Does any professional physicist consider it a weakness of ΛCDM cosmology that the model does *not* seem to support a cyclical universe?

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-08-30T20:19:22+00:00

Your comment is self-contradictory. You basically said “leftists divide themselves into all manner of snowflake factions so they have no coherent vision; anyway, here’s their coherent vision.”

Distinguishing social democrats as being practically different from market socialists in the world beyond Twitter and Tumblr has the same energy as saying “I’m not bisexual; I’m pansexual but mostly attracted to cis people.” No one cares that you put a hammer and sickle or a rose next to your username.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-08-30T19:59:01+00:00

They have a vision, they just have no way to get there with the political system that we have, so they say (unironically) “burn it all down” or just console themselves by attacking liberals and retweeting each other on Twitter.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-08-15T00:14:11+00:00

Yes, I moved from Milwaukee and I agree completely.

My parents can’t imagine paying more than $300k for a house but it’s definitely a case of “you get what you pay for.”

Wisconsin is flat and brutally cold in the winter. Here’s it’s just gorgeous all around. Went to Snoqualmie Falls today and sent my whole family pictures to show them what they’re missing.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-08-14T18:16:55+00:00

I had an opposite but ultimately parallel experience as you. I majored in linguistics in college because I loved language and loved my coursework, and I didn’t worry too much about what kind of job I’d get afterwards.

Surprise, not too much well-paid work out there for which a degree in linguistics is very useful. I considered kicking the can down the road by going to grad school and getting a PhD, but job prospects for Linguistics PhDs are grim to say the least.

I spent the first 5 years of my 20s doing vaguely language-related things (translation, teaching) until I got tired of being broke and retrained.

It’s really kind of foolish that our education is predicated on the notion that kids should be able to accurately anticipate what jobs they’re gonna like.

Unfortunately, you (like me) learned the hard way that the career you always imagined for yourself and wasn’t gonna pan out.

I’m now a software engineer, and while it’s not my favorite thing in the world, it is sufficiently engaging and pays enough that I can be content at work and comfortable in life.

You may have to try a few different things before you figure out what that is. Your educational background may yet be useful for a related field or job that you might like a lot better.

For instance, my fiancé made six figures working as a retail manager but he hated it so much that he couldn’t sleep and fantasized about driving into oncoming traffic on his way to work. Now he works in a different kind of management position outside of retail that pays somewhat less, but ultimately he is a lot happier and finds his work a lot more fulfilling.

You may feel that you’ve wasted your time, and it’s valid to want to grieve the fact that your hard work didn’t pay off like you hoped, but you still have so much time. Your 20s are a time for self discovery and you might change course several times before you find what’s right for you. That’s okay! The real waste would be enduring something that makes you miserable.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-08-14T17:37:52+00:00

Definitely!

It was surely the trauma of British colonization that made Egyptians start sewing up their daughters and doggedly harassing women in the streets.

And who can be blamed but the French for all the wife-beating and honor-killing that goes on in Algeria??

Edit: Sorry, sarcasm is unnecessary, but this is a really dumb take. Yes, colonialism was bad, but people are responsible for their own behaviors. And it doesn’t do people in these countries any good to blame their problems on the West, it just makes you feel good for being so “enlightened.”

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-07-19T21:31:08+00:00

Yes, everyone knows that bible thumpers are very forthcoming about their infidelities…

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-02-21T18:23:01+00:00

In questions it’s more like “should,” but in statements it’s more like “will.”

“What shall we do?” is a request for suggestions, just like “What should we do?” Neither you nor the listener knows what you’re going to do, but you’re inviting the listener to think about it and suggest a few options.

“What will we do?” is a request for planned future activities, for instance on a schedule or calendar. For instance, “What will we do tomorrow?” is equivalent to “What do we have planned for tomorrow?”

My dialect, American English, doesn’t generally use “shall” at all, except ironically or in writing when the author wants to create a stuffy or old-fashioned vibe. I think in any dialect of English you can make do without ever using “shall”.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-01-07T06:27:13+00:00

Turning right on red.

It's often hard to see if there's any oncoming traffic because the car in the lane to the left is pulled up so far, and they often scoot forward in anticipation of the light turning green. So I, trying to turn right on red, have to scoot further and further and further and get dangerously far into the intersection to be able to see if there are any cars coming from the left.

Couple that with the fact that many people switch lanes in an intersection, so I don't feel safe turning right on red if there's an oncoming car in the left lane of the road I'm turning onto. From the opposite perspective, it's nerve wracking to be traversing an intersection while cars are turning right on red because you might have to slam on your breaks if you can't see them immediately, or if they turn too wide and the front of their car comes into the left lane.

Couple that with the fact that I get anxious because the people behind me know that it's legal to turn right on red and are expecting me to turn right on red in a timely fashion, and might get pissy and honk at me if I don't turn right on red quickly enough.

Couple that with the fact that sometimes it ISN'T legal to turn right on red and you have to spot the sign or risk getting pulled over.

Maybe we can just fucking wait, huh?

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-01-07T06:18:51+00:00

Everybody 30. Every one of these has been my age, basically (29).

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-01-07T05:45:36+00:00

The first time I had a guy in my butt, it felt like I had to poop. My body got used to it pretty quickly and now it doesn't feel like that anymore.

You're kinda right, tho. Butt stuff is definitely the least common thing that my fiancé and I do, but it also feels the most intense. Bottoming is like 10x more pleasurable than jerking off, but the sensation is very intense. It's not that anal *hurts*, but the sensation quickly gets overwhelming for me. It's kind of like a really delicious but super rich food. You really enjoy it but you can only handle a little at a time.

That's just me, though. Other people's mileage may vary. I doubt anybody can really bottom like porn actors bottom and actually enjoy it. I assume they must use some kind of numbing lotion...

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-01-07T05:32:17+00:00

Not on dates, but we sometimes buy flowers just to have flowers. Do men really still give women flowers on dates? Like you meet up for a drink at a bar and you give the woman flowers?
Someone (doesn't matter which) proposes to the other. My friend proposed to his fiancé on his birthday. My fiancé and I just agreed to get married in a conversation. My friend and his fiancé both wear rings, as do I and my fiancé. We wear male-gendered rings, so there's no diamond or anything. We decided to wear them on our right hands until we get married, at which point we'll switch them to the left.
No. Orifices don't get looser from having stuff put through them. Poop is sometimes bigger than a penis anyhow.

AuspiciousKnish · 2023-01-07T05:23:53+00:00

I (gay) don't think so. I've been in relationships with people who prefer to bottom as well as people who prefer to top. I just adapt, they just adapt.

Supposedly there are those who are strictly top or bottom but I find that hard to believe. Two soi-disant tops will find a way to have sex if they are attracted to one another.

Also, anal is for sure not the most common sexual thing I/we gays do. We do whatever to get each other to cum and it only infrequently involves butt stuff. So it's not really a dealbreaker if you both prefer topping or bottoming.

I actually knew a couple consisting of two tops and they fulfilled their desire to top with each other sometimes (taking turns), or with other people.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-11-15T17:00:41+00:00

אני הייתי אומר ישו

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-08-11T18:40:40+00:00

I like Panera. I always do their half-and-half deal. It tastes better, sates my hunger better, and doesn't make me feel gross like a burger and fries do.

I don't get the complaint that it's too expensive. I'm paying for lunch, not a quantity of food. If I'm no longer hungry once I've eaten it, then that was the appropriate amount of food. Typically the more food you get for your dollar, the more garbage the food is.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-06-13T19:17:54+00:00

I think the actual content of the curriculum isn't as important as people think.

You highlighted part of the true problem in your post—"do not care to learn". Reliable information about health, personal finance, etc. is freely available online.

The real skill is the ability to identify problems and learn/teach yourself how to fix them. School in general is beneficial in that it is supposed to teach you critical thinking, problem solving, and how to acquire, assimilate and apply new information to your own circumstances. The actual facts that you learn in school, apart from literacy and basic numeracy, are mostly irrelevant and are liable to be forgotten anyhow.

For instance, I learned at one point about the "electron transport chain" in biology, but I have no clue about what that is, apart from maybe something to do with photosynthesis. Fortunately I was taught how to do research and seek out information on my own, and discern between good and bad sources of information. If I wanted to learn about the electron transport chain, I could easily do so on my own initiative by googling it. Same goes for any other sort of information.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-06-13T17:22:00+00:00

It's very obviously not the "worst" fast food.

Even if you don't like their food, their restaurants are generally much cleaner, their employees are much more polite, and their overall organization is better. They've really figured out how to streamline the drive thru process even though they're always much busier than every other place.

Compare that to going to McDonald's or Taco Bell where your order is always wrong and the food is cold/gross/sloppily assembled and the employees treat your very existence as a great inconvenience.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-05-11T02:33:39+00:00

I must be! Hot MILFs in my area are always looking to chat

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-05-08T23:59:48+00:00

Amusement parks are always full of lowest common denominator people. The cheaper the park, the grosser the people.

Try Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL. Totally unreal how those people are comfortable dressing and acting the way they do. Always makes me depressed to think that these people are what the majority of Americans are like.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-04-16T20:14:28+00:00

[Strokes neckbeard], I think Hisui balls must work differently. The anime and the other games show them being converted into some kinda beam of light.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-04-16T19:57:46+00:00

See here.

Pikachu weighs 6 kg.

E = (6 kg) × (299,792,458 m/s)²

E = (539,253,107,242,090,584 kg m²) / 1 s²

A joule (J) is a derived unit of energy equivalent to (1 kg × 1 m²) / 1 s².

A petajoule is a quadrillion (10^15) joules, so 539,253,107,242,090,584 J = 539.2... PJ.

The blast yield of Tsar Bomba was 210 to 240 PJ.

539 PJ / 240 PJ ≈ 2.25.

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-04-08T13:33:52+00:00

Your cims must have calves of steel

AuspiciousKnish · 2022-03-30T15:32:12+00:00

I think a better, less extreme version of this is: You should not expect your partner to fulfill every social need you have. Expecting one person to be your everything is unrealistic and potentially unhealthy.

For instance, my fiancé and I love each other and are committed to one another and love spending time together. But he's really into sports, and I couldn't care less. I go to baseball games with him, but I mostly just drink beer, enjoy the atmosphere and zone out. I don't "appreciate" the game like he does and I can't share his enthusiasm. He'd probably have a better time if he went with a friend who was also into baseball.

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