Fuck Canada in particular, as usual. It’s starting to feel a bit personal.

You can only be banned on certain instances/communities in the Fediverse. Some people take being banned from certain fascist instances as a mark of pride.

I’ve only got one Windows 10 PC still running and I basically never use it anymore. It’s really just my safety blanket in case I happen to someday run into a game where I really, absolutely, cannot possibly play it on Linux. I haven’t found one yet. RIP Windows. You won’t be missed.

My favourite AI project was the one where some guy proudly posted that he made this thing entirely with AI with no coding experience, and then proceeded to get hacked. Again, and again, and again, using AI to fix it each time until he gave up and blamed people for being “mean”. AI projects are full of endless bugs and security holes that people with no coding experience don’t notice or know how to fix? Who would’ve guessed? The future of coding is here, and hackers are going to have a fun time. As a professional software developer, I can’t wait because I’m going to charge (at least) double to fix it.

The next escalation will be from expanding the protests until they can be organized into a general strike.

People need to stop going to work. Together. All at once. A lot of people. Enough that they can’t be replaced and that important things that the government and billionaires rely on, stop happening, potentially for a long time. The country needs to shut down, like COVID. This is going to have consequences. But it has to have consequences. That’s the point. Consequences for both sides, and more consequences until the situation gets resolved, one way or another. People have to come to terms with the fact that they’re going to lose their jobs anyway. This is really just accelerating the inevitable. People are losing their jobs right now, when they are deported. People are losing their jobs when they’re imprisoned. People need to realize that no one is safe, and in the longer term the way things are going with AI and robotics and utopian techbro billionaires owning everything and being handed whatever they want by the government it seems clear you’re ALL going to lose your jobs at some point, so why not now? Do it early, in a coordinated fashion, for a cause. Accept the inevitable consequences, and turn them to your advantage by doing them with intention, on your own terms.

Everyone thinks they have a great job when they have to confront the possibility of losing it, but that’s the scam. You have a shitty job, working for someone else who is much, much richer than you and your shitty job and its “benefits” are the reason you are not rich despite living in the richest country in the world. There will be new, better jobs to get when you win. If you win. The need for these jobs to be done isn’t going away. It’s time for people to start creating some intentional artificial scarcity to drive up wages while there are still things that can’t be easily or effectively automated.

People have to organize, and do it quickly, while there is still time. A lot of people are still trying to “prepare” for what’s coming but that’s not a luxury you have anymore. They’ve been preparing for this a lot longer than you will be able to. The clock is ticking, the administration is working furiously to remove the people it considers most dangerous to its goals and remove the systems and supports that could be used against it. The more you delay, the worse it’s going to be. Time wasted “preparing” is time wasted, period. The time for action is now. The rebellion is forming. Be part of it.

They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.

GNU octave has solvers

KSP1 is the bees knees and the modding community is still going as strong as ever. Still worthwhile even at full price.

We don’t absolutely know what the future holds for our own planet much less the universe, so it’s impossible to answer this with any conviction, but based on my current understanding or the general scientific consensus, and the fact that the universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating, no, by placing them at the edge of the observable universe and the effects of relativity, their hypothetical signals will never reach Earth and almost certainly not the Earth that we know of that’s orbiting Sol and full of humans patiently observing the universe for signs of their lost ancestors.

But we don’t know with any certainty that the universe’s expansion or acceleration is going to continue indefinitely, we don’t even fully understand why it is happening. So maybe their signals will eventually reach us. Maybe the universe will start contracting eventually and in a few trillion years they’ll swing right by Earth on their own, waving as they go by as we mutually go careening down towards the big crunch. Besides, if the universe is infinite, and is going to last an infinite amount of time, well “infinity” is a very long time and you can’t rule out the fact that another wormhole could open and bring them (or their signals) home at some point now that you’ve proven such a wormhole can exist. So when you put all the things we do know and the things we don’t know together, I’d give them about 50/50 chances, with a margin of error of plus or minus 50%.

Most game media/advertising/reviewing is garbage and cannot be trusted. I play games that look fun. I have a particular definition of fun specific to me alone. I’ll watch actual gameplay to decide if it looks fun to me. I might watch technical reviews and benchmarks that tell me if my hardware will be able to play it. IDGAF what culture war moralizing poop that some idiots want to headline it with and babble about to get views on their articles and channels.

I don’t think Stellar Blade looks like the kind of fun I personally enjoy so I’m going to pass, but I’m not going to judge or shame anyone who’s enjoying the fuck out of it because there’s nothing to shame. It’s a game. It’s made to be played and be fun for people to play. Have fun. Don’t worry about the drama storms. They’re pointless and devoid of meaning.

The Party says 1984 has always been our guiding principle, just like we’ve always been at war with Eastasia. I certainly don’t remember a time when it wasn’t so.

Let’s show them what “woke” really means. We are awake. And we see what they have been doing. And we are going to stop it.

Ocean salinity varies slightly but averages around 3.5%. Brackish water would be less than 3% as long as it’s saltier than freshwater, which is limited to 0.05%. Brine, which OP is asking for, is water with 5% or greater salinity. The ocean doesn’t get that high but salt lakes definitely can, the Dead Sea is almost 35% salinity. Also why it’s called the “Dead” sea, FWIW. Maybe you could pickle stuff there.

From my understanding of this messed up situation:

She has half of the equity in the house, he has the other half, maybe not exactly half and half, this is common after a divorce and the actual proportions are irrelevant. In order for HER to acquire full equity in the house (the house she lives in and considers hers and that the divorce has apparently assigned to her), she must pay his half of the equity BACK to him when she refinances. Thus, she both “has” equity and “owes” equity. Both are true. She has her half (which is money on paper and represents her ownership of the house, not money you can spend), she owes the other half which is also equity, just not hers (which is real money she DOES need to spend, and will be refinanced into the form of a larger mortgage with higher payments). Once she refinances, he gets the lump sum representing his equity, and she gets a bigger mortgage. He could then use that lump sum to pay back the alimony with. But that’s all in the future, and the future is an uncertain place that doesn’t help anyone now and that nobody wants to wait for.

So she suggests that she’ll forgive his alimony if he forgives the equity she owes him, because that is probably a much bigger amount of money that she owes him and would then get to keep, compared to many many years of alimony that she might not even get if he’s not going to be around that long and isn’t working or goes bankrupt or whatever else might happen in the intervening years.

The key moment in the video as far as I’m concerned is when she mentions her husbands “new wife and kids”. I think that if you strip away all the reasonable-sounding explaining and arguments, that’s what this is really about, she wants to get as much as she can in cold hard cash right away, even if it means cashing out some of her ex-husbands 401k now, so that the other wife and kids don’t get their hands on it and then she doesn’t have to worry about them anymore.

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Dr. Zoidberg was an AI?

Yeah as a North American I always look sadly at so many of those European nations, not making any progress because they’re so busy providing healthcare and education for their people, wasting what’s left of their economic power expanding human knowledge while creating beautiful art and food and culture and protecting thousands of years of heritage and natural spaces. Socialist hellholes /s

Maybe it’s time to banish the myth of infinite growth once and for all? Maybe? Nah?

It is, but it’s also necessary sometimes. If governments didn’t have any power and could just be ignored or openly defied without consequences, we wouldn’t have to care about what they want to censor. But they do have power, despite all our wishing that they didn’t, and we can’t organize a resistance to them without careful maneuvering and sometimes at least making an appearance of playing by their rules. Government censorship you can unsubscribe from is objectively better than censorship you can’t. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

The fact that ESA doesn’t seem to have any interest or motivation to pursue (now commercially-proven and human-rated) rapidly reusable rockets is a big red flag for their entire attitude. Literally every other space program of any substantial size or credibility is pursuing them heavily if not exclusively as you’d have to be blind not to see the writing on the wall. The days of disposable rockets are numbered and rapidly dwindling. The Ariane 6 is an impressive machine, in the same way a supercar is… as a bold status symbol in an incredibly narrow niche with almost zero growth potential. I hope Macron’s challenge is a first step to changing that because they are in danger of falling very far behind if they don’t start to move very quickly to get back into the leader’s pack, who are going to be the group that decides who really “owns” space. And you’d better believe that despite any treaties to the contrary, someday, and maybe soon, people are going to start making rules, staking claims, and creating the weapons needed to defend such claims in space, from Low Earth Orbit to the rest of the solar system, it’s coming and only a fool would pretend it’s not after seeing the state of the art in launch technology and the geopolitics going on in the world right now. If you can’t innovate, you’d better start copying, because being stationary is a death sentence when things are evolving this rapidly.