Don't Be Alarmed

greeting the mutuals

Yeah man they just passed a new law where you have to say something about the Divine Comedy that isn't that it's "self-insert fanfic"

why does this look like a professor layton puzzle

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

aliens observing the solar system: [untranscribable telescope name]-59172 has 2 planets. It's a pair of relatively small, cold gas planets, called [untranscribable telescope name]-59172b and c. [untranscribable telescope name]-59172c was discovered only a few years ago. Systems with multiple cold gas planets are rather uncommon, so this is pretty exciting

I wonder what they'd think of Uranus and Neptune if they spotted them. The REALLY cold and small gas bodies.

our models at least predict neptune-like planets, that is, ice giants, are probably more common than saturn-like small gas giants, although they're much harder to detect

when planets cross a certain mass threshold while gas is still plentiful, they tend to grow very rapidly, and form large gas giants, usually larger than jupiter. if they only reach that mass after the gas has mostly dissipated, they may become ice giants or smaller gas-rich icy superearths. but producing a light gas giant like saturn requires the planet to reach the mass threshold at a very specific time

This is really interesting to me, where could I read more about our models for what typical planetary systems look like?

I'm really trying hard to be a "It's everyone's first time learning something everyday" kind of guy but also if you don't know shit and you know you're, for whatever reason, a person who doesn't have context about something, why fucking talk. Like why are you talking. If you know you don't know what's being discussed why are you opining about it and getting confused when everyone is like, shut your empty headed mouth for the love of god? Are you ALSO learning for the first time that this is insufferable?? As though half the time these people aren't also insufferable pedants who'd blow a gasket if someone started talking about their loser hobbies wrong

Guy who owns a steamdeck voice: it plays great on the steamdeck

Fuck small talk.  Let’s talk about how your day was, the weather, or the big game last night.

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

imagine seinfeld but if jerry had.... an inquisitive mind..

I just meant if jerry wanted more information but I can see how you might have understood this as me proposing a bicurious seinfeld

Not that there's anything wrong with that

not that there's anything wrong with that