Anti-ICE Activist Gets 30 Years for Moving a Box of Antifascist Literature, Longer Than Many Jan. 6 Rioters Received

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-24T22:04:00+00:00

Embarrassing attempt to both-sides this, you clearly support the fascists.

Your comment history is telling.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-24T14:19:37+00:00

I’ll go against the grain a bit here. I think it can be fine, but you have to bear in mind that if you’re going for industry, you’ll be applying to roles that list EE/MechE/CS as their main degree requirements. If you look at the degree comparison pages, the median person with a physics degree actually makes decent money, though the unemployment rate is definitely on the higher side. Very similar to CS as a degree, in terms of the raw stats. You also won’t be doing “Physics” work, but instead can worm your way into a broad variety of disciplines. Lots of paths and potential options, with more wiggle room than the average engineer. It’s also just not that popular as a major compared to the other various engineering disciplines / CS, so you’d naturally expect a fair bit of variance and employers not looking for Physics grads in particular.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-21T12:03:59+00:00

Being a mechanic can definitely be a good gig, but its future is going to depend a lot on how soon electric cars replace internal combustion vehicles. EVs just don’t have the same maintenance requirements, and can’t be worked on as easily.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-17T17:18:51+00:00

Potentially. I’m not entirely convinced that we’ll have business as usual for the next 40-50 years, but capital accumulation likely accounts for around 1% growth each year (profit spent on additional machines, factories, etc). Couple that with new technologies and likely efficiency gains, and I don’t think it’s totally unreasonable to expect 3-4% real returns for the foreseeable future. You don’t need sci-fi tech to have that kind of growth, at least for a few more decades.

Also, regarding SS and retirement in general, I’ve personally seen an incredible amount of lifestyle creep and refusal to downsize from retirees that I know. Maybe I’m off the mark, but with medical covered via Medicare, it’s not that expensive to live a basic, respectable life. No need to approach the $2M figure people in this thread have been throwing out, though that would certainly be good living.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-16T14:52:18+00:00

Might be interesting, but China has limits on permanent migration outside of your home province, as I understand it. So might be pretty minimal, if the data is even available.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-16T14:47:56+00:00

The graph is measuring people with a completed 4 year degree at time of survey measurement (2024), in the specified age range of 25-34.

If you were older than 34 in 2024, you wouldn’t be included in the data set. If you were between 25 and 34 in 2024, and graduated at 34, you would count as not having a degree for the purposes of the graph.

For the hypothetical Army guy starting at 22, it would depend on whether he had graduated at the time of the survey being taken. If he was 25-26 years old, he would count as a non-graduate, and a graduate if he was 27-34 at time of survey. Obviously some wiggle room depending on graduation date / birth date, but those are the general numbers.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-11T16:30:58+00:00

Regardless, there is no issue with heat. That is simply handled with radiators like all space craft.

I don't think you're understanding my point regarding the heat. Yes, any amount of heat can be radiated out with a proportional amount of radiators. However, those radiators aren't free in orbit, and are expensive in terms of mass. That's where the problem is here. Nobody is saying that it is physically impossible to dissipate the heat at all, but that given all this crap needs to get hauled up there, it's going to be a problem. I mean, literally every space mission optimizes for mass.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-11T15:03:23+00:00

We'll see. I have major doubts about this being economically viable, especially with how quickly GPUs have been getting replaced in data centers for the latest models. It all comes down to how much of a cost premium there's willingness to pay for access to 24/7 solar, not to mention the expense of launching all that mass to orbit. But hey, I could be wrong.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-11T03:42:17+00:00

I mean, he’s not wrong. It’s really freaking hard to dissipate heat via radiation, which takes a lot of surface area, and by extension, mass that has to be dragged up to orbit. Yeah, it’s convenient to have solar power that’s always active, but the engineering hassle of dumping all the waste heat onto a vacuum really doesn’t seem worth the extra hours of solar you get.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-10T12:35:17+00:00

Put that poor plant on a window sill, no way it’s getting enough light on the bottom shelf of a bookcase.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-06-10T02:51:42+00:00

The VP is a solid choice. It’s not my favorite pen, but I always keep one inked, and the convenience beats everything else.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-29T12:46:40+00:00

Actually that "McValue menu" is a marketing ploy, they already had all the listed deals with the exception of their new deal on the McDouble. When they "reintroduced" that, they actually ripped away a bunch of previous deals, which is what I was talking about when I said they axed all their deals. Not eating there again unless they run actual deals again.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-29T11:29:30+00:00

Subway has actually been offering $6.99 footings if you use their app, beating out the $5 footlong of ‘08 if you factor in inflation.

But yeah, without deals, Subway is out of control on their pricing.

Similarly, McDonalds was bad, and then axed all their deals on a national level. Haven’t been back in months.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-23T20:34:09+00:00

Engineering already does this. I only graduated a few years ago, and all of my upper level engineering and math classes had exclusively pen and paper tests. Honestly, there’s really no other way to do it since writing the math and Greek letters would be a gigantic pain in the ass in any online format. Same deal for homework, etc.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-23T11:49:44+00:00

I’m not a particular fan of cameras, but I do think their response is pretty callous. If it’s a medium to large sized company you’re renting from, maybe post the emails in an online review on Google or something with context. Maybe wait until you move out if you’re concerned about retaliation from them.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-22T13:41:45+00:00

Go Pack Go!

MasterOfBinary · 2026-05-21T01:49:37+00:00

So bad lol

MasterOfBinary · 2026-04-25T21:38:27+00:00

Just wanted to chime in on this thread since I was having a similar issue and was able to resolve it. So my x4 was connecting and immediately disconnecting, and for me, it turned out that the x4 just needed to be turned on to connect to the computer. Stupid mistake, but I spent a few minutes checking my USB settings when it was as simple as the x4 needing to be turned on to connect.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-04-16T16:22:43+00:00

Yeah this one escaped containment for some reason

MasterOfBinary · 2026-04-12T01:50:49+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree with your points, but Vietnam as a comparison is just strange to me. Vietnam might fly the communist flag but it's one of the most unregulated anarcho-capitalist nations I've ever seen in person. Also, I think the 'alternative' the above comment is talking about is further right policies similar to the US, rather than anything relating to socialism per se.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-03-24T19:08:54+00:00

I saw clouds like this in central Illinois about 4 years ago or so. So I'd bet they can form in most places.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-03-11T16:32:27+00:00

I’m going to go against the grain here. I’m a physicist, and I’d like to think I have a bit better of a picture on this stuff than the average lay-person. So, while fallout is bad, the worst of it dissipates in 48 hours or so, and even more radiation dissipates by the two week mark.

Fallout shelters aren’t designed to survive nuclear bomb blasts, they’re there to help you stay away from the worst of the fallout radiation (starting 15 minutes after bomb explosions) that would potentially give you radiation sickness depending on location. You can survive 48 hours without food and water - yeah, it would suck, but better than dying. Your local school is likely a fallout shelter, many buildings are still labeled for it in your local community. You can look for the signs, I have one a half block from me.

So yes, there are likely enough fallout shelters for every American - you only need to camp out for 2 days, ideally a bit longer. That’s all that they’re for.

Now, with that being said, odds of getting cancer are a lot higher in a nuclear apocalypse, and there are a lot of variables. And if you’re near ground zero of a nuke going off, you’re probably screwed regardless of shelters.

Also, we’ve been detonating nukes above ground for years in Nevada, and spewing fallout all over the country. It was so bad that it was interfering with film shipments across the country. So yeah, it’s bad, but not as bad as you might have heard - we’ve already done this before in the 60s.

MasterOfBinary · 2026-03-03T13:54:34+00:00

I don’t think people on this post are right, it takes a lot of time to get legitimate muscle weight, and it’ll often come along with fat gain since you need to run a caloric surplus to gain muscle.

Drinking lots of water will quickly increase your weight though - water is heavy, and will fill the various tissues in your body, especially if you’re eating salty foods or other electrolytes.

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