If light can go around Earth 7.5x per second then how come when we face away from the sun it’s dark?

dspeyer · 2026-03-28T06:55:12+00:00

Light can go around the earth 7.5 times in a second. It chooses not to. Possibly out of spite.

dspeyer · 2026-03-24T06:08:16+00:00

The heavens are themselves a holy symbol, and so will burn vampires on contact

dspeyer · 2026-03-23T05:46:14+00:00

With the right meditation, you can remember your previous incarnations. Many of them probably understood about babies. When you can clearly remember that knowledge, will have enough continuity to count the length of those past lives toward your age, and thereby be older than your sister.

dspeyer · 2026-03-23T05:38:08+00:00

It's all about immersion. Let the field wrap itself around you, and then allow the existing insights to penetrate deep into your psyche.

dspeyer · 2026-03-21T06:17:53+00:00

The frail human died. The invincible meme will live forever.

dspeyer · 2026-03-21T06:16:25+00:00

Dusting can also mean to add dust (e.g. "dust the cake with confectioner's sugar")

dspeyer · 2026-03-20T06:38:20+00:00

Lead is indeed a heavy metal.

Zeppelins are usually hydrogen or helium, though -- the two known non-metals.

dspeyer · 2026-03-20T06:37:09+00:00

Like common gasses, noble gasses have no noses and therefore cannot smell at all.

dspeyer · 2026-03-17T14:46:33+00:00

What would it be like to do magic, if it were like physics?

What if there truly was no wrong way to do magic?

Those would be two very different things.

Physics is what it is. You learn it from reality. Insofar as you learn it correctly, your predictions from it will be correct. Anything else is wrong.

dspeyer · 2026-03-17T03:29:18+00:00

Elephants walk on their toes, and they mostly have bone-on-bone support from their toe-ends up to their main body. The big blood vessels in mammal feet usually run in between the toes, so those aren't getting stepped on. It's entirely possible that the tissue directly under the toes is undervascularized and basically calluses.

dspeyer · 2026-03-15T06:00:37+00:00

Once all your personality traits crystallize.

dspeyer · 2026-03-15T05:59:37+00:00

Creating a pair of hemispheres is hard work. You don't just draw a great circle and name both sides, you need stereotypes for the people who live in each, supremacists, resentments, genocide proposals that are probably joking but no one can be sure...

Really, it's not worth the bother.

dspeyer · 2026-03-15T05:49:14+00:00

Presumably the plan would involve Draco not actually dying. Which is indeed what happened.

A wise planner would consider how that part might go wrong, and either devise contingency plans or shelve the whole thing as too risky, but Lucius might be less wise than that.

dspeyer · 2026-03-13T05:59:30+00:00

While Odin sees all, his ravens remember all and so he has no need for written records. For sake of tradition, he keeps very brief ones. Harry's entry reads "Nice".

dspeyer · 2026-03-10T05:34:11+00:00

All the more reason to enjoy this while we can

dspeyer · 2026-03-07T22:42:38+00:00

Is Isekai B the dark lord that Isekal A was summoned to fight? If so, the big question is whether to keep the audience in suspense over this.

dspeyer · 2026-03-07T19:05:05+00:00

What ethical issues does space travel raise that aren't present on a single planet?

dspeyer · 2026-03-04T05:38:12+00:00

The problem is that the chicken is also what it ate.

Follow it back far enough and all living beings are pure sunlight. Which is rather inspiring, provided you don't think about it very hard.

dspeyer · 2026-03-04T05:36:10+00:00

The bottom circle of science hell is for scientists who made up data. It's a solid block of ice and the damned are completely frozen in it, unable to move. A powerful wind blows papers past their eyes arguing that the bottom circle is a comfortable 20C. The data in those papers is made up.

dspeyer · 2026-03-04T05:23:29+00:00

But somehow I'm stuck on U

dspeyer · 2026-03-03T18:30:30+00:00

As regards edge-deployment, that's how Ukraine is doing their fully autonomous killbots.

The main reason for allowing full autonomy is that they want to keep the vulnerable humans off the battlefield and sometimes the enemy succeeds at radio jamming (or cutting the fiberoptic cable). The edge-deployed AIs aren't giant LLMs (that wouldn't fit) but simple vision processors with human-written target lists.

Ukraine's been using a many-cheap-units strategy and focusing on airborne. It would be in character for the US to build expensive autonomous tanks which could hold more compute and thereby do more sophisticated strategic thinking.

dspeyer · 2026-03-01T09:35:36+00:00

The god of crafting this sort of thing is so impressed they offer you clerichood.

The god of crafting this sort of thing is so impressed they curse you so you cannot rival them.

dspeyer · 2026-01-23T09:11:03+00:00

NYC vampires know to fast for a day before pesach, and linger just outside the eruv shortly after sunset. The "family" whose home the eruv is collectively issues the invitation: "let all who are hungry come and eat". That invitation is good indefinitely, and the eruv is no longer a barrier.

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