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I think an application of some orange face spray would do well to complete the look:

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So this is where my inexperience kicks in, but I don't understand how the strong force can function in the same way considering that gluons are massless.

The W and Z bosons having mass prevents them from being able to travel at the speed of light, and therefore they experience time and can only travel some limited distance before decaying into fermions.

But since gluons do not have mass, they, like photons, do not experience time -- and so how could they have a half life?

In my mental model of the strong force I assumed that they simply were created and destroyed in an exchange between quarks -- much like how photons get absorbed/emitted by electrons. But this alone does not cause a limit on the distance of strong interactions, so I assumed that mechanically any limit on the strong force's distance must function differently.

Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel through space so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of weak interactions.

FYI, their RAM and SSD prices are often almost double what you can find elsewhere -- at least that's the case in the US. Getting a DIY edition and buying these components separately will likely make the price a tiny bit easier to swallow. Still, spec wise alone it will never be a great value.

I had this perspective too when I made the decision to buy one in 2022. But recently what I learned is that their modern gen mainboards often cost between 2/3rds - 3/4ths of a full laptop with the exact same CPU from competitors.

With the amount I have spent on the initial purchase, and now an upgraded board, I would have easily been able to buy two laptops from some other company. I likely would have also ended up having a better display, a better battery than what was available in 2022, newer wifi, and so forth. So no, "upgradability" is not an actual benefit of Framework laptops in my experience.

That aside, I ultimately don't regret my purchase because I did spill a beer on it last year and I was able to fix it for about $50 worth of parts. Framework's value comes almost entirely from being able to repair it and eco-friendliness/sustainability.

I will say a prayer for perjury convictions 🙏

Let's make it happen. When you hear too much from the drunken bro:

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Ok, pardon and keep Mr. Whiskeyleaks on your team. We'll just circle back to a new fuck up that's guaranteed to come as long as everyone in that chat group continues to hold their position.

How does it make any sense whatsoever? Musk, Bezos, Zuck, etc already have more money than they can spend even if they were all to live a full life. Helping bring on the collapse of civilization would just reduce their power and control over us.

If you're saying that they believe it will collapse regardless of what they do, then they'd probably behave more like Gabe Newell and live their life by hopping from one yacht to another somewhere out in the ocean.

Glue this on: ʌᴏᴏᴅᴏᴏ

No worries, but I'm not the one who posted the original comment you replied to.

You think the president of the US would first hear of a fuck up of this magnitude from the press?

I'm sure that even before the article was published they were trying to think of a way to silence it in a way that wouldn't make things even worse in the next 24 hours. That's why Trump was up there preemptively trying to discredit The Atlantic despite claiming to not know anything about his own administration's incompetent bullshit.