Your point OpenAI? Weren’t you part of the group saying training AI wasn’t copyright infringement? Not so happy when it’s your shit being copied? Huh. Weird.

Well, the data does show that they managed to avoid turning the country into an authoritarian fascist state for over 200 years before we started making changes to that system without considering potential consequences from those changes. We made changes, did no study or mitigation of what might happen as a result of those changes, and here we are.

I’m not saying that everyone shouldn’t have the right to vote, far from it, but the way our voting system works with the many changes we’ve made, it has fallen apart and is easily manipulated. There’s a reason no other modern democracy uses our voting and governmental structure, it doesn’t work well with things like universal suffrage. It works just fine as it was designed, and could work if we corrected for the things we changed blindly (like changing from first past the post to a ranked choice voting system). But that would inevitably result in removing power from the inevitable two party system we created, and they can’t allow that.

But those that were allowed to vote were expected to know what the fuck was going on. Their position in society came with that expectation, and they had the time to stay up to date on events.

Our system of government is largely based on that fundamental assumption, an educated electorate. In our current system, the idiot with a room temperature IQ and never pays attention to anything political has the same voting power as someone that spends their free time following government and knows exactly what is happening, how their officials have been voting, etc.

An actually educated electorate is something we clearly no longer have, and our system of government is based on that fundamental assumption.

Shit, I won’t be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.

They’re already rounding up native Americans in these groups. It’s only a matter of time until they start deporting randomly to other countries because ICE was already an incompetent organization and has done that previously numerous times, speeding things up just means more fuckups. Which is of course, the plan. Because it’s not about illegals, or immigrants, it’s about non-whites.

This entire thread is filled with people that know absolutely nothing about Space but the basics modern “media” poorly conveys, but feel the need to comment and display their ignorance proudly just because they hate Musk. It’s quite sad actually for an actual Astronomy community, there’s worse discussion in here than reddit.

The point is that it’s nowhere near Earth to cause an issue like Kessler Syndrome, which the space junk comment is clearly referring to.

The car is space junk like every other test payload or probe we’ve ever sent out into space that we’ve lost contact with is space junk.

Better fine the US government or NASA for all the Saturn V upper stages that are floating around up there as well. Nearly every Saturn V third stage was sent into an orbit around the sun after the Lunar injection maneuver, they’re all still up there. In fact, they lose track of those and “rediscover” them all the time because. The three-body problem is not fully solvable with our current technology, and the further out you get from initial conditions the less accurate calculations become.

SpaceX rockets don’t add Methane to the atmosphere. When you burn something, you’re not adding that thing to the atmosphere, you’re adding byproducts from the combustion, and Methane isn’t one of the byproducts of any rocket fuel.

Starship uses methane as a fuel, but that’s not at all the same thing. Methalox engines are one of the cleanest burning rocket fuels after Hydrolox. When burnt, methane just becomes CO2 and water vapor along with a bit of NOx (Nitrous Oxide, aka laughing gas, aka that boost you see in Fast and the Furious) as well.

Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are Kerolox (Kerosene, RP-1) engines. RP-1 is basically just a highly refined kerosene. When burnt, it will produce CO2, water vapor, NOx, carbon soot, carbon monoxide (which again mostly becomes CO2) and a little bit of sulfur compounds. The exhaust is nasty but it is not that different from what a normal internal combustion car produces. And even with the large amounts, it is still lower than what cars/trucks/SUVs output to get everyone in your city back and forth to work, the grocery store, and home on a daily basis.

And yet even with that, they were still against authoritarians like we have now. We are objectively worse than slave owners.

Not really here, this would have been a dummy weight either way since it was the test payload for Falcon Heavy. So *something *was going to be sent up. The Tesla specifically was a publicity stunt, but a similar weight was going into a similar orbit.

The bigger question is why they lost tracking on it in the first place to where they weren’t sure what it was. This wasn’t from any sort of failure, this was a planned and fully successful launch payload into a planned orbit.

I mean it makes sense, I just finished the anniversary edition on my smart toaster so they had to come up with a new way to make me pay for it again.

First rule, always have backups. Especially with an older drive, make sure anything you might need is duplicated somewhere else. Ideally off-site to prevent loss in case of things like burglary or a fire. Even something as simple as Google Drive or OneDrive.

Personally, I’d take a look at replacing it with an SSD if you can afford to, not only because of the age, but better performance. You may not notice slowness, but making the jump from a HDD to an SSD is still at least a little noticeable even on secondary drives from my experience.

This is what we need to be focusing on. Why are Republicans so obsessed with knowing everyone’s genitals and looking at them all the time, even forcing them to show their genitals. That’s actually perverted.

Anyone got the cash to buy some political billboards? Ask the BIG questions nice and public?

When that happens I immediately report it as spam. Enough of those reports and they start getting filtered automatically for everyone.

It’s a pain in the ass to get off those lists, even when you end up on them erroneously and there’s no actual spam messages that got you there. Getting off when there’s an actual digital trail and real reports is even harder.

Prisoners getting invested in something that isn’t actively destructive to their environment or each other with their copious amounts of spare time? No, we must threaten them to stop and get back to the intentionally depressing daily grind. Can’t have that.

Fuck that guy.

Don’t act like Canada hasn’t been seeing it’s own share of right wing extremists making their way into government.

See you say no apocalyptic event, but we’ve done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we’re ignoring it.

See that’s dangerous though because networks are black magic to most users. Even more so than the computer itself.

Technically, the color has always indicated the opposite of the expected default.

Passive indicators on switches like this historically have used the color to signify when something is disabled, because normally you expect that thing to be enabled. Look back to old devices with mute and disable switches like the old iPhones, Palm devices, etc. and the color always signified the thing being disabled. The default state is enabled, and the switch is disabling it.

Active indicators like LEDs being used on devices to indicate things like the mic or cam being on are generally newer. But even going back to things like the red recording lights, that’s because the expected default state was off, and the indicator was showing it was in a secondary state.

The color in both cases indicates the thing being controlled is in a secondary state, but the expected default state is different in the two scenarios.