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Seems like it works fine for a meme purpose, which it was obviously for. The framing and focus is actually spot on for giving all the info a viewer needs.

but they’ve (Paramount) also been going downhill for a while.

lots of long time Star Trek fans’ eyes twitch

Indeed.

Good news is that it won’t be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren’t actively maintained.

Anything is possible in a simulation.

“More satellites!”

Maybe the overall idea isn’t a great one.

They definitely are other places as well to varying degrees. Some of it is just human nature and how our brains are wired to feed the ego when we believe we’re “right”, otherwise we wouldn’t have a history of constant disagreement, war, etc. over stupid stuff. The fundamentals of street epistemology is useful for any topic, from politics to religion to pseudosciences. It’s even helpful as self-validation, which will show how hard is can be to question your own beliefs, and maybe help understand how others can get caught up in thinking a certain way without actually thinking about it.

Street Epistemology. The reason it works better is because it avoids confronting the person with a conflicting viewpoint and setting their defenses up. Instead the interest of what and why they think something is true lets them try to justify it, and (sometimes) that digging by themselves leads to a reevaluation. Even if it doesn’t work the first time, it can plant a seed of doubt about their world view that they didn’t have before (because they didn’t think too much about the WHY).

If that route is taken and they’re okay with the lack of validation of their own thoughts, there is nothing you can say to them to break out of that. They’re fine with the lack of facts, so how can facts change anything? As the saying goes, “you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into”, however like I said, you can give them something that might cause a break over time if you help them start a crack. But only they can do that.

There are probably things created in supernova explosions that we couldn’t think about creating due to the energy required, but like our manmade ones, they decay very quickly so we’d never know of their existence. So as far as stability, the periodic chart is probably pretty much complete.

But actually just gold colored that flakes off in a year. Symbolic of everything he does.

Have you tried the newest release? It seems to be more PS leaning, at least that’s what I hear from PS experts.

They seemed fast, but it’s just because they worked in packs, so the one that got you was there the whole time.

To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn’t going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It’s a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don’t dabble in Windows specific software don’t miss it. It’s also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.

I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I’ve had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.

plug in AI security device

“Initializing security sweep.”

“Security scan finished. All databases wiped clean.”

If she is streaming what she’d be doing anyway and gets paid for just being online, that’s a great way for a bit of extra income for just having fun. Don’t get burnt out that way, and if you decide to do it less or stop, not a huge loss either.

I didn’t pay attention and now noticed it was a UK story, but isn’t it telling that it still was a common observance regardless of where you are. But I think the UK citizens got treated a bit better than the US, where $400 per household was going to break the country and was meant to cover rent and food for…months.

Maybe they should have taken a different route to maintain the economy. Which was the supposed point of these business loans (certainly there wasn’t a deeper plan to fleece the country) How could we have applied billions of those wasted dollars differently? Well, we determined we couldn’t give more than a few hundred dollars to all people directly because they would find a way to fake needing it, like they do welfare and voting and needing help, so yeah. I don’t know.

Trying to imagine how my employer would feel if I left my job early without doing the work.

Appropriate, I guess. It is fraud. I just wonder for every person who gets convicted (have there been a lot?) there’s a bunch more, probably even larger companies who got away with a lot under the poorly regulated guise of government pandemic assistance.

The great thing about Coldplay is they’ve changed over the years, which of course pisses some off who liked one style and now expect it every time. I don’t like some of their songs, but the songs I do like I enjoy. The era of Clocks and Speed of Sound and Scientist were solid. There have been a few later ones I like too, but the songs either click for you or not. That’s how music should be, eclectic and not formula.

I think the last song of theirs that hit me hard was All I Can Think About is You. May not be everyone’s type of song, but it felt like the Coldplay I like. And there’s the sleeper The Hardest Part.

Americans threw it. There is plenty of blame to go around, and guess what? That’s all anyone is doing now, pointing fingers at each other while the house burns down. Good job.