knightly the Sneptaur

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  • Short version: forces applied to solid objects move at the speed of sound in that object.

    Lets say your stick is made of steel. The speed of sound in steel is about 19,000 feet/second. Assuming you could push hard enough for the force to be felt on the other end, it’d take over 18 hours for your partner on Earth to feel your push from the moon.




  • The fascism persists only because it promises to be of benefit to its supporters.

    Fascism falls apart when it fails to deliver them tangible benefits.

    Trump’s coalition is a house divided, he cannot provide his billionaire sycophants with economic benefits without taking them away from his voting base, and he can’t do economic populism without disadvantaging the billionaires.

    We’re already seeing this with the H1-B visa debate. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel want them for the cheap exploitable labor, and non-rich Republicans want the program to end for both anti-immigrant and economic nationalism reasons.

    If the Democrats were allowed to be competent then they’d be hammering on this contradiction 'til the Republicans lose all their electoral relevance, but they won’t because they’re faced with the same contradiction among their own supporters.








  • It was when it was first produced.

    The street finding its own uses for outdated military hardware is extremely on-theme for the cyberpunk genre.

    This image might better fit the aesthetics of the cyberpunk derivative “Dieselpunk”, but only aesthetically. As a genre of literature, Dieselpunk themes break down into two categories, “Piecraftian Dieselpunk” where culture has ceased to evolve due to the ongoing existential threat of global war and “Ottensian Dieselpunk” that tries to project the utopian visions of the 20’s foward despite or instead of the Great Recession and World War 2. Neither of these themes fit the image, as they’re both retrocausal and can’t envision a world where converting a useless old tank into a fruit stand would make sense. It’d either be recycled in the Piecraftian mode or would never fall out of the military’s hands in the Ottensian.

    But the cyberpunk themes are dead-on. The existence of this image implies a person who might as well be a character trope for the genre, a shopkeeper in the margins of a dystopian society where discarded military surplus is cheaper than real estate.