I’m the other guy, wolframhydroxide. my comment was originally going to be a response to this person.

Indeed, my own comment was originally going to be a reply to this comment.

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Hmm… Projection much?

Let’s consider what it would take to have unbreakable (effectively infinite) surface tension:

Either existing intermolecular forces would need to be dialed to infinity, or a new intermolecular force must come into action. In either case, it would make it energetically favourable for gaseous water to immediately condense into liquid whenever a gaseous molecule interacted with another water molecule. It would be an ice-ix scenario. All water would fall out of the atmosphere within hours, everything which uses lungs would find them filling with fluid. No water could be poured or create any droplet smaller than itself or otherwise separate from other water. However, that’s not even the weirdest bit.

If this new or altered intermolecular force functionally increased the attractive forces between molecules of water, and only water, to infinity, all water would immediately collapse such that the individual atoms would undergo fusion, breaking the bonds of the molecules in a conflagration of nuclear fire.

But let’s assume that it reaches just before the point at which the atomic bonds break. The water will likely take on the properties of a glass, becoming effectively solid, everywhere, just like ice-ix.

So let’s be more generous and assume that the intermolecular forces are increased to be only strong enough to make it effectively impossible to break surface tension. We’d see a significantly higher viscosity, but what else?

Well, the intermolecular forces will probably still SIGNIFICANTLY decrease the solubility of pretty much everything, everywhere, all at once (but especially covalent gases, which do not dissociate).

This means that, in every living thing, at the same time, bubbles of oxygen and nitrogen will be coming out in the blood/hemolymph/cell membranes, not only making respiration functionally impossible (or at the very least far less efficient), but also embolizing every living thing with the precipitated gases. Everything alive dies, immediately.

If those two gases aren’t enough, it will probably also significantly change the dissociation constants of pretty much every ionic compound, making them far less likely to dissociate in water, effectively causing large portions of the salt in the sea and other dissolved solids to precipitate in a cloud of powdered solids that would make the banded iron formations of the great oxygenation event look like a child’s sandbox.

Depending on the interrelation of water’s own dissociation and the intermolecular forces, which I can’t recall at the moment, all acids and bases may suddenly neutralise in a similar event.

No matter what, I don’t think anyone would be worrying about swimmers not being able to break the surface of the water.

Bold to assume I cannot be angry about multiple things. Bolder to assume I hate cats. What I am “crusading” against is your inability to understand basic biological concepts or acknowledge simple evidence. Since you cannot even be bothered to comprehend actual refutations when they are labeled on a platter, I return to my first comment:

Mind like an ocean, indeed.

100 years ago? Really? Why are you assuming I’m talking about the past? Educate yourself.

Also, here’s a scientific study completely disproving your unfounded suppositions

Note that while domestic cats are unlikely to venture far, they don’t need to, as native birds fly into residential neighbourhoods without issue. Regardless, they are between 10 and 100 times more effective at killing wildlife than a comparable predator such as a weasel or owl.

I wholeheartedly agree that humans are invasive, but one need only look at a place like New Zealand to see how one of homo sapiens’ most environmentally-damaging qualities is that it brings other invasive species with it. Treating birds at bird feeders as if they’re all invasive is deeply reductive and objectively wrong. Animals migrate in some cases hundreds of miles in a day.

Cats are universally deeply invasive once feral, and humans letting those cats (and dogs) get out has been the primary threat to the wildlife of New Zealand. Not humanity itself. This is almost universally true on any island, from islands that have been completely taken over by rats, to the Spaniards’ tendency to leave behind feral hogs that outcompete even the most deadly of predators within a couple generations. But in only one case does everyone treat this like it’s some endearing quality: outdoor cats.

Just because there’s a much bigger problem doesn’t mean that the small one doesn’t exist. That’s just whataboutism. ALL of these need to be dealt with, but you know which one is the easiest to tackle FIRST? (Hint: it’s not the pigs)

If the concept of an invasive species is an insufficient response in your eyes, then I maintain that my prior response is not insult, but observation.

Tell me you cannot even conceive of an “invasive species” without telling me you are incapable of understanding that basic concept.

Man, mind like an ocean indeed… Mostly empty, with a few bits of bacteria and just enough sentient meat to function.

Look, if YOU find a fluid that is incompressible in liquid form, liquid at room temperature, gaseous at temperatures lower than the melting points of most construction materials, has a low viscosity, can dissolve almost anything but is completely nontoxic, has a high heat capacity, is capable of ionic dissociation, is polar, and, oh yeah, also incredibly cheap, do let us know!

as the monkey’s paw curls one finger down.

The mouse doesn’t expect you to like it. The mouse expects you to endure it.

Yes.

Look at this guy, thinking he’s worthy of “respect”! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!

Yeah, sorry, I learned that the hard way. I just eventually said fuck it, and now I run 'doze on a VM in my Linux mint.

Are you ok?

Don’t forget “skills you can use to make yourself valuable to a small community”, especially the skills to grow and prepare food, locate and purify water, construct and maintain shelter, maintain and upscale off-grid power, and use ammunition and weapons.

Fair! The only reason I’m still here on Lemmy is because it’s open source and I can defederate from them, but Ladybird’s motives certainly bear scrutiny. However, I’m sure that we’ll get a full rundown on privacy and security when it’s in a truly unable state.

Is the ladybird dev an authoritarian? Because that’s very different from a racist, or a transphobe.

I would sooner criticise Lemmy for being developed by actual, self-declared authoritarians, unless I have evidence of similar positions from ladybird. After all, that’s why I left Proton. The CEO’s a supporter of the US’ Authoritarian regime. It doesn’t bode well for a closed-source project.