The only social media I really use is Lemmy. I have instagram strictly because that’s where my sibling’s meme group chat is and they don’t want to move. I don’t use it for anything else.

Garage motor special $100 off? Hooray!

Now if only I could afford a garage…

Damnit I think I combined her with Artemis because that’s one of the weird birth stories I was talking about. Also yeah I really can’t believe I missed one of the main gods.

For fun I’m going to try listing as many Greek deities as I can from memory, this will pale in comparison to the real total but it will be fun nonetheless (I’ve probably made many spelling mistakes)

1. Zeus, king of pantheon of the gods who rules the sky and weather etc.
2. Hera, wife of Zeus… one of the goddesses of fertility? And peacocks?
3. Poseidon, god of water and horses and earthquakes
4. Hades, god of the underworld who has a helm of invisibility
5. Persephone, daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades goddess of spring
6. Demeter, goddess of agriculture
7. Hermes, god of messengers and thieves, has winged shoes
8. Dionysus, god of wine and festivities
9. Aphrodite, goddess of beauty (born of the corpse of the father of the titans… Ourous?)
10. Artemis, goddess of strategy …and the moon?(multiple weird birth stories but all from Zeus’s body if I recall)
11. Apollo, god of the sun, son of Zeus
12. Ares, god of war
13. Phobos, demigod or lesser god of fear, related to Ares
14. Demos, same as above but for “terror”
15. Hephaestus, god of machines and husband of Aphrodite
16. Hestia, goddess of the hearth
17. Lethe, river in Hades and god of sleep
18. Eris, goddess of chaos
19. Prometheus, titan who defied Zeus to give humanity fire and got his liver ripped out by eagles indefinitely
20. Helios, titan of the sun (having multiple deities for the same thing happens a lot)
21. Kronos, titan of time
22. Gaia, Mother Earth and mother of titans
23. Nyx, goddess of poison? Treachery?
24. Charon, ferryman/guide of the dead (id call him a deity since people give him “offerings”)
25. Hercules, half human, became a god via golden apples after completing tests intended to kill him
26. Europa, titan, i don’t remember, exploration? She’s the namesake of Europe though, also I think she’s the one who fucked Zeus when he was a cow or something.
27. Vulcan, titan of fire? Volcanos?

I don’t remember if Orion the hunter is just a hero/demigod or if he is a god. Same for Perseus.

Damn. That’s less than I thought. Can I name all nine muses still?

1. Calliope (voice)
2. Erato (you know)
3. Uterpe (joy? Also I feel like there’s another name but I only remember this one because it’s weird)
4. Thalia (song? )
5. Urania (poets?)
6. Clio (history?)
7. Polyhymna (geometry?)
8. Melpomene (tragedy)
9. … I want to say turpentine which is definitely wrong, but I think it does begin with turp- and she’s the muse of dance?

Idk like half the muses are muses of song and there’s significant overlap in all of them if I recall correctly.

Anyway it’s late so I’m going to bed, I’ll see how wrong I was when I woke up lol

Oh also I have never played the game you mentioned but I have siblings who were very into the Percy Jackson books lol

Okay, so I’m definitely not the most knowledgeable hacker, but the issue with an active AI hunter, to hunt and kill instead of setting tarots, is that you’d have to actually create an AI capable of of hacking the scraper.

This would mean tracing it back to the actual source and then hacking that source to destroy the scraper, and I’d bet that’s not an easy task even for a human.

But yeah honestly, creating an AI capable of hacking and fucking up certain systems and then setting it loose on the net really could cause a Datakrash like event if it can replicate itself like a virus on the hardware it infects.

Even better if you could find some way to have it mutate as it goes along but that’s pretty far fetched even for this already far fetched hypothetical.

Thanks, idk if op needed this but I did

I definitely relate. I also kind of have this obsession with using only open source software which also tends to hinder my creativity because some of the open source alternatives to things have steep learning curves.

Anyway, I think this is one of the things that makes me great at math but terrible at learning math. If something is complicated, I have to chew it down to the bone and then rebuild back to the original complicated thing.

As such, I’m really good at doing all sorts of math and even have some of my own weird identities/constants memorized, but it takes me a lot of time and effort to learn new math from a textbook instead of (re)inventing it myself.

Them: “Hey you seem a little unfocused today is something wrong?”

Me using 90% of my focus to not say random thoughts out loud or pace or make weird faces because everyone will think I’m insane: “yeah I’m fine, just a little tired is all”

Out of curiosity what was the intent of this comment?

1. To joke about it being irrelevant for most people to know how to fillet a fish
2. To make a troll joke about filleting something ludicrous (like saying “can you post how to fillet a unicorn next?”)
3. To make a sadistic joke about killing something that people empathize with more than a fish
4. To make a vegan statement about how killing a fish and killing a dog should be seen as equally distasteful (no pun intended) as the murder of a sentient thing
5. To ask a question because you legitimately would like to know how to fillet a dog

No judgement, I’m just fascinated by the fact there are so many different reasons someone might post a comment like this.

I did not think that was common practice or even a thing anyone would do at all till I was with a girl who told me she called her pussy “Patricia”

The sex was great and she (the woman not “Patricia” lol) is a wonderful person, but I was, and still am, vaguely unsettled by someone naming their genitals…

If you put an “i” before the “s” it becomes political content for real for hexbear lol

It’s clearly just saying that the surfaces on which the ends of the cylinder lie are metric spaces with distances defined using Chebyshev or Taxicab metrics based on pentagonal tilings of the parabolic plane so the ratio of a circle’s circumference to diameter is 5.

Since it’s a cylinder we assume the vertical dimension is Euclidean and voila the math checks out geometrically.

I have had the same thought before. Unfortunately conservation of energy is not enough to ensure entropy is monotonically increasing.

Say you created a tiny universe with the same average entropy of our universe and then you connected it to the edge of our universe. Energy is not conserved because you just added some, but entropy is because you didn’t create an entropy potential.

Say you had a warmer object and a colder object and you took all the heat energy from the cold object and added it to the warm object. The energy of your system was conserved, but its entropy decreased, violating the second law.

You can use violations of the second law to violate the other laws because entropy naturally wants to increase due to probability (which cannot be violated without destroying math and logic etc.).

In the scenario above, if you put some fluid between the two objects you could harness convection via a turbine to harvest energy. Even though your action of moving energy around didn’t create or destroy energy, it created a sort of entropic potential energy. Kind of like how teleporting an object to a higher elevation doesn’t really increase any energy in the universe since all mass and kinetic energy were conserved, but you’ve now increased the potential energy of the object which would become kinetic energy as the object falls back down. You could then harvest infinite energy if you repeated the cycle.

In order for one to move energy around via magic without violating entropy, one has to increase the entropy of the universe by at least the same amount it would take to move that energy without magic.

The solution I thought of was just that magic accelerates the expansion of the universe. Technically this still allows for some “impossible” stuff locally, like a perpetual motion machine or free energy generator that will eventually die but on the timescale of human lives seem infinite.

Magic would get weaker with use over time as the universe nears it’s equilibrium temperature, and you would be shortening the lifespan of the universe every time magic is used. But even if you used it excessively, you probably wouldn’t be shortening the lifespan of the universe by very much unless you were using magic to like move black holes around or rearrange galactic clusters.

That still is a violation of entropy because you’ve increased the “order” of energy in the universe as a whole, which is not possible.

If you can violate entropy, one can create a more than perfect Carnot Engine (or in general just a heat engine with efficiency greater than 1) which would allow you to generate an infinite amount of energy in the form of mechanical motion.

Unless in creating/gaining “mana” one is accelerating the entropic decay of the universe as a whole equal to or greater than the amount of entropy reversed locally (eg spells must produce heat and be inefficient at converting mana energy into work), magic would violate thermodynamics and allow for infinite energy creation.

Fuck the square cube law. If there is any magic that can freeze things / make things cold, the second law of thermodynamics is void, and by extension the other two are as well.

Perpetual motion machines? Hell yeah. Infinite energy? Hell yeah. Being able to create negative energy by decreasing entropy thus being able to create antigravity and simulate negative mass? Hell yeah

Be born rich, pay others to go through

My siblings and I would occasionally eat raw okra from our garden growing up. They’re covered in fuzz that is really soft when they’re small, and it’s quite a weird texture experience with slimy ball-bearing-like seeds on the inside lol

This article has made me realize it has been way too long since I last had gumbo or jumbalaya or any good homemade southern cooking. :(

“She’s got huuugeee… tracts of land.”

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是的，我是美国人。我的文法很不好。

“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”