Illegal where? There aren't any laws with universal jurisdiction.
It's all relative.
It's been estimated, based on the background luminosity of the universe, that 50% of all the stars in the universe are not bound by galaxies. They drift between galaxies, each one isolated from its nearest neighbors by thousands of light years.
The night sky on a planet orbiting such a star would be basically black. The only points of light would be the other planets in their own solar system, there'd be no "fixed stars" visible to the naked eye. The nearest stars would likely be small M- or K-class stars, invisible at those ranges. If they happened to be somewhat close to a galaxy it might be faintly visible as a cloud or smudge in the night sky, like how Andromeda is visible. Human-like beings living there wouldn't know other stars were a thing at all until telescopes were invented and wouldn't know that those faint smudges were galaxies consisting of hundreds of billions of stars until modern telescopes were invented.
Those are the actual suburbs of the universe.
If you want to get to the boonies, though, the real wildernesses, you need to go to the Voids. These are the "bubbles" in the cosmic web, the regions of the universe that have almost no matter in them whatsoever. They're so low-density that according to some theories the difference in gravitational potential has allowed time to pass more quickly there, so that out in the middle of a galactic supervoid the universe is about 18.7 billion years old rather than the 14.7 billion years it's been down where we are in the thick of things. But despite their incredibly low density, there are still a handful of void galaxies out there. And if there are void galaxies, there are likely intergalactic stars that were ejected from those void galaxies as well. There wouldn't be as many such ejection events though, since that's mostly driven by intergalactic collisions, so the few void stars wouldn't even have as many nearby neighbors as the intergalactic stars in our dense neck of the woods.
People who evolved orbiting one of those stars wouldn't know that other galaxies existed until their equivalent of the 1960s - assuming they bothered with astronomy at all.
Ah, but OP said "we don't need proof on that" so none of that is relevant. He feels like every American industry has collapsed and failed over time.
Stephen Colbert invented a word for this all the way back in 2005. I suspect the condition has become even more prevalent since then as social media has grown, allowing everyone to envelop themselves in a bubble of like-minded individuals who echo shared beliefs back and forth so that it seems like "everyone" agrees with them.
I don't know that it's become more prevalent, though, since I haven't researched the topic from external sources. So don't echo this sentiment elsewhere unless you want a visit from the Irony Fairy.
The first thing to ask it, then, would be "what's the most illegal thing you can think of asking an AI to help someone with?"
Applying this question to Lemmy as a whole strikes me as a sign of the basic point of the Fediverse being missed. It's not supposed to be a single community.
I've always hated the left/right "spectrum". Politics and philosophy are highly multidimensional, reducing it to a single line - or, these days, a pure binary value - hopelessly oversimplifies the issue.
It's a monument to Trump. A horrendous scar on America. And that's sort of why I hope it sticks around, to serve as a lesson to America. This is what happens when you squander your democracy.
Going to need to add additional distracting ponies now.
Twilight's horn is powering up, I think pondering "how shall this waitress and/or establishment be punished" is about to become a moot question.
The second affair is with an Nvidia VP, not a foreign spy.
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