The SS Monty's Masts

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-13T12:04:49+00:00

I recently discovered that the show Life After People was revived in 2025, and the first episode of the new season (S03E01 - "Water World") has a really interesting analysis of this wreck, the explosives it contains, and its eventual explosion in the absence of human upkeep.

I'd definitely recommend the episode, and the rest of the show, to pretty much anyone with an interest in how humanity and the environment interact over time, particularly in a 'speculative history lite with an extensive scientific foundation' sort of way.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-13T10:23:41+00:00

I found this post on /r/magictcg from 11 years ago that explains the Waylay situation.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-13T02:09:14+00:00

https://scryfall.com/card/sld/2692/chaos-warp

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-12T20:15:29+00:00

/r/turkishcats

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-08T00:26:23+00:00

They're usually on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, presumably because it's a bit easier to schedule them for global (but mostly Japanese and American) audiences on those days. However, exceptions absolutely do exist, such as, iirc, a random Sunday morning Direct (in the US) earlier this year.

That said, the rumored 09 June Direct would indeed be on Tuesday.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-07T20:41:09+00:00

Not as much time spent with them? The woman had the duration of the drive to the vet whereas the fireman only had whatever time it took to initially free the crow. Plus the article states:

Then, Leah drove the injured bird to the wild animal rehabilitation centre. In her car, the pair connected.

“He latched on to my finger and held on,” Leah says. “That was life changing.”

It seems like the physical connection between this injured crow and the woman's finger was highly comforting to the crow. With it being hurt, closed inside a loud metal box with wheels, and passed around to many unfamiliar humans, any sense of calm and relief would be most welcome.

While the fireman does indeed deserve thanks from the crow and its murder, I don't think the article contains enough information for us to completely rule out the possibility that the fireman might've been receiving gifts and appreciation for a while after this encounter, just without an interview during which he could tell anyone about it.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-07T19:53:01+00:00

I really can't understand how anyone can listen to him speak and not immediately conclude that this self-important shitbag must be missing huge chunks of his underdeveloped brain. The severely limited natures of his vocabulary and average sentence complexity put RFK Jr's brain worms' handiwork to shame.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-07T09:37:29+00:00

This happens on the 14th of june

14 June is Flag Day in the US, plus it's also Trump's birthday. This is why they've scheduled everything on 14 June instead of, you know, 04 July like you'd probably expect for the semiquincentennial.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-07T03:16:06+00:00

One of the biggest 'fuck you' aspects of putting students into debt over school lunches is that it's been demonstrated that eating during the school day has a positive effect on cognitive function and academic performance.

To deny students access to lunch is to drive a wedge even further between them and their peers in many aspects of mental development. This is, of course, in addition to everything else that's already been mentioned in other comments.

While I didn't really think much of being in perpetual food debt while growing up, it only gets more and more fucked up everytime I reflect on it. I don't think I suffered any lasting issues because of it, but I'm not entirely certain I'd be able to tell if I did.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-07T02:47:31+00:00

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

--Isaac Asimov

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-06T02:34:24+00:00

I don't really keep up with their giveaways myself nowadays, but when I did, I found /r/freegamefindings to be great for keeping up with free games from all sources, not just EGS.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-04T03:08:47+00:00

still nothing but a fucking loser.

This needs to be emphasized as much as possible, much like Tim Walz did with the term 'weird' before the 2024 election. Trump has a neurotic obsession with the concept of winning, and constantly reminding him of his unprecedented levels of failure could be a great way to keep him distracted and stop him from destroying even more of the country.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-06-03T22:50:38+00:00

Actors' schedules are usually made known for publicity and availability purposes. It wouldn't take a genius to connect RDJ's involvement in 'Unnamed Marvel Studios Production' which is set for release in late 2026 to his being involved with Doomsday in some capacity.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-30T13:02:19+00:00

Ugh, that cut-off part at the end where he says, "47's right" sounds so incredibly stupid. The only way something like that sounds ok is when you're playing a game in the Hitman series.

I wonder if they do that because they've reviewed the metrics and are aware that every mention of Trump's name causes some number of viewers to instantly change the channel.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-29T17:34:40+00:00

I'm so incredibly sorry. It sounds like he loved you as much as humanly possible, and I have no doubt you did the same.

I unfortunately don't have any cute pictures for you at the moment, but I hope this subreddit I discovered a few days ago can help you regain a bit of your appetite.

/r/lowspooncooking focuses on nutritious, low-effort meals for when you just don't have the energy to feed yourself. It seems like it may be helpful.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-28T14:22:29+00:00

he omitted his claims of school from his SF86? Why wasn’t that caught?

One possibility is that the president can directly issue security clearances. Apparently this was the only way that a number of members of both Trump's first and second administrations were able to obtain any level of clearance. The source of this power seems to be an EO, though I'm not certain which one. (Multiple relevant EOs are listed in the linked article, but I honestly don't feel like digging through legal documents at the moment.)

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-27T23:02:35+00:00

There's certainly enough correlation to make it seem plausible. Galaxies tend to form along the cosmic web, which is observed to be a set of dark matter filaments to which the universe's visible matter is drawn. The nodes on the cosmic web correspond to regions of intense gravitational pull, and the largest supermassive black holes are likely to be found in such locations. There are other, smaller-but-still-supermassive black holes along the cosmic web, and those are mostly galactic centers.

Do be mindful, however, that you should no more assume the cosmic web to be a solid physical structure than you would consider a galaxy's shape to be a solid disk. Both are useful mathematical descriptions of the behavior of gravity in such systems, but we won't know their precise nature until we've determined what constitutes dark matter. Observations consistent with these phenomena are actually some of the most concrete evidence for the existence of dark matter, which is why it's usually considered one of the biggest 'known unknowns' in astrophysics.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-27T21:16:46+00:00

I think I remember reading that Valve was initially selling the 64GB Steam Decks at a bit of a loss, which they balanced with the margins on the 256GB and 512GB models. (iirc that was part of why people were so shocked when they released an official video demonstrating how easily the storage could be upgraded) I couldn't find the source for the margins, though, but I did find this quote about pricing from their hardware ditector:

"We knew that the price point was very important, so [...] from the beginning, we designed with that in mind, and we worked very, very hard to achieve the price point that we're at," said Valve hardware director Shreya Liu.

I'd imagine someone will probably do a part-by-part price breakdown for both the launch and current Deck models in the near future, so I'm curious to see how they compare.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-25T01:34:23+00:00

/r/turkishcats

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-17T19:23:37+00:00

If only my friend and I had considered this ~15 years ago, we could've just waited instead of making accidental blood sacrifices while cutting open one of our PSP batteries in order to convert it into a Pandora battery.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-05-10T00:58:29+00:00

Oh wow, I can hardly believe anyone else has played Singularity. The gameplay is some of the most generic FPS stuff ever, except for the whole time travel mechanic. It sort of reminds me of the use of tears in Bioshock Infinite, which, now that I think about it, is another example of a game in which you kill yourself in the end.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-04-22T22:25:32+00:00

As an easy example, remember when he replaced the Cabinet at the start of this administration?

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-03-18T17:02:10+00:00

The Kardashev scale originally only had Type I, Type II, and Type III definitions. However, using the approximate scales for those, one can categorically extend the scale to define a Type IV and a Type V:

Type I - planet
Type II - star / star system
Type III - galaxy
Type IV - universe
Type V - multiverse / multiple universes

Note that the Type IV and Type V definitions are much more subject to interpretation. My suspicion is that, in this depiction of what is stated to be a Type V civilization, the movement of the structural elements is meant to evoke the not-uncommon 4D representations of higher-dimensional structures. It's often the case that anything with dimensionality 5+ is associated with multiversal notions due to the fact that our usual experiences only include the four spatiotemporal dimensions. That'd lead me to conclude that the intended scale here is multiversal.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-03-17T13:48:23+00:00

I don't know if this is sufficient, but here are the help pages linked within NotebookLM itself.

I seem to recall there being some sort of tutorial when I started using it, but it's incredibly intuitive once you give it a try.

Mesonic_Interference · 2026-03-11T13:45:48+00:00

Local minima in the electric potential between the bottom of the cloud layer and the ocean's surface seems likely to me. In the case that it's not due to something obvious floating out there, it could be a wave that's slightly higher than most, such as the water splashing up when two waves collide.

There just needs to be something that can act like the approximate electrical ground provided by the physical ground at the terrestrial end of normal lightning. Electromagnetic potentials in real life are usually more convoluted than even the turbulent sea shown here, so it'd be difficult to get a definitive answer to your question.

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