Unironically me IRL. I switched to Bazzite from Win10 this year and it’s been real smooth. I can’t belive how easy the transition was.

Gonna suggest a kinetic sand table. The tabletop is glass and underneath there’s a bunch of sand and a metal ball that rolls around drawing patterns. They’re pretty neat.

A certified hood classic for sure. I have one at home and one at work.

Well for starters, you have to put the satellites into orbit. It’s gonna be pretty hard to do that without an initial energy source.

Second, aforementioned effort +thousands of years.

Third, you are limited by your means to transmit this power, which diminishes as you get further away from the star. Photovoltaic capture abiliy and microwave power transmission capture abiliy drop the further you get away from the star as the energy gets dissipated into the cosmic background. At some point you won’t be able to rely on your Dyson structure and will need to rely on a different power source.

Fourth, these satellites have a continuous upkeep. So it’s not as simple as just putting them up there, they’ll need to be constantly replaced because they will burn out over time.

I like Dyson Spheres/Swarms in concept. Is it possible on paper, yes. Is if feasible to accomplish? No. Not even a little bit, imo.

Any Dyson sphere or even swarm would demand an unfathomable amount of resources, time, and manpower. It would be a mega project that would take thousands of years. You’d need to totally disassemble a cosmic body like Mercury or the Moon to even have enough materials. Even with wildly more advanced tech, you’d end up using an incredible amount of energy to build this, and the EROI would take hundreds more years to ever come to fruition after it’s completed.

I’m of the opinion that any civilization advanced enough to theoretically build such a megastructure has likely figured out a much more feasible energy source by that point.

That’s how you KNOW they’re putting sawdust and filler in their products.

They tried! We had the protest anyway! AG Ellison spoke and everything.

I hiss loudly at my local geese to let them know not to fw me. 😤

Every BMW comes with a complimentary jar of blue electrical smoke. 💨

Raising Gaston over here, damn.

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How are you supposed to tell European countries apart when 99% of them look like amorphous blobs?

You aren’t?

Reece’s pieces, m&m’s, and Skittles mixed in an unmarked bowl.

Oh no I assure you, this was an executive decision. The VP of manufacturing, specifically.

We don’t let Interns make purchase orders at all, let alone call shots like that. Especially not for big ticket items like these weldments.

Oh I feel this in my soul. Recently my company was going to buy some very important welded structures, and instead of working with the American company that we promised the business to, one executive went over everyone’s heads to buy these from the offshore team, despite protests from literally everyone.

They came in today each one is $100k worth of scrap metal. Absolutely unsalvageable pieces of shit. Truly a colossal level of fuckup.

Will the execs learn? Probably not.

Counterpoint: Civilians get arrested all the time for flying FPV drones and similar over military bases. See this article for an example: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/11/chinese-citizen-arrested-after-allegedly-flying-drone-taking-photos-of-space-force-base.html

This is the US military we’re talking about. They have the capabilities to know exactly what’s above their base’s airspace and have still chosen to do nothing. This implies that most of the drones are military controlled.

Of course it’s 3/10. 33% of the country think that he was sent by God. 1/3 of the country are mindlessly loyal Trumpers.

Pretty much any poll regarding Trump’s policies on anything shows this ~33% number.

1000%. Almost nothing else has stayed as popular and as relevant for as long as Minecraft. Truly one of the GOATs.

Yeah. What he did to the Sand People was a hate crime.