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@freemo these hand wavy bullshit accusations like "whataboutism", "false equality", etc. are intellectual sloth. immediately disqualifies any point someone makes if they are resorting to those.

@ThatCrazyDude a german "independent" journalism organizations published a piece about a handful of right wing politicians meeting in secret and discussing right wing stuff.

they published this while the farmers protests where on their height. i'm sure that was pure coincidence.

now _nothing_ is reported about farmers anymore, but the news only report about totally organic and independent giant protests against evil right wingers and the biggest opposition party.

the state of germany is so absolutely corrupt that it borders on a bad joke.

@ThatCrazyDude meanwhile in germany politicians paint the end of civilization because some farmers have a traffic light (because current coalition is red yellow green) on a noose hanging from their vehicles xD

Preparations for the Paris Olympics seem to be right on schedule 🤣

Well after one month without "porn", i feel like i need to continue my break on "porn" for like one or two additional month(s)

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 25 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes feel nothing but gravity.

Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves - ripples in the curvature of spacetime - with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.

It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should be able to see mergers of supermassive black holes as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)

It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation", the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. This radiation was created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So it's older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.

It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2034.

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