I think it is a joke, though not one we’re supposed to be in on.
The hint is that that is a very well made map for someone who doesn’t understand how water flow really works. They turned the ocean trenches into rivers. It’s a parody of someone who doesn’t understand gravity but still uses it properly in demonstrating how it should look incorrectly.
I still can’t tell if most instances of them are a) genuine, b) trolling stupid people into believing dumb shit, c) trolling smart people into believing they believe something stupid and enjoying the frustration as they fail to convince them otherwise, or d) conning true believers like that guy who just wanted to fund his private rocket launch did.
Like it started with group B, but it’s impossible to tell group A and C/D apart, if they are really dedicated to the bit. Like those youtubers who did various expreiments that would show which way it was, got results consistent with ball earth, then dismissed those results as something being wrong with their experiment could be strong denial but also just sounds like trolling and if I had to bet, I’d probably bet on it being a troll (or someone knowing their video will get way more hits like that because it’s a hilarious result that did get a lot of round earthers to watch to mock it).
Tldr, I think we might all be getting played, though none as much as the poor fools that really do believe and donate to “flat earth science”.
You can emulate it by opening up your mouse and carefully ripping all of the button switches other than the left one out. Then go into your BIOS, underclock your CPU (or alternatively, go to the store you got your computer or parts from and just give them more money).
Then get some plaster and just cover up most of the ports on the back of your computer. Don’t worry, you’ll replace them with dongles, there’s a nice selection available for purchase!
Then uninstall proton and go around claiming that your computer is the only one that can handle making art (doesn’t matter if you’re an artist, just smugly insist this is the case).
Oh also forget that your computer is a computer. I don’t know what you need to think it is, but only nerds use computers, you’re not a nerd, you’re cool because you’re on a mac. Or pretending to be on one.
I’m not very impressed that they used an optimization that blew up the game size 5x that they knew would only benefit a subset of users without even doing any profiling on it until 2 years after release. Good that they eventually revisited it, but someone fucked up making that decision in the first place.
Funny how you say that when the extra space was used specifically to improve the experience for people still using HDDs. It’s 2025, no one using an HDD should be complaining about load times.
Might have been very horny but also very self aware.
Linux use on steam has also passed mac use. The three most popular mac versions are still used by more than the 3 most popular linux versions, but the total for macs is under 3%.
And for me personally, I didn’t even have to give anything of value up to make the switch. I kept my old windows machine in a running condition as a backup, but I think I’m about ready to start retiring that machine entirely, at least as a windows machine.
Something about spelling nazis spinning in a grave attached to a magnet and coil setup…
What if we add some nutrinos? And then reverse the polarity? And maybe some antimatter?
Wait, was dilithium just the media Star Trek used to go from reacting matter with antimatter, producing heat, causing the dilithium steam to expand, spinning a magnet inside a coil somewhere behind one of those access panels? Was antimatter just fancy futuristic coal powering the Enterprise’s steam engine!?
Edit: phew No, it’s not just a fancy space steam engine. It is pure fantasy; the dilithium crystal matix regulates antimatter (impossible for any matter to do so) and interacts with subspace (no evidence such a thing even exists), but it’s not spinning any magnets.
That depends on how you define “viable”. And “generate”.
Peltier devices generate a voltage from a heat differential passing through a bi-metalic matrix. It’s not a huge voltage, so the definition of “viable” comes in there, but it can be used to power low power things and works well for heater accessories. I first saw its use for wood stove fans that get powered just by sitting on the stove. I’ve also seen them power USB chargers for pellet stoves.
And then there’s batteries that generate a voltage from submerging two types of metal in acid. And more modern battery designs might be doing it a bit differently but still no spinning magnets and coils. Obviously they are viable for powering many things, but usually themselves are powered from another source rather than using fresh acid for each charge, so the “generate” bit comes into question.
I think there’s some others. Like fiction can be used to generate a static voltage and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some tesla coils that use friction to generate their voltage. If you continuously generate that voltage, you could make a circuit out of it rather than shock high school kids or make their hair stand up, though I don’t know what kind of amperage you could generate like that (that 5 figure voltage isn’t fatal because of a lack of amps).
I asked an AI out of curiosity and, while I won’t paste the response (feel free to ask one yourself), it gave a list of 20 methods, though I’d say this thread on its own covers about 9 of them, since some are different specific ways of doing similar ones (eg there were 4 based on moving something relative to a magnetic field).
I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.
Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.
When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.
Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.
They are literally monopolies on whatever they concern.
Yeah, I was talking about the magic of science or extreme coincidences.
Ultimately (having read your other reply), I don’t think biological definitions are useful when it comes to social things like gender. It’s just trying to change the argument into an easier one. “What is normal?” vs “what is possible?” or “what is ok?”.
The word “make” does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to pregnancy. A word like “nurture” might fit better. Once the sperm and egg combine, it starts doing its own thing, the mother’s body just provides resources for it to continue growing and a safe place to do so for the first 9 months give or take.
So the way to make human egg cells would be to either be conceived as a female and have everything go well enough to grow those eggs, or probably some other methods involving introducing various chemicals to unspecialized cells to trick them into behaving as if that was happening.
Lol they haven’t moved on to C+++ yet and probably have no idea what a super pointer is.
I think I’d prefer to clean iron fillings off a magnet than dog poop. Why not use an empty bag instead? Sorry, I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to cast iron pans.
I hope you said something like, “oh, that looks cool, can I try?” And then go around easily killing some enemies you already know and then comment on how easy the games kids are playing these days are.
I took OP’s reply as meaning they posted the meme as a joke, but assumed they got it from somewhere else.