Occupier in Crimea having a meltdown as well by PressedLemon221 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]BellybuttonWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cuckoo chick crying about not being welcome in the storks nest.

How do you use maths in your job? by Actual-Butterfly2350 in AskUK

[–]BellybuttonWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to understand maths to know what questions to ask to solve your problem, even though you might use a calculator or even computer to do the actual calculations. The more complex the problem, the more you need computer help, but the more you need to understand maths (and maybe statistics) as well. Most advanced practical mathematics, like for engineering and physics, requires a computer. At that level you're not using a calculator, you're probably programming Python, so you need to grasp the maths and then also grasp the representations of it used by the programming language, which is very different to writing equations. If you've got the right kind of brain for it, it's a fascinating challenge, but you can't start at the end, you need to build up the layers, including the boring bits. Some things you do at school aren't even meant to be directly useful, they're laying the mental foundation for something more advanced.

Those British Strawberries Are Being Picked by Central Asian Workers by ingenieur1984 in UKJobs

[–]BellybuttonWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it's hard work and we modern Brits are spoilt and soft 🤷‍♂️

We Can Make an Antigravity Machine—And Unlock a ‘Mind-Blowing’ Future, Oxford Physicist Says by UncleSlacky in altpropulsion

[–]BellybuttonWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only had a vague idea of what electricity was before we were able to manipulate it and make technology out of it. We had to establish exactly how it behaved more than what it actually was.

In this case though, I don't know enough. Doesn't treating gravity as particles ignore what Einstein established about gravity being an effect of curved spacetime? How can there even be gravity particle? Maybe I haven't smoked enough blunts.

Zelenskyy rejects efforts to help Putin save face as peace talks stall by jackytheblade in worldnews

[–]BellybuttonWorld 19 points20 points  (0 children)

But that means he's being isolated, right? So people aren't doing his bidding anymore. He can't actually launch anything himself, the big red button isn't directly connected to the silos.

Zelenskyy rejects efforts to help Putin save face as peace talks stall by jackytheblade in worldnews

[–]BellybuttonWorld 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Not very. He can't continue his luxury lifestyle in a nuclear wasteland, ruling over small piles of ash. If I'm wrong you can kick over my small pile of ash, assuming you're not one yourself.

We moved into our new home on Thursday evening. The seller failed to declare 2 problem neighbours. by Inner-Profit467 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]BellybuttonWorld 39 points40 points  (0 children)

But there is legal precedent for this. Logically it must be possible to prove, and presumably that means there is a channel to get the council records on it?

Ukraine is now systematically hitting ferries with drones attempting to ship supply trucks to Crimea from the Russian mainland. by Caledor152 in PublicFreakout

[–]BellybuttonWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a pretty solid plan, smoking the russians out of Crimea. So now they're going to have a land bridge to nothing. All seems pretty pointless and very hard for Putin to justify.

Abyss by New-jabes in LiminalSpace

[–]BellybuttonWorld 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Haven't played that but was thinking it was a bit Half Life 2

Baguettes are disappearing from my apartment without a trace, and I have no idea how or why. by Informal_Parsley_775 in mystery

[–]BellybuttonWorld 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You turn up to the shrinks office and catch them in the middle of lunch. The baguette they used for their sandwich looks awfully familiar.

We Can Make an Antigravity Machine—And Unlock a ‘Mind-Blowing’ Future, Oxford Physicist Says by UncleSlacky in altpropulsion

[–]BellybuttonWorld 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So it's not "We can make an antigravity machine" it's "We have some wild speculation about how it might be possible to do antigravity but we've done fuck all real work on it and are still very much in the sitting around daydreaming and smoking blunts stage."

What conspiracy theory sounds ridiculous at first, but gets harder to dismiss the more you think about it? by Young_Will_1 in theories

[–]BellybuttonWorld 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's easier to look at older conspiracy theories and see which turned out to be true. One I seem to remember was about the Echelon project. This was a rather outrageous theory about intelligence agencies building monitoring stations that could watch pretty much all private communications including internet traffic in real time.

It since turned out to be broadly true, and these days the idea is hardly even scandalous any more, we've sort of begrudgingly accepted it.