MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 3 days ago:
There are space shows with good writing. Babylon 5’s security officer is rather good. There are still murders and failures, but the rigor is enough for most people to believe. (I vaguely recall he even complained about not being allowed to do more.)
In the same way that the Star Treks have inspired many to go into science and technology, I expect many have also been inspired to think about security and better ways to run an organization. Personally, I have notes about conducting dangerous research in space…
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Yes! It helps if it is clear the bad guy has been doing things as well. (Aren’t there a few games where the bad guy moves locations with this, so if one is really fast, they can catch them rather weak.)
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 4 weeks ago:
I do wonder if they looked more official it would have been fine. A high-vis jacket and a deer fence.
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Seems they don’t want to deal with trees falling over in ~50 years.
School’s playground had to cut some down due to $local_tree_issue. They didn’t want to replant due to possible construction in 5 years. Also, no shade cloths as they fail in a small number of years.
- Comment on Every time I take my kid to a playground 5 weeks ago:
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t
There is also a webpage. With words.
- Comment on Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police 2 months ago:
Phrasing matters. Let’s make a database for providing extra service for our VIPs.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 2 months ago:
If it is sincere, watch them deny everything, then realize the truth in ~6 months.
- Comment on Anon took bad hiring decisions 2 months ago:
WOW! That radically changes the entire post!
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
It is a bit of an older troupe, 1970’s at least. Hero saves city, but few knew of the villains plot. Hero run out of town, and villain runs wild.
- Comment on Anon took bad hiring decisions 2 months ago:
Highways have managers? Like Highway 55 has a manager. Just for that Highway? (Hwy means Highway. Hwy 55 is Highway 55.)
- Comment on Lifeguards 2 months ago:
FrowingFostek is clearly in central Florida (USA), and hates the keys.
Or Russia and dislikes… all that over there. - Comment on You're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatie 3 months ago:
Anteaters are on their way to becoming crabs.
- Comment on You're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatie 3 months ago:
While I agree, this line of argument could be taken to bolster Sky Daddy’s love for us and only us.
The whole universe is so different from us, but our little bitty part is just right. Clearly, Sky Daddy made the particles our crude sense and instruments can detect just for us, but Sky Daddy truly is unknowable (and made of the other stuff).
- Comment on Don't forget the hoodie too. 3 months ago:
Til fine. I expected a follow of: “Complains A/C is hot working hard enough”
- Comment on liquor is fine though, its the carbonation they worry about 4 months ago:
Ah yes. And Twisted Teas are or can be, “hard” (containing alcohol, much like “hard alcohol”).
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 4 months ago:
Yes!
An diplomats/CEOs using Teslas!
- Optical cameras are mandated at Musk’s insistence, despite lidar being better.
- Built in cell modem for “over the air updates”.
- Massive processing onboard for “interpreting the cameras”.
- Microphones and cameras inside to “ensure the driver is paying attention”.
- Big ass batteries for driving and keeping sky kit running.
- Get the targets to pay for the spy gear themselves.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 4 months ago:
An issue with post-interstate USA is the ability to move away from family for education and work, also fragmented the extended family. Managing life, everything and a under-6 month old infant takes way more than two people. (Day care in many areas will accept an infant at 6 weeks, which while huge, is also problematic.)
I expect the only solution is get rich and help your kids with the grand kids. (UBI!)
None of this is an excuse to fuck off and not help. It is pathetic when men say “and I never changed a diaper”. Hardly a parent at all at that point.
- Comment on Hundreds Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Props And Costumes Go Up For Auction; Bidding Open Now 4 months ago:
Bid on the replicator! Then so many problems can be solved!
- Comment on Left side park 5 months ago:
… Can’t let black people build something nice.
- Comment on Chelyabinsk liked your Post 5 months ago:
Sneaky plan by “Big Moon Globes and Images”. All of the old globes, posters, and shirts have to be replaced, as we cannot learn with in-accurate images of the Moon. Three Wolves cannot howl at old images of the Moon!
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 5 months ago:
Maybe the load was already stabilized, even at that angle, and the photo is just for show?
It is important to not do that.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 6 months ago:
Any services that can help with this?
Either on the “Your made mate!” or a “here let’s make this more anonymous”?
- Comment on Thank you, Enya 6 months ago:
An unrelated bit cool about clay from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_mineral.
Given the requirement of water, clay minerals are relatively rare in the Solar System, though they occur extensively on Earth where water has interacted with other minerals and organic matter. Clay minerals have been detected at several locations on Mars,[15] including Echus Chasma, Mawrth Vallis, the Memnonia quadrangle and the Elysium quadrangle. Spectrography has confirmed their presence on celestial bodies including the dwarf planet Ceres,[16] asteroid 101955 Bennu,[17] and comet Tempel 1,[18] as well as Jupiter’s moon Europa.[19]
- Comment on big facts 6 months ago:
This is why nudist colonies are so vibrant. Easy as.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 6 months ago:
Yay! Extra mental load of having to ask the AI “correctly” and then keep up one’s skills to be able to review the AI’s work! Extra bonus for being blamed for letting anything slip past.
At least the junior that fucked up will learn something from the experience and can buy a round of beers (if the junior is paid well enough, otherwise the seniors have to buy the junior a beer while talking it out).
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 6 months ago:
“Sign Kid” is trying to run a Paradox of Tolerance.
“Punching Kid” is right on. Though one should not do such things at school, nor on camera.
I have the feeling “Sign Kid” is going to change schools soon. - Comment on Easier or Harder | Litterbox Comics 7 months ago:
It definitely gets different. Easier or harder kind of depends.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 7 months ago:
If college is just a certificate needed to get the good jobs, then this makes a lot of sense.
If college is there for learning, then it is terrible.I bet there is a difference in the ratios between degrees on these. (i.e. Civil Engineering versus Marketing)
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 7 months ago:
That’s why your Dad and/or Mom couldn’t get laid.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 7 months ago:
OP needs a new therapist using a different therapy style. Keep trying folks. (I have my favorites, but so does everyone.)