There’s still atom-to-arom repulsion because of electron shells (that are negatovely charged) and attraction because of electron pairs forming a crystal bond, and other factors I don’t know about.

My explaination is a gross oversimplification, and crystal chemistry is hard, but it should give a hint of what is going on.

Ferromagnetism (permanent magnetism in iron and iron alloys) happens when iron atoms (that are small magnets themselves) align to sum their magnetic fields and form a strong one we can experience in the macroscopic world.

When the magnet is heated, atoms are more energetic and more free to move around, they misalign because each atom is repelled by the others (equal poles repel each other, so when aligned they are in a constant state of repulsion, but if the material is cold they are “locked in”) and the magnetic field disappears.

When I first watched ENT I had no concept of polyamory and the idea of multiple wives each with multiple husbands felt so alien to me. And once I found out that poly people existed I never made a connection to my memory.

TIL denobulans are poly allies.

And they say Trek is woke now. It’s just a perfect blend of different cultures.

If an AI is thinking of Ralph, does that make him live?

A small webserver for a personal website, a shared folder that acts as a cloud (or a fully fledged Nextcloud installation if you dare), a vpn to check your computer from outside and if you are content limited abroad (be careful with this one), a pi-hole to remove ads in your home network…

It depends on the series, there’s not a single formula good for all. If you want a dramatic “8 hours long movie” like The Last of Us, you cannot get a 24 episode season, because it would be boring/inconclusive, and the years between season is neede because these series are hard to make and take a long time. You can’t have the cake and eat it too, it’s either high quality series or one season every year (also see Fargo for an exmaple of this, one of the series I enjoyed the most and they take their good time to delived it).

If you like want less action drama and prefer extensive character and world building (see Star Trek), it’s very difficult to do so in 12 episodes, so 24 was used to sprinkle small details in a broader picture, and while the “monster of the week” trope is sometimes silly (also see early Star Trek) it sometimes make sense in the universe of the show (like Star Trek Voyager meeting a different species ebery week because they are literally travelling through the galaxy, or crime shows where you a literally going through a detective’s life one case at a time, while exploring their character and culture). With a lot of episodes you also have the advantage of being able to explore a ton of different topics and take your time to properly do it, more than an 8 hour movie can do. Also these types of series usually are less expensive to make so it’s easier to spit out 24 episodes seasons every year (altough it’s equally easy to drop in quality). They can also feel more “down to earth” insteaf of bombastic, if you appreciate this (like I do) they can be more enjoyable than the protagonist trying to save the world every season.

I believed the kinux kernel recently became real time?

Just because a CISC will run multiple instructions in a single clock cycle, it doesn’t automatically make it faster. Complex instructions means complex decode logic, that makes the execution slower, even at the same clock cycle. A modern intel CPU has something like 20+ stages of pipelining, while ARM has 3-5 stages, that makes the execution more energy efficient and more powerful. Also superscalar RISC architectures exist, so RISC can also execute more instructions at a time, and in less time.

Lastly, modern x86_64 look like CISC, but are actually RISC under the hood, the single instruction is just a pseudo-instruction divided in multiple simpler instructions. I don’t believe thay makes it much more efficient.

Fallout New Vegas was also repetitive in many aspects, mainly because they had limited time and resued assets when they could. Still doesn’t mean it’s not a fantastic game

I understand the concerns in the USA, but where I live, burd flu seems to be pretty much a non-problem for now because of very strict controla and low volume of aviary farming.

300 dead cats in 20 years in 18 countries? I’m guessing that house fires kill more cats than that.

I don’t knoe why people are obsesse with keeping cats inside. In a less urbanized area, they are perfectly safe staying outside.

I’m not saying they are not killing birds, or mice, or small preys in general. Cats are predators and amongst the best. What I’m saying is that they are invasive only in places they never were in before human brought them (like Australia or small islands). In continental Eurasia (except areas where they are explicitly been controlled), they have always been there, and the environment is adapted to their presence and will not significantly suffer, not more than any other predator.

In my experience it highly depends on the cat. Some are perfectly content with proper scratchers and toys inside, some just visibly suffer staying inside, it might help we are far from the busy city with plenty of green and huntable animals, but most of our cats spend ~80% of time outdoor during summer and ~30% during winter.

“Outdoor cats” are just cats. They are not a domesticated species, hunting is their instinct, and should just not be introduced in places where they wreck havoc to the environment. Where they are endemic (Europe and continental Asia) they don’t cause troubles to the ecosystem

Also, how many pizza parties are you getting that are worth a raise? If you consider a 1000$ raise per year, which is I guess nothing on a US salary, it’s like 50 pizzas. If you eat two whole pizzas at every single pizza party, that would be almost two parties per month. Is that a realistic amount of parties?

I’ve only seen Legal Eagle’s highly edited reaction to the first episode, but holy hell from the little I saw I never want to see any.

Bad writing, well above the level of suspension of disbelief, totally stupid scenarios that come straight out of a 7 years-old idea of what’s like being a lawyer. Like I get it, nobody expects perfect realism from a tv show, but you don’t need to be a practicing laywer to feel the writers are pretending you are stupid and try and write scenes thay thought as fake arguments under the shower.

And the characters are these obnoxious alpha-male machos that try and fuck over each other and desperately try to not seem weak in front of others. Maybe this show is so meta to ridiculize the current 21st century man that it goes all around, who knows.

I used modern gnome and I seriously don’t understand how it’s “more modern”, most changes feel a downgrade, I cannot divide apps by categories anymore, I only have a big menu that takes all my screen and shows me like 15 apps at a time, unlike “traditional” desktop apps I can control with Alt+Some keys I have the same toolbar filled with burger menus and icons with no text so difficult to use, gnome file manager is objectively inferior in features to Nemo, and don’t get me started on the desktop, when you click an application icon on the application bar it doesn’t even minimize like on every other desktop interface.

Either ubuntu ships a broken version of gnome or it just sucks, and there are also all kind of management issues that make development very inefficient.

As far as I know Mint and Fedora have the same choice of Desktop Environment more or less, I’m really curious to know what you refer to when you say “modeen interface”

If someone is attracted only to woman with male genitalia is not feticism, nor a “chaser”, it’s a sexual preference and, just like any sexual preference, if it’s carried out in a respectful and non-creepy way, it’s perfectly reasonable and must be respected.

I agree with the proliferiation of labels not being super useful and possibly damaging, while sexuality is very complex. What I don’t agree with is your critique of “liking only genitalia” = “objectivizing”

Liking one genitalia and not the other is not “traeating people as body parts”. Is it objectivization if a straight cis male likes women, but is not attracted to a transgender woman with male genitalia? I don’t think so…