I file them the moment I get my W-2. Why wait? You aren’t paying less if you owe, and you won’t be refunded more

Was this before, or after he called a former commander of the ISS “fully retarded?”

I find the XCOM comparisons funny because the game actually tilts the RNG in the player’s favor and people still think it’s unfair

https://www.giantbomb.com/xcom-2/3030-49817/forums/xcom-2-is-un-fair-1792143/

I am down to have monthly updates for the next few years, weekly updates through 2031, and daily updates throughout 2032

I just feel like if we do daily updates for the next 7 years when it’s in all likelihood going to miss us, we’ll be too complacent when an asteroid does have an impact trajectory

It technically would alter the moons orbit, but not by a lot. This asteroid would impact with roughly the energy of a nuclear bomb, which sounds like a lot, but on the scale of our moon it’s negligible.

A rough estimation given my limited understanding of physics is that to change the moon’s orbit by 1 m/s, you would need to impart something like 10²² joules of energy into it. Wikipedia says that if this asteroid hits the moon, the impact energy will be around 10¹⁶ joules. I don’t know how much you know about exponents, but 10¹⁶ is approximately 0% of the way to 10²², and that’s just change of 1 m/s

Of course, someone who actually understands physics is free to correct me if I’m wrong

Can we please not post daily updates? This is still 7 years away

When technology was too hard for the tech-illiterate to use, your grandma wasn’t sharing stories about Haitians eating cats and dogs, and your deadbeat cousin didn’t waste his life savings on Trump’s cryptocurrency

Try thinking for a second.

Places where trees don’t grow are probably not the best places for carbon sequestration if you can’t sequester carbon there cheaper or easier than sequestering carbon in trees elsewhere

Because if it isn’t cheaper than simply growing trees, the money would be better spent simply growing trees

Jerboa. It’s not the most functional but it reminds me of RIF the most.

I switch to Sync any time I need to use the search function

“There’s no point living, so you may as well die” is so last decade. “There’s no point dying, so you may as well live” is where it’s at

Yes, the most that carbon capture can do is temporarily slow down climate change. It turns out the only way you can stop getting carbon from outside the carbon cycle into the carbon cycle is to stop taking carbon from outside the carbon cycle and putting it into the carbon cycle.

But the problem with oil is that it’s really good, and it does a lot of stuff really well

If you can find a more efficient, less expensive way to physically sequester carbon from the atmosphere than letting forests grow, I’m sure there’s a lot of awards you could win

Standard deduction>AGI for 6 years running, this meme don’t lie

A dragon has been attacking trains going into and out of a mining city. The party has been hired to deal with it. They planned on taking an empty train out of the city, hoping to lure the dragon into a fight. I was thinking it would be cool, an epic dragon fight on a train. “Hey, this is a mining town. They have explosives right? Can we borrow some?” Roll for persuasion. DC20 persuasion check, passed.

I don’t have the math on me anymore, but I spent a couple minutes working out how much damage the dragon would take based on how much blasting powder they had, and how close the dragon was before it ignited it, and it was just enough damage to bring the dragon down to like 20 HP

I realized later on that I forgot to convert pounds to kilograms, so it should have still had closer to half its health, but whatever. The idea of a dragon basically killing itself by accidentally blowing up a train car full of blasting powder is sick as hell

It depends on where you live. Some regions have a limited list of acceptable names, some places just have limited lists of unacceptable names, but I can’t find anywhere that explicitly bans Null.

It does suck to be named Null, though. It’s like two steps down from not being given a social security number as an infant

The Perfect Suicide

Backpack full of C4 blows up while skydiving over the ocean? Nice

Also why he couldn’t kill Columbo

Yeah but I’m also pretty sure Gandalf was down with killing Sauron

RIP DJ Vance, poor innocent bystander got got for no reason