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Medussa posted...

this was way better than Picard 1 and 2, but not a chance it was better than anything Lower Decks (edit: maybe it beats LD1. it's been a while since i watched that one) or especially SNW Season 1.

Fair enough, I have not seen Lower Decks or Prodigy. I meant it more with the live action, but I've heard amazing things about Lower Decks, so I might catch it soon.

I stopped watching after 4 because I got busy and only followed Mando. Just binged 5-10.

Still processing everything, but I fucking loved it. Best season of ST in a long ass time. The Borg stuff was meh, but I still loved everything.

"And I will make it a threesome" "Do you even hear yourself" is the funniest bit of the entire Picard show.

Biological aging and chronological aging are two different things and everybody has a different ratio.

Zikten posted...

That's what the Big Bounce Theory is though I think. Or a variation of it. But yes. In some way at some time, a new universe could appear. And it could have already happened before our universe

Also, each time it happens, the laws of physics and everything could be totally different. There could have been a universe where magic was real.

Nah, the Big Bounce is a much shorter time frame where heat death doesn't actually happen. It just cycles. There isn't much evidence of contraction yet.

What I'm saying is long after the universe has achieved heat death in the regular inflation model, something in the 10^10^10^50 years range, another universe would appear and this would keep happening for infinity.

Most probably previous universes going back infinitely in time.

Zikten posted...

I'd like it to be the Big Bounce Theory. I like it because it means existence won't end forever when our own universe dies

But the simulation idea wouldn't bother me either maybe. It might ne cool if we could prove it

Basically it would be like we all live in a video game

Just because our universe dies doesn't mean after an incomprehensible time, another one won't show up.

Disney+ lost $5 billion in the past year and quarter. The whole streaming thing is gonna be going downhill because it's not worth the insane costs they pour in. A lot of companies are basically starting to follow in Zaslav's footsteps.

It probably existed as a mathematical concept infinitely into the past.

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

Oh shoot, Im sorry, but it looks like you quoted the wrong post. What a relief. For a second, I just thought you were saying something really really stupid.

You probably thought this was a really clever response.

But it's not. Shill less for massive corporations next time.

Lmao at the NYC one. I'm from NYC and have no idea which one is the real one.

What a fucking shitshow. Verifying you're legit shouldn't cost money. It's a benefit to society.

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

Dude would still be ripping them off for the rest of his completely criminal life. Sucks to suck, get a fuckin job.

Oh no, I'm supposed to feel bad for a company that thinks it's beneath them to lower prices on their games.

Also, he was involved in selling modchips. Not roms. All modchips do is basically root your device. If people want to pirate, that's on them. To figure a $14 million loss on that is complete BS.

Fuck Nintendo.

Zikten posted...

There is a weird theory that our universe is the interior of a black hole in so,e bigger parent universe

Also, white holes are actually a theory. They basically would be spitting out matter. Some people think every black hole has a white hole exist somewhere else. Either in a distant part of the universe, or in another universe.

Here is some information on the "we are already inside a black hole" thing

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/baby-universes-black-holes-dark-matter/

This is all nonsense dude. A black hole is merely a collapse on itself so severe that time basically stops as you get closer to the singularity because of the sheer gravitational pull.

They're not actual holes to other places and the universe being inside a black hole is nonsense.

Oklahoma is a one party state. He's wasting his time because this isn't gonna fly.

If it was a two party state, then yeah, that journalist would actually be fucked.

Guy seems like an idiot, but like another person mentioned, they clean after every flight. That popcorn would have gotten cleaned regardless.

Unless it was every fucking where, I don't see the need to make a pregnant woman clean that up.

Leave it to Nintendo to give out some old ass shit and not even let you keep it, despite requiring a membership.

Tmaster148 posted...

Honestly it really depends.

A group of always online people going around attacking people over a video game as a "boycott", that won't work.

A group of D&D players cancelling subscriptions because they don't like the upcoming changes forcing WotC to go back on them, that works.

Ultimately anything that tries to extend pass a small group that can form solidarity over an issue that directly affects them is bound to fail. Boycott works when the scale is small.

Yeah, small scale works because it doesn't go viral. It's between a base of people and a base that the company usually directly depends on. So they notice it ASAP.

I've actually participated in some successful boycotts, but they were very niche and we basically made known to the top of the chain.

Nike, Hogwarts, Chick-fil-A, and now Bud Light? Those go viral and basically act as advertising. That's all you're hearing about. People don't care what the actual issue is, things like FOMO and curiosity start kicking in.

As I've said before, boycotts end up basically working as advertising. That shit was absolutely everywhere the first couple of weeks.

It's why they're doing the whole reboot so quick. They're banking on the craziness to maximize profits.

That's the reality of HP going forward.

It's $360, with the Switch 2 likely coming in 2024.

Only collectors and diehards are buying it.

100%.

There's absolutely no way they're killing that cash machine off.

I expect more of this to start happening in areas that are light on theft.

Walmart isn't even allowed in NYC, so everybody went east or north. North closed down about 2 year ago, so now the only option is east.

I'm dying over here.

I don't watch that Redeemon shit.

If time continues to exist for infinity after the heat death, then the non-zero chance of another universe popping will eventually happen. Over infinity, our universe down to us will repeat infinitely because configurations are finite.

Liam fucking Neeson.

Oh shit, I just realized I quoted my own post earlier instead of ellis123.

bigblu89 posted...

The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

But it is the incorrect definition of woke. So if that's what you think "woke" is, then you're just flat out wrong.

Because the term is now a racist catchall.

However, while it started in the way mentioned, before it hit the mainstream, it was used by a lot of conspiracy theorist black guys. It basically meant to trust no mainstream media at all.

archedsoul posted...

This seems like a clickbait article meant to entertain and rile up idiots. Just the Disney stuff is pretty inaccurate. Iger was brought back to cut $5.5 billion. That's almost double what Zaslav is working with, and he already made his plan pretty clear. Disney+ has also been losing an insane amount.

And I personally don't even believe anything like "going woke makes you broke". However, lots of stuff that has been accused of being woke either flopped or failed to meet expectations.

This doesn't even mean much overall. You're dealing with mega corporations. They've calculated the loss already. None of them can possibly go broke even if they put out stinkers for a few years. After that, investors might start pulling out in droves like they partially did last year.

This is even more apparent with advertising. Boycotts just end up being indistinguishable from advertising at some point like with Nike, Chik-fil-A and Hogwarts. TV and Movies have more of a "people just aren't tuning in" thing. Ads are just like "yo, I wonder what the craze is about"

Uh, not really. They have not been successful. The most successful products in the last 2 years have been No Way Home, Top Gun Maverick, and Avatar 2. Disney+ had a loss of $4 billion last year and then another $1 billion this past quarter.

Everything else has failed to meet expectations of you've been following a lot of these company's finances. If you listened to Disney's last investor meeting, investors were questioning Iger on why this is happening and he was talking about how it is to give things a chance and get untapped audiences and that they might have screwed up with some and will now be more cautious about quality and appealing to everybody and pre-existing audiences.

This seems like a clickbait article meant to entertain and rile up idiots. Just the Disney stuff is pretty inaccurate. Iger was brought back to cut $5.5 billion. That's almost double what Zaslav is working with, and he already made his plan pretty clear. Disney+ has also been losing an insane amount.

And I personally don't even believe anything like "going woke makes you broke". However, lots of stuff that has been accused of being woke either flopped or failed to meet expectations.

This doesn't even mean much overall. You're dealing with mega corporations. They've calculated the loss already. None of them can possibly go broke even if they put out stinkers for a few years. After that, investors might start pulling out in droves like they partially did last year.

This is even more apparent with advertising. Boycotts just end up being indistinguishable from advertising at some point like with Nike, Chik-fil-A and Hogwarts. TV and Movies have more of a "people just aren't tuning in" thing. Ads are just like "yo, I wonder what the craze is about"

Honestly, I want to see an Onslaught rampage.

Like throwing Juggs from Vancouver to New Jersey.

Or sending Thor into the atmosphere.

Or splitting Hulk into Banner and Hulk.

I wouldn't mind it.

BB_mofo posted...

The original solutions for a Schwarchild black hole models an eternal non-rotating one, which could not exist in the finite universe that we observe. However...

There is also the fact that the Big Bang and resulting expanding universe we observe heavily resembles a white hole that we are inside of. It's so much so that a popular theory has it that new universes are created whenever a black hole is created.

The problem with white holes is that they are decreasing entropy because nothing can enter it. It is expelling matter and energy, but nothing can ever enter it, so where is it coming from? It could only work with a reversal of time.

Black holes are simply a collapse into a singularity. Nothing falling in ever truly touches the singularity because the gravity is so insane the closer you get and the time is dilated so severely because of it, that the black hole would evaporate via Hawking radiation over 10^67+ time ranges before reaching it.

I don't think black holes have what's needed for a new universe to form if it somehow erupted into a white hole. Even if something like Sagittarius A* swallowed the whole galaxy, it wouldn't be enough. The Big Bang might look similar to a white hole, but you would have to account for a lot other things that don't seem consistent with it.

White holes are hypothetical based off the math of black holes. In reality, they would violate the second law of thermodynamics since entropy always increases over time and white holes would decrease it.

If Earth fell into a black hole with 1 solar mass, without being destroyed, it would remain falling for about 10^67 years till the black hole evaporates.

The time he got modded on here.

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Miles. That's 32 billion light years. Which is actually because of inflation because when you see it, it's an image from 14 billion years ago, and the universe is 14 billion years old, but inflation has expanded it to 32 billion light years away.

Noumas posted...

So much of space stuff sounds ridiculous. I still have trouble believing that we somehow have been able to take pictures of galaxies that are a billion miles away and we could only reach if we traveled at lightspeed for a thousand years.

There are no galaxies billions of miles away. The closest galaxy is 25k light years.

Pikachuchupika posted...

The time scales for when these things appear is mind-blowing. Will life even exist at that pount?

A quadrillion years is really nothing in the grand scheme of things. The universe will last that amount 10^85 over.

Getting in the face of someone, so that you can hit them when they try to push you back is a very common bar/street fight tactic that losers use. Here, he didn't even push back yet.

It's probably better to say he deserved it for being there than going on this dumb assault angle.

The chamber is just basic time dilation and there's lots of stories involving it.

Even in the real world, planets falling into black holes are experiencing time at a different rate than us.

Toonstrack posted...

No, the character is an easy recast, and thats exactly what will happen if he is fired.

They might not bother because people might always associate Kang with Majors and the stink.

Especially if the rumors about Kang Dynasty are true.

Easier to just end Kang in something like Loki. We got a huge slate of big villains available.

Yikes at those texts.

I wonder if the Kang storyline is done and they're just gonna go with another villain at this point. Probably the best course vs variants or recasting.

They should Pokemon Go fuck themselves.

Did they really tack on an extra $10 for no fucking reason?

Oh_Boy_ posted...

The DA doesnt need a good reason to charge him. Even if a video shows him not touching her and it comes out she bruised herself(you keep glossing over that she didnt get looked at until way after the cab ride when they were already home for a while) he can still be charged and tried.

You cant infer anything from this. This case is out of both of their hands now.

Alvin Bragg does, since his entire platform is not putting minorities, especially black men, through the system he's trying to change. This is a guy sitting on evidence for Trump and has not charged him yet.

But let's take all of that out of the equation. There is an injured person with bruises and marks consistent with a slap on the face, choking marks on the neck and further bruising and injuries on her arms.

Which is why I said he might still be fucked. It's gonna be really hard for him to prove she did all that if he didn't outside of a confession. His lawyer simply said she recanted. Not that it was false.

People who are saying it's normal to arrest for DV in NY are right.

However, they charged him. They don't really do that unless the DA believes there's compelling evidence, and so far that looks like the bruises and marks left on her.

The DA is Alvin Bragg, and I'm sure he knows who Majors is, and he would have avoided charges altogether if there wasn't physical proof of someone with injuries.

JM might be fucked regardless. They would have to prove she hit herself or get her to admit it if he didn't do it.

divot1338 posted...

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/two-directors-speak -out-about-jonathan-majors-alleged-vicious-cruel-behavior- and-more-after-actors-assault-arrest

That doesn't sound like a recant like "oh boy" claimed. He's saying he's sorry he was so flippant with the "ding, ding, ding" till he realized it was much more brutal than a bar fight.

Oh_Boy_ posted...

Now your Twitter expert witness AB Allen recanted his story, said he thought the fuss was about a bar fight and has gone private.

Source?

gmanthebest posted...

Considering I've only seen complaints about the game here and on Twitter and not in real life, yeah, I'd say a vocal minority. I have a few trans friends who are absolutely loving the game and are just happy to finally have a great non-Lego Harry Potter game. You'd probably just call them Uncle Tom's, but how they feel certainly matters to me.

Which topic did he call people that?

dancing_cactuar posted...

I see that we got the usual duo that give outstanding takes and pop up in every single Potter thread present in spades, being Cyric "trans people who buy Hogwarts Legacy are Uncle Toms" and Averagejoel "holodomor isn't a black and white situation".

Wtf. Yikes.

That is the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, and and they should be setting it up to be safe.

Trump basically made this sound like it's a huge deal and is basically attempting to incite violence, when we're dealing with misdemeanor/low level felony nonsense. Even if they did win against him, he's not gonna face any time. Their chances of winning are not even that good.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Yonkers
East Rutherford
Tom's River

None of those are in NYC and Tom's River is such a shit area.