But there is also no need to invoke “freedom of speech” if the things you’re saying are unpopular and many people are offended by it… unless the government is trying to stop you from expressing those things. If people are asking the bouncer to chuck somebody out of the bar, that person might as well invoke the third amendment against quartering soldiers in their house because that’s exactly as irrelevant to the situation as the first.
Yeah, its the tech-aware who have dumped Reddit. Unfortunately part of the magic was that it had grown to the point that if you went looking you could end up talking to anybody from a diesel engine mechanic to a paragliding instructor, not just a bunch of tech nerds. I think this’ll be the sticking point, lemmy/kbin is still 95%+ tech nerds.
I think this wave just gave us enough of a userbase to start establishing the infrastructure for general communities here, not even really specialized ones yet. But those will provide escape areas whenever the next wave occurs.
This is all kinda blind speculation and there will be a formal report eventually, but as a general outline:
-When carbon fiber fails, it tends to fail spectacularly: completely and suddenly. So you can think of it not as “crushing a tin can” but more “smashing a glass lightbulb, but from all sides at once”.
-If we randomly assume they were halfway down (no idea on where they actually were but as a blind guess 50% is a good starting point) that’s about 200 atm of pressure. 1atm = ~15 psi, so thats about 3,000 psi. For comparison, a typical firehose is roughly 100 psi. And that can do serious damage to people: if a badly threaded cover pops off a charged hydrant, there is enough force behind that to break bones. If you were sitting next to the hydrant it’d hit you faster than you could react - you’d only know it after you’d been hit. The water outside the sub is at 30x that pressure.
-Lets assume just as an arbitrary approximation that in the first instant of the carbon fiber failing catastrophically, an area roughly equivalent to a 3ft diameter circle fails (it probably actually fails by buckling in a line then milliseconds later splitting and shattering, but we’re just approximating). This means that the water that flows through is pushed by 30x as much pressure as a firehose, and that pressure is coming in across 200 times as much area as a firehose (which are typically 2.5in diameter), so there are basically 200 of those 30x-power-firehoses coming through at once.
-A 2.5in firehose will do ~300 gpm. 6000 firehoses would be 1.8 million gpm. The internal volume of a 2m diameter/4m long cylinder is about 2,500 gal. That would be completely full of water in 0.001 seconds. Of course in reality water doesn’t hit full speed instantly, fluid flow is far more complex than just multiplying through like this, etc. But this just drives home that we’re talking very very small fractions of a second.
-Yes, compression = heating and when its super fast there isn’t much time for heat transfer so its adiabatic: wikipedia has an example under “adiabatic compression” for 10:1 compression going to about 500dec C (in an engine) and this is more like 200:1. But remember that air has low specific heat capacity and also doesn’t weigh much. The specific heat capacity of water (i.e. humans, plus those 6,000 firehoses worth of water) is ~4x that of air, and the density is ~1000x as much. So if you have equal volumes of air and person, and you heat the air by 4,000 deg C, that contains roughly enough energy to heat the person by 1 deg C. And also refer back to “there isn’t much time for heat transfer”. So chances that this actually matters beyond detailed physics calculations are slim.
Bottom line: completely obliterated by the force of so much water under so much pressure. By the time any water entered the sub it should have been over faster than a human could perceive. No explosions or incineration though, just force.
Also, common misconception: pressure alone doesn’t hurt you. You would not be directly hurt by spending time anywhere from the complete vacuum of space (0atm) to the challenger deep (1,000 atm). Obviously there are other little complications like you can’t breath in 0atm and that’ll kill you quickly, but the pressure itself won’t. Conversely at high pressures oxygen becomes toxic which isn’t great for staying alive, but the pressure itself isn’t the issue. Very rapid and therefore very violent pressure CHANGE, however, can and will kill you in many horrible ways.
If they performed the inspection and aren’t complaining about anything, I’d guess 99% chance they didn’t see anything that they had to give a shit about, your unit number has been checked off on a list as “OK”, and nobody at the agency is going to think about it at all until next time your unit comes up on their to-do list. If they had a problem, they’d probably tell you.
I mean, this is not counting weird stuff. Like if they think you guys are hookers using the place to meet clients, or think that you’re drug dealers or hoarders or anything crazy, they might keep their mouth shut and get ready to refuse to renew your lease. But a guy taking a phone call is, uh… not the same as any of those things.
I’m not sure I understand: rental inspection as in they look around and make sure you’re keeping the place reasonably clean and there is no major damage? Because to be blunt, in that case the agent doesn’t give a flying fuck what you or anybody else is doing, and the visit notification is pretty much “please don’t be naked.”
I’d guess if the agent saw a relatively clean place and looked into a room to see somebody working on a computer and taking a call, she probably just decided to not bother you and to get on with the rest of her day.
I’m just confused because I don’t understand what else could or should have happened. Are you supposed to lead the agent on a tour of your bedroom while offering them tea and cookies?
In summary, did the inspection actually “go badly” in that you’re being charged for something or whatever? Because it sounds a lot like they saw a clean place and called it quits, which is usually the ideal outcome.
Looks like this may have been the case. My reverted comments were from a few subs that I’m pretty sure were private at the time I edited.
Re-editing the entire list, we’ll see what happens.
I mean, if I were the mods in question I’d do one of two things:
Riot. See if we can get goatse on the front page in the 30min before the sub gets locked. I’d get purged and replaced, the sub will be reopened without me but whatever - cause the biggest mess possible on the way out.
Quiet rebellion. Stop removing spam and disable some key automod settings. “Sorry guys, turbulent times, you know?” Allow low effort memes. Delete the occasional important post for BS “rulebreaking”. Over the next couple months you can probably destroy the sub.
An IPO is essentially selling it - to public investors rather than private ones.
Just trolls. We’ve got one mod, who is also the dev. So moderation is gonna be… not great for a while. Nothing against our mod/dev, it’s just gone from a one-man-job to needs-a-team overnight. And even a properly sized team will need a while to develop tools.
Forever DM since DnD 3.0. I averaged roughly one played session per two years. Until when I transitioned to PF2 I got 2 sessions of beginner box and 2 sessions of AP run by a volunteer. It was greatly appreciated and helped a lot with the transition.
RE DMing, I phase it in and out. Its mostly a winter thing for me - too many good-weather-dependent hobbies in summer complicate scheduling so things need to wrap up in spring. I’m preparing to start back up in a month or two, probably every-other-weekly roughly September to April/May-ish.
Also, Baldurs Gate 3. It’s so good (it makes me wish for a PF2 ruleset adaption mod, but even under 5e-ish rules it’s great).