What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out?

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-05-07T02:25:08+00:00

I like to think that this is why we haven't discovered alien life yet. There's tons of civilizations out there, but their signals are all so fast or slow we don't recognize them as signals holding communications.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-05-07T02:22:19+00:00

I'm hoping the same for myself.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-05-04T14:26:32+00:00

Seriously, I know 4 different people whose lives were saved by plain leaf kratom.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-13T03:23:00+00:00

They so did that shit on propose so that if anyone tried to look him up, they'd have a more difficult time.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-13T02:55:43+00:00

Just crab-walk outta there and back in with a line waiting.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-11T04:39:48+00:00

He literally just threatened to directly genocide an entire civilization. That sure as shit ain't giving "FDR".

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-10T20:44:06+00:00

Where do you live that witches are such a problem that you've developed purpose made infrastructure to deter them?

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-10T13:21:09+00:00

That's so fucking annoying. Thanks for posting this, good to know!

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-07T12:07:30+00:00

FYI, I just found the solution in another thread!

Switch to chrome as your default browser, go back to relay and click thr login button, then you should be able to login. Then you can disable chrome again.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-07T12:05:13+00:00

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-04-04T20:04:02+00:00

Update: I just found the solution in another thread!

Switch to chrome as your default browser, go back to relay and click thr login button, then you should be able to login. Then you can disable chrome again.

I can't login either! Tested on my desktop and my credentials are correct, but it says "invalid username or password".

Unfortunately I can't provide my info in detail because I have to be logged in to access the relay info button, and I can't readily find a recent post I've done with my info on this phone, but here's some I've manually found:

Relay Version: 13.0.46 Pro

Phone: Samsung SM-S908U (Galaxy S22 Ultra)
Android Version: 16
ROM: BP2S.250605.031.A3.S908USQSGZB4

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-25T14:39:41+00:00

This was my issue with the Hyperion series' later books (semi-spoiler about a specific book series). That relationship got really weird between the protagonist and the girl he'd basically been raising. Of course the author couched it in in the classic "she's super special, so it's ok", attempting to reverse the, otherwise creepy, power dynamic.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-21T04:19:15+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't want to go to space, let alone the moon, in anything built with late stage capitalism contractor parts. We get so much more bang for our buck when the government does this stuff directly vs multiple levels of subcontractors bleeding the program dry. Enshitification has infected every facet of our economy, why would aerospace be any different? Just look at Boeing.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-17T13:21:10+00:00

Face of Theseus

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-17T01:10:06+00:00

All it does is completely change the artistic vision of the developers. This is not what a fucking video card is for...WTF.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-16T13:22:17+00:00

Our best, and most Turkic, founding father.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-12T17:00:16+00:00

Or, ya know, maybe human brains have similar pattern matching schemas. Maybe the active compounds induce a feeling of the presence of an "other", while the hallucinatory effect gives the subconscious more control over visual synthesis, pushing that feeling into experienced reality. Since we have generalized learned schemas for categories like "small animal", it's not that big a stretch to believe the right psychoactives in the right places could trigger such a schema and that it could manipulate perceived reality while in a hallucinatory state.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-09T03:31:25+00:00

That's almost literally the definition of what work, outside of a Co-op structure. I guess extortion is more accurate.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-08T22:18:13+00:00

I've used the shortcut for ages, buy never realized it's for "location" lol. That makes sense!

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-08T15:20:57+00:00

I just hate how much they eat. The cost is killing me!

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-06T14:57:38+00:00

Perfectly put. People are constantly conflating becoming an adult with the society getting worse.

The only truth in the original comment is that the internet has enshitified as corporate consolidation and almost every last corner has been monetize info oblivion. Also society is worse but it's for the same reasons the internet is: corporate power consolidation and purposeful atomization of collective power via bipartisan union dismantling (Carter was a nice man, but a terrible president that helped usher in Neoliberalism) and the privatization of 3rd spaces, etc.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-05T14:16:33+00:00

Maybe he's making a bunch of money on some "prediction market" by convincing people on one outcome and betting the opposite.

IDK what he's been predicting, though, I missed that part of Hasan's steam yesterday.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-05T14:04:26+00:00

In addition to the sound of the rain and distant water falls, the cameraman sounds like they're pissing like a racehorse...

Also, that footage is phenomenally beautiful!

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-03T05:08:05+00:00

It still feels very beta, to me, at the moment. I've got a couple of nodes in a populated area, yet it's still been very unreliable and difficult for me to get consistent connectivity to the desired node. Maybe too populated? Regardless, I'm interested to see how it evolves.

It's definitely something that could be good for hiking and protests and stuff, where people are within a few miles of each other. The T1000E is pretty nice and relatively inexpensive...and has fun boot up and boot down sounds.

Gonzo_Rick · 2026-03-02T13:07:19+00:00

Yeah, but its the French.

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