[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 91 points 3 weeks ago

The sunk cost fallacy is a very easy way to get stuck being miserable.

Sometimes a drastic change might be painful at the time but will be much better for you overall.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

Wow more of the bojo "I would have got things done but the system stopped me" bollocks.

Would easily have been the worst post WW2 prime minister but was beaten by the car crash that was Liz Truss

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago

There's a word missing. Should read "each sober person would have to fight off over 3 million penguins".

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

My understanding is that current atomic clocks work on changing the state of whole atoms.

Whereas this new method changes the state of part of the nucleus of an atom.

Basically smaller is more precise. However given that current atomic clocks are one second out over something like a billion years I've no idea what benefit this extra preciseness will give us.

We'll probably start noticing really weird shit when we look at time that precisely. That's generally what's happened when we get into the quantum scale of things.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago

Aren't there noises like this in Event Horizon?

Does anyone know where Sam Neil is?

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 43 points 5 months ago

His parents were a GP and owned a pharmacy. They just didn't get it for him/them for whatever reason.

They certainly could have afforded it if they wanted to.

There's a massive difference between just not having something as a child and not even being able to afford it at all.

I love these Tory twat stories where they try to relate to normal people. They're so far off the mark it highlights just how clueless they are about real life.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago

This looks like something from Viz magazine. They'll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.

Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there's this little bit in the bottom.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

The difference between this and No Man's Sky is astounding.

No Man's Sky arrives and is dog shit: Look we will fix this, we will get there.

Starfield arrives and is dog shit: This must be divisive because it's different to what we normally do.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 95 points 6 months ago

Anyone remember when he spent all his time talking about colonising mars? That was his big thing and the future. Whatever happened to that?

Then spacex got government funding. Now AI is the big thing.

I've still yet to see any of his great visions he's actually delivered on.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 79 points 6 months ago

We have sold 1/5 less cars. So we need 1/5 less workers.

And people were questioning if he was worth his enormous pay packet.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 44 points 7 months ago

For those occasions when someone orders the top shelf ammo.

Also there's actually 3 ladders there. One pair of steps and two small standard ladders.

I suspect the standard ladders are shite. So they carry some battered steps to avoid having to use them.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

The real answer is it depends how the diver is exerting force as he stands there and what force he has to overcome to jump forwards.

If he's using all his driving force through his legs just to stand there then when he jumps up he will go backwards.

If he was casually standing there easily overcoming the push of the air already then he can jump into the pool just as normal.

It's the same as standing next to a swimming pool with different wind speeds. Small breeze = jump in ok. Hurricane = blown backwards.

That's assuming he wasn't trying to jump off the back of the vehicle.....

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