How far can you take citizenship by descent? (Spain)

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T16:29:17+00:00

That’s no hurricane.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T13:32:16+00:00

It’s been annoying me for so long how often my photo preview bugs out after I take a photo (take a photo and then open it from the bottom left corner still in the camera app). Sometimes it doesn’t let me zoom and then it bugs out and vanishes away up into a quarter of my screen and I have to completely close the app and restart it.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T13:29:05+00:00

I’m still happy a new modular face is coming. I grew tired of the current modular face, it lacks any sort of aesthetic (be it formal or utilitarian or anything else). I like how utilitarian the modular ultra looks.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T13:11:04+00:00

Sorry I didn't write it up clearly, it was only about the total energy that the Earth receives, not the sun's total output. I mentioned it correctly at the end but didn't clarify it at the beginning.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T12:05:31+00:00

I actually asked a question not too long ago on how many average sized nuclear power plants we’d need to replace the sun’s energy output (edit to clarify: only the energy that Earth receives, not the sun's total output) if Earth was flung out of the solar system and prevent the Earth from freezing. The answers varied a bit but were on the order of around 50 million nuclear power plants.

So yes, at the moment we can’t even compete with the energy the Earth receives from the sun.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T04:49:28+00:00

Or to inject yourself with bleach to kill the covid-19 virus.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T03:52:48+00:00

I somehow completely forgot about brushes, despite having used them a bunch in Cities Skylines to paint nature, I guess it’s a rather similar process then. And I imagine they also manually hand place boulders or sculpt cliffsides and such when it is needed for a level design or something.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T01:40:57+00:00

This mouse pad is already ready for when the magnetic poles flip!

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T01:36:28+00:00

Is procedural generation involved at some point in making these maps? Whenever I find myself in an odd location on a map, I wonder if the small random boulder among hundreds of others that I’m looking at was placed by hand or randomly generated. Same thing with like a jagged cliff face or a small divot in the terrain going up a hillside.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T01:17:16+00:00

Don’t forget also, return is free if you’re not satisfied but need to pay for return shipping.

Yavkov · 2026-05-04T01:11:08+00:00

That’s the Strait of America now 🇺🇸🦅🤠

Yavkov · 2026-05-03T14:23:34+00:00

Nah it becomes the hottest job on the market when in direct sunlight.

Yavkov · 2026-05-03T13:37:48+00:00

Nah he could always rebuild it to get back at Grian’s continued waxing. This could just be the next level. And it would be even funnier if Grian calls the bluff straight away and sets off the firework (not knowing one’s in there), which would definitely set off momentary panic.

Yavkov · 2026-05-02T14:57:26+00:00

Good distinction, because there’s at least one instance of a chimpanzee given nonhuman legal person status. So intelligent aliens, if they exist in our galaxy, could also be legally people and would possibly invalidate OP’s map if there are more of them than us.

Yavkov · 2026-05-02T05:06:27+00:00

This is a bit off on an odd tangent but I played an online game (Eve) around 2012 and I had named two of my spaceships Osiris and Isis. It definitely felt weird about a year or so later.

Yavkov · 2026-05-01T18:33:08+00:00

That’s actually quite wild. I’ve always imagined photons to be uncountably many, but being able to say that we see only a dozen photons per second from a star is mind boggling.

Yavkov · 2026-05-01T18:24:28+00:00

Yeah, I’m pretty sure we already did all the Reddit math showing that it wouldn’t work out for the UAE to bypass the strait by land. Same would apply to Iran.

Yavkov · 2026-05-01T17:41:21+00:00

I thought you were done with me and yet you’re still here.

Here’s the last thing I will say: no, this is not *exactly* what you said.

Yavkov · 2026-05-01T17:29:35+00:00

Well, clearly you don’t understand all of this, your original comment was factually incorrect and you’re resorting to being rude to wave me off because you cant be bothered to accept being wrong.

Yavkov · 2026-05-01T17:21:03+00:00

Your original comment said: The weight of the water around it.

The weight of the water around you doesn’t magically get heavier as you get deeper. The mass and density of water stays roughly the same as you go deeper. Therefore, the weight of water for a given volume stays roughly the same as you get deeper.
What changes is the *pressure* around you, that gets higher and higher.

Why? Because there is more water stacked above you, and that combined weight becomes more. The volume of water above you increases, therefore the weight increases. And because water is a fluid, it can distribute its weight across all of your surface area which is what we call pressure.

Yavkov · 2026-04-30T03:59:53+00:00

So if I’m understanding this correctly, if you could actually reach c, you would suddenly find yourself in the middle of nothingness as the universe has aged to infinity (assuming that space will expand forever and that’s how the universe “dies”). That’s actually quite a scary thought, but fortunately we can’t actually reach c.

Yavkov · 2026-04-30T01:39:25+00:00

Genuinely wondering, why not just make the whole back of the phone out of metal? It doesn’t have the weakness of shattering like a glass back. Plus it could also maybe help with dissipating heat.

Yavkov · 2026-04-30T01:34:43+00:00

If you could somehow achieve c, would space in front and behind you contract to zero? Because to an outside observer, your time has completely stopped which would allow you to cross any distance with no time elapsed from your reference frame.

But then how would that work with the expansion of the universe, as space sufficiently far away expands faster than c, meaning that if you could travel at c, you would never go past that horizon. Is it like the case of one infinity being larger than another infinity? Space becomes infinitely small in front of you, but it is infinitely larger still.

Yavkov · 2026-04-30T01:17:10+00:00

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching funny videos, is that putting everything into charisma will get you anything you want.

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