@pasture
Is this satire?!
@thor
I'm barely qualified to give this kind of advice to others, but just try to take it easy. And try to find someone to vent to IRL. Even if it's just a therapist, offline human contact is more useful than screaming into the void.
@thor
Are you okay?
@Mr_NutterButter
The glass disc is not surprising. Magnetic hard drives themselves are made of a glass platter that is metal plated. They weren't always made of glass, but this is the modern way of doing it.
The interesting thing about traditional hard drives, and even SSDs, is that you'd think you could write something on them, then disconnect the drive and save it somewhere forever. But you can't. Even if you perfectly isolate them from stray cosmic rays that could cause a bit flip, hard drives will slowly lose magnetism over time, and SSDs will slowly lose those stored electrons. You can't use them for "forever" storage, and you're forced to constantly rewrite the data for long term storage, to completely be safe against data corruption.
The metal and glass discs work because you're not using magnetism to store the bits. You're etching into the materials with lasers. The technology is essentially similar to CD/DVD, except the medium itself is far more sturdy. And they're easy enough to read if you have lasers and know how to decode them.
But you could also create analog phonograph discs out of these materials, and use them for some more basic info on how to make a laser reader for the other discs. Getting sound from a phonograph disc is basically foolproof by comparison.
@Terry
Maybe. But when the fundamental act itself already fails to impress me, it being a scam or not is inconsequential for me.
It's like telling me someone raped and killed a women, and then you also tell me he scammed her of her money. The raping and killing part are a bit more important to me, and I couldn't get care less about the other stuff.
@Mr_NutterButter
My hunch is that the military probably has some of that, but not the entertainment part. Besides, if you're really gonna prep for the apocalypse like that, you should include the world's works of art, and I don't think you'll manage to get all the museums to give them up right now. Not to mention the ones that are owned privately.
We do have vaults with all the possible seeds though. And some people have downloaded Wikipedia for offline use, for when/if the internet goes out. So some of the knowledge is archived, it's just hard to say how likely it is to survive an apocalypse.
You could argue that the various massive servers that hold Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, Steam etc., are in effect archives of human knowledge and entertainment, but with the caveat that we don't know how protected they are against the various apocalyptic scenarios, and they won't be easily accessible after a collapse of civilization.
@Terry
I don't care if he'd pull the stunt for your vets or not, the whole thing is a virtue signal of the highest level of stupidity. This is not helping or supporting anyone.
If anything, this is detrimental. Instead of the war having people's undivided attention, this moron decided to steal some of that to have his 15 minutes of fame.
@VD15
Meme answer: they lazy
Serious answer: it's likely that to safely make the transition from downside-down, to upside-down, and then back to downside-down driving, in a single straight, would take much too long, as it would need to be done in a safe and steady manner. Any track specifically made for this would simply be bad and boring for racing on.
Also, no matter how much downforce the car produces, there are still serious risks associated with driving upside-down, that would make FIA think your legally insane just for proposing it.
@enduser@berserker.town
Here you can see the exact moment when @thor blue balled Beaker.
@thor
Now imagine being the person that gave him the orgasm.
@Groomschild
Needs an updated version, with Mumei and Kobo.
@fuggy
>lives in 3D world
Lol. Get on my level scrub, and start living in the 4D world.
@sjw
Teach Cornbread.
@Moto_Chagatai
Nice deer.
@Denton
Is this trending again?
@Denton
The tits ARE the bomb, silly.
@Terry
Only thing we did was help China. The more semiconductor demand they get, the faster they'll improve their chips and stop relying on Intel/AMD for fast processors.
Just another random person passing by.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...