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octoperson,

Don’t forget Towcester! I find it very funny that there’s a town called Toaster.

octoperson,

You’re not old unless you type smileys with a nose :-D

octoperson,

🙃 me gusta ☺️

octoperson,

Portuguese is the same but has no inverted question mark, and sometimes it’s mighty annoying,

¿What if you just used them anyway?
¡Problem solved!

octoperson,

Yeah but in the process it’ll scour the surface off the earth so it’s not all bad news

octoperson,

I’ll raise you a carton of ice-cream on a stack of towels

octoperson,

Here’s the article I checked to refresh my memory; theguardian.com/…/homeland-is-racist-artists-subv… . The show runners never checked and it went to air uncensored.

octoperson,

There was an episode of Homeland, where they hired a graffiti artist to paint some Arabic language slogans as set dressing. The slogans the artist chose? “Homeland is racist”, “Homeland is a joke, and it didn’t make us laugh”, “”, “Homeland is NOT a series”, “The situation is not to be trusted”, “This show does not represent the views of the artists”

octoperson,

Brazil & 1984 are thematically closer than probably any other pair on the chart, yet they’re shown to not intersect. I question the methodology.

octoperson,

Yeah I didn’t mention that cos I was trying to sell it. As I see it, the first season is a complete story that reaches a satisfying conclusion. Then the second season came with a bit of a genre shift and new narrative threads that it never got the chance to tie back up. In retrospect, it pioneered the Netflix mode of storytelling

octoperson,

Utopia - the 2013 conspiracy theory spy drama. It’s bold and striking. The music, visual style, writing. Even the recaps - you know, the “previously…” bit. What other show has notable recaps?

Watch the first scene. It doesn’t need any of that “give it a few episodes” nonsense. You’ll know within the first scene if you want to stick with it.

octoperson,

HBO MBERGUY

Along with a radical change in leadership and content.

Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at...

octoperson,

Don’t know if they’re on the tube, but I never made it through an episode of Brian Cox’s Cosmos without nodding off.

octoperson,

“I’m just a stupid little idiot guy” is a very Joelish turn of phrase

octoperson,

Hello!

Your link is to pixel.mamutut.space/p/…/621370665154999687 which is not actually the picture, but a web page that includes the picture (plus some other elements). Some web pages include metadata that lets services like Lemmy pull out the relevant image, but that isn’t present or isn’t working correctly here, so we don’t see the picture.

If you click the picture at your link, it takes you to the picture itself at …mamutut.space/…/Pu8IxA7M4OKDSRYvr01WzyNJEwv0IkEV… . If you replace the URL in your post with this one, it should work as you expect.

octoperson,

Alien is a stupid name for an alien when you stop to think about it. Just like with the creature in Frankenstein, people are going to grab at any alternate name presented, cos it’s just too awkward to talk about otherwise.

octoperson,

Oh no! I knew this would be controversial.

octoperson,

Enough with that! You can’t question the trolley situation, it’s been like this for generations. Get on board. We have flags!

octoperson,

Good point. It has zero contact force at the apex, so 14m is an upper bound on possible cat-loops.

octoperson,

The cat is moving in a circle, so it has a centripetal acceleration and a centripetal force. At the apex of the loop, that force is the sum of gravity, and resistance from the track. The track force is greater than or equal to zero, so acceleration due to gravity is less than or equal to the total centripetal acceleration.

g ≤ v²/r
So,
r ≤ v²/g

Taking top speed of a cat as 8.278m/s (from Wolfram Alpha), and g on earth as 9.81m/s², this gives us r ≤ 6.99m. So long as the cat can maintain its top speed all around the loop, it can successfully do a loop of up to 14 meters diameter. This is a lot bigger than I expected, to the extent that I suspect some flaw in my reasoning.

octoperson,

Shinichi Mochizuki (the abc conjecture guy): elaborates further. You understand less.

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