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For those who, like me, have never heard of a .gitkeep file: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/what-are-the-differences-between-gitignore-and-gitkeep

Not wanting to fix a problem includes not caring if it's fixed or not.

I've never been much of a Nintendo fan, but news like this makes me want to get into using Nintendo emulators.

The one with guns, I would assume.

I'm not saying it's right or even acceptable, but let's use the proper words to describe things. In this case Israel is exploiting members of a persecuted minority, then further screwing them by stealing their wages. And on top of that many of them are probably refugees because of Israel's genocide campaign. But they're not slaves according to any of what I've seen claimed.

Sorry, I was being cranky.

Supermassive black holes (SMBs) are much, much bigger than any star. If you look at this Wikipedia article, you'll see that the theoretical limit for star size is in the neighborhood of 300 times the mass of the sun. SMBs are at least hundreds of thousands of times more massive than the sun, up to billions of time more massive. They are also probably older than any star because they had to exist the form the seeds of galaxies. One of the open questions in astrophysics right now is how SMBs formed as quickly as they did, because there's a limit on how quickly a black hole can absorb matter. Any faster than that limit, and the matter falling into the black hole is so hot and dense that a lot of it gets blown outward.

If you find this stuff at all interesting, I recommend checking out PBS Space Time on YouTube, particularly their black hole episodes.

User name checks out.

Or the Laundry series by Charles Stross.

I understand wanting to unload one. Not so much the part where someone pays to be the recipient.

Yeah but they misspelled it, so they lose some points there.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I can't tell if they think transition surgeries are a good thing they want to stop immigrants from getting, or a bad thing being forced on unsuspecting children.