graph function singularities exist as physical features in our world

Do they, though…?

As I (mis?)understand it, as a massive star begins to collapse, getting denser and denser, the gravitational gradient gets steeper and steeper… and time (from the perspective of an outside observer) gets slower and slower… to the point that, from our point of view, the full collapse (or maybe even any collapse below the Schwarzschild radius?) hasn’t happened yet, and won’t happen until the extremely distant future, beyond the end of the universe…

So, in that sense, from the point of view of “our world”, no singularities (except possibly the big bang) would ever exist (yet), all of them being censored not only by event horizons, but by being shoved into the perpetually far future, beyond time itself…

And, speaking about event horizons, isn’t the whole “light isn’t fast enough to escape” concept a misinterpretation of sorts…? As I (again mis?)understand it, it’s not a matter of speed, but of geometry… The way space-time is twisted in such a gravitational gradient, once you get past the event horizon there are no longer any directions pointing towards the outside.

Which is another from of cosmic censorship (or a different effect or interpretation of the above), preventing anything inside the event horizon from causally interacting with the outside universe…

So, if these singularities are hidden beyond sight, causally, visually, and geometrically isolated from the rest of the universe, and perpetually shoved into the far future… can they really be said to exist in our world…?

(Of course there’s always the big bang, but we can’t really observe that one, only its effects, and it’s not necessarily exactly what the original post was talking about anyway…)

The right Unix-like OS

It’s always been BSD, it’ll always be BSD.

I believe last time I saw it it was hanging from Donnie’s diaper, like a forgotten strip of toilet paper…

Your snake has two heads.

Also, one of them shares an edge with the tail.

The head would share an edge with the arse (supposing the arse is on the first bend from the tail).

Holden’s favourite book, if I recall correctly, is Don Quixote… but instead of seeing it as a satire of sixteenth century Spain and chivalric tradition he sees the antics of the evidently senile and deranged protagonist as a manual of how to act.

The whole series is Holden tilting at windmills.

They’re quite well written and engaging windmills, though, and there’s a lot of great Sancho Panzas to accompany and provide a contrast to our knight errand, so it’s still a great series.

Already burned the White House down once, can burn it down again.

It already has.

They’ve drunk their own coolaid. They actually believe their own bullshit. They’ve offloaded what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. They have them manage their schedules, summarise their emails, write their emails and speeches, and make every single decision for them.

They’re brain-dead computer operated zombies.

The problem is that they keep getting paid absurd amounts of money for being completely useless (and that they’ve always been so useless that no one can tell the difference).

I can’t help but picture the business card scene from American Psycho, but they’re comparing the “AI” assistants they use instead of their cards.

It’s not even selection, though.

We grafted those citruses into existence.

They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.

In the coconut.

It installs and activates itself stealthily, slows down the computer, and eventually makes it unusable.

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…

Bitlocker works as intended

Oh, definitely. If it was intended to be malware.

Which would have been several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump has done (which includes sending the nation into chaos anyway).

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It would.

It would also be several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump’s done.

something trump has not done yet

Have you been living under a fucking rock‽

not allowing him to take office when elected would be disastrous

It would have been many orders of magnitude less disastrous than the alternative.

Sure, cutting off your cancerous hand would’ve been traumatic. But survivable.

Now, however, said hand is so far up your arse that it’s ripped apart your colon in several places and you’re bleeding to death while experiencing horrible agony, and spraying all your neighbours with blood and feces.

You could have recovered from getting rid of Trump, but there’s no coming back from what you’ve allowed him to do to your country, and the world.

You can die due to having too low morale, too.

Or killing yourself as an intimidation tactic during an interrogation, regardless of your stats.

Practically all versions of the detective are susceptible to self-inflicted demise in one shape or another.

Nah, Measurehead is adorable. A native Revacholian playing ur-racist out of what he’s learnt on the radio while dating a “Kojka” he can’t have sex with because his own racism prevents him from getting an erection in her presence.

Evrart (and Edgar, though we never meet him) Claire are downright terrifying.

Extremely intelligent, constantly ten steps ahead and in control (except for the tribunal, the entroponetic phenomena underlying the events of the game, the deserter, and, possibly, the Detective) even over the Wild Pines woman, extremely charismatic despite their appearance, and yet absolutely malicious and self centered.

They’re like sharks, perfect, cold, inhumane, apex predators evolved to completely dominate their territory.

Measurehead can never really hurt you. Evrart Claire can kill you by making you sit on a chair, and he’s fully aware of it.

An elected official who repeatedly stated and demonstrated his intention of preventing any future elections and destroying democracy.

An elected official, therefore, who should never have been allowed to run for office in the first place (this isn’t the only reason he shouldn’t have been allowed, of course, in a sane country he’d also been unelectable due to his criminal record, lack of any semblance of mental health, and intellectual insufficiency, but it’s the most important).