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We’ve been producing noticeable radio waves for a matter of decades. We’ve been capable of detecting even super-powerful, super-deliberate, super-targeted broadcasts for even less time.

And on top of that, it doesn’t look as though our civilisation is going to exist for more than a handful more decades, in any detectable-from-light-years-away form.

The chances of that onionskin-thin slice of lightcone intersecting with that of any other civilisation out there seems ludicrously remote.

Yeah, I’m totally clicking on a url that ends in fgsfds.link

Could this count as a hate crime?

Look, murder all the children you want, but don’t you ever claim we didn’t help you do it!

It’s not hubris, it’s neediness. Some people have a desperate need to be speshul, not just matter, not just a process, but something magical and ineffable and inherently intractable. They want their non-overlapping magisteria back, and they use ‘quantum’ as a little reservation it can hide on.

People are so damn shallow about looks, it’s ridiculous.

The fact is that an AIO has a shorter lifespan, is way more expensive per-watt, and… Oh, right.

Sex work is work, and the people doing it deserve respect. Fuck the ‘there will be consequences’ mindset, since that mostly comes from the people imposing the ‘consequences’ in the first place.

I wouldn’t be willing/able to suspend disbelief about an actual personal connection either, but it’s a valid human emotional need, and if it works for people, good for them.

He fixed some other fairly-problematic titles, too. Check them out on that same site :)

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Could is maybe-can: I bet I could jump over that car [if I wanted to].

As opposed to I bet I can jump over that car [and I’m going to try].

Would is maybe-will: If you saw an alligator, would you run away?

Would is also ‘did’, for habitual actions. When I was young, I would wait by the window for my father to come home.

Fully automated luxury war slavery

Laptops are uniformly awful.

You can’t upgrade or replace the GPU or CPU, the hinge assembly is mechanically vulnerable, a cup of coffee over the keyboard is game over, the screen dies you’ve got a ridiculous cost to fix, the cooling sucks, the ergonomics suck, and you pay about double the price for half the specs.

You need a proper screen and keyboard at your desk anyway, so unless you’re hotdesking with the thing, it’s just going to act like a shitty desktop most of the time.

What do you think an algorithm is?

He says, on social media

Why are you blaming the voters for not choosing the lesser evil, instead of blaming the dems for forcing them to make that choice in the first place?

Stop supporting and enabling the fucking genocide, then it’s a no-brainer for everyone. And with so many other people’s lives at stake as well as the Palestinians, how dare the dems play chicken?

free onion ring

They want it because of the risk of bird flu.

Remember the “inject covid into my eyeballs” crowd?

Bolt one end of some sheet metal to your bumper, leaving the other end to scrape along the ground. Should generate the required NYAAAUUUGGHHH sound wherever you go.

You think slaves weren’t fed?

Ah yes, slavery.