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@robotslenderman
there's a part of me desperately hoping that anyone using codex or claude to work on a codebase i've been a heavy contributor to (cough tumblr cough) has to deal with it randomly saying weird shit in the comments like "fucked shit right here dude" as it's copying and pasting my previous work.
Why not just make a text post with a link to the dementia masterclass? The poll is super weird.
Cos that post isn't about the mooc for me, it's about the other questions. You and I have different interests
The mooc's handy so I shared it, I'm not gonna be a cunt and gatekeep knowledge when I could be generous, but I'm much more interested in the results to the first poll option. What percentage of people are so shit-scared of dementia they don't want to see it talked about on tumblr at all. Cos that's the subset of people that I really wanna start reaching cos that's where the biggest impact would be
It's a huge issue in all public health communications, the least interested are the hardest to reach and the most impacted. People who live in remote communities arent engaging in the free sexual health clinic in the city, so they get missed and they have a shorter life expectancy. Homeless people don't receive the bowel cancer tests cos we send them to houses for free, so they get missed and have a shorter life expectancy. This repeats in different ways everywhere. And if we want health equity we need to put energy into the lagging communities
It's great that you see the mooc as the most important thing in that post, but that also means you aren't hard to reach with health information. I wanna try and reach someone so much less engaged than you
But I'm new so I'm trying to figure out my thinking and how to approach it at all. I'm doing a lot of asking and then going away to mull
freaks me out just a little that when you're inside a vagina you are surrounded by pelvic bone
sex isn't real. shrink down and join me in the submarine
I'm reading the PHM novel and basically the first thing Grace does when he wakes up is give himself a dick injury and honestly that's the most in character way that dork could possibly hurt himself
Grace: Why am I ripped?!
Grace is such a dorkass loser (affectionate) that even he thinks he's a dorkass loser
Was about to go "THAT'S NOT HOW PHYSICS WORKS" but actually now that I think about it I'm pretty sure that the author did this on purpose
ETA: Or maybe it does? I'm pretty sure that Galileo did some experiments about this that say otherwise but the book says that yeah Grace does know his physics so now I'm confused.
ETA: No, no, I think that experiment was with different weights, not densities. 🤔
I love Eva
I love them
They're married
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the story, but the actual prose leaves a lot to be desired.
yeah, the prose is pretty mediocre lol
I love Stratt so much lmao
Oh cool, the book explains why Eva Stratt visibly aged but Grace didn't: due to time dilation, only three years have passed on the Hail Mary to Earth's thirteen.
Trying to space out my reblogs to avoid another Wuthering Heights, but the scene with the yeet stick is better in the movie lol. I'm sitting here reading about Grace doing maths and being like "okay Blip-B is going at X velocity meaning I have an entire forty minutes to suit up and catch it on the hull".
Movie!Grace's "they think I'm an idiot" was objectively hilarious
Also I think I spotted another science error (still not sure about the density thing impacting air resistance): the bodies of the rest of the crew didn't decay. Decay chiefly comes from microbes already on the human body so unless Stratt zapped everyone's system to destroy all foreign microbes (which would destroy their digestive systems even more than the coma would have already done and possibly fucked with their immune system as well, at the very least, let alone the psychological effects as well). So yeah they shouldn't have mummified, they should have rotted.
I'll have to read up on Weir's scientific credentials because it's super weird for an author to have the ability to break down complicated physics and then drop the ball on the entire existence of the human microbiome.
OH BOY, SIT DOWN AND STRAP IN
YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY AUTISTIC TRAP CARD
Okay so aside from the blips mentioned above I was thinking Weir knew what he was doing because he seemed pretty knowledgeable but as someone who went on an entire mountaineering disasters special interest binge about a year ago this is causing my brain to record scratch.
The Hail Mary is at 40% of standard atmosphere. For context, the summit of Mt Everest is at 33% of the air pressure of sea level.
MT EVEREST, WHICH IS FAMOUS FOR BEING COVERED IN CORPSES LONG BEFORE YOU EVEN GET THAT HIGH!
Long before you even get there, many people have died from the low pressure due to their lungs filling with blood and fluid, or their brains swelling up. Even with supplemental oxygen people struggle in the death zone at 8KM and up. Many struggle before they even get there. Lots of people die because at that height there's so little air a rescue helicopter can't get up there because there isn't enough air for the blades to bite and push down; only once in history has a helicopter been as high as the summit.
Mt Everest is nearly nine kilometres high. For 40%, that's about 7.25 KMs high, according to a graph I found online. This is less than a kilometre under the death zone, which is where your lifespan is measured in hours or days without extra oxygen depending on your biology. This is two kilometres higher than the highest settlement on earth where the locals have explicitly evolved to survive, where the air pressure is 55% of sea level atmosphere. Oh, and those populations are still prone to chronic mountain sickness from living at high altitude for too long despite their genetic advantages.
The record on earth is two years at 5,900 metres. Grace has lived at about 7,250 metres for three or four years while in a coma that's already putting his body under considerable strain.
Like. Let's give Weir the benefit of the doubt and assume that that 40% pressure is pure oxygen to compensate. Now you have a massive fire risk (because that would mean double the amount of oxygen you'd have at sea level, where it's about 20% of 1atm to the Hail Mary's 100% at 0.4), and you don't want that in an enclosed area in space where evacuation is impossible, emergency services don't exist and there's electrical circuits everywhere that can cause a spark. One short circuit or misaligned cable and everyone is dead.
There's no reason why Weir can't have had him in a normal standard atmosphere and make him hang out in a decompression chamber for a few hours instead if he wanted to commit to modern day scientific and technological abilities, this is a bizarre narrative decision.
ETA: Wait this would explain the air resistance thing. Grace is still wrong I think, I don't think density negates air resistance, but there WOULD be less air resistance even on top of the increased gravity at 40%.
NO ANDY IT'S BECAUSE THEY'D FUCKING DIE.
NOT AT FORTY FUCKING PERCENT HE FUCKING DOESN'T
At this part I was like, okay, twenty times Earth's atmosphere? Andy Weir made another mistake because he's already made it clear that the Hail Mary is at 0.4 atm, not 1 atm. Because at this point Rocky and Grace are communicating but not actually talking, so Rocky has no way of knowing that the Hail Mary is obscenely under-pressurised. The only thing he has to go on is the pressurisation of the tube Grace is in, which is going to be juuuuuuuust under 0.4 due to the extra volume, and the pressurisation of the cylinder that Grace sent back, which he presumably measured before he opened it up. (And probably had a REAL bitch of a time working with the suction, given how dramatically low the HM's pressure is compared to Rocky's ship, so it's almost certain that he went "son of a bitch WHY CAN'T I OPEN THIS THING?" and scanned it and realised oh there's barely anything in there.)
And then I went, nahhh, I'm probably being too mean to Andy Weir now, he's probably well aware of this and Rocky just mistakenly assumes that Earth has the same atmospheric pressure as the Hail Mary, so Erid's atmosphere is almost certainly 29*0.4 of Earth's atmosphere, I'm sure he actually realises this -
GOD DAMN IT ANDY
Here is a scene where everyone is like "what do you mean you're not Stratt's second in command?" to Grace and nobody elaborates on why, exactly, anyone thinks that, because I haven't seen him do anything 2IC-y in this whole novel but for some reason everyone still thinks that
while we’re at it “everywhere should have a bench” everywhere should also have a bubbler ☝️
I screenshotted these tags by @hetrez on someone else's post because what they say here resonated So Hard with me, but then I wasn't sure if it was good etiquette to reblog the original post with these tags attached as a screenshot or if etiquette dictates that only original posters reblog their posts with peer reviewed tag screenshots (open to feedback on this!), so I just sat on it. And now I can't find the original post these were attached to. But I still want to amplify them because they are Important To Me, so here you go.
genuinely irritated about the prevalence of brother-sister character designs where the brother has a huge nose and the sister has a tiny nose. 1) why are you a coward who hates the joy and beauty of women with big noses 2) have you looked at any real human siblings lately 3) why do you appear to think the nose is a secondary sex characteristic
wishing all women with big noses a beautiful day i hope you get everything you want forever and i'm sorry about the rank cowardice of general society you deserve better
Rocky and Adrian decide to renew their vows after Rocky returns to Erid so at the ceremony there's the beautiful spouse, the other beautiful spouse, their friends and family, and a leaky alien who is actively dying and leaks even more during the ceremony because apparently his species does that when they're emotional.
Grace and Rocky are living in like this whimsical space adventure. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Eva Stratt just ordered her fifth assassination this week trying to stop WW3. The other day she replaced Jeff Bezos with a homonculus clone grown in a lab so she can repurpose Amazon into a humanitarian aid distribution network. She had a team of lawyers trick a demon into extending her lifespan by 30 years just so she can live to see through Project Hail Mary.
ngl a lot of you seem real scared of grace having any flaws whatsoever.
like his refusal to form deeper connections on earth is, like, part of why his dynamic with rocky is so meaningful. it’s not indicative of his identity, and it’s not actually He Loves Earth So Much.
it’s a man so isolated and insulated that even after the years he worked as a teacher, even after the years he worked in stratt’s vat, he genuinely has not formed a true relationship with anyone in his life, and no amount of saying he cares about people or his students or earth was ever going to make him willing to die for them. it’s cowardice and it’s refusing to be a part of the world around him and it’s deliberately holding people at arm’s length; even to his own detriment.
it’s a character flaw. it’s okay. characters are supposed to have them.
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
my friend @intimatevoid has a queue that's pretty behind and every now and then it'll spit out a post and I'm like "ohhh now we're thirteen days behind, it's getting worse, it was eleven earlier"
Yeah, it's up to
... give me a second.
Much better. Good number.
My queue is set to 25 posts a day. I speed it up to 50 whenever it gets between 750 and the 1000 queue limit.
Anyway, as of 2:39pm AEST on 7/6/26, if I stopped queueing things, disregarding scheduled seasonal or anniversary posts, the final post would be spit out...
... just under a month from now.
oooooh it's gotten MUCH worse
#I am an old man watching you (a construction worker) digging in your increasingly flooded pit
Yesss watch me splash around in my gumboots
Continue✨ Keep going✨
Thank you, lady 🤗
The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home…
Always grateful when this makes the rounds
In case anyone needs this today or ever.
Immediately, I love her.
on the internet you really encounter opinions you didn't know people could come up with
Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.
