When you learn Ctrl + R to reverse search you can’t go back lol

Hollywood showing things instantly exploding or shattering the second they hit a vacuum does that to us, but the actual physics of space and the biology of cells are a lot tougher than the films make it seem.

Neither the human body nor the bacteria inside it would burst, and the cold space environment behaves much differently than some expect lol

The pressure difference between the inside of a human body and the vacuum of space is exactly 1 atmosphere (which is not that much in the grand scheme of things).

And bacteria are tiny tanks, because they are microscopical, the physical forces acting on them are minuscule. Scientists have tested exposing bacteria directly to the vacuum of space outside the ISS, and many species survived for years.

And about the cold, because space is a vacuum, counterintuitively, heat is actually hard to lose lol, it can only escape slowly through thermal radiation (there is no cold air to whip past and steal heat away), so they would still be gradually working for some time. And even when finally reaching extreme cold, we usually think of it as destructive, but for microbes it’s actually “preservative”. When Labs want to keep bacteria alive for decades without them changing or dying, they freeze them. So a lot of them wouldn’t even die, but stay “suspended”.

Damn, works surprisingly well!

This, lmao, I downvoted the “edit” because it feels cluttered, hated the tiny memes (while I upvoted the main post).

OP just doesn’t want to realize people didn’t like their stuff.

Europe is “dreaming” if it believes it can defend itself without US backing, Nato’s secretary-general has warned, pushing back against calls in some EU capitals to prepare for a future without Washington’s protection.

The comments come after Donald Trump threatened to use military force to seize Greenland from Nato ally Denmark and to impose tariffs on other allies who opposed him — remarks that unsettled European governments and reignited debate over the continent’s reliance on the US. Although the US president rescinded the threats last week, they prompted renewed calls for Europe to accelerate efforts to strengthen its own defence capabilities.

Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary-general who last week persuaded Trump to withdraw his threats, dismissed those arguments on Monday. Rutte told EU lawmakers that building a fully independent European defence would be prohibitively expensive and would benefit only the bloc’s adversaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“If anyone thinks here . . . that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” he said in remarks to the European parliament. “You can’t.”

“I think there will be a lot of duplication and I wish you luck if you want to do it, because you have to find the men and women in uniform . . . on top of what is happening already,” he said. “It will make things more complicated. I think Putin will love it. So think again.”

Independence from the US security umbrella that has shielded Europe since the second world war was once a niche idea, promoted largely by France.

But the notion of “strategic autonomy” has moved steadily into the EU mainstream in recent years, as Donald Trump’s erratic approach to Nato allies — reinforced by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — has sharpened debate over how Europe can strengthen its own defence capabilities.

Last year Nato allies agreed to lift their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035, responding to Trump’s demand that Europe shoulder a larger share of the burden for its own defence.

Even so, experts warn that fully replacing the US role in Europe — particularly in areas such as advanced weaponry and critical capabilities on which European forces have relied for decades — would be vastly more expensive.

“If you really want to go it alone, forget that you can ever get there with 5 per cent [defence spending]. It will be 10 per cent,” Rutte said on Monday. “You have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros.”

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Yeah, with genius geopolitical ideas like this, perhaps let’s stick to singing for now 😅

Too many people think because something finally “works”, it’s good. Once your AI has written code that seems to work, that’s supposed to be when the human starts their work.

Holy shit, preach!

Once you give a shit ton of prompts and the feature finally starts working, the code is most likely complete ass, probably filled with a ton of useless leftovers from previous iterations, redundant and unoptimized code. That’s when you start reading/understanding the code and polishing it, not when you ship it lol

Not op, but holy shit, it actually does! Wish I knew that before, ty!

Although the idea is nice, both are needed.

It’s important to have open-source alternatives, but you’re not going to serve websites at the Amazon or Youtube scale by self-hosting OSS. Hyperscaler and their datacentres are also needed.

Makes me want to restart another Zomboid save, but I’m waiting for B42 multiplayer :/

Also, if you like Zomboid, keep an eye on the development of Vein, looks very promising!

Being a foreigner in the US sounds like a great deal right now! lmao

The post in question.

Yeah, did people forget the last big Cloudflare outage already? A good chunk of all big services went down simultaneously. Discord, Amazon, Twitter and even the PS and Xbox consoles networks lmao.

Although it’s easy to “create” pseudo-science with EEG data, the presence of EEG by itself does not mean straight pseudo-science. It can be used correctly, and it’s actively used in the medical field to detect brain diseases, for example.

*That said, I’m not saying the study here is to be believed, I have not read it, just commenting on EEG

Yeah, I understand it was signed in 2023, but damn, hopefully they can cancel that shit

Eutelsat merged with OneWeb in 2022, which has satellites orbiting in LEO at 1,200 km.

So I suppose they also have access to that.