The only counter I have to that is how sensitive our brains are to chemical, mental, and physical trauma.

Drugs, injury, and environmental stress cause easily observable behavior changes, but also changes on the brain measurable in medical imaging. And there's a lot of acknowledgement that these changes can occur in childhood and persist.

I don't think anyone chooses to be cruel, I think it's forced on them in ways they can't do anything about, and as a society we owe it to them to do better and help them.

Uhm.

Ok. He should not be in charge of the executive office. We know he's stupid but, damn.

Worth living? :(

TBF it's boring as fuck out here

Upper Midwest.

Zillow is months behind, but you can find chunks where they've fallen 10-50k since first listing for houses under $500k.

No, they aren't talking about the sudden drop, they're talking about the rapid increase. Which I get the point but we may finally be looking at a true correction, which is hopeful more than anything

Wait, what?

Hold on. Around here, house prices have falled, dramatically recently.

In fact, 54% increase from 2015-2024 is low. When my house was appraised a year ago, it was +72.5%, it is now +54.5%.

Housing prices, anecdotal as it is, are going in the right direction.

Man, the cross section of people who have seen and enjoy older south Park episodes is confusing.

It's never who you expect or hope. I've kind of given up on using it, unless I know for a fact that the people I'm talking to have seen south Park.

I'll die on this hill.

I can't up vote you

And down vote you

It's not fair

The part I don't get is that smokers smell like shit standing 6 feet away.

How the fuck is any smoker comfortable with that?

The first part of this made me think you're making a joke about being tasteless, then you said the pineapple pizza part and given that pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong, you might be serious

That's pretty much exactly what happened.

I typed the first "ha" cause it was a great slap, then I typed the next "hahahaha" because it was hilarious, and at that point I was committed anyway, so I just added the last revelation that it was actually not far off from reality

Ha, hahaha, oh shit that's a good point

Chroming?

How much is it per cup?

If a 1.3Kg bottle of N2O is $50, am I right in suspecting thats not a lot of high, but a shit ton of foam latte's

Ok a bit more I found.

The 5×10^10 number you referenced is the SMBH maximum mass for typically observed black holes. However, near the maximum prograde spin, given the age of the universe, a black hole would not have been able to accumulate more than 2.7×10^11 solar masses.

So, yes, a practical limit exists. But to point to OPs comment, no they will not explode.

I didn't know that, but it makes sense that AGN would have a limit. Lemme look this up, we're pretty close to my limit of astrophysics

Black hole behavior has largely been theoretically explored. What's neat with this discovery is that the particle jets interact with stars causing a Nova - this means that there is a way to measure black holes we have a harder time observing and use that in calculating mass of galaxies. This is important if black holes do contribute to what we consider Dark Matter.

Dark Matter is simply something with mass (therefore matter) that does not interact with electromagnetism. It doesn't absorb light, it doesn't emit light. Therefore "dark" and extremely hard to study. We know it exists because it does interact with gravity.

Undetectable black holes can contribute to this measured mass, and are great candidates for some of the dark matter. The problem remains that the dark matter interactions are not exclusively resolved by black holes passing through an area of space.

It's a bit more complicated than that - theoretically Hawking radiation would cause a black hole with no surrounding matter to evaporate over an extremely long period of time (we're talking 10^10 to 10^100 years).

Additionally, micro black holes have been proven mathematically in the 14MeV range of LHC, but as far as experimental data goes, we have not observed the creation of a micro black hole. The main problem is that they would instantly annihilate (as in exactly 0 seconds) and would be indistinguishable from events already creating gamma rays.