The origin of the word “jaywalking” is exactly that. Blame the victim.

Remember, when he uses the “nobody knew this” that actually means he didn’t know it. And he says it a lot.

The trope of flying through the debris/explosion of the ship you just blew up is kind of ridiculous. That’s the last place you want to go.

Finding micrometeorite holes would actually be harder than you would think because it’s only 1 atmosphere pressure leaking (or less, you don’t have to have 1 atm to exist comfortably). Might be easier to find them from the outside first and then map out where to look.

Those battle scenes where the rail gun shot were visibly going through and just missing…that was frightening. And remember, any shot that misses ruins someone else’s day later on.

Using the upvote button to agree isn’t a problem, but it’s more of a problem to use the downvote as a disagree if you’re actually engaging with the person to debate the topic since it in theory lowers the visibility of the original post and your own commentary.

I always liked the idea of having a “recommend post” button, and let the better stuff with more recommendations and replies rise to the top naturally. It also avoids the weird feeling in clicking an upvote/agree/like to a topic that you want to discuss but is negative.

“It was defensive! They moved stuff!”

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we’ve become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they’re making a statement or something…

Thanks for the link that argues against your rant. I guess you could salvage it some by comparing the numbers and claiming the plastic component is lower than the main article’s numbers in contribution. It would be awkward though if you find out they already separated those number in their math. It also doesn’t change the point that a huge amount of pollution in the form of tire wear occurs constantly and isn’t going away anytime soon.

We already knew this was coming.

https://xkcd.com/1897/

Situational awareness is key, but if all other indicators suggested everything was fine and you were driving up a bridge at night, there’s not much warning before the road is suddenly not there thanks to the curvature of the road. I’ve seen plenty of short clips of cars dropping into missing road segments due to whatever reasons, and it’s just not something you look for normally while driving nor is it that easy to see from a distance vs. an obstacle on the road. It’s possible they tried to stop and just couldn’t in time. The vehicle would be farther away if they had just flown off and not right below the base.

It’s not about the cuts, it’s about sending a message.

“Bipedal??? WTF?”

Or simply “They’re made of MEAT?”

That was my first guess, false target. Like a lizard that loses the tail, only less involved. Evolution ends up with odd solutions, but if it helps favor a trait by leading to survival, it’s good enough. It could have just as easily been as someone else suggested, something that was passed on but not selected against either. Not all evolved things have to do with survival, some just are there.

I think I dropped connection again.

The difference between the two is intent at the time, so either the defense was really good at showing she didn’t mean to shoot and kill (?!), or the prosecution did a crap job of showing that she did.

You tried, but your tone and wording was off. Some people would state all that fully believing things can continue and we’ll tech out way out of trouble. And we WILL absolutely jump to geoengineering to try and preserve status quo, cost or not. The alternative is to change society dramatically, and that won’t happen voluntarily. And the great news is once we start geoengineering, we dare not stop because the reaction will spike things even worse.

My opinion is that the chance part falls into if AGI itself is possible. If that happens, it not only will leads to ASI (maybe even quickly), but that it will be misaligned no matter how prepared we are. Humans aren’t very aligned within themselves, how can we expect a totally alien intelligence to be?

And btw, we are not prepared at all. AI safety is an inconvenience for AI companies, if it hasn’t been completely shelved in lieu of profiting.

“You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.”

They will cause a cooling effect, but it won’t be a “fix”, just a temporary pause, and once settling occurs heating will bounce back even faster. Nothing will reverse climate change in the sense that we can go back to previous conditions, it’s an ongoing transition into a different climate (even if there was some magic way to permanently cool).

Bible references in lessons on morality

Oh no. Cherry picked I hope, there’s some terrible morality in the Bible if it’s not filtered.

and historical events like Thanksgiving.

What? Are they using the Puritan’s version of the Bible for references?

Schools opting to use it will receive state funding.

Held hostage. I’d rather go with the “more” constructive teaching-for-the-test methodology if we’re going to bribe schools to follow a path.

“I was going to go vote blue down ticket, but…”