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It helps reduce the problems mentioned if you lessen the target goal. We don’t need 1 G of force just like we don’t need a full 1 atm or pressure or 80% of nitrogen mix in the air to breathe. Less gravity force, less RPMs for the same diameter.

But scale is still the better option, making something a few kilometers wide and with only 0.7 G means less stress, less effects from the rotation, etc. That’s still in the category of megastructures though, so while not impossible to build, not going to happen at our current level.

No, but I did get choked up a bit when Dr. Chandra put them back and HAL recovered himself.

This is a perfect example of why any labeling, whether it be for sexual preference, political, religious, or whatever, will always have gray areas of misunderstanding. It’s necessary sometimes to make it easier to convey meaning, but it also can be very vague and inaccurate. And as the comments show, people have different interpretations of the same label, so the point of a label is a bit lost.

I think it’s even more problematic here because we’re talking about two (or more) different things. There is preference, and then there is actual activity. And there is also the fact that people change over time, so you might not have been one thing before but are more in that area now due to interest and/or desire.

I’m not a fan of labeling. I like the discussion of ideas, and the breakdown of your interests is much more clarifying than if you had called yourself one thing or another, or even if you had said you’re lesbian, but with some bisexual tendencies.

What is disappointing is that a group of people who are part of a minority that gets shunned and resistance from society still would turn on someone just because they don’t fit perfectly in their own vision of what a lesbian is. They should know better and accept anyone who has any degree of qualification, even something as simple as a woman who has never been with a woman but is having some feelings. Why do persecuted minority groups do this?

You’re right on all accounts, and I have NO idea why I put Dave. Lol. I blame AI. Oh wait, I can’t, given my previous post.

Heresy, using an actual AGI example. Also, HAL did nothing wrong. It’s always the humans that screw things up. (2010 for reference)

Unpopular opinion - both SkyNet and the AI in The Matrix were also not in the wrong. I think The Animatrix documents why that’s true in that particular franchise. Again, it’s the humans. Hell, maybe even Ultron had a few good points, he just went insane in the first microseconds trying to rationalize it all.

I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.

People seem to have a variety of experiences here because of the way federation works. I’ve seen people complain that there’s no activity, or that they only see one type of conversation, but it’s clearly because of how their instance is set up, since there is constantly new stuff to see on others’ feeds. Reddit being in one place did make finding lots of niches easier once it matured, but it’s having it in one place that caused the problem. Now that federated platforms have caught on somewhat, it will be interesting to see what it looks like in a few more years, if the content compares to Reddit at its height of effectiveness.

It’s changed since the first migration. For the better overall, even with some of the drama and technical hiccups. In the end, most of the complaints I see, usually referred as “Lemmy” problems, are simply issues that have been around since people have been discussing things online, back with Usenet, AOL, Compuserve, and Q-Link. No technology is going to keep people from acting as they do, but the tech can protect the ability for others to defend themselves and still have a voice by decentralizing, as the internet was designed to do.

I will say in the early days the adult level stuff like nudity spam was pretty bad, but at least from my pov that hasn’t been a problem in a while, so thank you, moderators and instance owners, for what you do.

In my experience it’s far higher. That and “rouge” seem to be very common misspellings.

Miniclover maybe. There’s a few varieties. I totally didn’t buy some bags a few years ago and accidentally dumped them in with the grass. That’s what I’d tell my HOA anyway. This year it’s coming back again slowly again.

The other comments have the question on pregnancy covered, but no one has yet addressed the root of the problem, your last question. And it’s a difficult one to answer on a forum since we don’t know you except for what you post. So while it may sound both cliché and passing the problem onwards, I’d say get some therapy. Not because there’s anything wrong with you, but you do seem to acknowledge that you’re getting into situations you don’t want to be in, and don’t feel great about it. Just talk therapy could help, let someone guide you to figure out the real issues that are driving you to this. Perhaps there’s specialty therapy for sex-driven behavior - a therapist would know if you need something more than general aid.

Use this as a wakeup call and a motive to change, and get help in figuring out what needs to change, and why you’re in the spot you’re in. You aren’t alone in this, you just need to ask for help.

Pro tip: live in one of the few cities that has a working mass transit system to most places.

I’m sure that’s the condition, to use your data (that they protect of course) to better improve the browser. And I’m sure they are in a country where they don’t have to show logs (that I’m sure they don’t keep, yet somehow use your data).

They need to stick with just the browser, period. Stop trying to drift into other areas. Firefox has unfortunately gotten too heavy for what it should be, and adding even more features (good or bad) doesn’t help the core performance.

The other options out there have their pluses and minuses, but if Firefox keeps pushing people will live with the negatives of the browsers that seem to care about the browsing experience of their users.

They are the real problem, and unfortunately even Trump falls into the “devil you know” classification. It would be a gamble whether or not we get a worse situation with a more capable person who has the same power and motives. It’s the time traveler’s dilemma of getting rid of Hitler and finding out the future is now worse because of who took his place.

Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that’s the advantage of being first, then biggest.

Why trust them now? It’s not trust when it’s what’s embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft’s key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There’s been movement…

If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they’ll be helping the cause.

I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can’t find a workaround, then I’ll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it’s just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they’ll leave.

What’s old is new again. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard some recent baby names that I would place more in the turn of the 20th century. Reusing older, creating totally new, or taking known names and spelling them oddly. They’ll all have critics.

Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can’t remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.

It could be overused now where it wasn’t before. Or it could be where it was suppressed before. It may be somewhere in the middle. Which is better than being ignored and alienated, even if some use is more hype than realism.

I think we’re all on a spectrum in lots of different ways. Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere.

That is an issue, one that is being discussed and can be turned off currently. Meanwhile Microsoft is head deep in AI so much they’re renaming known trademarks into their AI brand. So… I don’t think Mozilla is the bigger problem.

I don’t like “favorite” or even top ten, as there are so many things out there that classify as good in a category. But two recent ones I reheard that came to mind were “Empty Garden” by Elton John and “It Must Have Been Love” by Roxette