For sure, there’s no community as large and passionate as religion. BUT there are other communities that are centered around goodwill to others, living a better life…some of them even have chanting, if you feel like you’d be missing that part lol.

Those communities usually involve doing work though (volunteering, performing, teaching, etc.) while you can just show up to church and kinda pay attention, and you’re in.

I feel like, at their core, most religions boil down to two things, for most people:

• Giving you purpose/security/scapegoats (“I’m living a good life so I can go to heaven,” “the Lord has a plan/is watching over me,” “Satan/sinners/demons tempted me”)
• Dissuading you from inquisitive, critical thought (out of self-preservation, I’d imagine)

Personally, I prefer to define my own purpose, live a more “dynamic” lifestyle than is traditional, think critically, and question authority. Doesn’t make me “better” than religious folks, in fact they’re probably overall happier than I am. But I can’t imagine living that way, regardless of whether or not I believe in a magical sky Santa who can’t decide whether he loves us unconditionally or whether or not he’s actually omnipotent.

Looking at someone’s lips can also be interpreted as wanting to kiss them, so watch out haha. I read that in a book on body language.

Yes BUT…there is a difference between platonic socialization and flirting/courtship. Some people can flirt naturally. Some people have to learn it. Some people can’t turn it off. Which is why blanket advice for how to treat other people isn’t particularly helpful.

So yes, most PUAs are creepy and gross. But also, for those who don’t understand flirting innately, it’s not like there are a ton of obvious reputable resources available on how to do it. And some PUAs do explain some of the key bits of psychology behind flirting. Things like tension and release, light teasing, managing eye contact, reading body language, escalating physical touch…things that you should be approaching differently if you’re trying to flirt with someone vs being friendly. Things that people expect you to do if you’re interested in them, that aren’t inherently obvious.

And I say this as an ASD guy who confused a LOT of girls in high school by not courting them like I was “supposed” to, then started doing real research in my 20s into things like body language, flirting styles, love languages, attachment styles, etc, and coming to a lot of epiphanies about how stupid I had been, and am now in my 30s reasonably successful at dating.

For those curious on some actual resources, The Definitive Book of Body Language and The Five Flirting Styles are good places to start on learning the differences between platonic and romantic socialization!___

Sooo…100% of future transportation should be done by train or bus? Gonna build an express line out to grannie’s house in the woods of rural upstate LargePlace? Maybe with a few local stops at some hiking trailheads? Can’t forget to add a direct line from there to the closest grocery store two towns away, or maybe granny can just hop on the train to CenterTown and take the connecting bus over to Nowhere’sVille, and grab another train from there. God forbid she wants to visit Aunt Sue in Isolated Harbour. Or maybe we should just seize both their properties and relocate them to Dense Village, which was specifically designed to be public-transit friendly.

Yeah trains are awesome, and we should utilize them more (especially in the US). But public transit is not the solution to all long-distance travel. So why flat-out reject a theoretical improvement, on the basis that it’s not a literally perfect solution?

I was a bit surprised to hear “victims broke their necks instantly,” so I was hoping for someone else to do some math to back it up. Sigh…

Assuming ≈1000 ft/lbs to break a neck, and a 220 lb 6’10" person (so we can exclude the head to get ≈ 200 lb 6’), if it were possible for them to keep their body completely rigid, simply laying them horizontal, only supported by their head in a fixed orientation, would produce ≈ 600 ft/lbs (CoM 3’ from the moment) on the neck. Which is actually a surprising testament to the strength of the human neck.

The actual math for determining the torque on the neck from a worst-case scenario of a person jumping off a moving boat and hitting the water head-first with a stiff vertical posture is a bit above my pay grade. You’d have to calculate the resistance of the water over time as the head makes contact and starts deflecting, vs how much of that force gets transferred to the body and starts to rotate it towards the water.

But just conceptually, doesn’t make a ton of sense to me, as someone with a fair amount of experience with hitting the water at high speed; I used to barefoot water ski. Sucks hitting the water that fast, but the worst injury I’ve sustained is a ruptured ear drum.

IIRC, the “Hot” thing is a known bug in Lemmy that can be temporarily fixed by restarting the instance. Also IIRC, the admin restarted sh.itjust.works like a week ago, and “Hot” was working immediately after that, for at least a few days.

I’m still using mostly “Top 6 Hours” until the sorting algo for “Hot” and “Active” is improved.

Then I start over-thinking whether or not I’m over-thinking it. Then I spend 5 minutes lamenting my existence, only to forget what I was thinking about in the first place.

In the Star Trek universe, if you’re intent on “glassing” a planet, it’s in one of two scenarios:

1. The planet inhabitants can’t fight off a single star ship, in which case you could just park in orbit and bombard to your heart’s content, with the option of either precision strikes or complete annihilation, without expending anything other than the energy it takes to power the ship.
2. The inhabitants can fight off a star ship, in which case they likely have the technology to detect such a weapon at sufficient range to intercept/destroy/redirect it, or planetary shielding powerful enough to stop it.

In the latter case, you could put the effort into adding a cloaking device to the weapon to get around that. But in that case, why not just use a regular cloaked ship to delivery some other payload? There are tons of examples in TNG of narrowly-averted planet-killing disasters only prevented by careful engineering. Probably way easier to actually cause the disaster. Examples include igniting the atmosphere, causing geographic instability/earthquakes/volcanic reactions, exploding the system’s star, crashing a natural moon into the planet, unleashing a biological weapon…

Pretty sure it’s a rule set by individual subs. Some even allow GIFs in the comments!

Oh neat! I started looking at propane tanks, then switched to air compressor receivers when I found ones rated for 300 psi, knowing propane is generally 100-200 psi. But now I’m finding some propane tanks rated for 600+ psi…sooooo…guess it depends?

“pools are perfect for holding water”

Oh no, it totally matters. In the case of a receiving tank, rated for 300 psi internal pressure vs 1 atm external. The limiting factor there would be tensile strength, or how well the material resists being pulled apart. Sticking it underwater with 1 atm internal would test a combination of compressive and tensile strength, but more compressive (if it were a perfect sphere, it would just be compressive). Good news is, steel is a relatively good choice for both.

Which was one of the complaints about the material choice for the Titan; Carbon fiber has high tensile strength, but low compressive strength. The strength of the hull had more to do with the resin than the carbon fiber itself. In fact, I’d be curious to know if there was even a benefit to using carbon fiber over regular fiberglass. That and it’s hard to inspect for fatigue compared to other materials like steel.

Case and point: Deepsea Challenger, the sub used by James Cameron to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, had a pressure hull made of steel.

I mean, today, entirely seriously, I spent about an hour looking at used prices for air receivers for this exact purpose. You can totally get 250 gallon tanks rated to 300 psi that are about the right size to fit one person and all the electrical components inside. Cut off one end and replace it with an acrylic/poly-carbonate dome, add a keel, ballast system, and thrusters on the outside, cover it all with a fairing, and you’re good to go!

I’m thinking I could prototype a functional sub rated to 150 m for around $10k. Totally worth it.

Trust me, I’m an engineer as well lol

I can’t wait until we get bots that verge on gaining sentience, like good-ole u/bobby-b-bot

Sorry, Lemmy is being weird and won’t let me post a top-level comment, but had to get this meme out lol

Welcome to the internet! So exciting to have someone who’s brand new to how things work here.

it’s used by military forces all around the world

Yeah, wired Xbox controllers, not wireless Logitech crap. You willing to entrust your life to a working Bluetooth connection?

Certainly no need to reinvent the wheel. But maybe use something stronger than dental floss to secure it to the axle.

God, there’s a joke in there about 404 (famous drum sequencer, often referenced for its kick sample), but I just can’t get there

Two clothing categories: Clothes that it matters if they’re wrinkled, and everything else. Category one goes on hangers, everything else goes in piles. If I’m out of GUFE (give a fuck energy), category one gets draped over a chair.

People that fold their underwear/socks/workout attire are the same as people who make their bed every day: Whyyyyyy bother.