Hmm… that’s a good point. Basically anything other than a flat surface will have these bizarre properties.

Wow. That would be truly bizarre kind of space to live in.

If you draw a triangle on different parts of a toroid, would you get different angles?

Yeah, that’s t true. Even steel utensils come in a variety of prices. The nicer ones look cool, have interesting shapes are heavy etc. Moderately priced ones are just stamped steel, but still good and durable. The cheap ones, are stamped out of the thinnest low grade trash you can find. Those will bend if you just look at them wrong. Also, some cheap fruit knives have a plastic handle and aluminum rivets. Stick that into a washing machine and you’ll find out how soluble aluminum is at high pH.

Dumb foreigner here, so what’s the deal with silverware? I mean, if you really want silverware, you get forks and knives that are actually made of silver and come in a fancy wood box. Do people use that word for common steel forks too?

I asked GPT and Copilot some pride related questions, and they were both pretty supportive. GPT went into more detail, while Copilot used more rainbow emojis. Either way, I didn’t see any right-wing rhetoric.

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Cannot be stopped, you say? How about you attach a generator to that blade before you start it.

Is there a relevant XKCD about there being a relevant XKCD for everything?

Same goes for volume. People use cubic meters, but I would prefer to use liters instead.

Genuine natural free-range titanium is really expensive. Makes sense to look for more affordable alternatives like fake titanium or artificial titanium.

Oh, so that’s how you make the infinite fractal omniroll. You just need infinite materials, infinite space and infinite time. Shouldn’t be a problem, right?

Before you ask, it’s 51 layers.

If an unraveling sweater counts as a “tall structure”, then what about the space tether, where NASA used a 20 km long wire?

This is highly speculative, because climate science is fiendishly complex, and the error bars in these estimates are as wide as the solar system. However, there is a concept called the “runaway greenhouse effect”, in which the global average temperature spirals out of control, roasting the entire plant. Not exactly the kind of concept you want to think about too much.

There’s a clear difference between being in big trouble and being completely screwed. If we can avoid the extinction of humanity and go with catastrophic disasters and famine that eradicates vast majority of the population, we should totally do it.

Ideally, we would avoid all that, and go back to the good old days. Every small step towards that goal is worth it, although taking longer steps is highly encouraged.

It sounds like a name for a boy band. Sort of like backstreet boys, but more gay.

For me, it didn’t. Also tried DDG with safe search off, and I got only gay picture of two guys kissing. All the other photos were from demonstrations etc. Never tried this search before, so I don’t know what it was like in the past. Was it like 100% gay porn?

You could also list some long term average power draw instead of the peak.

It gets even better when you read about annual or even daily energy production of a specific power plant.

For example, the annual production of Aswan dam in Egypt is about 10 042 GWh, which translates to an average power output of about 1.1 GW. Now that you have this number, you can compare that with the maximum theoretical power output which is 2.1 GW. Therefore, they should have plenty of capacity left, but you can’t tell that just by looking at the published numbers. They just have to use convoluted units, because that’s the tradition in a bunch of industries.