There’s growing speculation that 13.767 billions years may be the earliest that the universe can support life, due to events like this. The universe had to expand, a lot, to get to a place where life had a chance to evolve, and not get obliterated by these types of events.

Plus our galaxy may be in a void. A really big one at that:

In 2013 Barger and two colleagues, Ryan Keenan (then at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan) and Lennox Cowie (University of Hawai‘i) counted some 35,000 galaxies from multiple surveys. What they found is that the Milky Way appears to live in a relatively empty area. Per unit volume, there’s half again as much light reaching us from galaxies 1.5 billion light-years away as there is from galaxies right around us.

It’s as if we’re living in the suburbs, and the skyglow we see in our backyard comes more from distant cities than from our neighbors.

If this sparse region that we live in is a true cosmic void, then at 1.5 billion light-years in radius, it’s well above average in size, says Hoscheit. Typical voids have radii between 90 million light-years and 450 million light-years, he says. But this void would be so big, it would encompass the Laniakea Supercluster, which the Milky Way and its Local Group of galaxies call home, as well as the Tully Local Void, which Laniakea borders. “It would be the largest void known to science,” he says.

From: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/does-milky-way-live-cosmic-void/

So the fact that our black hole (Sagittarius A*) hasn’t done this, and that we’re far away from other black holes that have done this, just might be why you’re reading this reply.

Let’s toast to our existence in the backwaters of our galaxy and the KBC void! 🥂

You don’t think wars fight themselves do you? Or that munitions self-assemble do you?

The lower class exists to keep the middle class in line so that the upper class can continue to make money. And the upper class, for now, requires human capital to do the work that makes them money.

Human capital thst’s educated enough to work the machines but not educated enough to know that they’re being exploited, and hence rebel.

Yeah, but wouldn’t he have to steal the same truck at the same time for it to be considered the same crime?

Otherwise he just really seems to like that truck he keeps stealing.

Well, I for one am glad that’s settled and Israel can stop now…

While you’re there try the Apple Fritter! It’s like monkey bread* made with apple cinnamon bits, then deep fried and dipped in glaze.

*=Monkey Bread is just pull-apart bread made from large chunks of dough.

Is that Ed!? Holy shite he’s really changed his look!

Nothing beats a Pizza Hut Pan Pizza, so they get my vote!

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I wish people would realize that terraforming is the only way we’re going to colonize other planets.

Sci-fi showed us landing on Earth-like planets and making a new home. Reality will show us dying in a completely alien biosphere as bacteria and viruses we have zero resistance against ravages our bodies the moment we’re exposed to it. And we’d expose the new biosphere to pathogens it has zero resistance to.

We might be able to adapt by living in a protected environment (i.e. our biosphere) and slowly exposing generations of our descendants to the new biosphere. But many, many of us would die in the process. Not to mention genetic mutations.

Direct link: https://special.usps.com/testkits

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/09/19/trump-tariffs-explainer/

Okay. So how do we turn it off!? I’ve read nothing in my Samsung manuals about this “feature” and here no instructions for turning it off.

This is a NSFW link: Str8UpGayPorn and covers the issue surrounding “Seth Rose” as mentioned in the OP.

I wholeheartedly agree!

I guess they just don’t have any other curated content to fill that space… /s

I think you may have replied to the wrong post.

Let’s see what his attorney does with her past decision record. Should be very easy to find all sorts of ways to delay or cancel the trial.

I’m not a fan either, but according to Apple their main News posts are “curated” by staffers.

Therefore it’s not an algorithm that can filter out certain topics and sites per your preferences. If they decide a post is newsworthy in the main area, and it just happens to be from a blocked site, you see that.

I’m not going to pretend I have my finger on the pulse of ‘gays everywhere’ but I’ve never heard, read, seen, or experienced that word being used as anything other than the common usage for a food item.

Edit: You may have witnessed an attempt to make it something, but that sounds like an attempt that failed.

The town I grew up in had a college and a university! I don’t think my parents bought us kids any new furniture until my dad built his own woodworking shop. I was a teenager by then!

We always got new mattresses, because NO FUCKING WAY was mom letting us sleep on a used, adult’s, student mattress. (I never knew you could stain them, that way, in those amounts…)

My sister still has a beautiful solid oak desk…

Which of the three are you referring to!?

“There’s that word again, ‘heavy.’ Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?”