Floorp

Literally Charles McGill

Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like “hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it” and chief’s like “hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!” and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years

How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It’s really right in front of us!

Yea but it’s inefficient. USB-A has a significantly lower transfer rate than USB-C so it’ll bottleneck

Objectively disgusting. How can one connector be so chunky while still being asymmetric?

a slave-master dynamic

please don’t use that term, every time i see it i immediately verge on orgasming. you’ve already made me ruin 2 undergarments today. i have a serious bdsm kink and this is not funny.

Well, its small mass certainly contributed to it losing heat more efficiently. But Mercury (much less massive than Mars) and Ganymede (around the same mass as Mars) both have a magnetic field, so there are a lot of other factors at play. Something to do with a change in the chemical composition of Mars’ mantle, and the possible lack of plate tectonics, I’m not so familiar with the causes though.

Venus was habitable (with vast oceans, plate tectonics, soil and everything) for 3 billion years (almost 70% of its history!), until about 700 million years ago… it stopped being habitable because of Jupiter.

From Wikipedia:

Between 700 and 750 million years ago, a near-global resurfacing event triggered the release of carbon dioxide from rock on the planet, which transformed its climate. In addition, according to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter had not altered its orbit around the Sun.

Considering there’s a good chance Jupiter obliterated our next door neighbours, an entire planet of organisms… yea it’s not as nice as it seems

Oh well. Mars was also habitable for a few hundred million years – in fact, the river beds and remnants of the Martian oceans are still very clearly visible on 2/3 of the surface, even after 4 billion years, and NASA is on a mission to bring fossils of ancient Martian life back to Earth, if there are any. But all of its atmosphere leaked out into space because its dynamo (magnetic field generation) abruptly disappeared so… skill issue lol. One of the many possible contributing factors to that happening is that giant impacts during that period of time overheated its mantle which fucked up global heat flow & convection near the core so… Jupiter’s fault again?

Violence solves all of our problems

Really now? I thought most steel had way more carbon & chromium/nickel/manganese than that. I guess I underestimate how little is needed to make iron no longer mushy.

The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!

Tax/fine Google more and give the profits to competitors like Mozilla (as long as those competitors use the funds for Firefox)

I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron

Meanwhile, you’ll use very pure aluminum all the time