My voids are Orion and Nebula, a fine name for a cat!

You’re not wrong, but that was a little harsh.

I can hear that photo

I mean, the definition of “poor people” has shifted somewhat over time. I don’t think there will ever not be poor people, but is nice that poor people often have access to healthcare etc these days… at least in any country that has sane politics

Typical “driver begs for all things to be sacrificed to the alter of parking” story. Wide pavements? why not parking? Tree? parking! Restaurants? houses? office buildings? But the purpose of a city is to maximise local parking!

Remember reading the web series “the salvation war”, (where god announces armageddon but turns out modern weaponry altered the scales somewhat). Turns out heaven was only heaven for Middle Ages peasants, a lack of hunger or illness, but you still have to farm and go to church etc. the army gets there and just thinks “wow what a shithole”.

True, but should not be used to dismiss complaints, only to set expectations.

Yeah, that makes sense, the people giving massive individual donations probably do have opinions about this, wouldn’t surprise me if they’re laying on the pressure, kinda why we shouldn’t allow it.

Not sure I follow your logic there. If I was a politician who hasn’t received £500000 total donations, I’d want to add a £500000 cap so my competition can’t either.

Don’t forget that scientific advancement is crucial to any war effort, can’t forget to invest in science. Medical research and energy research both have obvious implications for any war effort and should be prioritised, but a well rounded portfolio of research topics gives us the best chances of staying ahead of the curve!

In a vacuum it sucks, but we’re grading on a curve here. The nice thing about valve is that it’s asleep at the wheel. Yes they’re making ridiculous amounts of money but they could be making more if they decided to “develop” their platform, and it would be bad for everyone. Cthulhu sleeps and I for one would prefer the situation continue.

As for the billionaire…. I have no strong opinion about him, but again we’re grading on a curve here, it’s amazing how few countries he’s ruined or pedos he’s been in photos with, I have limited hate to spread around and I don’t have sufficient justification to smear any on him.

Good, always felt a bit second class citizen. “You can use the busses but not when they’re needed by the people we actually care about”

Busses are busy in peak hours because people need to travel to work at those hours. Disabled people get free bus passes to expand their travel options given they’re much more limited. But god forbid a disabled person actually has a job and needs to travel at peak times, clearly the government wouldn’t want to encourage that…

I think it depends on volume.

Once or twice a year for arguably not too major things is better than never, because it helps test the system and people won’t get overwhelmed by 1 or 2 alerts a year. Like a fire drill, but maybe slightly more useful since it actually is providing some actual info hopefully.

If they concider firing off more than that, they need to start raising the bar so that they don’t (excepting the emergency action requirement you laid out, obviously if bombs are dropping then regular alerts are justified)

“But miss…. John was doing it too” - children and police chiefs apparently

Tbf I agree with him. The police fucked up, and sounds like the prison service did too.

A world infested by giant intelligent spiders?! Sure let’s go live there, I see no problems with this plan.

We’re surrounded by oceans. Solves the irrigation problem and adds permanent fire breaks, with only some minor irreversible environmental and agricultural destruction

That’s true regardless, batteries will never power intercontinental wide-bodies (short some major new developments in battery design). This will probably reduce the maximum aircraft size where batteries remain viable, but they are obviously very viable for short hops in small jets, the point where they cannot compete is somewhere but it’s not “never”, even with this limitation.

That all said, maybe someone will explore just dropping batteries along the way? It sounds ridiculous, but it also sounds like something we have the tech to solve…

Apparently the defence missed it too, which is pretty damning for whoever was (supposed to be) defending him, I’d think.

Honestly cheap ram that has a 50% chance to fail in a year sounds perfect for the llm industry, they already struggle to plan a year in advance, and all their hardware would be obsolete by then anyway, so why the hell not? Plus they could keep the bubble going a few more months by blaming their problems on hardware failures and claiming they’ll sue China or something

Or the old “well of course we need to reduce emissions but it’s a matter of individual responsibility, anything else might hurt the economy so much that I’d have no choice but to vote against the future of humanity. Don’t make me do it, if you hurt my profits even slightly I will!”