Discharge though. Ew.

I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote.

I wouldn’t want the wrong kind of attention drawn here.

But I think if people have FB accounts that should look for this and report the fuck out of it.

Wait, what?

That’s like saying you don’t have to drive faster to win the race, you just have to cross the line first.

I’m pretty much on board, though how much anyone can agree is a matter of relativity.

We know about the closest stars and the planets within them, and based off spectrometry, we’re confident the planets “close” to us haven’t had life, though they might be capable.

The chances of there being no mass extinction events in the millions of years following abiogenesis is arguably smaller than surviving the five or so we’ve had. Given everything we know about astrophysics, we owe the asteroids a few clean hits, we have been astronomically lucky, and that’s not even taking into consideration every other cause of mass extinction.

15 billion years is still considered early in the grand scheme of things, it’s likely that we are the early ones. A billion years head start is plausible, sure, but it’s certainly less plausible than our existence.

All of this is to say that life is rare enough without them being a stones throw away.

And this is all disregarding any possible intent behind a visit. Any being capable of space travel does not need our resources.

Unless they’re sex tourists, which would explain all the anal probing.

On second thought, I choose to believe.

The chances of extra terrestrial life to have visited earth is very, very small.

The chances of life to occur are small enough,

The chances of evolution to pass through multiple extinction events and producing a being capable of higher intelligence is even smaller,

The chances they have done this faster than humans is smaller still,

The chances they have evolved close enough to us to have visited is near impossible.

The universe is huge, there’s almost certainly life elsewhere - but to ask whether they visited earth is like speculating on whether ghosts exist.

Also the universe is expanding at such a fast rate that unless we develop faster-than-light tech, we will never reach another solar system.

Statistically better than the choices I’ve made thus far I suppose.

Can’t blame you, it looks like Gabe’s head was cropped and stuck on some random guys body, then airbrushed around his beard.

Two things:

1. It sounds like you are blaming yourself, which is hard not to do when everything seems futile - but how you frame things is part of CBT.

You are responsible for the choices you make, but there’s a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.

Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.

2. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Be cautious of anyone who will accept the task.

I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.

Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.

Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.

If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.

What the actual fuck? I thought it looked poorly shopped, but it’s legit.

https://starfishneuroscience.com/team/

I choose to believe Gabe had stored all that energy for just such an occasion.

For the uninitiated, this is a representation of the Survivorship Bias.

Essentially, the red dots represent bullet holes from aircraft which returned from battle.

If you were to ask someone which places should be reinforced with armour, someone who has the Survivorship Bias would say “where the red dots are”, whereas people who know anything about engineering would say “everywhere else!”

It’s like saying: “why are you wearing a helmet? I’ve met hundreds of soldiers and none of them have ever been shot in the head, helmets are a waste of good armour.”

A true fact: Did you know wearing a helmet increases your chances of dying of cancer.

Nano… Pfff…

Requires three dependencies, while Vi requires one. Everyone can see how bloated your system is. You should be embarrassed.

Hey guys, check out this resource beast and laugh! Ha ha ha!

Most people in this thread don’t get it.

You know how some people compete to see who can get Doom to run on the craziest platforms, like a calculator?

Installing Arch with the fewest packages is like that. There’s something oddly satisfying about stripping everything back to the most basic level - to make things work for you within the most constrictive environment you enforce for yourself.

It’s like eating a spicy shellfish dinner and super gluing your asshole closed.

I think the implication is that it might be porn you would rather not see.

Porn.

What’s the point?

X companies are are natural enemies

Like X(org) and X(twitter)

Or X(org)and x(nxx)

Or X(org) and x(wayland)

Damn X, they’ve ruined X!

Ham Sarris has no problem with it

They should have designed it off the HL2 energy ball

This would be hilarious if it was satire, but this ain’t the onion.

Which one lol.

There are multiple episodes which come to mind.

I’ve not had any issues to date, but good to know, thanks :)