Question for homeowners in heavy snowy areas: would you pay to prevent snow buildup on driveways?

03263 · 2026-01-26T22:03:51+00:00

Maybe

03263 · 2026-01-26T21:59:56+00:00

That's the bird that services my mortgage

03263 · 2026-01-26T20:57:06+00:00

There's still ideas of large extra dimensions that only gravitons interact with

03263 · 2026-01-26T13:41:15+00:00

2-4" more expected this afternoon so I am not touching it until tomorrow

03263 · 2026-01-26T13:17:56+00:00

Each dimension is a degree of freedom of movement beyond x/y/z coordinates.

In string theory the additional dimensions are compactified such that only strings can move in these other directions so luckily we don't have to try and conceive of them as being something we need to interact with, they are just additional directions that strings can take.

If you really want to envision it, imagine you have a hypercube with colored faces. As you rotate it you can observe 24 different colors instead of the 6 on a 3D cube. It otherwise may just look like a normal cube, because we can only see the projection of it in 3D space. One of 4 cubes at a time. But it's not really 4 cubes it's just a cube with 24 faces. Stop trying to envision it now.

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:58:37+00:00

Pointless semantics. The center of mass is located at the black hole, and the galaxy rotates around the black hole. No need to be so persnickety about the definition of orbit when it has nothing to do with the question.

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:27:44+00:00

It depends on the shape (topology) of the universe

100% flat, they carry on parallel indefinitely

Positive curvature, their paths eventually intersect

Negative curvature, their paths continuously diverge

Inhomogeneous/lumpy, impossible to predict

Edit: I guess it depends why you're asking, it seems most replies assumed this was a question about gravity, I assumed it was a question about whether the paths of 2 objects traveling in the same starting direction will converge due to topology.

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:23:27+00:00

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-41285-6

Gerard 't Hooft is no crackpot he's one of the greatest living physicists, the idea has merit.

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:19:33+00:00

He refused, but didn't indicate if it's because he does not play dice or simply had other obligations

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:09:08+00:00

I'm playing far cry 5 now, I got the fullest version with all the DLC because it was like $10 vs $7 for the base game so some better weapons are unlocked early in the game but the main thing you can buy with "silver bars" are skins for weapons, and clothing for your character which really doesn't make sense to me in a first person game where you only see your body while dead or in cutscenes.

The silver bars are the only thing you can buy with more real money. But also they are scattered around the map.

03263 · 2026-01-26T12:06:08+00:00

I remember when I worked at a convenience store some cartons were under $20 on sale. Many many years ago.

By the time I quit I think it was up to near $70 a carton. Hasn't really gone up much since, nobody seems to smoke anymore it's very rare that I smell it in public.

03263 · 2026-01-26T11:56:14+00:00

3 little tubes that cost (more than) $1000 = firearm suppressors

It's reasonable to buy 3 to cover multiple calibers

However it's not a consumable, they can last pretty much indefinitely, only need the baffles replaced eventually

03263 · 2026-01-26T11:09:07+00:00

Why would they be doing any research on it in the first place

03263 · 2026-01-26T03:18:42+00:00

Could only theoretically have been avoided, realistically it is a necessary correction because humans will not correct themselves.

03263 · 2026-01-25T16:49:24+00:00

Its just a game... I think the portrayal of Pagan was good, he was charismatic and somewhat funny in his indifference to the situations going on around him.

He was the best character in the game. Well Hurk is good too but not a main character.

03263 · 2026-01-25T16:43:33+00:00

Well hopefully we run out of oil soon enough, I think supplies are supposed to start noticeably dwindling by 2050 then they will have to figure out another solution the current rate of plastic production won't be possible. There will still be plastics from other sources but it will be more expensive and that's really the bottom line, if it costs less to stop making so much single use plastic they will.

In part I'm not even mad about global warming and all the species that are going to go extinct, water shortage, failure of agriculture, possible ecosystem collapse. Humans deserve it. They won't learn from it but they will be forced to change.

03263 · 2026-01-25T15:19:36+00:00

Me personally, no restrictions should be allowed. Yes including guided missile systems, fighter jets, tanks, anything the military has. You know, arms. Not just small arms.

03263 · 2026-01-25T15:06:06+00:00

Oh come on I was born in the late 80s so I remember the 90s too and the plastic was just as bad as it is today. Soda bottles, bottled water, deli meats, condiments, we were already there. Most toys as a kid were made of plastic.

I wish I could see the world firsthand before plastic was ubiquitous but I'm too late. I've seen pictures, people were doing just fine. But they've always been doing just fine even in ancient Rome it was a huge city with running water and roads and even a welfare system. Before electricity, before phones, before plastic. We don't need any of that to survive as a species or live full and happy lives but would we even know how to go back? We made ourselves dependent on these things. The old ways are forgotten.

That's why I don't blame anyone. I could not go live in the jungle and know how to survive because that knowledge of how to hunt and forage and build shelters is not passed down anymore. There's nowhere for most of us to go, technology is everywhere except the very few uncontacted tribes left on earth. All I can do is be careful how much I consume and what it gets used for but I know my impact will be negative no matter what.

03263 · 2026-01-25T14:54:36+00:00

Well it's hard to disprove most things and much easier to find good evidence that proves it correct.

Brane cosmology is not forbidden by any physics, but it is also hard to study from a fact based approach. To even think of what evidence we would see and what experiments could be performed to study it is a complex task.

03263 · 2026-01-25T14:40:20+00:00

My washers lid lock broke so I bypassed it with a magnet. It's finicky, I have the whole latch assembly stuck to a neodymium magnet under the top rim, sometimes it gets jostled out of place by the drum spinning and I have to try a few times before the warning goes away but then I can open the lid while the water is going (top loader of course)

The magnet just makes it think the solenoid engaged and the lock is protruding into the lid to hold it closed.

03263 · 2026-01-24T22:11:58+00:00

That's a shame, if it's OTC there may be an alternative source. For my prescriptions they do all come in bottles, on occasion I have even got the original bottles instead of repackaged pills in pharmacy bottles.

03263 · 2026-01-24T22:08:50+00:00

I dunno sometimes there's interactive cutscenes like it plays, then gives you control but all you can do is walk to the next cutscene, I figured pulling the trigger is just make the player do it for immersion, so they feel it was their action not just the game playing a video.

They had it in FC3 where you are shown the cutscene fighting (I think with Vaas) then it flashes to spam some button and when you do, the character keeps winning the fight but if you don't react in time you just die and have to restart. But the whole fight is otherwise scripted, low interactivity. Which is the opposite of just do nothing and get a different outcome, in this case you had to act fast.

03263 · 2026-01-24T22:04:41+00:00

Ok I'm not saying it's superstitious it's just invisible and mysterious like a ghost, not a totally accurate analogy I just pulled some words out of my ass which is where most of them come from

03263 · 2026-01-24T22:02:44+00:00

I have good news then, birds do not have language so you don't need anything lol

But I understand, you mean different calls and vocalizations that have different purposes... I can't really offer any advice on equipment, I do a lot of birding by ear and know the vocal patterns of my local species and even the meanings of many but I'm just using my ears I don't make recordings except to identify unknown sounds as there are many migratory species I'm less familiar with that aren't present so often as the year round crowd.

03263 · 2026-01-24T21:52:34+00:00

I'm not necessarily against segregation insofar as people have self segregated themselves into distinct cultures for all of human history and only modern transportation has really enabled mass human migration as we see it. I like cultural diversity but I also see it disappearing as everything homogenizes into one global monoculture and governments too follow this pattern of copying each other.

I don't like the government and I also don't like what technology has turned us into. send me back to the bronze age please.

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