I guess a part is that science seems to meticulously avoid the question “why do we live”, in a non-technical way, in a way that actually gives people a sense of meaning.

That and mental inertia, i.e. some things change very slowly.

Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

It’s the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very “sexy” and as long as you don’t push it, that’s not a problem.

I didn’t read the article.

From a technical viewpoint, all types of plastics can be recycled; it just costs a lot of energy. So instead of supplying this energy through fossil fuels to re-cycle old plastics, they just used the fossil fuels directly to make new plastics.

In the future however, when there’s abundant amounts of cheap solar energy, it will make sense to re-cycle plastics.

The animal and human dichotomy seems mostly religious in nature.

Agreed, and interestingly, it can be interpreted in one of two ways:

• Religion says that animals and humans are different.
• Religion is the difference between humans and other animals, i.e. other animals don’t have religion.

I guess both are true.

Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet or netcat to send messages to other people?

And Windows 13 will be a single stick.

I swear, it’s no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.

It would technically work, yes.

But also, you’re wasting a lot of storage space that way, especially if you do it often. You really only should backup your home directory, it contains all your data. You can simply re-install the rest from the internet.

Well, it lays on tables a lot, with the backside facing up.

The same could be asked with smartphones.

Why don’t smartphones include solar panels on the back side of the phone?

TIL there is a standard editor

Same with people who say solar panels can’t ever work. They haven’t tried them in the last few years.

I would laugh if it wasn’t so painfully true.

I disagree.

this is about having a robust supply chain which is important for everyone

It is not. If we buy solar panels today, and the supply chain crashes tomorrow, that won’t bother us at all. Solar panels are a very durable product, and once bought, can last at least 20 years. So we would have more than enough time to find a proper replacement. So, having unreliable supply chains is not a problem with solar panels.

Yeah i mean, now you know what to search for on the internet.

u stands for velocity.

I would not consider integration to be basic maths, honestly. Basic maths is addition and multiplication, and maybe vector geometry.

wearing makeup or earrings

turns out i just don’t like that

Wait isn’t this just some fluid physics equation?

Like, incompressible fluid flow, iirc.

No map in the entire article? Or did I miss it?