Rhaedas
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- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 6 hours ago:
I see your point. If he was arguing for a law or program. Saying everyone get a check without anything more isn't the same. For one, it isn't going to happen because it would need legislation, which means a bill and a plan to fund it. And it's Trump, so it's not going to happen because he just says things.
Now if he said he's going to propose and make Congress pass a law that gives every adult $1000 each month that is funded through tax increases on higher brackets... suddenly he's pushing for UBI, and that's a great idea. (or the start of one, I think it needs to be more complex than that for cost of living variations)
- Comment on 9/11 8 hours ago:
It's why you don't kill Hitler. Someone had to hold that spot, do you want someone who might have accomplished more?
- Comment on Genius idea. Somehody should share this with the antivaxxers 11 hours ago:
Will there be enough room there for that and the bleach and UV lights?
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 1 day ago:
Laws are as good as they are enforced. Look at speeding in a car. If you don't get caught, if everyone else is doing it and the few cops around aren't bothering to pull anyone over, it's still illegal. Yet it doesn't matter.
Or more comparable, someone of high importance is caught speeding, but when the cop sees who it is they let them go with a "warning", i.e. do nothing. Still illegal, but okay for them to do apparently.
- Comment on We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. 1 day ago:
"We don't really need two cameras in that spot."
"Yes, we do."
- Comment on Are we looking for fossil's on Mars along with gathering rocks? Or at least some form of life evidence? What about that big ice cap at the top of mars? 2 days ago:
The rovers there don't gather rocks, but move around and look closely, including drilling into rocks to examine them. If there were fossils on the surface then they'd find them, but there's other ways to detect existing and previous life, as well as an environment that would favor life, and that's what they've been doing. I can't give you a summary of all they've done, but NASA certainly has its archives and websites that will show the data as well as explain what some of it means. It's an ongoing thing, lots of times discoveries come years after the actual photos or other data is collected.
The ice caps would be an interesting place to explore, but also a bit more risky since the ice (mainly water ice but also CO2) comes and goes with the seasons so adds more things for a rover to navigate. It also might make communication with Earth and collecting sunlight for energy a lot harder since it would be at a much higher/lower latitude on Mars.
- Comment on Exturb1a - 27 - YouTube 3 days ago:
Except there's no consciousness currently, and our researchers are pretty bad at keeping things in the sandbox to turn off if necessary. 27 is a best case scenario.
What is relevant is what the one guy says right at the end about how they all seem to gravitate to the same goal. That remains to be seen if it's predicted correctly.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 4 days ago:
Although many people use a downvote for disagreeing with someone without actually adding to the discussion (lazy imo), upvotes were really originally meant to sort out the more important or relevant, or hot topic of the day vs. the regular posts, and downvotes for off-topic posts and replies. Basically a way to moderate the content of the forum without being one.
- Comment on OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI 4 days ago:
Based on history, until it breaks, and then everyone tries to save themselves as it comes down. That's just a financial crash though. Not sure about if AGI or whatever actually is part of the failure. Maybe watch for some insiders who suddenly duck and cover.
- Comment on OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI 4 days ago:
That seems to be SOP for any large company these days. AI is a larger scale of money dumping, but it's the same idea. Got to get that stock number up for the investor, even if it means screwing the customers and damaging a brand name and product reputation. Line go UP!
- Comment on OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI 4 days ago:
Humans can't align with each other. That fact makes any suggestion from them that they can align a literal alien intelligence completely ludicrous. And they aren't stupid, so they're just hoping most people will buy it and not pay attention. We have three directions at this point - a) AGI developed and is not aligned, things go bad in some way, b) AGI not developed but current level AI is not aligned and goes rogue in a critical way (we've already had some stuff happen, just not deadly yet), or c) AI stays at the current level and we manage to contain or put out the fires as misaligned actions occur, BUT human directed AI does something deadly.
There's d) we find safe ways to do either low leve AI or AGI. I can't see that happening, we're aren't being careful enough, slow enough, nor is our motive to make the safest product possible. The motive is $$$, and that only ends in a/b/c.
- Comment on Remember the reason for the season 1 week ago:
It's more of an observance day for many, which makes my point even more when most people think of Labor Day as a time to buy things on "sale".
- Comment on Remember the reason for the season 1 week ago:
Probably the first modern holiday that demonstrated how quickly we forget the why.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It's what all of us first asked either in our head or out loud.
- Comment on Fuel Tank Capacity Upgrade! 1 week ago:
I know it's hard to believe, but there are more upgrades in store. I don't know how they manage to put all that in the same place.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Depends on if existence in this level of 4D is dependent on being at this level. Using your 2D in 3D example (aka Flatland) what if the 2D plane is at sea level pressure, but changing the Z axis there is a different pressure (as we understand, but the shapes would not), to the point where Mr. Square dies if we lift him too far up.
Now imagine a 4D version, where it's not air pressure, but something more fundamental about physics changes if we're moved from our current 4D state. The idea being that space as we understand it is 3D, but perhaps exists as part of higher dimensions along with other universes. But they could be completely different, and movement from ours to theirs by just sliding in 4D would change the "space" we're in, in a bad way.
Or we could just wink out of this 3D space, but be in just a different state and be fine, seeing a weird cross section of what we're used to.
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 week ago:
A more nuanced question would be where is it legal or illegal, and what are the restrictions or conditions where it is legal? How is sex in general seen in those places? The correlation, if any, may highlight some things.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 1 week ago:
I thought it was the compressor making that sound when I put that food in, but it's just the fridge either laughing or sighing.
- Comment on Works great and costs less 1 week ago:
But if you built it once, you can do it again. I would think the hole sizes would be the first failure.
- Comment on Huggies 1 week ago:
I saw a cartoon decades ago of a men's bathroom with a shattered urinal and a caped figure exiting.
- Comment on Would 'Project Vulcan' from Austin Powers actually have done anything? 1 week ago:
I've seen the same question asked about Lex Luthor's plot to sink California for a land monopoly in the first Superman movie. As others have said, the weapon yields in these movies aren't nearly powerful enough to do more than register a small local quake, if that. Also, while the mantle (mainly lower part) is fluid in the sense that it moves, it is very dense, so liquid doesn't always mean easier to move.
- Comment on priority mail 1 week ago:
Respect for that envelope, it's doing some heavy lifting.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Housing was affordable and wages hadn't fully flatlined, so a single income family could still possibly pay that mortgage, even pay extra against the rate, and support a family. Definitely a lot more than one single rate number, lots of things are broken.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Your own diatribe that has nothing to do with the context of either of our posts says a lot about society too. I'm done though, find someone else to rant against about nothing.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Oh, so trolling then. That makes more sense. No one could be that dumb.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Not sure where that came from, but tag me however you want. Might want to reread what I wrote that was agreeing with you and adding more ways people get funneled into service? Nothing I said was a promotion for joining anything.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Klinger's problem was slow reaction. Had he acted before they initially saw him, maybe. My dad was drafted in Vietnam and always told me to go right up and deep kiss the guy taking names. Although I don't think that would work as well now.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
There's the ones who like to shoot things, but don't forget the c) it's either join the military for pay or live in poverty or worse.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
I am old enough to remember when a simple savings account at the bank was 5% interest, no minimum balance. Now grabbing a high yield account of 3.5% is doing well for the average person, and requires a high balance to qualify for that "incredible" rate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If this was a serious list, Johnson should be on the failure section, having ruined any chance of a Reconstruction effort after the war. A successful effort was was probably too big of a thing to last through several Presidents, but he fumbled and lost the ball. We're still paying for it. That and Reagan with his economic disaster, funny that he's not even mentioned. Probably too liberal, as was Nixon with his EPA and such.