Do you want to piss off a balrog? Because that’s how you piss off a balrog.

That’s why he fought Gandalf: Magic breaks physics.

It’s important to distinguish between interaction and constraints. Electromagnetic radiation is a connection, in a sense, but it is not functioning as a constrain, I. E. it does not mechanically link the two bodies. While they do have an effect on each other, their interaction with spacetime is still separated.

Hubble flow is only disrupted if two bodies in a system have a spatial constraint. Radiation does not provide such a constraint. Gravity can, under some circumstances, but it is not considered a rigid constraint in most cases.

General relativity is weird, I know.

One problem with your thought experiment is that it is by its definition not generating infinite energy.

The way I understand it is that a remote body will tug on a mithril wire which turns a generator as it unspools. Alright, fair enough for a thought experiment on it’s own, but without any reciprocating action, infinite energy would require an infinitely large spool to unwind.

Another problem is that the laws of cosmic expansion affects the wire itself. There would be no tugging force between the two bodies. Connecting the two bodies imposes a constraint on them, disrupting the Hubble flow.

Simply put, yes. In the same way subdomains are independent of eachother (for example balls.microsoft.com vs balls.apple.com), communities in different instances are independent of each other, even if they share the same name. That’s because a communitys full designation is, for example !asklemmy@lemmy.world

As for the multiple mod accounts on different instances, this is often because the mod-log and reports often don’t federate properly, so it is common for mods to sign up an identical account on the instance of a community they moderate.

When it comes to creating identical communities, first thing you need to ask yourself if you should. Sure, if an identical community exists on a different instance, but it’s dead, it shouldn’t be a problem.
However, when there’s already an active community, it’s better to join and contribute to that one, as fragmentation isn’t really helping anyone in particular or the fediverse in general.

Star wars prequels. Jarjar replaced by nobody.

Repostbot?

My basement. But it’s full of wood debris pending a rebuild. Clean it out, and it’s yours. Don’t tell anyone, though, as I doubt it’s legal to live there.

I live pretty much in the middle of nowhere that is between three mountains and a Scandinavian fjord. I don’t see any safer alternatives to where I’m already at.

No. There are plenty of insults, and even normal adjectives, that end in -er.

I accidentally stumbled across Ctrl+r over a decade ago and I still don’t understand properly how it works. So I usually egrep -e someInsaneRegex ~/.bash_history

With the direction Microsoft has taken windows the past decade or so, a GPU farm in the back room will be needed to run windows 12. Maybe that’s why everyone needs a Microsoft account to use windows these days - Microsoft is planning ahead.

Once in a while you encounter software that, while proprietary, proves that even if you’re doing closed source software, you don’t have to be an asshole about it.

I don’t remember which hardware I was mucking about with, but when trying to do something with the firmware that I wasn’t supposed to do, I was given a warning, a recommendation to back up everything, and a simple pointer on what to do if whatever insanity I was doing didn’t work.

Yeah, I came for the sci fi, got bored because of the cult/religion derailment.

Personally I’m a big fan of Adafruits ItsyBitsy 32u4. Loads of potential in a small and cheap backage. Enumerates as an arduino via the USB port, so no special hardware is requires to program it. I use one to read a PWM signal and measure the pulse width on a few channel, so I would think it’s capable of outputting similar signals, which comes in handy for contrilling LEDs and small steppers.

If you want to control something a bit more power hungry via PWM you might want to look into PCA9685 which works really well with, for example, a raspberry pi zero.

Tinkering/assembling stuff and see it come to life. Bonus points if it’s something my kids can join in on.

Other contenders: (good) food, music, weather

I used to go real, but lack of proper ones made me go artificial instead.

I grew up on the countryside where part of holiday tradition involved grabbing a saw and finding a proper tree in one of the many woods around the property. Now that I live more urban I have to rely on whatever is on the market. And the quality of the market is awful, so I might as well have something that at least looks good.

This thread contains so many words I recognize. I don’t speak Spanish, but I’ve worked with Argentinian geophysicists for years - You’d be surprised to learn how much someone’s prostitute parents are relevant to resolving timing drift and background noise.

Matrix chat is pretty popular on the fediverse. I don’t have any specific communities to recommend, but I’m sure there’s a suitable one out there.

As a mod I can answer the last part of your question: If it looks like a not, smells like a not, acts like a bit, guess what it is?; A duck.

And ducks get banned.

Just to clarify: Only the ones trying to pass as human. Utility bots (and ducks) are OK providing they are marked as such. Creating sockpuppet accounts for later use is not.

Last year. My four year old was throwing a tantrum, so I carried/wrestled her to her room until she cooled down and was ready to talk about it.

Outside of that, I was routinely kicked and punched every Tuesday and Thursday from 2016 to 2020 at Karate practice. You should’ve seen the other guy; not a scratch, as we were both wearing proper gear.

Outside of that, I broke a guys nose in self defense in 2006.