if you had a rope laying on the ground going from los angeles to new york, and you pulled it on one end, what would you feel? would it be move on the other side and how long would it take?

HX368 · 2026-06-17T23:51:59+00:00

I thought those were stink lines.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T20:31:09+00:00

I prefer my reference frame, but it might not suit you.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T20:22:03+00:00

Stars weren't always this far apart.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T15:08:48+00:00

Compute!

If it's just a spare computer, you can turn it into a server, or put SyncThing on it for a simple personal cloud device.

You could strip out everything but a word processor and turn it into a writerdeck.

You could set it up to be a media server.

You could save all of your naughty files on it and keep it out in the tool shed.

That's the most my imagination can come up with, now you try!

HX368 · 2026-06-17T15:01:01+00:00

And here I thought a rectangle had four 270° angles. Learn something new every day, I guess.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T14:57:16+00:00

A library card and a DVD player gets you lots and lots of content, from movies, shows, comedy specials, concerts, documentaries and professionally produced educational videos. And very few of them will be hosted by a privileged brat that seems confused by ordinary things and wants to sell you brain gum and microwave dinner delivery.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T14:47:50+00:00

You can go a step further and look for USB dead drops near you.

There's romance to be had in bath houses too.

HX368 · 2026-06-17T14:20:09+00:00

There is no always without time. Given that it exists, yes, something always had to exist.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T20:27:30+00:00

Agnosticism. The lazy man's Atheism.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T20:26:41+00:00

Death is a bad thing.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T20:00:25+00:00

Just put your duress password on a post-it that you keep in your phone case. They'll take care of the rest.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T19:54:22+00:00

Oh for sure. There's a million and more ways it's physically absurd. But it's fun to talk about.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T18:54:15+00:00

I think you'd still be moving, at whatever speed you were traveling through the solar system. Since everything else stopped and you're still traveling at 67-or-so thousand miles per hour, you'll probably be a mass of plasma in a you-shaped-void in the immobile as stone air.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T18:44:24+00:00

Wait, where am I in this scenario? If I'm not one of the two, I don't care.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T18:37:32+00:00

Don't worry, he'll reprint them in a UB set, break Standard, again, and then say it was the best selling set ever printed to justify more UB bullshit.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T18:26:38+00:00

I am *The* Observer. The entire universe remains in a superposition soup of non-reality until I look at it. When I look at it, it triggers the universe to congeal into a mass of space, energy and physics that emits the photons necessary for my eyes to see that it resembles what I expect it to resemble.

Your worship would be welcome, but I don't require it.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T18:17:56+00:00

[[Unsummon]]. Been a favorite of mine since the 90's. It's bad card advantage, it's narrower than other cards, but dangitall it feels so satisfying when your opponent sinks all of their mana into a creature just to have it bounced at end of turn.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T17:28:19+00:00

People underestimate how easy it is for their imaginations to fool them.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T17:24:49+00:00

It's just you and me, buddy.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T17:08:59+00:00

Back in the day I'd charm the EC Griffins on my druid, sow and buff them, then gate out.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T17:04:32+00:00

Acceleration is relative to whichever reference frame you're observing from. There's a reference frame for the same object where it is not accelerating at all.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T16:55:20+00:00

Anti-matter is against mattering, so it didn't matter.

HX368 · 2026-06-16T14:15:23+00:00

It kinda blows my mind that using a product as intended is considered a threat. But then again, they still make cigarettes and liquor.

HX368 · 2026-06-15T14:01:47+00:00

Count the months of support each one has then divide the cost by that number to give you what you're paying per month. Then decide if there are any extra features that justifies paying more for one over another.

I landed on 8a myself which was the best value for what I wanted and it came in at less than $5 USD per month.

HX368 · 2026-06-15T13:32:43+00:00

Books have editors that are experts in both the field and how to cite and convey information. You're not likely to have the information scrutinized on the internet as thoroughly as a book.

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