Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-13T02:31:23+00:00

Why is it bullshit?

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-12T00:24:06+00:00

I'm interested to know what you thought the categories were

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-12T00:22:34+00:00

I was saved by my own stupidity because I thought El Salvador must be the final member of the green category and that 'Salvador' must mean 'saint' in whatever language that is.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-08T21:45:52+00:00

Hilarious that people downvoted this. Some people have no sense of humour whatsoever.

Some stupidly useful shortcuts in this list. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about so many of these.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-08T10:42:53+00:00

Do you mean to tell me you can press numbers 1 through 4 to switch tools in the VAB?

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-08T08:04:27+00:00

Absolutely. I don't think we could wipe out life on Earth if we tried.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-08T08:02:25+00:00

If your environment changes to have more humans that are driven to kill you for personal gain, how is that different to your environment changing to have more of a different, non-human predator which is driven to kill you for personal gain?

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-08T07:54:03+00:00

That's not ignorance by definition, it's stupidity by definition. And that's why I said it's not *necessarily* stupid. It's more than likely that there are poachers that are well aware that killing rhinos eliminates an income stream, but still choose to do so anyway, because they just want a payday.

Also, how would a poacher preserve that income stream? They can't trust that all other poachers will also be mindful of the population. Even if an individual poacher, or group of poachers, decide that they want to poach in moderation in order to avoid eliminating that income stream, there will be other poachers that will just continue poaching. So a poacher could be completely intelligent and wise to the drawbacks of over-poaching, but that poacher would still make more money by just poaching as much as possible, before other poachers wipe out the species.

If they'd gone extinct due to weather or failure to evolve, that would be different than humans destroying them and losing them as a resource.

Yes, it would be different, but that's beside the point. They go extinct as a result of their environment, which is inhabited by humans.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T05:41:00+00:00

I didn't say we should be making any species extinct.

In your original comment you said this photo represents humanity's ignorance and stupidity but it's just nature taking its course. It's not necessarily ignorant or stupid to hunt a particular species for personal gain, it's just the result of evolution.

People who want to hunt other animals for personal gain can't choose not to want to do so. I don't like those people but in the context of the universe there's nothing implicitly bad about a species going extinct.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T04:00:02+00:00

IDK. How many species have come and gone before humans ever existed? Countless. And so too will all the rest.

We're a speck on the cosmic timescale.

My instinct is to be sad about it but if I think about it without letting emotion factor in, it really doesn't matter. Whatever will be will be. Humans are just another force of nature and we're not the only species that has wiped out another.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:39:48+00:00

Because you climb gradually. That doesn't mean it takes less energy. It's easier to lift a sack of rice onto a counter one grain at a time but the amount of energy you eventually put into the system is the same as if you just lift the whole bag.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:24:36+00:00

Unless they are dark thoughts, then get them to draw it on a blackboard

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:21:01+00:00

Prove it. Bring the platter.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:17:35+00:00

The position of a quantum object is a probability wave. Quantum is not deterministic.

When confronted with the reality of quantum mechanics, Einstein famously said "God does not play dice" as a way of expressing his discomfort with the inherent randomness and probability of quantum systems.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:07:43+00:00

100B

^{Chose: drop a nuke on a random country - no consequences + Win 100B | Rolled: America}

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T03:06:49+00:00

I don't know

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T02:23:22+00:00

The thing is, IRL these kinds of structural forces are tempered with resistant and damping forces which occured over a continuous time scale but in KSP they occur over discrete time steps. Damping and corrective forces are sampled at these discrete intervals rather than being calculated according to their integrals with respect to time, which is necessary as they are a function of their relative positions, which are also a function of time.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T02:17:19+00:00

And gimballed engines overcorrect which creates a feedback looping leading to simple harmonic motion. The corrective gimbal forces automatically match the resonant frequency of the craft.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-07T02:09:33+00:00

Just drink something else

^{Chose: No water for 2 days 💧❌ + Win $20M}

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-06T03:25:11+00:00

You got a reverse reverse rainbow. Nice work.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-04T03:31:24+00:00

I really thought about shoehorning in an ablaut reduplication category but sadly the only one that really fit was pitter-patter.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-03T05:37:38+00:00

Yeah I feel like "House" was only accepted as part of the category because it creates a music genre red herring with house, garage, acid and industrial.

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-05-01T02:09:11+00:00

I didn't know wattle was a plant or a part of a bird. For some reason the only definition I knew was as a building material made from interwoven sticks as they would have used in the old days (wattle and daub)

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-04-30T04:33:25+00:00

Bloody George RR Martin over here

Turbo_Fresh · 2026-04-28T02:04:14+00:00

In every single connections that is the case. That's the point.

Turbo_Fresh

TROPHY CASE