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  • Red dwarf stars also flare more frequently than our Sun, unleashing waves of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation that is harmful to life as we know it. If the Sun can strip off Mars’ water and dense atmosphere from a huge distance, planets like Proxima b lying about 30 times closer to furiously flaring stars could lose their atmospheres in just a hundred million years. To make matters worse, such planets being tidally locked means their molten interiors likely churn slowly, generating feeble or no magnetic fields. This deprives the planets from the kind of radiation protection that is so effective here on Earth and contributes to its proliferation of life.

    In 2014, NASA’s Swift mission caught a red dwarf emitting a flare 10,000 times more powerful than any ever expelled by our Sun. Most newly born red dwarfs may emit such mega-flares, perhaps in revolt against us having judged them on size. The intense radiation from these mega-flares could prevent life from ever arising on nearby planets.

    Source:planetary.org


    Well, this makes Red Dwarf a very aptly named vessel and TV program…






  • Critical ex trump voters suggest he has broken his promises, most notably with the war on Iran, subservience to Israel, and not finishing deportations already (personally I don’t think it would be possible for America to have “deported all the illegals” by this point, under any timeline)

    So they would say “No, not yet.”

    Those who actually haven’t left the MAGA cult (the “maggia,” huh?) against all the odds - and they could be better described as “clinging on harder” - they’ll tell you under any circumstances that it’s great again. They seem to only care if Trump is in command or not.

    Little do they realise he is actually not in command. So America is not “Great again” by either of these two camps’ metrics, and I think that’s the focus-group you were thinking of when you made the post.




  • literally all i want is for him to acknowledge that he hurt me, but he refuses to even admit he ever even acted aggressively or anything towards me

    I think i had some good thoughts regarding this in my big-ass reply to you, so if you don’t read all of it, here’s the relevant bits:

    • bring up instances of when he hurt you, but as 3rd person stories; “my friend took 2 cookies from the jar when he was 11 years old and his dad shouted at him and called him a fatass” Your Dad:“what a jerk” Yiu: “Yeah. Well, that was you and me when i was 11 Y.O”
    • If that for instance doesn’t work, because maybe he approves of that behaviour, then gloss it up a bit: "… Now this friend had trouble feeding himself because he associated the executive decision to get food with his father’s ire. He also started to see abusive name calling as something fatherly and it lead to him putting up with some pretty shitty friends, bosses, romantic partners. We are left with a man with an E.D surrounded by awful people in their life, because he was too young to put his foot down and defend himself and, in those small ways, he has been stuck at that traumatised age ever since.
    • send letters about what he did that hurt you. He will read it more than once - how many letters do you send him regularly? Probably not a lot.

  • kinda makes me want to do it to hurt my dad but tbh he would probably still not realize that he’s the reason

    You’re right, he wouldn’t. And if you try to use suicide to make pthers feel guilty, it’s not going to work; i presume he’s not the only person who you would want to hurt. Some of those others will actually rejoice at your passing, your dad will rationalise it in his head that it wasn’t his fault but rather some lifestyle choice you picked up or a mental illness or “mind virus.” The more you try and put in a suicide letter, the more willing to dismiss it people become; there is no way to succeasfully drag people down with you.

    I’ve considered it myself just to get at everyone who ever hurt me. I too have been cruelly treated, by probably everyone i’ve really known for a sizeable amount of time, whether it’s a friend a bully or a relative stranger. You will never manage to drag them all to the pits of hell, it’s really only their own actions that can determine that.

    So. I’ll state the obvious conclusions: you cannot kill yourself to hurt others who have hurt you. Even if they’re usually close to you. Only the people who love you and genuinely tried to treat you perfectly would be proportionately hurt by it. And we only triumph over people who hurt us by living better than them, and a lot of the time you never get to know what that means - so you can only aim on treating yourself well, which aught to be enough.


    I’ve also seen one guy who has major beef with his dad basically try this, threaten suicidal behaviour, tell him all his problems are caused by him. It bounced off him like a rubber ball. Maybe your dad is Gen X, boomer, or even older - people of that age are very very stubborn, you cannot expect thsm to react to things the way young blood would.

    I stopped talking to that friend (he hasn’t been depressed in a long time and is just an asshole with a massive friend group now). I saw his father in the park recently and he was weeping, as if really reflective about something, some earth shattering news. My only conclusion is that he finally got the message regarding how badly he’s treated his son.

    This shows that the best thing you can do to, you know, “drill it into your dad’s skull” is keep talking to him about it. Do it creatively if it helps: send him letters covering what you want to tell him, tell him hypothetical stories and ask what he would do in the situation, then go “well that was me at x years old, and you did/said Y to me and it was terrible.”

    In regards to more distant people in your life - you have to assume their sin catches up with them. It seems to be the case for all sorts of peopls, and it weighs on their minds 24/7 and hurts them as much as they hurt you.



  • Well not only should they not do it, but it’s stupid if they have been doing it and it really shows in the bumfuck meaningless storylines.

    Stranger things, Daredevil Born Again, The Boys. These are a few shows that have profoundly disjointed logic in their endings and seems to skip narrative flow just to have “moments” - so many people have accused them of having AI writing. The cast in some cases expresses exhaustion with the sharp change in quality between the start of the series and the ending of the final series.

    If writers/producers have been using AI for these things, are they not capable of at least tidying up the little shit dribbles it leaves all over the place where things don’t make sense? They shouldn’t use AI in the first place if they can’t be bothered to tidy up after it