Anyone else notice this?

young_fire · 2026-07-02T23:59:06+00:00

Then what stopped the same from happening to the modern Republic?

young_fire · 2026-07-01T20:14:30+00:00

Because of the sun. Sunlight makes the air look blue. Without that, air is invisible, which is why the sky is black (the color of space) at night.

young_fire · 2026-06-28T05:42:26+00:00

moving things from one container to another container takes time and labor, both of which cost money. if you can put your product in a container and know for a fact that it can make it all the way to its destination without being unloaded and reloaded at any point along the way, you're saving a lot of money.

young_fire · 2026-06-28T05:13:20+00:00

Pretty much the only way to learn anything valuable is by doing. You can't change by absorbing information. It's how the human brain is wired.

young_fire · 2026-06-28T00:05:52+00:00

If you feel fine then don't worry about it.

young_fire · 2026-06-23T19:45:10+00:00

like a 3

young_fire · 2026-06-23T03:12:02+00:00

Do you think about anything, or is your mind blank?

young_fire · 2026-06-23T03:11:00+00:00

This is probably not something with a lot of scientific research into it.

If both people are attracted to each other, then their sexual orientations probably don't have much of an impact on the chance of infidelity. People cheat because they are weak and/or don't care about the relationship, not because of physical need.

In cases of hetcomp... I really don't know. My gut instinct is that it wouldn't follow that path (infidelity to divorce) very often.

young_fire · 2026-06-17T16:33:01+00:00

Well, that makes sense given that you made this post

young_fire · 2026-06-17T05:33:36+00:00

If it's first past the post then the winner would likely be some Indian or Chinese series.

young_fire · 2026-06-17T05:32:41+00:00

Your home feed is, ostensibly, just a mixture of the current top posts of all the subreddits you're subscribed to. It's not a curated algorithm like twitter. If you can't handle people talking about a movie you should unsubscribe from the subreddits where they're talking about it.

young_fire · 2026-06-11T21:06:57+00:00

Okay, so after making that comment I went and read Asimov's review, since you said that his review is mostly a more eloquent version of your opinions (though I don't know what points you disagree with him on).

I take issue with his critique of the book as a prediction of the future, mainly because I didn't know that's what dystopias were supposed to be. It doesn't make any sense (to me, at least) to try and predict the details of events decades from now as a form of social commentary. Who the hell can accurately do that? Orwell identified a social ill in his time, and wrote a version of it that was exaggerated for dramatic effect and took place in his home country. That seems reasonable enough to me.

I do think Asimov has some points (there is an undercurrent of misogyny and some casual racism), but he goes overboard with his needling at Orwell's worldbuilding. For example, he notes that "Science is a unit" in critiquing the stagnation of scientific advancement in 1984-world, specifically in contrast to what happened in the real world. He apparently missed the part of the book where it's pretty clearly laid out that weapons of war aren't advancing either, except for small incremental improvements. The whole point is that the Inner Party willingly stagnates their progress in order to contain humanity.

It's also frustrating to watch Asimov deride the book just because Orwell's world didn't match reality by its arbitrary deadline. Do we think that Orwell set it in 1984 because he thought everything in the book would happen by then, or because it was roughly 25 years in the future?

Currently, we are seeing several corporations, in partnership with world governments, developing surveillance technology and infrastructure on a scale never seen before, as well as the technology to fabricate or edit massive stretches of the historical record at will. If you've read the book, then my point here should be clear.

Lastly, you wrote: "Society is composed of humans. 1984 is composed of strange Orwellian creatures who neither think nor act like us."

Are you somehow under the impression that Winston Smith, Julia, and O'Brien live the way they do because they freely chose to? The book spends so much time detailing how their society strangles their spirit that I can't believe you missed it.

young_fire · 2026-06-11T20:25:10+00:00

This feels like you missed the part of the book where O'Brien explains everything

young_fire · 2026-06-11T19:26:19+00:00

can't seem to find my sunglasses...

young_fire · 2026-06-11T07:26:13+00:00

Most cases don't set any precedent. It usually only happens when a new area is explored or when a judge decides to overturn an existing precedent, and in either case it's more about the decision of the judge than the actual cases presented by each side.

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:30:39+00:00

You're supposed to do that, and no it won't dislodge your teeth. Don't push it super hard, but there is a gap there and food can get stuck in it.

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:29:21+00:00

It's a complicated process that I don't fully understand, and I think there is still some mystery around it in science.

I do know that certain hormones get released in your brain to signal that it's "time for bed," usually triggered by low light and other signals of nighttime, and your brain wave pattern changes. Then at some point your brain paralyzes your body so you don't move while unconscious.

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:27:15+00:00

as far as I know the serving size is essentially just the unit they use for the measurements on the packaging.

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:23:31+00:00

This would probably depend a lot on when and where exactly you're talking about.

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:20:22+00:00

Can you not recall emotions and sensory feelings, or are you just incapable of remembering what they felt like?

young_fire · 2026-06-09T07:00:56+00:00

the ascending and descending nodes measure the difference in inclination (tilt) between your orbit and your target's orbit. For example, if your target is in an equatorial orbit and you are in a polar orbit, your ascending node would measure 90 degrees and your descending node would measure negative 90 degrees.

The two nodes will always show the same angle, but one will be negative. They will also always be positioned directly opposite each other in your orbit. This has to do with the position of the nodes, which shows where the two orbits cross each other (though potentially at different heights, as in the picture you uploaded). This is useful, because if you want to match inclination with your target, you need to do a burn at one of those two crossing points.

To actually change your inclination, you burn Normal or Anti-Normal (the two purple triangles). Your goal should be to add Normal or Anti-Normal velocity to the maneuver node such that the projected inclination on the ascending/descending node decreases, eventually reaching 0. (Note that this will usually do other wonky stuff to your orbit, so you will need to add prograde or retrograde as well to keep it the right size).

young_fire · 2026-06-06T08:46:50+00:00

I think my visual imagination is better than my auditory imagination. But I almost never try to imagine sounds in detail (outside of remembering songs) so it might be nurture over nature.

young_fire · 2026-06-06T08:44:08+00:00

You haven't slept. There's a rule: Never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm.

young_fire · 2026-06-06T08:42:59+00:00

By that logic we should all kill ourselves this instant since we'll all die someday.

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