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CarbonIceDragon , to Ask Science in In the deep, far future, at the time of the "heat death" of the universe, if I turn on a radio will I get the sound of static or of total silence?
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Maybe we have the radio equivalent of a Boltzmann brain

CarbonIceDragon , to Star Trek in Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks
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sounds like Bolo

CarbonIceDragon , to Texas in Texas Republicans Call For Execution of Women Who Receive Abortions, IVF In Horrifying Video
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I mean not voting just makes things worse, faster. A thing can still be worth doing even if it does not magically fix everything

CarbonIceDragon , to Work Reform in A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this?
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Yeah, I’m not sure I really get this whole “reduce employment” logic. Like if some product just isn’t profitable and you lay off the employees you hired to work on it, that’s not surprising, but if the employees are doing something profitable, and you actually needed to hire that many to get whatever it was you hired them for done, shouldn’t it be more profitable to a company to keep them, even if one had a large number?

CarbonIceDragon , to Ask Science in Hypothetically speaking, what alterations to our biology/genome would need to occur in order for us to be able to safely drink saltwater?
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I wasn’t referring to seaweed on the seabed, I was referring to land plants that grow in seawater. I figure that these kind of plants could be relevant in places like coastal deserts, since seawater is more available than fresh in such places, or in areas that have suffered from severe saltwater intrusion or which become partially flooded by seawater due to sea level rise.

CarbonIceDragon , (edited ) to Ask Science in Hypothetically speaking, what alterations to our biology/genome would need to occur in order for us to be able to safely drink saltwater?
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There are some plants that already grow in seawater, perhaps one way to achieve that effect might be to go about it the other way round, and try to breed or engineer one of these plants into something that can be used as a staple crop? Some quick wiki searching suggests to me that a few species of such plants are edible, though most I could find are so as vegetable type plants and not used like corn or potatoes or such. I did find reference to a salt tolerant plant that can be grown for cooking oil though.

CarbonIceDragon OP , to Satisfactory in New to this game, and recently finished my first little factory to have a proper building and a little bit of decoration instead of just being haphazardly placed temporary structures.
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I have been using the MAM. The Awesome shop and such I have unlocked, but haven’t actually gotten around to building yet, because I’ve been distracted with other stuff so far, like setting up coal power so I’m not constantly having to refuel things, or exploring the map (I swear the map in a factory builder has no business being this pretty, gives me major Subnautica vibes minus the ocean)

CarbonIceDragon , to aww in Spagetti in a sweater
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Would a sweater even do much for a cold-blooded animal? I guess they still produce some heat

CarbonIceDragon , to RedditMigration in Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse?
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I don’t see how you could effectively block people seeing you if the person wanted to, because even if a system is made so you can only be seen by logged in users, that user could make an alt. Heck, they could have an alt that they don’t use for commenting, so one wouldn’t even know to block it.

CarbonIceDragon , to RedditMigration in r/TIHI has been banned for being unmoderated.
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From the one time I tried requesting a sub there, they don’t just let someone have a sub if they ask and it’d be banned otherwise, they probably won’t give it to you if you don’t have mod experience for example (the reason I didn’t get the niche sub I was trying to revive, which is reasonable enough), or if they feel that what experience you do have isn’t enough that you’d likely be able to handle the particular sub. TIHI is a big sub, so they’d not just be looking for any random volunteer, it’d have to be someone experienced with moderating sizable subs, probably. And those people are, well, exactly the kind of people angry with reddit right now.

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