Wouldn’t it still be cheaper to build megastructures on earth in remote and uninhabited places? Like I get you have to build your own power and run your own fiber if you say build a data center the size of Rhode Island in the Yukon or something, but that has to be more cost effective than orbital.

Taking it to orbit creates far more problems than it solves.

That’s not good. Investors hate costly and protracted legal fights. There was another story about OpenAI stealing tech from apple and I think some kind of data leak maybe? If investors lose confidence in OpenAI that pretty much pops the bubble.

This is such a Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopian problem. This is needed because owners and managers want open offices for surveillance and coat cutting. They are also aware that only about half of workers thrive in those environments while the other have drops in productivity. Solution a cheap muzzle so that the workers who aren’t as productive in noisy environments aren’t disturbed.

Meanwhile could you imagine the smell of those things. You’d have to wash them everyday or have some kind of cover for them not to just have a permanent funk.

I don’t disagree with you. Unwanted children do not have happy outcomes, especially those with disabilities. However if you are applying the logic of adoption to that of eugenics you should tread carefully. If society is allowed to impose restrictions on adoptions, why not biological parents? Perhaps pregnant women should have an income test? If a mother can’t afford to feed her child should she be allowed to retain custody or have the baby at all?

If a pregnant person decides they cannot afford it or aren’t up for the commitment that’s ethical. If a pregnant person decided to abort out of some pity for people with downs, well that’s eugenics and ableist, so probably unethical. Pragmatically though the result is the same.

What you’re asking about is eugenics. People with downs syndrome can lead rewarding lives. Many people who work with those of us with downs say that they have the highest satisfaction with life of anyone out there. They do require a lot of costly and time consuming care in early life, but there is no reason a child born with downs can’t have a life they find fulfilling.

Given that, I would say if a mother’s only reason for aborting is the downs syndrome, that probably leans towards unethical. However if there are any other reasons a mother might choose to abort that fetus, it’s ethical. But terminating a pregnancy because the child has an “undesirable” trait is both eugenics and ableism which rarely result in ethical decision making.

When I’m out I keep my phone on airplane mode and in a little faraday bag. I am not dragging out my phone and waiting for it to reacquire signal every time I want to buy cigarettes. Nevermind that defeats the point of the faraday bag…

He could have gone by will or bill or billy. He chose that name.

Almost all of the remaining WW2 vets are dead. We didn’t do shit, our vets lost their wars.

Other people’s time, the means to do violence, harmful consumer garbage (fast fashion, collectibles, gadgets, etc). Access to all of those things should be restricted and should bear some kind of cost for use to reflect the value of other people’s time, the danger of weapons, and the harm of environmental waste.

burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, criminal trespass, criminal tampering, disorderly conduct and possession of burglar’s tools.

Damn they really piled on the charges that sucks. Can we have nothing nice? I really wanted them to get a happy ending. But then again if he climbs a building for you he loves you, if he climbs 100 buildings for you he loves climbing buildings.

What are you suggesting?

If you look, the same user has been flooding this space with game disc agitprop for at least the last day. This space is only tangentially related to gaming so why here and why so much? I can’t decide if they’re just passionate or working towards a goal.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but it doesn’t really matter. Bad games, verification cans, whatever they don’t really matter. Gamers are a consumer population. They will make a lot of noise but as long as they continue to consume nothing will change and the enshitification machine will continue to churn.

What they want is software as a service. They want to end game ownership entirely and push gamers into a mandatory subscription. They want to have all games in a catalog like a streaming service that you download to your console to play. They want to sell extra access passes for new and popular games.

They want gamers to pay for a $1,000+ console, subscribe to a $20+ a month game library and $40 passes for new games that have not yet been released to the library. They want gamers to pay for online access as well and want the ability to brick a console for cheating, modification, piracy, or user account bans.

They will succeed too. Gamers make a bunch of noise, but it’s all sound and fury signifying nothing. They won’t boycott or protest. They will make a bunch of angry memes, write a few articles, spend some time on social media like reddit or lemmy that they would never admit is social media, and then fight scalpers and crowds to get one.

I think in that metaphor, Lemmy is more like a tor-hidden drug forum filled with dyi enthusiasts.

You might consider your family history of diseases. Heart disease, diabetes, and some types of mental illness among many others are passed down from generation to generation. If you’ve got parents or grandparents with any of those things that can be passed down, you might consider not donating. If you go to the NHS or a paid clinic they’ll 100% screen you for those things, but you might save yourself the trip if you know you’ve got them in your family tree.

I couldn’t find any analysis of autonotion, but they link to a local TV station’s site KRIS TV which does have a decent reputation

I find myself watching Blade Runner every few years and each time I end up finding new details about the film I hadn’t noticed before. The last time through I took a bunch of screenshots and sketched them in oil pastel. Also for whatever reason watching it usually kicks off a months long obsession with the cyberpunk genre as a whole.

The legislature is the traditional check on the judicial system. Letting state supreme court judges overturn the federal supreme court would kind of break the system.

I don’t know if it would be a better solution but if we’re amending the constitution giving citizens the power to recall federal and state elected officials and dismiss appointed ones by petition and popular vote would force politicians to care more about the will of the people and do the job they were elected/appointed to do.

EZ Lynk is the name of the app for anyone too lazy/busy to read the article and want to know which app to uninstall.