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Semantically all online bots are programs but it’s a little wobbly past that. Typically a bot is just an autonomous program like a web crawler or a social media engagement farm.

Firstly, a black hole isn’t an object, really. If you manage to compress enough mass in one place, gravity becomes the dominant force and the mass collapses into itself, eternally compressing and densifying. This is the singularity at the center of a black hole, and we use the term singularity because it’s describing a single unmeasurable point in spacetime.

Next point: high gravity curves space. Light only travels in straight lines if it can get away with it, so when light bends in space it’s because the space being traversed is deformed by gravity. Like, the Earth is, as far as it cares, going in a straight line that happens to curve back to where it started. If gravity is strong enough in a region, all possible “paths” through space become bent inwards to higher gravity. Like, even a perfectly straight line away from the black hole will be forced inwards again. That’s the event horizon, the region in space around the singularity where nothing can escape anymore: all paths go deeper into the black hole.

Third point: weird shit happens inside the event horizon. We’re well into Math now because we can’t actually see inside these things, but we can use math to theorize and describe the inside of a black hole. Basically, time and space switch places inside the event horizon. Because every possible direction you can move in only takes you deeper, that means the future is the singularity, and as you move forward in time you move closer in space to it.

So in net: they’re not really holes and they’re not really physical objects: they’re regions where every path in space is forced into going towards the singularity, which is itself infinitely small and infinitely dense.

Anyways, you can accurately calculate the precise size of the region. It’s called the Schwarzschild Radius, and it’s the size of the black hole that any particular amount of mass, if forced to collapse, would become. Turns out that if you calculate the size of the black hole that contains all of the mass and energy in the universe, it would be about the size of the universe, but not quite precisely. That’s all that’s been calculated.

The only places it seemed to work were those that were already established as the centers of capital and were thus benefiting from the expanding frontier of exploitation. Capitalism has run out of land and run out of people outside the imperial core to further exploit and so turns inwards to devour its once-beneficiaries. Internationally and especially in the global south it has served no purpose, ever, except to brutally oppress and exploit.

China isn’t going to traffick me to a concentration camp prison in El Salvador if I have a particular photo of JD Vance on my phone

That’s crank nonsense unless you’re able to describe it with quantum electrodynamical equations that also accurately define gravity, and the whole point is that we cannot reconcile gravity and quantum physics yet.

It’s mostly the plants tbh, dietary fiber is frequently ignored in macro discussions but absolutely critical

It’s more that the lobster plan (long body) is really quite good in many niches, but the crab plan (wide body, no exposed tail) works better in more productive ecosystems that have more predators. So anything lobster shaped coming up from the deep mud will have to reduce its tail or get sniped by a fish

There’s very likely applications in algorithms that try to maximize resource usage while minimizing cost

Possession of cyanide pills is a pretty good indicator of being a spy imo

Don’t conflate Israelis and Jews, that’s antisemitic

Like I’m trusting a snake to be honest

I recall that Gondor very much needed a king to return, like it was a pretty big deal that returning as king to Gondor was a necessary deal. Gondor needed Aragorn to return as king. It’s all documented in the third book, The Return of the King.

The pages are plain html so it’s just a couple KB per request. Much cheaper than loading an actual site.

Creative? Creative peaked at that rollercoaster in one of the movies. It’s all lawnmowers and getting hit by lighting nowadays

Always found it weird that Death had to orchestrate these Rube Goldberg machines to kill people instead of just disconnecting a couple of neurons from each other.

Very excited for financial capitalism’s final form: an airgapped box with two computers trading one stock back and forth with incrementally increased value, forever. It’s kept in a museum.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Don’t worry, there’s no computers inside it so you don’t have to be scared of an AI closing it on your fingers

What, is the AI going to dump a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into the air to cause a catastrophic runaway greenhouse effect, making huge swathes of the earths prime agricultural regions uninhabitable and forcing hundreds of millions of people to flee to other countries, emboldening fascist movements that seize on the fear of migrants and the strain on local resources, while increasing heat means more frequent super storms that destroy infrastructure while much of the global coasts are submerged, crippling international trade and driving famines and resource shortages on critical goods like medicine?

It’s a long deployment and much more active than they usually are. They’re likely getting fatigued and overlooking things.

Man who’s income relies on people seeing movies on his platform wants other platforms to watch movies gone, more at 11