Miles O'Brien @ SARGE @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 984Joined 6 mo. ago
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech hits different depending on what you've been consuming lately.
It can be quite inspiring, or quite depressing
Every single thing experienced by all 100ish billion humans who ever lived, all their highs and lows, all the people they knew, all their hopes and dreams..... Could all be destroyed at the speed of light, and we would never have any way to see it coming, or stop it even if we did.
An asteroid could make the planet inhospitable to all but tiny organisms. A Gamma ray burst could pop off dozens of lightyears away. Coronal mass ejection burns the atmosphere. Rogue planet/black hole. False Vacuum decay could destroy baryonic matter.
Your entire life will be experienced, you live and die, and the universe at large will never even notice.
Some people find that depressing. I find it a little comforting. If nothing we do matters, we have to figure out how to make things matter to us. I uh.... I'm still working on that last bit... But it's a nice thought to me.
New headcannon, that's why Gandalf was so bothered every time Pip did something dumb, because he felt like it was a failing on his part as an ancestor.
100% confirmed.
Projection and insecurity often make people lash out.
"No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill"
Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.
Oh fuck yeah, give me some of that Elite.
Legitimately would love to play it again, Elite: Dangerous is super fun, but nostalgia wins.
Corporations that already more or less control the world want even more leeway to control the world even MORE despite clear evidence they are woefully unprepared?
Name a more iconic duo.
I thought showing off my own kobo and library of books that I can let anyone I want read would convince them.
Nope.
Oh well
Depends on what I'm playing.
I can comfortably play some games down to 12fps ±3ish, if it isn't something that's fast paced.
I have yet to play anything where I'm skilled enough for higher than 30fps to matter response-wise, and while I can notice the difference between 60fps and 240fps on my monitor, I gotta say it doesn't do much for me.
Maybe I just don't know what to look for, what I'm missing, or how to set up my laptop right, but who knows. My eyes could be stuck on 720p for all I know.
The problem is not the price.
The problem is Ai "art" is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.
I support this wholeheartedly.
Indeed.
I even sent them the related news articles about content I've had removed from my own devices, and still they don't seem to care in the least.
So I sent this to my parents, as they've spent hundreds, if not thousands on their Kindle books.
They don't really care. Zero interest in DRM-free backups that I can make them. They don't think it's an issue. They trust Amazon to not mess with their books, and that they'll always have access to wifi and kindles.
I mean, even if that is the case, so what?
Are other countries not allowed to have militaries anymore?
Space should not be militarized, in my opinion, but if the US is going to do it, then we don't get to finger wag at other countries for doing the same thing.
As I keep telling people, they keep saying "DEI" because even most Bible belt folks get uncomfortable when you drop the hard R they really want to say.
Well, yeah.
Recaptcha has always been "here's image recognition stuff, pls help for free" and hasn't exactly been secretive about that.
Have people just forgotten that already?
Is that... Chain link fence?
An extremely outspoken instance filled with people who simp for fascist dictatorships but ultimately consider themselves communist and some socialists.
Most would call them "tankies" due to their willful denial of the 198(9) Tiananmen square massacre as "western propaganda" despite non-western sources agreeing it happened outside of China.
Imagine if super outspoken trump supporters had an instance and spent a lot of time trying to lecture other people about how they're wrong when nobody spoke to them in the first place, then when presented with facts and logic they would respond with gifs, emojis, and a lot of claims that you're a CIA front/shill.
As an American midwesterner, I support the effort to buy California, and will be making my way to the state border to finally move to a better country.