thing to do."