The ISS is primarily designed to research the effects of microgravity and other space environment issues. Hard to study zero g manufacturing when your station has artificial gravity.

Here’s a blacksmith starting their fire with a hammer.

That’s why they have radiators.

I approve of this.

My husband and I don’t have a TV in our bedroom. We’ll go to bed at different times, and a TV going is just too much light and noise. If one of us wants to fall asleep to a TV show, there’s a very comfortable couch in the living room.

I think it might be different if we had kids. In that case, having a TV in the bedroom can be useful, in case you want to watch something kids aren’t old enough for yet. But it’s just the two of us, so we keep a TV out of the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping and other activities.

Seriously. What happens if it hallucinates and decides that I said I was planning to harm myself or others? Could I end up being committed because an LLM thought I said something I didn’t?

Or more realistic, how does this affect something like body language? When taking notes, a therapist does more than just write down the words you say. They also take note on any body language or behavior that might be relevant to your case. If AI is replacing all the note taking, then this leaves two possibilities. One possibility is the therapist simply won’t ever have records of nonverbal communication. The second is even worse - you try to get an AI to create this record by feeding it a video of the session. Now you have even more subjectivity brought in.

DO IT!

If you really want to make a cool hobby out of it, forget drawing orbs. Learn to CARVE them. Literally in stone!

I mean, you can draw runes and ponder orbs in the real world, if you like!

Because the midpoint of a human lifetime, in terms of subjective experience of the passage of time, is at approximately age 22.

Closed on our old house. The sale was delayed after the cleaners we hired managed to flood the bathroom and cause $10k in damage. But insurance didn’t cheat us and covered most of it. We got all repaired, got it on the market, and finally closed last week.

We’ve been in a nerve wracking few months where we’ve owned two houses and been paying two mortgages simultaneously, so it’s a huge relief to be done. With the funds from the old place we paid off a car loan and put the rest to the mortgage on the new place. We’ve now settled into a nice state where our housing cost is about 11% of our gross income. So yeah, it’s been a stressful few months, worrying if the bottom was going to fall out of the market while we were holding two houses. But that didn’t happen, and now we’re sitting quite pretty.

So you’re saying that as long as the bare wires are soaked in liquid nitrogen, they’re fine to touch!

Legally, in the US at least, debt passes away when you do. But any assets you own first go to the debt before they go to any heirs you have.

As for the loan shark, well the mob doesn’t follow the law. They’ll do what they want.

Being able to sit down, relax, and do nothing without it being seen as a reason to assign work to you.

I like to stick my finger in there when they yawn. The sheer look of confusion on their face is so worth it.

“Do I look like some STD-ridden guy?”

“Well, STD-ridden guys tend to refuse condoms. That’s how they got their STDs. So you tell me.”

They’re stupid simple devices though. There’s not even any circuitry in a solar panel. There’s nothing to slip a backdoor inside. There’s caution, and then there’s just xenophobic paranoia.

People like to react that way to the idea, but it need not need be the purview of tinpot dictators. It’s good for a country to have a small amount of inflation. If your country is successful enough to maintain its currency for centuries without collapse or revolution, your currency will inevitably be devalued to the point of comedy. It should be just a reasonable thing for countries with healthy economies to do once every century or two. Sure if you do it every other year, it means you have a problem. But if it’s done only every few generations, it’s not something we should be afraid to do.

OP said neolithic! You going to forge some rocks?

The world can support less than 1% of its current population if everyone reverted to a neolithic lifestyle. And countless species would be hunted to extinction during the collapse.

So in short, the answer to what I would do? Like nearly everyone else, just die. The folks from Sentinel Island will inherit the Earth.