I definitely agree. I’m more just talking about the search for life though, not necessarily going for a visit lol. If we somehow search our entire galaxy for life and don’t find any, naturally the next step would be to start looking through another galaxy - I’m just trying to illustrate just how massive a search that would be.

Right, a few dozen light-years is like… Less than a rounding error lol. The Milky Way galaxy alone is like 100,000 light years across, and around 1000 light years thick. If we treat the Milky Way as a cylinder, that’s a volume of roughly 8 trillion cubic light years to sift through.

Granted, a cylinder is a massively naive simplification for calculating the volume of the galaxy and probably way overestimates things. But even dropping that estimate down several orders of magnitude, billions, or even millions of cubic light years is still an unimaginably large region to search for life. And that’s just one galaxy. There’s billions of galaxies (that we know of), and some are even bigger than the Milky Way. Searching through all of that for life, especially when we don’t really know exactly what to look for, is a hilariously huge task.

Right, yeah that’s sort of the conclusion I’ve reached - sort of a “correlation may not imply causation” type situation.

I drink one 300g cup of coffee a day, except on very rare instances where I’ll have like two or three cups in a day. My average daily caffeine intake is probably around ~100mg, which is well under any demonstrably dangerous limits that I’ve seen.

I think it’s supposed to be a commentary on how painkillers are widely available and overused to cover up larger health issues, which snowballs into larger and larger health issues

Every accusation is a confession

Could you be more specific about the negligible health benefits of coffee and the downsides of caffeine? As a regular coffee drinker, I’ve done some searching to try and gauge the long-term risks of consuming ~100-200mg of caffeine per day, and couldn’t really find anything. The medical sources I’ve seen basically say the long term risk is practically non-existent unless you have a specific sensitivity to caffeine, but I’m curious if you’ve seen something different.

Nothing says “serious” like mixing upper and lower case letters yet keeping them all the same height, so it looks like a third grader wrote it

Two big things I’ve noticed:

1. They removed the Chromecast queue feature. So if I’m casting to my TV, I can either play one video at a time, or I can enable autoplay and see what the algorithm decides to serve me - I can’t queue up a few videos and just watch those, like I used to be able to.

2. Playlists are becoming harder and harder to use. Finding the button to add a video to a playlist, moving videos from one playlist to another, and managing playlists in general has all become more difficult recently.

At the end of the day though, you’re the one behind the wheel of a multiple ton death machine, and as long as pedestrians are following the law, the blame lies solely with you if you hit them, even if it’s dark with no lights and they’re dressed in dark clothing. It’s not illegal for a pedestrian to exist in dark clothes at night. If you can’t handle that responsibility, then you’re probably not fit to operate a vehicle.

Do… Do you think porn was a new-fangled thing in 1997?

Or an ancient one, for that matter

A community, coming together communally, to pay for something the community uses, as a community? Hmmm, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…

Putting age gates on the Internet is indeed pretty authoritarian though, and starting with porn is only the beginning

Or currywurst.

You just described the difference between -5C and -15C without any difficulty at all.

After converting to Fahrenheit lol.

It’s what you’re used to.

That’s kind of my whole point. It’s what I’m used to, and you listing out the Celsius scale breakdown isn’t going to convince me to want to use Celsius for everyday uses. Of course I could get used to it, but it would take a wholesale, nationwide switch, just like it took the UK. Until then, telling me how much better Celsius is is just pissing into the wind, and honestly, a little underinformed.

Fahrenheit scale is super arbitrary and it’s hilarious when it is posed as a “human-centric” scale.

The Fahrenheit scale is literally based on what was thought to be the limits of human comfort though. 0° F started as the lowest measured temperature in Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s hometown, and 100° F was his estimate of normal human body temperature.

You think it’s arbitrary because you’re used to a different scale. To me, having a scale go from 0C to 40C seems arbitrary, especially because I live in an area where for 3 months out of the year, it’s constantly below 0C, and it’s critical to know the difference between -5C and -15C, rather than just lumping them both into the same “sub-zero” category. I’m the same vein, categorizing 10C as “jacket weather” is borderline useless. The “jacket” I’m going to wear at 10C is much heavier than the one I’m going to wear at 17C (if I wear one at all), for example.

By the way, you can do the exact same breakdown of the Fahrenheit scale, except it’s more than twice as granular, and it goes from 0 to 100, like a bunch of other metric measurements… It boggles my mind when metric users use the 0 to 40 Celsius scale up as an argument against Fahrenheit.

He’s not going to actually love Trump, he’s just saying that to get under Trump’s skin.

Really the only downsides is that they do not like charging in the cold, are just as toxic as cadmium, and are much much much more expensive.

Seems like some pretty big and numerous downsides lmao

By your logic, do you consider ground meat to be vegetarian? Animals aren’t slaughtered specifically for ground meat, it’s made of the extras, off-cuts, and all the bits that typically won’t get eaten, in a very similar vein as how gelatin is made.

Did Pence also advocate for electric-shock “conversation therapy” while Governor?