I feel like, at their core, most religions boil down to two things, for most people:

• Giving you purpose/security/scapegoats ("I'm living a good life so I can go to heaven," "the Lord has a plan/is watching over me," "Satan/sinners/demons tempted me")
• Dissuading you from inquisitive, critical thought (out of self-preservation, I'd imagine)

Personally, I prefer to define my own purpose, live a more "dynamic" lifestyle than is traditional, think critically, and question authority. Doesn't make me "better" than religious folks, in fact they're probably overall happier than I am. But I can't imagine living that way, regardless of whether or not I believe in a magical sky Santa who can't decide whether he loves us unconditionally or whether or not he's actually omnipotent.

All I know is, my gut says "maybe"

TIL that Unicode includes hieroglyphs lol

I mean, I agree that the construction is sketchy (runs the whole thing from an off-brand playstation controller? Couldn't splurge on the $800 for a real cassette toilet?), but acrylic and carbon fiber are appropriate material choices, if they were used in the appropriate thicknesses and configurations.

For sure, there’s no community as large and passionate as religion. BUT there are other communities that are centered around goodwill to others, living a better life…some of them even have chanting, if you feel like you’d be missing that part lol.

Those communities usually involve doing work though (volunteering, performing, teaching, etc.) while you can just show up to church and kinda pay attention, and you’re in.

Two clothing categories: Clothes that it matters if they're wrinkled, and everything else. Category one goes on hangers, everything else goes in piles. If I'm out of GUFE (give a fuck energy), category one gets draped over a chair.

People that fold their underwear/socks/workout attire are the same as people who make their bed every day: Whyyyyyy bother.

That being said, this whole debacle is making Reddit stocks tastier for risk-tolerant investors; The more the valuation plummets now, the more potential it has to bounce back.

Most likely long-term outcome of this whole thing IMO: The valuation continues to go down for the next several months as the fallout from this API decision and subsequent protests drives away more users and advertisers and generates more bad press. Eventually the internet forgets about it (minus the "power users" who have already migrated elsewhere), and Reddit will wait until well after that for their IPO. Whether before or after the IPO, u/Spez will be replaced as CEO. While that likely won't change much, it'll be a symbolic move to say "we listened to the users/investors." After which, valuation will quickly recover to pre-debacle levels.

Only question from there is whether the loss of the "power users" was enough to send the site on a permanent downward trajectory. My guess is probably not; plenty of people left to fill that void. Reddit will continue on, as a slightly shitier, more investor-friendly site.

I honestly got the impression that the u/Spez AMA was intentionally shitty, as an attempt to scapegoat him. I cannot fathom how a multi billion dollar company could allow that to happen unintentionally. It was comically bad. They're just waiting until after the API change goes live to actually can him, so they don't have to change the decision.

Here's just about every gag food I can think of from the show that could be translated to an edible dish:

• Popplers
• Slurm
• Manwhich
• Glagnar's Human Rinds
• Bachelor Chow
• Bristol Myers Squibb steak (just serve steak tips in some novelty-size pill capsules?)
• FemaSlim (some liquid/gel served in disposable food-grade syringes)
• Soylent drinks
• Coffee served in whale mugs
• Deep-fried icecream sandwich wrapped in frosting and lightly baconed
• Jerked "lower horn"
• "Jamaican" platter: jerked meat of every variety
• "LaBarbara's cooking": comically spicy Caribbean food
• Sterno Nicoise (flambeed ice cream cake with blue frosting, probably a lot of work)
• "Froot" cup with cheese filling
• Molten Boron/Torgo's Executive Powder (I'm thinking serve some spaghetti with red sauce in tin coffee cans with the "Molton Boron" label and the chemical hazard symbol, and Parmesan cheese labeled executive powder)

Sorry, Lemmy is being weird and won't let me post a top-level comment, but had to get this meme out lol

It could be mounted externally, separate from other systems, and it would be fairly trivial to implement a strictly mechanical means of activating it from inside the vessel. All that would be needed is to open the valve on the external pressure vessel.

If you're referring to getting out once you're on the surface...hell of a lot easier for rescue crews to find you and do that if you've got a huge orange inflatable holding you at the surface, rather than however many thousands of feet underwater.

I've been toying around with some design concepts for a DIY submarine for like a decade now. The first thing I thought about, right after "how do I control it going up/down" was "what do I do when that system fails, and I need to ascend in an emergency?" My thought was to have some scuba tanks attached to deployable salvage lift bags, so even if my ballasts were completely screwed, I could still ascend.

If there's not something analogous to that on board the Titan, I'd be shocked at their stupidity; It seems incredibly foolhardy to intentionally go somewhere that no rescue vehicle can recover you, without secondary and tertiary systems in place to rescue yourself.