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Cake day: October 10th, 2023

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  • Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds is one of my favorite scifi books and it deals with this question in an interesting way. It proposes that Time is the great filter. Life exists in this galaxy, but intelligent life is so fleeting when considering galactic distances that the probability of one sentient lifeform finding another during their “peaks” is vanishingly small. Extinction, societal collapse, evolution to a higher form, whatever you want to imagine, it all gets in the way of the fantasy of meeting a thinking being from another planet.


  • Time itself is the filter. I don’t think we are the first, but I don’t think we will every find any other intelligent life. The universe is too big and our lives are far too short to make any sort of attempt to travel or communicate across those distances ourselves. I’m also not entirely confident our idea of what a society is will last in any meaningful way over the timespans required. Our longest lasting dynasties rarely make it more than a couple hundred years. Space is just too big for us to work with using our current understanding of physics.



  • Maybe I’m biased because I’m a welder, but it always made more sense to me that electricity flows from the negative. Like , if the positive moved, wouldn’t you change the element of the wire after a while? It also helps that you can tell the difference if an arc is positive or negative relative to the stinger depending on how the metal reacts, at least to a welder. I know that doesn’t make any sense at all but it does to another welder lol









  • Lmfaoooo u funny bruv.

    All a “ghost gun” means is that the gun isn’t registered. It’s effectively the same thing as a garage gun. Also, the actual number of “ghost guns” used in crimes is stupidly small. Like not enough to matter for rounding off of 99.9% of gun crime.

    As for the “specialized skills” needed to make one of these? Have you ever had a high school carpentry class, maybe a beginning into to working in a metal shop? Congrats. You now have all the special skills you need to buy, assemble, and fabricate a 100% legal slam fire shotgun out of plumbing parts.

    Even making an AR is a weekend project for a motivated individual.