Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


@froztbyte thats one thing but im still interested in the physics of the insulatory effects of the vacuum š
@xyhhx @froztbyte āvacuum is an insulatorā is what makes a high-quality double-walled thermos high quality ā there is no air between the outer and inner walls
@benchase oh shit, i knew that (when shopping for water bottles) but didnāt put two and two together
@froztbyte
exactly so :)
no matter means no heat transmission through conduction (=particle motion), only radiation
@Reach_the_man so wait, is not heat a form of energy (or a result thereof)? can energy not dissipate through a vacuum?
or is it that the energy dissipates less effectively when it canāt transfer itself *as heat* through a medium?
heat is describing the average kinetic energy of the materialās particles, with no contact it canāt transfer as kinetic energy, only through photons emitted
@Reach_the_man that clears it up for me! thanks for taking the time to answer