cosecantphi

This shit sucks. It'd be almost funny at this point if it weren't wearing away at my soul bit by bit. Still unemployed without having qualified for unemployment. I think I've already applied to pretty much everything I can reasonably get to by bus. Currently looking into temp agencies.

Anyway, not only am I now 25 dollars in the red, I needed to go grocery shopping and now I definitely can't. I'd very much appreciate it if any comrades with some cash to spare could help out.

I need 25 dollars to get my account out of the negative, and then another ~30 so I can run down to the store later today or tomorrow, but any amount is of great help! My cashapp and venmo accounts are both under the handle cosecantphi

EDIT: Goal reached! As always, thanks so much to our comrade donors and comrade bumpers here on c/mutual_aid. I hope my situation stabilizes soon so I can pay it forward.

The terrorists are entirely justified in their violent resistance against the obviously evil and genocidal Britannian empire, which is something of a stand in for both the British Empire and the US.

The annoying liberal deuteragonist bumbles around for 2/3 of the show being a supersoldier for the Britannian Empire while constantly making these bizarre self righteous arguments that Lelouch's rebellion is just too darn mean and violent, we have to support the Britannian Empire's rule of law just a while longer guys! The longer this goes on, the more and more his world view crumbles around him as basically nothing goes to plan for this liberal who is just incapable of grappling with material reality. He ends up following his sense of liberal morality all the way to accidentally killing millions with a Britannian wunderwaffe nuke. This leads him on his jokerification arc wherein he realizes the error of his ways and actually supports Lelouch through the batshit last few episodes of this show.

Anyway, I can't recommend this show to anyone in year of our lord 2024 because it's obnoxiously, embarrassingly horny in a very mid 2000s anime way, because that's exactly what it is. But I'm imagining what could have been.

I swear to god, my mental health, self esteem, and confidence are flying to heights not seen since I graduated high school. That may be a low bar to clear, but I cleared it! I still want to lose another 30 pounds to reach my goal weight, but already I no longer feel ashamed when I look at myself naked in the mirror.

Four light years may seem like an unfathomably long distance, but in comparison to the size of our galaxy, it's practically right next door. In fact, it's close enough that the Alpha Centauri system has nearly the same constellations as we do, just subtly warped due to the relatively small parallax factor.

The only caveat is that they're missing the brightest star in Centaurus, having traded it for an additional bright star in Cassiopeia on the opposite side of the sky. The Sun's stellar magnitude is 0.5 from that distance, that's about as bright as Betelgeuse in Orion.

I don't think we'll ever be so lucky that our closest star system just happens to contain a planet with alien life on it. That said, it's so surreal to think about even just the possibility of a life harboring planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. I'm imagining those creatures looking at the Sun in their night sky and wondering themselves about the existence of neighboring aliens.

(To clarify, Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system close enough together to look like a single star to the naked eye. Alpha Centauri A and B are both sun-like stars with a roughly similar mass and brightness. Proxima Centauri is the nearest of the three, and it's a red dwarf with confirmed planets.)

Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an "Intel Core Ultra 7". This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they're just throwing that away.

Infinitely worse, they've also thrown out their low end Pentium and Celeron CPU branding. Now they're simply calling them all a generic "Intel Processor". What the actual fuck? People avoid Pentiums and Celerons because they're widely regarded the absolute bottom of the silicon barrel. Now instead of "don't get a Celeron, it's practically e-waste" it's going to be "don't get an INTEL PROCESSOR, it's practically e-waste". Holy shit.

A bunch of rich fucking failchildren got paid the big bucks for these ideas meanwhile I'm making min wage working infinitely harder while actually producing a non-negative surplus value for my employer to steal.

I want to have a pizza by 1:30 in the morning Moscow time

Upon looking it up in the Dell service manual for this model, I found the spec sheet actually lists compatibility with both 3200MT/s and 2666MT/s. But of course the fine print had some caveats. Apparently only the SKU of this model that included an MX350 dedicated GPU has the privilege of running the memory at 3200MT/s.

Is there a technical reason for this or is it just another example of bullshit product segmentation? I can't imagine why the presence of a dGPU would allow for faster system RAM. That seemingly implies that the motherboard in my laptop is probably perfectly capable of doing the same, but has been artificially limited in the firmware. This really pisses me off because it's the iGPU model that would have greatly benefited from faster memory since iGPUs pull from the system RAM. They don't have fancy dedicated VRAM optimized for bandwidth.

It sucks that lower end laptops always have jack shit for tuning options in their BIOS. I feel like a lot of performance is left on the table when it comes to these things.

66 million years ago, a massive 17km wide asteroid impacted what is now the modern day Yucatan peninsula at 25km/s. The immediate collision was so violent that the resulting crater floor was briefly deeper than the Mariana Trench while the crater rim was briefly taller than Mt. Everest. In total, it killed off 75% of all animal and plant species on this planet, including the dinosaurs.

The linked video is a real time demonstration of the catastrophic events that would occur within the first hour after impact if a similar asteroid were to hit Earth today.

MOTHERFUCKER, GAZA IS AN OPEN AIR PRISON WITH A POPULATION DENSITY SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK CITY. THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY A LITERAL WALL WATCHED BY ISRAELI SNIPERS. LITERALLY WHERE ELSE CAN YOU POSSIBLY EXPECT THEM TO CONGREGATE

FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

wtf, this is just Kaiji

Why did no one tell me this sooner? It's not just as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series, it's as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series that was actually good!

The next season looks like it's right around the corner, so I'm glad I've managed to avoid waiting a couple years in anticipation. Just hope the next games don't in any way involve a fucking pachlnko machine

This will be an annular eclipse, meaning the moon will be too distant from Earth to fully block out the sun. Instead, the moon will block out 90.7% of the sun's disk from the perspective of those along the path of greatest eclipse, the yellow path on the above map. The remaining 9.3% of the sun's disk will be visible around the moon in an annulus shape- a ring of non-zero thickness. Hence why it's called an annular eclipse.

Outside of the path of greatest eclipse, the vast majority of both American continents will see at least a partial eclipse. You can use the orange paths to estimate maximum solar obscuration from your area. The time of maximum eclipse is at 1:59pm EDT.

Remember not to ever look directly at the sun without proper eye protection, not even during an eclipse! In the absence of proper protection, the best way to observe the eclipse is to watch the shadows left on the ground by leaves on a tree. You'll see many small projections corresponding to the uncovered area of the sun. Along the path of greatest eclipse at the time of maximum obscuration, you'll see rings. Otherwise, you'll see crescents.

MOTHERFUCKER, THERE WERE ACTUAL FREED SLAVES STILL ALIVE WHEN YOU WERE BORN AND WELL INTO YOUR LATE TEENS

HOW IS YOUR SENSE OF TIME AND PERSPECTIVE SO FUCKED