Keeping in mind the object with the larger mass will (over those millions of years) pull the smaller object closer in all dimensions/planes

It’s still hard for me to get my head around, it would be great to see an animation showing this with perhaps 3 or 4 objects. It’s especially hard for me to visualize the gas cloud around a star coelescing into a plane, even before the more solid objects form.

Is this because of rotational mechanics around the star?

Depends on who your dear is 😁

Is helium used in deodorants these days?

It’s surprising an experienced deep sea explorer would go along on something like this.

When I first read about it, it took me less than 5 minutes to discover many, many reasons it was a bad idea.

Wow, I hadn’t thought it through like that, but yea, you’re right.

One or the other. Pick.

Very interesting, but I don’t see how replacing the same volume of air in our lungs with helium doesn’t make you lighter. It’s the same volume, so the volume displacement zeroes out in any equation - I think that poster may mean as compared to empty lungs. Even then I think they’re mistaken - otherwise a blimp/balloon wouldn’t work, as it too is displacing air around itself, and increasing in volume.

I think your closing statement contradicts your earlier statement about weighing less (though I get the point you’re trying to make about mass).

Do we consider weight a sum of all interactions in a given place (including atmosphere)? I’d say we do, since our atmosphere accounts for a notable portion of our weight, and I’ve never seen a scale with a negative tare to account for atmospheric weight.

The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn’t happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.

What we’re seeing here is a result of the amoral “beastly” types concentrating power. What you’re suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.

Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.

And you’re ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren’t part of the corrupt circle.

You’re welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.

You could call it… A commune, to indicate its goals.

I like your use of “sufficiently unplugged”, as we’re all plugged in, to varying degrees.

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).

Oh, cool, that’s slick. I didn’t know this existed!

Your “job” isn’t to “change” anyone’s view - and a real pastor would know this.

Change is an individual thing, and a “real” pastor would be appalled at your idea of the implication of denying individuality by thinking you can make another person change.

Your job is to help people examine the world, examine themselves, and gain understanding, so they can determine for themselves what change needs to take place.

Thinking you can make others change (and thinking that the change you choose is the “correct” one) is the height of hubris, and offensive to the very concept of personhood.

Pastor my ass. Nothing more than a sophist.

By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).

As I understand “walkie talkie” radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn’t permitted to transmit data in a way that’s useful for proper data networking (there’s some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.

Hurr durr, 'Muricans Stoopid

People like you crack me up, all butthurt cause Americans don’t give a fuck about where you’re from.

Just shows you want attention from Americans, like you’re mad your crush doesn’t know you exist.

Only New Yorkers think this way.

How do you know someone’s from New York?

Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.