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They believe in eugenics, they are the worst of the worst.

And because the food was frozen and is thawing because of the ambient heat, people will point and shout: "SEE! It is working! I am actually heating the food with my heat-ray vision!"

You are very welcome! <3

There is a few different concepts here in conflict, which is why the question is hard to answer.

What do we mean when we say space? Usually we mean above the Kármán line, or above 100km. At that point you are above almost all of the atmosphere, so we consider that space. The atmosphere does actually extend quite a bit above that, but at that point it's so thin we consider it to be space.

However as we know, the Earth has a bunch of gravity from its mass. So when you get up to 100km you just fall back down. Space isn't free of gravity, the gravity of the Earth extends basically forever. It's influence does get less (thanks to Newton we know by how much), but considering the Earth is thousands of km wide when we get up to 100km we are pretty much still on the ground as far as gravity is concerned.

So why do we see astronauts fly around? They are weightless, so there is no gravity right? This is something popular media gets wrong a whole bunch, it's not like there is some magically line called space and beyond there you are weightless. Those astronauts are actually in orbit, that's why they don't experience gravity from the Earth. To understand orbits, imagine we fire a big ass cannon. The ball flies through the air in an arc and lands on the ground. How far away it lands, depends on how fast we shot the ball. The faster it went out of the cannon, the further it flies. Now imagine we shoot the ball over the horizon, so it lands so far away we can't even see it anymore. It still lands right? Yes, but only up to a point. It turns out if you shoot the ball fast enough, the arc just continues falling beyond the horizon until it loops around the Earth. As it is falling, it doesn't experience gravity except for the arc it follows.

Usually when we put stuff into space, we mean put it in orbit and especially something called Low Earth Orbit . That means it needs to have a speed just like the cannon ball, to keep falling indefinitely. The speed we need is dependent on how large the arc we want to have, or in other words how high the orbit is above the Earth. For context, if we want to fly in orbit in space so at an altitude of 100km, we would need to go almost 28254 km/h. Imagine driving that fast on the highway, it's crazy fast.

That's why we use rockets, it's not as much about going up, it's more about going really fast. So a rocket takes off and goes vertical for the first bit, this is to get to a thinner part of the atmosphere to reduce drag. Then it does something called the pitch over maneuver, usually in the form of a gravity turn. This is to go mostly horizontal and get that speed up. At the speeds rockets are going, they get to the 100km altitude in no time. So they pitch over as to not overshoot and use all their energy to go as fast as they can horizontally and thus into orbit. Then you get into the realm of orbital mechanics, which popular media also gets wrong a whole bunch. You can't just point your spacecraft into space, give it a boost and be flying off into the void forever. If you want to learn more I would recommend playing Kerbal Space Program, to get a feel for how orbits work.

But say we are totally done with Earth and just want to leave it all behind, go into Deep Space. How would we do that? For that we need even more speed, something called escape velocity. If we get to that speed (40270 km/h), we can leave the Earth and go wherever we want, right? No not just yet, we might have left Earth behind, but we are still in orbit around the Sun. So we are still following orbital mechanics, only the Sun is the primary body we have to account for instead of the Earth. We can use orbital mechanics to fly around the solar system.

If we want to leave the solar system, we would need to go even faster. But the issue is there is nothing out there. To get anywhere interesting, we would need to travel close to the speed of light for years. Even our fastest spacecraft are standing still compared to the speed of light, so leaving the solar system isn't very useful right now. But we do have the Voyager space probes which kinda sorta left the solar system and we got some interesting data from them, which is cool!

I think you are right, but also feel like it's a too narrow view. Other places which aren't the US have the same kinds of things going on.

In my personal experience and amateur opinion, people have swung back. During the pandemic, especially at the start it was all about protecting each other, caring for each other. About doing stuff for the greater good, limiting freedom of what you can and can't do, not to help yourself but to help others. There was always this group which resisted that, but as the pandemic went on, it got harder and harder for more people. You saw people ignoring masks and hygiene rules and doing what they felt like, especially near the "end" of the pandemic. Even the people that really cared and tried (me amongst them), there was a mental fatigue and mistakes slipped in. And I can't imagine how hard it must have been for young folk.

When the pandemic was declared to be over, there was this real shift in people's attitudes. People got more selfish and less worried about stuff like personal space and basic hygiene. Especially since the pandemic wasn't really over, a lot of people felt like it was all bullshit. We could have just declared it over way sooner and they could have gotten on with their lives. I've seen people buy bigger, less environmentally friendly cars. Buy loud motorcycles. Eat more meat, use more energy and water. Be rude to people all the time, be rude to people in services. Let their kids do whatever. Play more loud music.

It's like people got so tired of caring for others, they feel like the world owes them what they want for themselves.

Of course there are many other factors, like the insane amount of social media people consume and what that does to their brains. The big media companies driving what people need to think. Pressure from wars and climate change, driving up refugee numbers etc. etc. But for me personally, I feel like the swing back from the pandemic has had a big impact.

It hurts itself in confusion

I really hate it when I search for an app the search result is on the right and the sponsored result is on the left. It makes zero sense and they only do it so people misclick and Google can charge the sponsored app for that. It's the kind of shit that just makes the world a worse place, in the name of earning a few more bucks. Google could have made billions forever and be the good guys, instead they choose to be assholes because number must go up.

I have both kinds and I don't really care. I just buy the pants because I like how they look, don't even check what kind of fly they have. I have the ones with a regular zipper and 1 button, zipper with 2 buttons, no zipper just buttons, a little hook thingy button and fly combination. There are more important aspects of pants for me, like the fit, feeling, price and how they look.

1337 comments? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers!

I'm on 2213 right now, also joined around 2 years ago. So I would suggest it is in fact me who is carrying this network. Just kidding, we all know it's Stamets@lemmy.world and by a lot.

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I don't think this has anything to do with ADHD, it's just a little shortcut you can use when doing math in your head. I was taught techniques like this in school when we learnt addition and subtraction etc.

I was recently talking to a buddy of mine who is in charge of production of some parts for a large hardware brand in Shenzen. We were laughing about how the US wants to do manufacturing again and how they think it will create jobs. He says in one of the factories he uses, they just have 1 dude working most of the time. They work in shifts, so it isn't like the same dude and they always have a second dude which hops around and helps where needed. But for most of the things they do, it's just one dude monitoring all the machines. If there is an issue, he shuts down that line and calls a dedicated repair team to get it up and running asap. It seems the US still has the idea of factories from WW2 in mind, where everything is dirty and there's people everywhere. The reality of most high end modern day factories, like those used to create computer parts, is everything is ultra clean, highly automated and run by very few people. China hasn't been sitting still these past 50+ years since everything was outsourced there, they are masters of efficiency and automation. Sometimes you'll see a small manual line doing a single step, which is tricky to automate. But it'll be maybe 15 women (usually women because they generally have better dexterity), doing only the one thing.