possibly a cat

Now if only we valued nature itself, or our continued ability to appreciate either.

Solar radiation management. To fix climate change burn more fossil fuels.

I think they can probably be held liable if damages can be proven and litigation is initiated through the US court system, but that is a big undertaking.

YouTube has some algorithms set up to remove content that it believes is highly likely to lead to trouble for itself. They are legally compelled to not host certain types of content, but most removed content is not in this category and is instead removed for business/political/optics reasons. The algorithms are primed for moderating western content because that is where YouTube expects these legal/political risks to come from.

In other words it is a very leaky net and there is no serious desire to make it airtight because it’s not a matter of mandatory regulation, it’s a matter of risk management. (If it were regulatory then the platform wouldn’t realistically be able to exist in the form that it does.)

That’s just trading one privacy weakness for another, without being able to prove that original weakness has actually even been mitigated.

It make financial sense to provide this option, but “pay for privacy” is a questionable way to describe the transaction.

There are plenty of alternative explanations.

For a few examples:

• In such a huge universe, even if FTL travel is possible, why should we expect Earth to be a common destination?
• It is possible that only species who do not wish to colonize the galaxy will avoid the Great Filter and acquire the technology needed to colonize it.
• Not all space-faring races must be highly populous, while less populous species will encounter less of the issues that would cause a population to collapse before becoming space-faring.
• We could be colonized without recognizing it.
• Colonization itself could be inherently unsustainable.

There is also no reason to limit the discussion to a galaxy. If we assume that an FTL civilization will colonize (in a way that we would recognize), then they could come from any galaxy. Given the expanse of the universe, if such a behavior is common enough that it would stand a chance of succeeding, then it should probably exist already. And yet we do not appear to be colonized. Which is more likely: That FTL intelligences must colonize, or that we are all alone in the universe? Axiomatic reasoning reveals that the latter is statistically much less likely than the former. So it is less likely to successfully explain why we appear to be uncolonized.

I expect that many other planets have life. I suspect that interstellar travel is not the only means of traveling between planets.

I am not at all convinced that foreign intelligences do visit, but I do consider it a very real possibility. If I were to somehow know they were here and nothing more, then I would feel confident that their visitation is being concealed.

It’s a wonderful topic, but I’m not particularly interested in beliefs related to it. I am much more interested in the possibilities.

No, I don’t think I have.

What instances/comms are you noticing it on?

Meaning in life does not come simply from collecting money. It largely comes from how we spend our time. Most of us spend a large part of our time at work or commuting. If fulfillment does not come from your job, then it’s going to be hard to find time to be fulfilled.

Now, some who have nothing to do at work are able to fill their time in a way that is meaningful to them - especially remote workers. But to have to give up your time, to have no challenges to apply yourself to during those work hours, and to be prevented from doing anything else that would be meaningful? That sounds like the 9th circle of hell to me.

Life is short. Few things are worse than watching it tick away in boredom.

rip in power graebae

Wobblies dropping knowledge and answering life’s biggest questions out here.

Use software with an active community, don’t install things you don’t need, update regularly, and be thankful that you probably aren’t worth using a zero-day backdoor on. Your telecom provider, on the other hand, might be - but there’s not much you can do about that!

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Self-agency is even more important for democracy than privacy.

What is your favorite game in the series?

The one with dinosaurs!

What is the first entry you ever played?

The first one.

What aspects do you adore about it?

Tank.

What doesn’t work for you?

Tank.

on a more serious note

Great series that has covered a lot of ground. It’s hard to talk about any of them without talking about all of them.

Eh, I don’t think it’s obvious. They would have to be more transparent for anything to be obvious.

The FBI requests these days are just to preserve the image of due process, they can already unlock iPhones on their own. And they aren’t the only ones.

nobody thinks about apple being the bad one here.

Graphene users do :)

I hear people talk about Apple and its “superior” privacy relatively often. But yes, they still see it as different from the others.

Apple exposes less to the user’s visibility, and it seems what is out of sight is out of mind!

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Sorry all, I got some time off in 2023 for the first time in years. My backlog must have skewed the statistics.

The sub was divided well before the interview but it had good conversation early on iirc, it was about Graeber’s idea of bullshit jobs, how labor never receives the perks of productivity increases, and how this is destroying our planet. I don’t know if these ideas were not conveyed well to the newcomers, or whether the newcomers had no interest in understanding and discussing them.

As for WorkReform, I rank it up there with other classic reactionary subs like VoteDEM and CapitolConsequences. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a concerted push to funnel people to it, but “they” is more likely to be the terminally online bootlickers than TPTB imo.

Agriculture and pastoralism.