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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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    [–] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    You can't go faster than light because time and space are basically the same thing, and you're always moving through both of them together at a constant rate.
    When you stand still, you move only through time, at the top speed of one second per second.
    When you start moving through space, your speed doesn't change, only your direction. (You can visualize it as an arrow showing your speed that stays the same length, but rotates in a coordinate system from the time axis towards the perpendicular space axis.) So the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time.
    At light speed, you're moving only through space. Your movement through time is zero, so time stops for you.
    Going faster through space would mean going back in time, which would break causality.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    To be fair, what even is "standing still"? I'm sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of almost all the elements and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    It's always in relation to a frame of reference.
    Compared to earth, you're standing still, so your time passes at the same rate as earth time.
    Compared to Sagittarius A, you're moving through space, so your time passes slower than that of Sagittarius A.

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Alan Wake is a boolean operation between Alan Rickman and Rick Wakeman

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Socrates only knows enough to know that he doesn't know anything.

    The reason the Oracle of Apollo said "No man is wiser than Socrates" is because no man is wise, and Socrates is only wise enough to know himself to be a fool.

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "I don't know shit about fuck" - character from Ozarks I forgot the name of

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I know a dog called mister Dingleberry. Mister DingleBerry likes to dingle his berries. In dingling his berries he takes such delight, if he could he’d dingle his berries day and night.

    One time, I remember it well, he dingled his berries so hard, he tripped over them and fell.

    In dingling his berries he takes such glee, they say he dingles his berries mercilessly.

    He dingles and dangles his berries berry hard. One time he got completely dingleburried under em and let out a fart.

    The end.

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Security by obscurity does not work, because people are only so creative up to a point. Hence, there are only handful of configurations for the attacker to try out.

    This contrasts to e.g. 128-bit secure encryption, which involves trying 2^128 times to break it - which is a number with whopping 38 zeros. It takes 10^22 years to break it with trying at 1GHz rate. It is simply incomparable, and adding a few bits of security by obscure combination is simply not worth it.

    Yet, so many people and organizations seem to prefer obscurity to actual security.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    The real secret to the most delicious sauces you've ever tasted is one anchovy fillet chopped into paste and simmered into the sauce, for every litre/quart of sauce you are making.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And you can get 90% of the effect/taste by just adding more salt.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I've had some experience and know stuff about something, just letting you know

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I know like 3 things, and it's mostly where my stuff is.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I think that Descartes fellow was onto something...

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  • [+] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)
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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago*

    Sky is blue

    I think

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I know the best way to get cat hair off things is

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Fun fact: for a system of differential equations to have a unique global solution, you only need the vector field to be continuous in time and Lipschitz continuous in the state space.

    This Math Fact is brought to you by Math-Autism Gang. Subscribe for more Math Facts.

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    You can clean cooking pans and pots by heating them up and then pouring water on them. As the water boils it pulls all the stuck particles off with little to no scrubbing.

    You can also make a nice sauce if you use wine or some kind of stock.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    What kind of experience are you talking about? Maybe I'm a candidate for having it. I dunno.

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  • I know how to write "Shauwn"

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You can test if a 9 volt battery is good or not by touching the 2 prongs on the end to your tongue. You’ll know if it has juice or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    A basic AAA battery has enough amperage to kill a human without the ohmage that the skin provides.

    One time a guy got curious and poked himself with copper wires so they would be in direct contact with his electrolyte-filled blood. Those wires were attached to a 1.5v battery, and he electrocuted himself and died.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I've a lot of experience with not having experience with things

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Well, I'm over 40, so I know a bit about WW2.

    Mostly from the documentaries I fall asleep to in the afternoons.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Yes hello I know something

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I knew this guy who knows a thing or two about knowing what I don't know.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I have ADHD at a level rarely rivaled so I know quite a bit about a variety of random things

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: Female hyenas have dicks.

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Hi yith I no thingz

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