Just when it was getting good too! One of these days…

If computers can do it, so can you!

George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality every day.

I think it’s useful to quickly check if a user is trolling, but you can always just look at their recent activity.

Would sodium make a good bath bomb, or would a liquid sodium-potassium alloy be better? What about cesium, if price is no concern? How effective would such a bomb be against someone taking a bath? What’s the best delivery method; maybe something that dissolves in water like dishwasher pods?

I’m reasonably sure nobody has thought that before.

Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

Generally yes, but if you spill it it can be very hard to clean up, and if you don’t clean it up it’ll evaporate over the course of decades and poison you slowly.

If you want a safer and cheaper (though less heavy) option, I can shoot you a DM once I start making mercury ampules.

You could make /tmp a ramdisk which probably has some speed benefits.

But are they virgin couch cushions?

I think I’m a bit spoiled with my 144 Hz monitor; anything below maybe 120 FPS starts to bug me. Thankfully my PC is pretty powerful and I don’t really play graphics-heavy games (mostly just Minecraft) so my framerate is usually quite stable.

Spotify has DRM, but it’s relatively easy to bypass with something like librespot if you want to download tracks.

Yeah it’s a shame it’s so dangerous. You can get alloys like Galinstan that are liquid at room temperature, but they tend to stick to stuff and aren’t nearly as dense.

I bought it from this guy, $236 for a bottle. Please only buy it if you know what you’re doing, as it is very bad for the environment and your health if it’s spilled or handled improperly.

Of course, I will be very careful when handling it.

I’m planning to make small ampules of mercury and sell them to recoup some of the cost. But yes, the cool factor was a big part of it. :P

I’ve always wanted some, and an opportunity to purchase it arose. Set me back almost $500 but it’s a pretty good deal considering how hard it is to get ahold of.

Mercury has a density 13.5x that of water, making a small amount of mercury surprisingly heavy! (And making these bottles feel very weird to hold).

Just wait until webcams start cryptographically signing image frames to ensure their authenticity.

You can copy and paste the video URL into the Wayback Machine, if it’s decently popular there’s a good chance the title and maybe even the video itself is archived.

Doesn’t need to be forward and up, just forward, orbital physics is fun that way. And yeah, even if all ~1200 kg of air in the ISS’s pressurized volume escaped at the speed of sound (completely unrealistic overestimate), the station’s velocity change would be around 1 m/s, which is only enough to decrease its orbit by a kilometer or two.