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Let's look at the formulas!

F = G (m1 * m2) / r2

F is the force exerted on each object. G is a constant. m1 and m2 are the two masses. r is the distance between their centers of masses.

So the force is different in all of these examples (ball bearing, bowling ball, neutron star).

But then we have F=ma, which we can turn into a = F/m to get a, the acceleration of any object in... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by whatnotever at 11:30 AM on June 10, 2024 marked best answer

Ugh. I haven't felt this pessimistic since DJ Trump was elected. In the State where I live (Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, Germany) AfD (right-wing jackasses) got 30%-ish of the vote - which is huge. Dismayingly huge. This is a party that is roundly despised by every single currently serving member of the German Parliament and I know that could sound hyperbolic but based on conversations with people who work in and around the Bundestag, it's the sentiment.

They... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by From Bklyn at 2:55 AM on June 10, 2024

Almost everyone winds up lactose intolerant eventually

What's that now?
posted to MetaFilter by biffa at 2:29 PM on June 8, 2024

It was very rough dealing with A-Jason's cluelessness in the earlier episodes, but it's more enjoyable now that there's more universe-hopping.

I like the doom spiral aspect and B-Blair's little horror story. Did the Blair who was eaten by the bird/wasps bring them to that world? I'm not sure if guilt needs to be added to her sorrows.

I like that B-Jason is maybe the only person who is good at it because he is the universe's most monomaniacal... [more]
posted to FanFare by fleacircus at 9:11 PM on June 8, 2024

Today in Sunakland: Rumours circulate that he has cancelled his media appearances and that he may be about to resign, with the inevitable effect that once everyone has got themselves excited at the prospect of a further huge drama, they'll resent him even more when he fails to go.
I love the notion that rumours of his resignation will hurt his chances further. This can only be good for Count Binface!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:51 AM on June 9, 2024

Truly, Sunak's approach is the Cybertruck of election campaigns.
posted to MetaFilter by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:20 PM on June 8, 2024

He doesn't seem like a very smart man

Koalas in the rain, no fucks given.
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 11:56 AM on June 8, 2024

When we talk about patriarchy victimizing men, could you possibly find a better, dumber example? "Don't enjoy anything, straight guys! No, really! Don't enjoy ANYTHING! Only gays enjoy their food!"

But it's extra-stupid because if you think about Straight Guy Food, what do you think of? Big drippy racks of ribs, straight off the grill? Sticky spicy hot wings that leave goo oozing down your fingers and chin? There's no dry, clean, stoic Straight Guy... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mittens at 11:20 AM on June 7, 2024

To paraphrase an old Onion joke: "Info Wins Info Wars"
posted to MetaFilter by canisbonusest at 9:48 AM on June 7, 2024

I guess we picked the wrong day to have an alcohol free thread

I mean, Alex Jones’ behavior last weekend is an excellent advertisement for staying sober. The guy was incoherent, slurring, embarrassingly emotional, and he may have thrown up on set.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 10:31 AM on June 7, 2024

Discussions about climate impact knowledge occasionally manifest in processes we call “collective derailments”. In navigating complex information about climate change and challenges to current lifestyles, consumers gravitate towards the highlighting of “facts” that pose little threat to cultural conventions.

I think these 2 sentences from the conclusion are some of the most interesting. I found it a very useful article, in part because it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ambrosen at 7:27 AM on June 7, 2024

Whether lab grown meat takes off or not, the future is definitely one where there will be a kid in school that brags about how they can buy a real turkey for thanksgiving ...

Do Pilgrim-droids Eat Electric Turkey?
posted to MetaFilter by symbioid at 9:54 AM on June 6, 2024

Hmm, I'm not the person who started talking about lynching.
posted to MetaFilter by ambrosen at 4:09 AM on June 7, 2024

Are you thinking of this 1994 paper by the late Anne Cutler (LGT PDF), "The perception of rhythm in language"?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by knile at 8:55 AM on June 6, 2024 marked best answer

It's so fucking weird to fault "progressives" (which I guess is this article's euphemism for scary ol 'feminists') for this. Progressive feminists are literally the only people who are talking about the problem, the only people who are doing something to correct it. Progressive feminists pioneered the field of masculine studies and deconstructing masculinity. The only time progressive feminists tell men to shut up is when they invoke the politics of male grievance to *shut women up*.
posted to MetaFilter by MiraK at 6:11 AM on June 5, 2024

I started getting stuck on the fact that in these multiverses the same handful of people are friends or know each other, or the worlds have radically different climates. Is it some kind of meta joke about people just never leaving Chicago?
posted to FanFare by snofoam at 7:39 PM on June 4, 2024

I truly can't decide what is more pathetically cringey and lame: calling him "Drumpf", or people asking not to call him Drumpf as it is engaging in "name calling".
posted to MetaTalk by windbox at 11:25 AM on June 3, 2024

It's so cringey and childish.
posted to MetaTalk by Klipspringer at 9:55 AM on June 3, 2024

I do not believe that any of these politicians are crooks. The world needs more like them.
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 9:19 AM on June 3, 2024

Picking a message and sticking with it is not the left's forte. But I can dream...

I mean, the actual Left is pretty good at it. The Democrats, however...
posted to MetaFilter by adrienneleigh at 10:34 PM on June 2, 2024

Didn’t Hitler get charged with something and put in jail before he took power? All you (America ) have done is provide fuel for the performative outrage.

Trump would be over twice Hitler's age when he went to prison. In the unlikely event he goes to jail long enough to write a book he ain't coming out to lead a government takeover. Besides not prosecuting people because they might overthrow the government is essentially conceding the government to those people.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral at 3:56 AM on June 2, 2024

who is reality is possibly the best and most effective president in several decades, and definitely in the top 1 or 2 if not very top -

Maybe it’s the bruise I still have on my body from the police beating me at my campus protest for Palestine, while I was a legal observer, while Biden called for more funding for cops and an end to the “disorder” which prevents me from seeing the supposed top qualities. I guess I’m just funny like that.
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 8:37 PM on May 31, 2024

No touching!
posted to MetaFilter by snofoam at 7:30 AM on May 31, 2024

Owned lol.

By the "funniest thing" principle, I predict that he will get significant prison time and still win the election. I think the fact that we're still debating over whether this cinches it is a good indicator of the strength of his opponent.
posted to MetaFilter by jy4m at 7:09 AM on May 31, 2024

What if the judge sentenced him to be Biden’s butler?!?!? Possible? Legal experts?!
posted to MetaFilter by mittens at 7:05 PM on May 30, 2024

I've been here over 20 years, so no. But it is getting wild, yes, even for here!
posted to MetaFilter by tiny frying pan at 7:03 PM on May 30, 2024

The speculation is running wild in here, absolutely wild.
posted to MetaFilter by tiny frying pan at 6:58 PM on May 30, 2024

Gillian Branstetter reminds us that Juror 2 got all his news from Truth Social and X. Which...is interesting, in light of the verdict.
posted by mittens at 4:46 PM on May 3

How is this a known thing?
posted to MetaFilter by bluesky43 at 4:57 PM on May 30, 2024

There’s PFAS in ?all? shit and manure now which is a serious degradation in quality.
posted to MetaFilter by clew at 2:31 PM on May 28, 2024

I blame the habanerbros
posted to MetaFilter by gottabefunky at 8:30 AM on May 28, 2024

Although Ritchie often describes his upbringing as “middle class,” it was beyond what most people would ascribe to the term. His father, Bill, who died in February, owned a large, successful Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the northern suburb of Sterling Heights, and for a time was president of the Detroit Automobile Dealers Association, an influential trade group. The family lived in an expansive 5,628-square-foot estate, built on more than five acres that included apple orchards, an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:22 AM on May 27, 2024

Counterpoint: continue to argue about the Apple Music albums list.
posted to MetaFilter by box at 8:42 AM on May 27, 2024

Having Helen Lewis and Andy Ngo in the credits doesn't really speak to the better judgment of the director.
posted to FanFare by Pope Guilty at 7:39 PM on April 12, 2024

No Beck. No TOM PETTY?
posted to MetaFilter by kiwi-epitome at 7:19 AM on May 25, 2024

THere's a lot worth listening to here, but the omission of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division is unforgivable.
posted to MetaFilter by bashos_frog at 5:01 PM on May 24, 2024

In the late '90s, I thought Miseducation was the best hip-hop album by a female artist.

Around maybe the mid-2000s, I started to think it was the best hip-hop album by anyone (and I've bought Illmatic, in various formats and editions, at least half a dozen times).

Sometime in the last ten years or so, I started thinking Miseducation could be the best album ever.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by box at 2:24 PM on May 24, 2024

Interesting that REM didn't make the cut: they would have a decade or so ago.
posted to MetaFilter by GeorgeBickham at 12:44 PM on May 24, 2024

Lawyers will be in contact about the post title.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:08 PM on May 24, 2024

the two best albums are, in no particular order:

in the aeroplane over the sea, neutral milk hotel
blackout, britney spears

i have tried my damnedest to shake myself of the knowledge that these are the two best albums — i can think of no top two list more late-00s-pitchfork-dude — but no matter how hard i try i cannot convince myself that this obviously true fact is anything but true.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 11:50 AM on May 24, 2024

I know not everyone is into jazz but putting a Drake album above A Love Supreme makes me ill.
posted to MetaFilter by downtohisturtles at 10:59 AM on May 24, 2024

Class and affiliation group markers in digital music store selection, a study.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:41 AM on May 24, 2024

Ctrl-f Violent Femmes...oh you just go to hell, Apple.
posted to MetaFilter by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:32 AM on May 24, 2024

There's a scene in Reservoir Dogs of one of the characters peeing in a public bathroom while a cop is talking.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by drezdn at 2:07 PM on May 23, 2024

"You know, if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam — it's called the dating game."
posted to MetaFilter by box at 1:03 PM on May 21, 2024

It looks like one of those conservative paintings of Trump where he doesn’t look like shit.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:45 AM on May 21, 2024

Surely y'all are just trolling now with these video essays. 7 hours? I'm not hating, I'm down to check this out, but admit it you're a little bit doing this on purpose.
posted to MetaFilter by Wretch729 at 5:23 PM on May 20, 2024

Full disclosure, I have a personal interest in this topic because my grandfather was co-author of the first academic paper to establish that tobacco smoke contains high levels of radioactive polonium-210, back in 1964. This isotope is an alpha-emitter that can stay in lung tissues and continue delivering radiation for years, long after the initial exposure. It’s absorbed by the tobacco plant from the soil.

This may explain, for example, why marijuana smoking alone... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mubba at 10:37 AM on May 17, 2024

“ Prior to this thread I'd only heard of vaping being less harmful than smoking from tobacco industry shills”

I’m glad you learned that here, but I still find it really surprising! Vapes literally do not have the main toxic ingredient of cigarettes. Nobody wants kids to start vaping, but to the extent the extreme fall in youth cigarette use is due to vaping alternatives, that’s a big net positive for public health in terms of cancer reduction.
posted to MetaFilter by haptic_avenger at 5:55 AM on May 17, 2024

The anti-vaping stance does not appear to be rooted at all in the ethos of harm reduction. I’m actually quite confused by it? Vaping allowed my grandma to transition from cigarettes into an assisted living facility where smoking was banned. As the parent of a tween, I don’t want him to vape, but I’m a million times less concerned about vaping vs drinking, cigarettes and pot. The biggest issue with vaping appears to be the rapid addiction to nicotine which isn’t great but not anywhere near the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by haptic_avenger at 8:45 AM on May 16, 2024

Speaking of whether or not caffeine can kill people, Panera recently decided it's going to stop serving the death lemonade.
posted to MetaFilter by cultanthropologist at 6:34 PM on May 16, 2024