I work with industrial hydraulics, the forces involved in big gear are truly insane.

Working pressures is around 270bar…on ~1.4m^2 of cylinders. Millions of kg of force.

This annoyed me also.

If the Avatar universe has physics like ours, which it looks like it does from the way things move etc…

The protoplanetry disk that the planet formed from, must have had the unobtanium, since it is so evenly spread around the later formed planet.

Yes, there are higher concentrations in various places, which could have come from impact events in the past; if this is the case the impactors are likely from the local asteroid belt or equivalent.

The unobtanium must be available, in a much easier to extract form, in asteroids in the soloar system or the moons of Pandora.

Either way, a mineral is a terrible maguffin for a space faring civilization.

In the second movie, the whale brain juice is a much better maguffin, but still kinda stupid for a technologically advanced species.

Assume that to get interstellar travel, with the suspended animation and brain beaming tech we are shown, humans are a good 200 years ahead of where we are now…given that they can also make fully functional alien bodies from scratch, that can breed and pass on genetic material to what look like viable offspring. The level of synthetic biology expertise must be insane, and they can’t make this brain juice…it is just stupid.

Guns for show, knives for a pro!

Just about any term that refers to someone else can be used as an insult!

So as the old saying goes “offense is taken, not given”. If you want to be insulted, you will be.

I find, people who insult others are saying more about their own character, than that of the target.

Have they tried “thoughts and prayers”?

CHICAGO – In a tearful press conference held outside their headquarters, the editors of The Onion announced today that they will be ceasing operations indefinitely, citing the increasing impossibility of maintaining their satirical edge in a world that seems determined to outpace their imaginations.

“We tried our best,” said Editor-in-Chief Chad Nackers, clutching a coffee mug emblazoned with the phrase “Satire Is Dead.” “But at this point, every time we think of a headline like, ‘Congress Votes To Replace Minimum Wage With ‘Employee Of The Month’ Stickers,’ it’s on CNN three hours later.”

The Onion, a stalwart of satirical journalism for over three decades, has long prided itself on crafting absurd yet poignant headlines that parody the state of the world. However, in recent years, their attempts at humor have been thwarted by reality’s relentless pursuit of self-parody.

“We were working on a piece titled, ‘Local Man Launches GoFundMe For Pet Goldfish’s Gender Reveal Party,’ and before we could even finish the article, there it was on TikTok,” lamented Senior Writer Mariah Benson. “How do you satirize something like that? It’s like we’re in some cosmic arms race, and reality has nukes.”

Note: this is satire, the onion is not shutting down

I get this, after working retail as a teen/early 20’s. I hated the music, the commercial nature of everything, the fakeness of it all. As a special extra, for those in the southern hemisphere “traditional” Christmas food is so dumb here.

But you know what “cured” me of this. My kids, they are what it’s all about, they love the songs and gifts, time with us. Lake days and sun… its all wonderful to them.

It is not “just” quantum physics that shows the deterministic universe is impossible.

Relativity theory shows, there is no “universal clock”, this is distinct from Newtonian physics which assumes a single universal clock.

You may not want to accept that the universe is not deterministic, and there are big gaps in our understanding of reality, but this isn’t one of them. On a fundamental level, the universe is probabilistic.

You are in good company however, Einstein famously said “god doesn’t play dice with the universe”, when he initially discovered this fact. He came to accept its reality, at the evidence is overwhelming.

Following the teachings of a blue hedgehog

One option…lean in, HARD! Dial the crazy up to 11… One up every point she makes, every single time.

You don’t even need external drivers. Reading Stoic philosophy, and abiding by the teachings will get you there also.

Your argument is circular.

In your view, determinism requires impossible perfect knowledge. It only seems probabilistic, because we can’t do the impossible.

This is also not a technology problem. These are not limits we can overcome.

If you are really interested, look into the uncertainty principle.

At this point in science we are as convinced as is possible to be; that the universe is probabilistic in nature.

But we know for sure that the universe is not deterministic.

From a fundamental level, it is probabilistic.

Simple experiments can show this chaotic action.
Take for example the dripping tap experiment. The time for next drop cannot be predicted by knowing the timing of the previous drops!
This is not a random process, there is a pattern, but it is also clearly not deterministic.

I came here to say this, well played.

I know it may sound callous, but if you have skills. A lot of countries are looking to fill skill shortages, you could emigrate to somewhere with a sensible health system.

Failing that, as someone else pointed out. Grassroots action!
Get involved, change the narrative build up from local level. Shooting CEO’s is not a long term solution, yes it grabbed attention, yes it showed how fucked off the population really is… build on that momentum.

I’m the helmet, my family is the cat.

Choose your starting level!

Yep, I never could get past the taste of plastic in my food.

Only microwave in glass and ceramic!

It works well with syncthing…