2019, I wanted to put an OS with color on an ancient laptop that was running black-and-white windows 95 despite having rgb capable hardware. Pretty impressive how anyone was able to do anything with only 1.44MB of space per disk

If it was @dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works who commented the cat for a non-AI image, they’ve admitted they were just commenting it randomly on purpose as bait here

Fuck that; my vernacular is diverse as fuck. Furthermore, even if some fucking rando uses the word “fuck” all the fucking time, they can likely still describe pretty much any-fucking-thing they damn well wish in an effective way.

The entire fucking point of language in the fucking first place is communication. Can you understand me when I say “fuck off” or “fuck that” or any other phrase that involves the word? Yes. So this riposte is just as fucking effective as if I’d omitted the word “fuck” in the fucking first place.

However, foregoing the word “fuck” in fabricating this fine fucking reply would not be as much fucking fun, and would have fucked up the emphasis of its delivery as the entire fucking purpose of this fucking frivolous reply is to hit home how fucking foolish it is to presume someone’s vocabulary is lacking simply due to using the word “fuck” frequently as fuck.

Maybe, I don’t know. I mean for a single cycle, you could probably do low frequencies easily.

Two black holes 1ly apart would take at least pi ly to complete a full circular arc around their barycenter. That would give you a frequency of one full cycle of the gravitational wave every 3years. (Actually it might be 1.5 years since I think the peaks of the wave are caused by either body and the troughs are the gaps between them so a half circle is a full cycle of the wave assuming both holes are the same size). Point is, thats a really low frequency which is “easy” to setup.

But yes, trying to prevent the decay of the spiral long enough to get a few good pulses at roughly the same frequency would require some work and might not be possible past a certain high frequency.

However, this might only limit how many of the increasingly higher frequencies you can get before it’s not really feasible. But hey you only really need the biggest one to cause weird visual effects. It just wont be as sharp of an effect since the geodesics light takes will smoothly change their relative angles to you rather than doing so almost instantly.

So if you can get a pair of supermassive blackholes to orbit with a period of ~1sec without immediately spiraling faster and colliding, your prank on earthlings would still mostly succeed. (Your prank would likely succeed even with the collision since as the frequency increased, it would eventually hit the audible range and that would honestly be more distressing in some ways (to be audible would of course require your ears to be oriented such that the spatial disturbances happen along the right axis and are strong enough to move your inner ear bones without being strong enough to cook you from the induced vibration in your whole body))

Depending on the energy deposition I can manage, it might also be a fun prank on the rest of the Earth.

If you did this near enough to earth with supermassive blackholes (had high enough “energy deposition” to the spacetime around earth), there would absolutely be noticeable physical effects.

Yes, likely the radius of this ripple would be massive enough to coat most of earth simultaneously, but if you’re looking away from or directly towards it, you’d probably notice some odd stuff going on.

Sure, you would need to make sure the oscillation frequency is low enough to be easily noticed and many many orders of magnitude stronger than the waves we typically detect, but if you can manage a period on the order of a second or more and just enough strength to bend light a little across the falling and rising edge of the wave, people on earth would likely be able to see the warping of space around them. Like imagine the stars or the moon looking like they are stuttering, jumping back and forth in the sky every-time a wave passes.

That would probably be an effective prank as it may cause various emotional effects on the inhabitants of earth who didn’t know what the hell was going on

Dendrites are the inputs; axons are the outputs. Both tend to branch and each dendrite has many “spines” which form the input synapses.

But yes, that sounds more likely since it is theorized that the basal dendrites in the prefrontal cortex being larger and more complex than others is what allows them to integrate larger amounts of information and could correlate with intelligence.

Not sure about the genes affecting connectivity, but I can tell you that neurons in both chimpanzees and humans connect to wayyy more than 7 neurons. Like orders of magnitude more. In the Prefrontal Cortex, pyramidal neurons can have upwards of 30,000 excitatory inputs alone

If I can build my own and mentally switch off any sensory input from them at will, probably. Otherwise I’d probably stray away from implants unless I really needed a prosthetic.

I’d also be much more keen on the idea if I knew i could easily fully swap bodies in the event I accidentally fuck one up with the mods. Like if it was more on the side of “Ghost In The Shell” cyber-brains (assuming sclerosis wasn’t a big problem) I’d be pretty stoked to get a full body prosthetic to avoid aging and such knowing I can survive as just a brain-case in an emergency.

“Oh you mean I need to go down like six inches from my origin in the brain to the laryx? Well fuck you! I’m gonna go all the way down till I hit the lungs then loop under the aorta before heading back up the same direction I came from and then I’ll reach the larynx” — The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Really gives me Zapp Brannigan “now there’s a route with some chest hair” vibes

Unless those mountains were under water or covered in a tropical area a very long time ago, they likely wouldn’t have any oil in them because there’d be dead life forms in the sediment to get turned into oil.

Utah (the dark patch seen on your map below Idaho) has both the rocky mountains and oil because 50million years ago it was covered by lake uinta.