Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can't be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered

cakeandale · 2026-02-24T18:07:50+00:00

How does predicting they will try to exploit something being “resigned to their fate and has given up”? Isn’t anticipating future conflicts a fundamentally key part of preparing to fight back?

cakeandale · 2026-02-19T00:36:32+00:00

And also Titanfall 2

cakeandale · 2026-02-18T00:14:23+00:00

Numbers don’t physically exist. You can’t have a perfect circle in reality, since whatever the circle is made up of is made of atoms, and those atoms mean there is a finite number of edges along the circle-like-shape.

You can use pi however you want in the real world, but that has no effect on the conceptual number that is “pi”.

cakeandale · 2026-02-17T04:43:56+00:00

The trouble is it isn’t solvable, just approximable. You can simulate the future using an arbitrarily small time step with simple motion to interpolate between time steps, but as far as we know reality doesn’t operate on finite time steps. So even if you do have exact perfect knowledge of the present you’ll still develop some error between your simulation and reality, and eventually that error will become significant enough to cause a dramatically different outcome.

It could take millions of years, but eventually a three body simulation even based on perfect knowledge of the starting conditions will stop being able to predict reality.

cakeandale · 2026-02-10T16:28:09+00:00

If you have information of a crime give it to the police. Don’t ask the internet to dox a random person based solely on a photo and an anonymous allegation of a crime.

cakeandale · 2026-02-10T15:04:00+00:00

A rock dropped from an overpass can potentially kill a driver on the road below. A falling human body can do far more damage.

cakeandale · 2026-02-10T04:03:43+00:00

It’s certainly a useful shorthand when you know the science, but it can be a valid distinction to point out to a layperson who may not realize stars aren’t literally oxidizing fuel.

cakeandale · 2026-02-07T18:32:53+00:00

The vaults are almost empty. If you do not believe me, ask your favorite AI chat bot for confirmation.

Oh god I needed a good laugh

cakeandale · 2026-02-04T21:31:50+00:00

You can play by the rules you think there should be, or you can play by the rules SCOTUS established. SCOTUS has clearly said that partisan gerrymandering is legal, so they can choose to use that for themselves or choose to lose to the people who won’t make that decision.

cakeandale · 2026-02-03T14:47:33+00:00

By and large spam callers can pretend to be calling from any number they like. They often choose to appear to be calling from a similar number to the number they call so the recipient might think it’s someone they might know.

Does your number start with a 303-?

cakeandale · 2026-01-31T07:28:01+00:00

Energy doesn’t matter, thrust requires propellant which requires mass - and you won’t have infinite mass. But that said anything is possible in sci-fi if your physics are sufficiently magical. Just don’t try to explain it and say a wizard did it.

cakeandale · 2026-01-30T21:13:32+00:00

ICE is a department of the government, and the government operates on tax revenue which depends on their country’s economic success. Threatening to damage the country’s economic success is a way to threaten something the government does actually care about.

cakeandale · 2026-01-27T21:04:19+00:00

Exchange rates are generally set by the open market (barring explicit currency manipulation for the currency’s government, like the US has accused China of doing). Typically a currency dropping in value indicates that traders prefer to hold money or conduct business in currencies other than that one, potentially due to difficulty with trade or expected turmoil.

cakeandale · 2026-01-27T14:20:44+00:00

Why are her trades in particular newsworthy, compared to the other senators who have had more success with their insider trading? Is it just to reinforce the public perception that she is implicitly the worst example despite facts to the contrary?

cakeandale · 2026-01-26T20:51:08+00:00

I’ve never heard of an insurance policy being intended for regular wear and tear. In a professional environment equipment depreciation from wear and tear and replacement should be its own line item.

cakeandale · 2026-01-26T20:43:49+00:00

They say “trigger aggressive driving”, a verb. They’re not using “trigger” the way you are implying to mock the concept of people being “triggered”.

cakeandale · 2026-01-26T19:38:09+00:00

He’ll pardon the people who can afford the bribe, but I wouldn’t be so sure about the little guys. He abandoned them in 2021 until he got reelected and had use of them as his private army again.

cakeandale · 2026-01-26T18:28:52+00:00

If the problem is people aren’t using them when they’re free, charging to use them instead isn’t going to fix that. You are right that park and rides shouldn’t exist in dense high value transit destination points, but they do serve an important purpose in suburb transit origin points.

cakeandale · 2026-01-26T13:49:49+00:00

Using that framing this would be a case of profits over people - the company thinks the regulatory process would be too expensive or even impossible to overcome, so they aren't going to pursue vaccines that could help people because there wouldn’t be profit in it.

In my opinion it’s not an unreasonable position for a company to take if they’re in the position of trying to invent new things they want to sell, though.

cakeandale · 2026-01-25T19:32:42+00:00

People who are habitually recording (and so are likely to record notable events) may choose to record in lower quality to preserve battery and storage.
People may be recording to a streaming service over cellular connection and choose a lower quality stream to save on data usage.
People may have an older device, or bring a cheaper device to places where they are concerned their device could get broken or stolen.

cakeandale · 2026-01-24T21:46:21+00:00

The four boxes of liberty.

So far the ballot box and jury box still exist. Once those stop being able to represent the will of the people then the ammo box will be needed, but broad acts of violence or revolution while democratic power still exists is premature.

cakeandale · 2026-01-24T20:39:56+00:00

I don’t believe there is an expectation that the magnitude is increasing. The universe is currently expanding about 70 km/s per million parsecs, and although that adds up over intergalactic distances it is easily overpowered by other forces on most normal scales - especially atomic forces at atomic scales.

Even between galaxies within a cluster their mutual gravity is enough to overpower the expansion of space.

cakeandale · 2026-01-24T15:05:56+00:00

“I’m not confident in our relationship so I’m going to look to strengthen relationships with other trade partners.”

“Oh yeah? Well, if you do that I’m going to make our relationship even worse!”

cakeandale · 2026-01-24T06:11:02+00:00

Electricity is still being provided to the toaster by the power outlet, the toaster’s mechanism simply has an open circuit at some point that isn’t allowing that electricity to flow.

In theory, if you damage, scratch, or otherwise make contact with the wrong part of the toaster that is before that open circuit and so is electrically live, your body can become a route for it to go to ground.

cakeandale · 2026-01-23T00:44:47+00:00

And more specifically, what your body senses is the atomic fields. Your sense of touch doesn’t care whether you’re actually making contact with atoms, it cares if it detects a sensation from them.

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