LastYearsIrritant

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Actions speak louder than words. He's claimed to be left-wing for a long time, he interviewed Bernie Sanders and publicly supported him.

In reality, he's not left or right wing, he's money-winged. He does whatever it takes to make his bank account grow. Which is typically supporting right wing policies.

That's why he moved to texas. That's why he supported trump. That's why he just nods along with everyone on his show.

All he cares about is how many more zeros he can add to his net worth.

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After registration, users can create a username to share with others. They can also opt not to create one. However, in that case, they can only participate in chats they initiate, because other users will have no way to search for them to start a conversation.

on Who designed this? · c/tenforward · 6 pts · 1d

If you look at the series as a whole, basically everyone has admin everywhere.

There's very few situations where someone is stopped by a security protocol. Mostly things that will destroy the ship.

Heck, there was an episode where they found and unfroze a bunch of 21st century people, and Picard had to be "hey, knock it off, we don't have security locks on these things cause nobody is usually annoying enough to do this."

You know, this isn't the greatest argument. Horse Dewormer is an antiparasitic. It's legitimately used by people as an anti-parasitic (also, dogs, and other animals, not just horses).
https://www.drugs.com/ivermectin.html

You can definitely say "joe rogan thinks an anti-parasitic drug works on viruses." but calling it a "horse dewormer" is ignoring the fact that it's actually also a "people dewormer."

I get what he's saying - like a lot of things he talks about, it only makes sense on a surface level.

A computer is programmed by people, and has assumptions and conditions programmed into it. The people who create the LLM/AI/AGI/Whatever are going to decide what's important and what isn't.

That's literally creating laws and treaties in an overly complicated way, that you probably couldn't predict the outcome of. It's never going to be better than having intelligent, educated, and well supported representatives.

Additionally, government doesn't mean anything unless there's an enforcement arm. It's a terrible idea to concentrate the decision making to one thing, then give it the power to enforce its decisions. That's literally Judgement Day.

Just so you know, you don't need special equipment to see another galaxy. If you have good eyes, you can just go to a very dark place and look up. A pair of binoculars definitely helps though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

There's actually a bunch of local galaxies that you can see with just a pair of binoculars, a small telescope, or a good camera and some time.

The Messier Objects are one catalog of things that are pretty bright in the sky that you can see with your eyeballs through any basic telescope or binoculars. The numbers don't really mean anything, they're just the order they were cataloged in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object

If you check out the list, you can see that a lot of them are galaxies. If you spend a little time learning how to find them, you can see them yourself. -- Andromeda is M32.

Those are all part of the Local Group. Which are a bunch of galaxies that are all nearby and pretty easy to find with telescopes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group

This is a great comment, but just for completeness, the Type Ia Supernovae is only one part of the Cosmic Distance Ladder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder

We can start with small, easier to measure things, and work our way outwards to more and more complicated measurement techniques. Most of these techniques overlap each other and can be used to confirm our measurements.

One of the big unsolved questions in cosmology is that many of our measurements disagree, this isn't a "problem" just an unsolved question, and as a result, we don't know how far away things are to the accuracy we would like. That being said, we still know how far away they are to a pretty damn close approximation.

The interesting thing is, the better we get at measuring how far away things are, the more our measurements differ from each other. There's a lot of reasons why this might be, but one of them is that a Type Ia Supernovae might not be as standard as we think it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#Hubble_tension

I actually really like my Barazza ESP.

Yeah, it is a little big, but after years of using it, when the main board fried the main power trace, I just ordered a replacement part directly from them for $15.

I gladly pay a little more for a company that sells replacement parts.

Oxo is mostly the same way. They also sell parts and provide instructions on their website. Also, if you let them know something isn't right, often they just ship you a new part, no questions asked.

on Why, Zeus? Why! · c/lemmyshitpost · 13 pts · 3d

If you're immortal, wouldn't you want your side piece to be mortal so they wouldn't hang around forever?

Imagine getting a clingy ex that was also immortal. "Remember that time we hooked up 8,000 years ago? We should get back together."

https://booksbythefoot.com/

They literally buy books like they do any other decoration. They have someone build a bookshelf, then buy enough footage of books to fill it, matching the style of the room.

Classic room = classic style books

Modern room = modern style books

They've never been removed from the shelf, because it's decoration, not literature.