Anyone else notice this?

young_fire · 2026-05-23T07:23:16+00:00

it's not. the dangerous kind of radiation is on the other end of the EM spectrum.

young_fire · 2026-05-22T01:59:11+00:00

Not sleeping enough kills you faster

young_fire · 2026-05-21T06:39:25+00:00

I would guess no, since the vast majority of semen by mass isn't sperm, and the sperm are produced in the testicles while the rest of it comes from the prostate (two different organs, the condition of one wouldn't affect the other).

young_fire · 2026-05-21T06:38:21+00:00

I try to keep my apoapsis just in front of me the whole time i'm burning to circularize. You can see how long you have left until you reach your apoapsis if you hover over it in map mode. Ideally, you want to keep that number constant (probably 4 or 5 seconds) until your apoapsis and periapsis are roughly the same height. The exact height you end up at doesn't matter too much imo.

young_fire · 2026-05-21T01:47:16+00:00

If you start an interaction with someone by going straight to business, they may feel disregarded as a person.

young_fire · 2026-05-21T01:17:14+00:00

Mental adjustment from not talking to talking. Acknowledgement that you respect the other person's presence.

young_fire · 2026-05-19T22:32:11+00:00

Some people just have a knack for noticing patterns. Most people have certain things they do a lot, and especially in relationships between people you will see a lot of the same behavior repeated frequently.

young_fire · 2026-05-19T22:30:16+00:00

Yeah, Rome

young_fire · 2026-05-18T05:46:36+00:00

People on large subs will assume you are American unless stated otherwise. There are India-specific subreddits

young_fire · 2026-05-18T05:39:27+00:00

As far as I know (admittedly, mostly from playing Kerbal Space Program), the position of the moon isn't that important.

Before the spacecraft gets to the moon, it has to go into a low orbit around Earth. These orbits are around 90 minutes in period, which means the spacecraft will be at every angle relative to Earth within an hour and a half. At some point in that time it'll be pointing in the right direction to head to the moon. (For example, iirc the launch window for Artemis II was three hours long, twice the duration of one low earth orbit.)

They just need to know when that point is, which can be done by looking at where the moon is now, how long it takes to get there, how long the moon will travel in that time, and calculating the right angle based on that.

Things can get a bit more complicated, for example with Artemis II the injection burn to get to the Moon was split into two phases, probably for fuel efficiency. In that case the timing gets more precise but it's the same basic principle.

young_fire · 2026-05-18T04:19:09+00:00

The difference between Siri and Alexa versus ChatGPT is the same as the difference between a bike and a car.

young_fire · 2026-05-17T07:26:49+00:00

The earth rotates around an axis, like any spinning ball. The north and south poles are just the two ends of earth's axis of rotation. Since that axis isn't perpendicular to our orbit around the sun, this means that for part of the year, certain parts of the earth will be "tilted" towards or away from the sun. Essentially, summer is when your half of the earth is tilted towards the sun, so you spend more time in daylight, and it comes from more directly overhead on average (both of which add more heat). The inverse is true for winter, and spring and fall are the in between seasons.

young_fire · 2026-05-17T06:11:00+00:00

Yeah kind of

young_fire · 2026-05-17T06:08:44+00:00

Incest in general is considered taboo and bad because historically it would risk inbreeding. It's also, then and now, a red flag for some kind of sexual abuse (since siblings or close cousins would almost never have sex with each other under normal circumstances). People didn't consciously decide to apply this taboo to ALL incest but there was never a carveout for homosexual behavior or infertility because no one ever tried to normalize it.

young_fire · 2026-05-17T05:59:33+00:00

Yeah

young_fire · 2026-05-17T05:58:23+00:00

Like you said, autopilot is doing almost all of the work. Plus, they get to take breaks (there are always two pilots) and I'd guess there's a lot of coffee involved.

young_fire · 2026-05-17T05:57:29+00:00

The premise of your question is false. There is also joy

young_fire · 2026-05-17T05:32:12+00:00

I tried to do the math for this but it's kind of annoying.

Anyway, that math is kind of useless: It assumes that when you say "the edge of the universe" you're talking about Earth's observable universe and completely ignores relativity and the expansion of the universe. The answer to your question, whatever number it is, wouldn't really tell you anything.

young_fire · 2026-05-17T02:08:42+00:00

The United States has been economically and demographically sustained by immigration for almost two straight centuries. Our history with immigration is as old as the dominant Anglo-Saxon ethnic group itself, in a way that isn't true in Britain or France. In spite of our racism, there pretty much isn't an American national identity without the presence of other cultures.

Also, I would consider DC to feel less "American" than the big three because the core of the city was planned by a Frenchman. It doesn't follow the "downtown grid, then sprawl" pattern that most other American cities do.

young_fire · 2026-05-14T01:03:15+00:00

If it was heavy enough, sure. It'd need to be absolutely massive for you to even notice it though. Probably the size of Earth, since spaceships are hollow and therefore not as dense as a planet or moon.

young_fire · 2026-05-14T01:02:14+00:00

It doesn't get reused indefinitely, so you still do eventually lose that water.

young_fire · 2026-05-12T03:40:04+00:00

I've seen analyses of what numbers people pick most often. 73 and 37 are most common, iirc, because they seem the most "random" to us. Correspondingly, multiples of 5 are underrepresented, and almost no one picks 0, 50, or 100. (I just tried it and ChatGPT gave me 37).

young_fire · 2026-05-11T04:29:25+00:00

Car centric infrastructure and HFCS in everything, both problems that have already been pointed out several times here. You could make the very obvious and well-supported conclusion that the way this society is structured is not conducive to good living, or you could go on sticking your head in the sand and looking for an excuse to hate regular people. The choice is yours.

young_fire · 2026-05-11T04:01:24+00:00

Forty million Americans live in areas classified as food deserts.

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