They want people to feel like rebels with a cause.

This is a good symbol to make a lot of people your enemies. Your ingroup can now rally against “the establishment”.

It couldn’t work before, because it made too many enemies for your small ingroup, but we’ve reached a tipping point where it is feasible to keep a thing going for a while.

1 minute, 60 seconds, 60 thousand milliseconds. I work with computer systems that monitor themselves to make sure they don’t take more than 10 milliseconds. At 50 milliseconds, they would raise alarms.

It takes 100 milliseconds to blink.

So, we’d notice pretty much immediately :)

And then all networked computers that assume a response within 30 seconds would go bonkers and maybe need to be restarted.

I’d react by assuming IT misconfigured the Network Time Protocol service that keeps machine clocks synced and inform them.

Habitual liar

Not all of them do. What do you want? Rationalization of a wish to generalize over a huge geographical region?

I sympathize with you feeling that way, but of course it’s irrational.

How do you imagine having an “open discussion” when you reject overwhelming evidence out of hand?

More specifically, what openness will you bring?

There is this strange belief that humor is exempt from consequences.

In the book “Jam” by “Yahtzee Croshaw” there is a post-apocalyptic sect formed by a group of people from an internet forum. They are not stupid of course; they form a sect ironically. Then they worship a rambling drunk old man called Bob ironically and have ironic sermons and ironically imprison nonbelievers at the ironic orders of the High Priest.

If you point out that this is stupid and evil, they will roll their eyes and go “Duh!”, then ironically execute you for heresy.

Thanks.

Where can one find more context? Just looking at this tweet, it looks like she is straight up calling Elon a literal nazi.

That makes sense. Though at geological scales the distinction between solid and non-solid blurs a bit. Mountains are not solid to a slow enough observer.

Are there any restrictions on material?

If not, I have stack of dirty nitrogen in my backyard over 100km tall, technically reaching space.

For the most part, whomever the mapmakers happened to ask got to decide. Once it’s on an official map, it’s just gonna drown out any other opinions.

Several places in Norway have names that are spelled “wrong” according to locals, but changing it requires herculean efforts of bureaucracy.

Ah yes. I’d have to ask for uncapped PCU. Being part of the simulation, I’d not notice any lag as my consciousness would lag with it.

Something in-game scriptable, so I could mould it for variety. Space Engineers maybe?

While technically feasible with pure soap in small amounts (which is lye fully reacted with food grade oil/fats), the stuff you find in stores will have stuff like:

• Conditioner
• Perfume
• Coloring

All of which are likely to cause irritation on your intestines and worsen the overall acid flux experience.

If you need to do this experiment for some reason, make sure you know exactly what is in it. Most likely any “safe-ish” soap is more expensive than antacids or food-grade chalk.

Fun fact: Old timey cheap industry soap (plain tallow and lye) used to be popular with rats and mice.

I think it’s “learned helplessness”, sadly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Like much of math, people are often eager to talk about the cool stuff and make it sound hard because they are proud they understood it. For a newcomer, this is just a brick in the face.

Real programmers modulate their voice and scream precisely into the microphone such that the recorded audio file is valid machine code.

They are very much aimed at humans.

Crafted to hurt humans, but still.

Not in a good way. You’d have to make the news and get in trouble. (Btw without murder)

Mostly because Pluto was called a planet for a while, and reclassifying it upset so many people that they couldn’t just go “it’s just an asteroid sorry”.

Exactly.

It was an opportunity to pick who would be in power for them to fight for improvement.

If they effectively meant what they claim, they’d push with heart and soul to get the lesser evil in poer and then immediately fight them tooth and nail for positive change.

“We need to fight for change. I prefer my opponent to devolve into oppressive fascism first, please.”