Iron Lynx

I heard one tip where, if you want to throw a FUCKTON of materials at worms, build a 4×4 square of nuclear reactors, let them heat up to 1000, then aggro the worm to try to chomp down on the reactors, causing it to nuke itself.

Advantage: available with only up to chemical science

Disadvantage: you’ll have to build four nuclear reactors, just to blow them up

Try taking rail guns to deal with the worms. Apparently even the handheld one easily does enough damage to casually oneshot mediums. 10k base physical damage and the shot keeps going and hitting things until it reaches end of range.

There are only two things or people that I don’t tolerate:

People intolerant of others’ ways of life…

And the Dutch.

…

Wait, I am Dutch 😨

Works assuming the rooftops are roughly in line of sight. That is something I assumed not to be definitively true in the other comment…

Within cities?

Look, aircraft are Hella noisy and if stuff goes bad, they’ll smash into buildings. Using them for intra-urban transit is not safe. Besides, I don’t know if multicopters can autorotate, which only adds to the safety concerns.

So why not bring it slightly closer to the ground. Maybe put the transportation device on a bridge or viaduct. And while you could put some stairs up from the streets, you may even choose to link buildings into them directly. Most tall buildings have lifts, after all.

Next, giving each building its own link into the system would be excessive. You can achieve 90 percent of the utility if you have larger entry hubs for multiple buildings, and expect people to walk the last mile.

Anyway, back to the vehicle, since a vehicle for a handful of people is rather inefficient, why not build the vehicles for many dozens of people? Why not build it to connect multiple vehicles? If you run, like, four of these, every five minutes, most people will be able to walk up any time and just go.

And to make that movement more efficient, let’s have our vehicles roll along a specifically designed path, optimised for minimal friction by using hard wheels on a hard surface.

There, I replaced the quadcopters with a train.

Take any tech bro take on transit, and if you try to perfect it, you’ll almost always end up with a train.

It must be a rule on the internet:

There’s always a relevant xkcd.

… it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages.

This.

Fun thing I bumped into a few weeks ago: the guy who’s credited with inventing LSD tried a bit to see how it worked and how it felt. But he had no idea just how ridiculously potent LSD is. I forgot the exact numbers, but I do recall the ballpark. So he had a Fermi-estimated 100 μg while he only needed like 10 μg for a good time, so not only did he have the first known LSD trip, he had the first known bad trip.

After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.

I’m thinking There Is No Planet B by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Half year day, half year night only really holds on the poles I guess. And it goes paired with a long twilight in between.

Or at least by Big Penis Worm

Sorry mate, Tom couldn’t make it, so here we have Bill.

Weather update: it’s raining rocks from outer space

Wonder what that’d look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that’s loud?

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd’s:

If we’re going to assume the copyright of the body would rest with the first Homo Sapiens, that was tens of thousands of years ago, so even under Jamaican copyright (life of the author + 95 years), that’d be public domain.

Plagiarise away!

That’s one way to summarise what that number sequence is tied to.

Zero.
One.
Zero.
One.
One.
Zero.
Zero.
One.

You watch the coffee pot.

Non vegan here. 🤔

Soooooo honey is not extracted directly from the bees, so that would be an argument to declare honey vegan.

On the other hand, even with modern beekeeping tech and modular hives, one could argue the act of taking honey to be a serious intrusion on the bees’ life, so that could be an argument that honey is not vegan.

One could argue where the line lies with eusocial organisms. Do you consider the individual bees or do you consider the whole hive? Whole hive? Honey may not be vegan. Individual insects? Honey could be vegan.

It really depends on your standards. One vegan friend of mine does drink mead (honey wine, for the uninformed) for instance.