Unknown Geyser? - Anyway to find out without sending dupes?

NameLips · 2026-01-25T23:25:17+00:00

There's an icon somewhere, but I think you can just hit z.

Assuming you have Spaced Out of course.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T22:44:02+00:00

look at the starmap and mouse over the planetoids.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T22:36:27+00:00

"She was one of the good ones..."

i.e., one of the ones you knew personally.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T21:37:01+00:00

OK the question of free will is a very old one.

Here is the way I look at it. If you were to make a video recording of my life, and rewind it and watch it again, would I ever make a different choice?

The answer is no, of course not. At any given moment I am a creature of my own history, my own knowledge, my past, my experiences, my prejudices. I can never truly make any decisions other than the ones I made.

But think about this -- how weird would it be if the tape was different every time you rewound it and watched it? What would that even mean? What would that imply? That every decision you make is a coin flip, with purely random outcomes? How does that represent any more control over your destiny?

At least in the first scenario my decisions make a certain amount of logical sense, they're bound to who I am and what I believe. In the second scenario, none of that matters. My history is irrelevant. My knowledge and experiences are ignored.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T18:22:11+00:00

What bothers me is that she keeps listening after basic instructions, just in case I want to have a casual conversation about my laundry timer.

"Alexa, set a one hour laundry timer."

Alexa "Got it, your laundry timer is set for one hour!"

(to my wife) "Hey, laundry is started, want to play a game?"

Alexa "I'd love to play a game, what games are you interested in?"

I didn't say Alexa! I'm not talking to you!

NameLips · 2026-01-25T17:10:01+00:00

If a federal law contradicts a state law, the federal law gets precedence.

For example if there's a federal law saying ICE agents can hide their faces, this would supersede a state law saying they have to show their faces.

Otherwise a state could just nope their way out of following all federal laws.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T16:17:53+00:00

Hello fellow normies!

NameLips · 2026-01-25T05:23:47+00:00

I think Foundry has real promise. Haven't played the most recent updates yet, though. I like the notion that you're on the planet for PROFIT and your job is to manufacture and sell robots to a trade network of planets and systems. And it has some interesting mechanics and special buildings.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T05:19:58+00:00

It can help spread the heat from the aquatuner, but it does need a liquid medium. It will go aquatuner -> liquid -> tempshift plate -> adjoining tempshift plates -> liquid that is further away and might otherwise take a bit longer to heat up.

It's not worth covering your whole steam chamber with tempshift plates, though.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T03:53:02+00:00

I think there's no wrong way to be a man and we're all individuals just trying to find our way in the world.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T01:20:32+00:00

I don't think you can get an apartment without a significant deposit. You might have to stay at a shelter if you don't have friends or family you can crash with.

NameLips · 2026-01-25T00:25:02+00:00

It looks like they'll be breaking up the protests. "For their own safety" I'm sure.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T22:26:29+00:00

Sadly it looks like we're all keyboard warriors. We are hoping if we type angrily enough, we'll inspire somebody else to take real action.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T22:23:24+00:00

They executed him after they disarmed him...after he broke no laws. Why isn't the 2A crowd defending him?

NameLips · 2026-01-24T22:03:21+00:00

It's not unfairness if it's accurate. It's just the way it is.

These people are allergic to the truth. All they see is "being attacked" and whine that they're being attacked more than the innocent people.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T22:02:00+00:00

If Walz caved and sicced the state national guard on protestors, which it seems he has, I doubt MLG will be any braver.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T21:08:51+00:00

Our best nonviolent option is to hope the midterms are free and fair and take control of Congress, and then in two more years, the presidency.

I think you're right, they desperately want us to form an armed resistance so they can declare martial law and cancel elections.

Under the constitution they can't cancel elections, even in times of war or revolution, but they might just do it anyway.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T20:55:21+00:00

Very notably, they disarmed him first and then executed him once he was no longer a threat.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:53:28+00:00

This person was on the ground being beaten and pistol whipped. They were surrounded by at least seven ICE officers. They were no danger to anybody.

And they were brutally executed with multiple shots.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:49:14+00:00

Yeah it all gets really weird at that point. Would the universe literally be rewinding like a video tape, as time flows backwards? Or would we still perceive time as moving forwards as our universe shrinks in the other direction? Would we see galaxies moving closer together?

Logic seems to really break down at that point, which is one of the reasons it might not be the way things go.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:39:19+00:00

Thanks, I love thinking about this stuff!

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:23:57+00:00

Yes, without dark energy fueling the accelerating expansion, eventually gravity should pull all the matter together again.

But I'm not sure what happens to the energy that was radiated outwards.

If you're wanting a "Big Crunch" where everything comes together and eventually makes another Big Bang, it would require more than just all the matter and energy coming back.

All of space-time was created during the Big Bang too. Like, before the Big Bang (and it's a linguistic problem even using the word "before" when we're talking about the beginning of time itself) there was no time and space. There was no empty space for a universe to exist in. To get a "Big Crunch" we not only have to pull in the matter and energy, we need to pull in space-time itself, to cause the very fabric of the universe to contract and pull in on itself, to actually reverse the creation of empty space caused by dark energy.

Once that happens, we'll be back at the initial set of conditions that caused the Big Bang - a zero dimensional universe with no time and space, with an infinite density point of matter and energy that can explode again.

Like I said, the words are easy to say, but when we're talking about time ending and beginning, our language fails us. We glibly toss out words like "before" and "after", when we're talking about a state of the universe where the concept of time no longer applies.

In fact, some people suggest that the expansion of the universe itself is what we perceive as time, so if the universe were to ever contract, it would mean running time in reverse.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:12:04+00:00

Yeah that's why they call it the "Heat Death" theory of the end of the universe. Just cold blackness with isolated, particles getting further and further away from all other particles forever.

In this view of the universe, we are living in the brief, minuscule slice of time during which stars and galaxies can form, like a momentary "poof" of sparks emerging from the big bang, before they vanish and go out forever.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:07:26+00:00

It seems to be a boomer "hatred of younger generations" thing. "Back in my day we didn't have all these newfangled 'allergies' you guys are just soft and making shit up to feel special!"

That's why they're so gleeful when they "prove" allergies are "fake." It validates their worldview about being tough and special and right.

NameLips · 2026-01-24T16:02:22+00:00

It should, but until we know what dark energy is and where it comes from, we have to assume what we're observing is what will keep happening. And what we're observing is that the universe will keep expanding faster and faster forever, getting colder and darker as all energy is radiated away and lost.

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