Overrun? They were there first.

You’re data centers are the ones overrunning it

Beginning to question the legitimacy of the entire process. Feels like we’re just snatching up poor people and criminalizing them for being the wrong skin tone.

It’s funny how blonde hair and skin-tight pants can cause every Chud in a five mile radius to pop off.

But holy hell, why do conservatives feel this aching desire to engage in endless plastic surgery? You’re 36 years old, girl. You were Miss Arizona when you had a normal looking face. Now you’ve gone through more noses than a clown at an MMA tournament.

You don’t have to keep doing this to yourself. You’ve got tons of money. You’re under a six foot thick glass ceiling. There’s no upside to continuing this charade. You can just retreat to the country club, marry a Log Cabin Republican, fuck the pool boy, and enjoy your retirement.

I mean, he’s not entirely wrong. Part of the magic of gerrymandering is that it takes ten years to work these suits through the courts and maybe ten minutes for a legislature to sidestep a ruling. Plenty of states had been playing dodgeball with the VRA years before it was formally gutted.

At the same time, nobody loves to fold a winning hand more than the Democrats. So while I’ve been promised new maps that pretty much guarantee +5 House pickups across the state, I’m not holding my breath. These are the same idiots and assholes who passed on two free Senators and a house seat or two from DC Statehood back in 2009. And then, again, in 2021.

We could well see the end of the filibuster under Donald Trump after a minor inconvenience, after Democrats defended the GOP ability to bottle up legislation for decades prior.

That’s a rich 6-year-old.

“We’re a startup”

“What’s your plan?”

“Giant mirrors in space to control the sunlight that hits the earth’s surface.”

“Wow, sounds incredibly expensive and of dubious technical merit. What are you asking to make this happen?”

“We need whatever money you have in your wallet right now.”

“And the return on investment?”

“Infinity zillion dollars.”

“I guess I’d be a fool not to hand you all my money.”

“Absolutely. Now… that’s a really nice watch. And shoes. We could get you an amazing return if you gave us those, too.”

What are they supposed to do?

My grandparents spent a lot of time playing tennis and bridge, knitting, and fishing.

Mad Max: Fury Road

One of the better action movies of the modern era

Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

Also speaks to the addictive quality of social media (or perhaps the grim state of offline society). People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America

Well, that and the 30 Years War, sure.

The cycle or Religious bullshit must continue-

The problem of lying is as ancient as the advent of human speech. Even if all formalized dogmatism vanished tomorrow, you’d still have people mistaking correlation for causation and developing superstitions and taboos as a result. Jordan B. Peterson is a great example of this in practice. In another time, he’d be a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard figure.

But, at some level, any individual’s cache of information is going to be incomplete. We all rely on the grand game of telephone that is oral and written history. “The cycle of Religion” is just a facet of this cycle of generational retelling of accrued lore. How do you keep the logs accurate and the lorekeepers faithful to accumulated wisdom? Damned if I know. Double-entry book keeping seems to help, but its hardly foolproof.

With this series, we aim to present not just the most complete picture yet of the GFW, but a roadmap for pushing back against the machinery of state censorship.

It’s definitely a deep technical dive into the underlying infrastructure of Chinese internet services. But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.

Definitely stems the tide, but it’s a long way from “never seen an ad in 25 years”

The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.

Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.

Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.

I’ve had some trouble setting up a pie-hole. It’s an imperfect system and something of a constant struggle between advertisers and ad-blockers.

If you’ve escaped every digital ad over the last 25 years, congrats. I’m reasonably tech savy, use adblockers where I can, and haven’t been remotely this fortunate.

she was commenting more generally about tedious chore-type activities versus fun, creative activities.

No, I get that. I just find that much of the tedious work has already been automated about as far as is practical. Everything afterwards requires the kind of manual dexterity and human cognition to accomplish that machines have never done well.

I’ll spot you that we’re talking about multiple trillions of dollars in national investments. And that could be going to high speed rail lines and supersonic jets. It could be going to massive solar/wind farms and upgraded drainage/wastewater recycling. It could be going to nuclear power for ecological preservation and nationalized health care.

That’s not “automation” in the household sense. But all of these investments would take industrial infrastructure to leverage economies of scale and meaningfully improve the quality of life of hundreds of millions of people by saving them time and personal expenses. If you care about saving people’s time from tedium, there’s improvements we could make. But they aren’t consumer household improvements so much as civil engineering projects.

People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time

Okay, but we’re not cave people, ffs. I couldn’t help notice the sun was up a lot sooner than normal.

The top of the sand tends to be hotter than the layers below. If you dig in a bit, the sand underneath is very cool and refreshing.

Incidentally, its the opposite of the human anus, which only gets hotter the deeper you penetrate.

October 20st, 2023: NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters

The team is also uploading a software patch to prevent the recurrence of a glitch that arose on Voyager 1 last year. Engineers resolved the glitch, and the patch is intended to prevent the issue from occurring again in Voyager 1 or arising in its twin, Voyager 2.

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled more than 15 billion and 12 billion miles from Earth, respectively. At those distances, the patch instructions will take over 18 hours to travel to the spacecraft. Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.

That still requires gathering the dirty items together, loading/unloading, keeping track of when it is full/time to run.

And I still need to prompt the AI, review the images presented, copy/paste them, possibly apply further manipulations to suit my needs.

Like, yes. Your life isn’t going to be 100% on autopilot for anything except bill pay.

that doesn’t take away from the message of “AI should help make life easier, not replace the creative outlets additional free time should allow”

I think it outlines the raw limits of any kind of automation. You can make imperfect trades between human labor and appliances. But there’s always a limit that a tool can do without supervision relative to what a cognizant human can perform.