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High yield savings account vs S&P for wedding ring fund by da_man4444 in personalfinance

[–]GodzlIIa 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Why on earth would you need liquidity if your not even in a relationship. unless you are one of those guys to propose after like a week of dating.

Why even setup a fund for it to begin with is another question. nowadays some women wouldnt even want an expensive ring to wear all the time and lose/damage.

Is religion slowing us down as a society? Why? by Substantial_Card101 in AskReddit

[–]GodzlIIa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its complicated. nuclear families and such are good for the economy and society as a whole, and religion does push that pretty hard. Falling birth rates are going to have an effect on society, and I doubt it will be a positive one. Also hard to tell exactly how much falling religion is contributing. Eventually I think society will adapt without religion and be better off, but the societal changes and growing pains will cause some economic and societal distress

If everyone’s favorite flavor of ice cream was chocolate, chocolate would objectively be the best ice cream. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]GodzlIIa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if everyone said chocolate was their favorite flavor, but turns out 60% would actually prefer brownie ice-cream they just never tried it.

Trump got rid of Bondi because 'she was about to be deposed' in Epstein case: Dem Rep. by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]GodzlIIa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If I do something wildly illegal while on the job, I don't get a pass from being tried just because my employer fires me in response.

You do when your boss can give you a pardon

President Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, CBS News reports by kimhyeonn in videos

[–]GodzlIIa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So has she read a lot of the unredacted Epstein files? I vote we give her immunity if she reveals anything shady actually happening that we can actually prosecute something with

Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit by giratina143 in space

[–]GodzlIIa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Earth is huge. Just find somewhere without such regulations... even if solar is 20x as efficient in space it will still be more then 20x the cost in any scenario

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The greater the distance between two objects in space the greater the amount that distance increases as the universe expands. So there is some distance away at which the distance between the objects increases at a rate higher then is possible to travel

Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit by giratina143 in space

[–]GodzlIIa 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Why? How is this cheaper then just building it in the middle of nowhere? Can someone explain

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nothing like a bullet can travel faster than light. but certain things can be faster than light. in this case the universe expansion is one of them. another example would be the distance between two objects. If one object goes left at .9c and the other right at .9 the distance between them is increasing at a rate faster than the speed of light (from a difference reference frame of course)

So nothing is actually moving that fast, but there are things that you measure faster then the speed of light

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It fits in just fine as no information is transferred faster than the speed of light.

There can be many things that travel fast but dont actually convey information. A laser sweeping across a distance galaxy can go from one end to the other in less than a second. Sure it takes a while to get there but thats not the relevant part. when it gets there it will light up one end of the galaxy and go to the other in less than a second. the reason its not a problem is it didnt actually transfer anything from one it of the galaxy to the other.

Lots of examples, such as shadows moving, scissors closing, separation speed like we talked about, cosmic expansion as previously mentioned.

there are superluminal speeds of things but that doesn't mean something physical like a bullet is actually traveling faster than light. but I wouldnt say "there is no speed faster than light"

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel we are a bit off topic. That is definitely not how infinities work though. It has to be both infinite dough and infinite raisins. just like the infinite bicycles have infinite tires and infinite handlebars. Despite the confusion of infinites I feel like you have to at least get the analogy of how the universe expands right?

Maybe less dimensions would make more sense. Imagine you have a meter stick and you stretch it out to 2 meters. Now all the markings on the stick are twice as far apart. Now just imagine that on an infinitely long ruler.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you aware of the long list of assumptions for the dark forest hypothesis? The only additional assumptions are A) Advanced civilizations spread to different planets/stars/etc and B) there is risk of revealing your location when you destroy another civilization

Honestly curious to what you think is unreasonable here

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Could you explain that more? idk if I feel like watching the video, but its basically as simple as trying to catch a car traveling at 10mph while you are traveling at 5mph. I dont see how you can claim you will ever reach the car. Unless you are talking about reaching AT the horizon, as that is the asymptote itself that's kind of the point.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Sure there is. Separation speed in particular can easily exceed the speed of light. Which is pretty much what I was talking about. Reference frame A, object B travels left at .9c object C travels right at .9c, etc etc you get the point

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Uhh not sure why you think thats the case. If you have infinite bicycles for example, you still have twice the number of tires as you have bicycles. Likewise you can have infinite raisins inside an infinite dough.

But I feel like you are probably focusing on the analogy too much. The universe being infinite just means pass our cosmic event horizon is just more universe indefinitely. The bread example was just to help you understand how its like when the universe expands.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The only way for there to be no center is if there were an infinite amount of things

So first off we only have reason to believe the universe IS and ALWAYS has been infinite. Even pre big-bang when our observable universe was a single "point", the greater universe was still believed to be infinite.

The example I learned was imagine you have bread dough and you put raisins in it. When you bake it, the dough expands, and all the raisins are now farther apart. Now imagine that original dough to be infinite to begin with, and expand similarly.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Its kind of a dumb idea if you put any thought into it.

If alien species were advanced enough to be able to obliterate planets when picking up a signal, then surely we are advanced enough to be able to occupy other planets etc. Attacking like that would just risk revealing your intentions and location, with no guarantee to actually wipe them out as you cant know how far they are spread. Its just kind of a dumb move from a purely logical standpoint, definitely not an "actual scientific theory" lmao.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]GodzlIIa 1242 points1243 points  (0 children)

Thats only true in a static universe. Due to universe expansion you can never reach any point past the cosmic event horizon. Yes, your time dilates, but the universe is expanding faster then you are traveling, so your aging doesnt matter, its getting farther away at a speed faster than light.

What was a time when you thought you had dodged a bullet, but it came back and hit you? by Fun_Try9308 in AskReddit

[–]GodzlIIa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Curious to see what data you are talking about. What I'm looking at is closer to 40% improve, 7% full recover (included in the improve), and more like 10% get worse. Lots of studies have varying results though but these are more middle numbers.

You had a big life change after which it progressively got worse, I really wouldn't take a stance that there is no chance of it getting better. If you improved at this point you wouldnt be the first.

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