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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm also not getting them.

Are....are we robots?

Or are we too human for the robots?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago

The week I changed from HotBot to Google was a revelation. The jump from barely scraping the surface of the web to being able to find anything was like finally getting the full promise of the internet. Can't be undersold how great Google was from 2001-03 until around 2013-16.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The Oracle at Delphi relied on mild asphyxiation and from natural gas coming up from a fissure in a cave, and then priests "interpreting" the babbling as a prophecy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Elder Millenials and young Gen X can have all 3 if they grew up near a busy highway in a home built before the 1980s.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't doxx people that gladly shout this kind of stuff in public.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Exactly this.

Rule of law is dying, and things like this are what will kill it dead. Thinking you can put a stop to this with lawyers is for the naive or the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not at all. Trying to exist in the modern world is exhausting.

The world now is an attention economy. What you have of value that everyone wants is for you to see just one more thing. Click just one more link. Smash just one more like and subscribe button. Respond to a text immediately, otherwise you might be dead. All of these things exist in a space where they assume the world is only you and them in that moment.

It's really important that people start to learn how to unplug. Even just for an hour or two a day, exist in the world where you control the stimulus. You can go for a walk and leave your phone at home. Or turn it off.

Also consider seeing your phone to greyscale during certain times of the day. It helps as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yep, I did mean that. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Both in this context, and a wider, societal context, yes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's supposed to be an emergency solution.

However, megawatts of power generation isn't exactly something that can be thrown together in a couple weeks. It can take months to stabilize a grid to the pint the ship can disengage.

Edit: mega, not kilo. I was thinking too small.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Just a civilian guess, but 2 or 3 Delta V or Falcon Heavy to put 1 payload into LEO with a command module and lander, then 1 booster with fuel. Short of using prototype lander, fabrication would take months at best. Then a Starship or SLS to get a crew, food, and water into orbit.

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