Tar_Alcaran

I don’t want the mental image of Odo and Quark enjoying their benefits. I don’t want to judge or shame, but changeling Oomox makes me want to throw up a little.

New AI:

IF $soil_moisture < $Dry AND $Temperature > $Warm THEN Print “Water your plants today”

Total cost: couple of quid for a pint

Hell, look at SCOTUS Justice Jackson. Despite all of the “anti DEI” rhetoric, she’s literally the most qualified person to have ever been confirmed to the position. Bar none, hands down, no lies.

There’s an amazing quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was vocal about there needing to be more women on the US supreme court. She was asking how many women she’d like there to be, and she answered “9 women” (meaning all of them). When the interviewer reacted with shock, she simply asked him why that would be so bad, since they were obviously fine with having 9 men on the court.

It’s a great illustration of how badly we all need to switch thinking. Of course, Equity feels really unfair to those previously enjoying privileges.

True, there are microphones, because I specifically remember the main character taking a walk through a new forest, because the thin trees couldn’t possibly hide a microphone.

Loud, rich Christians.

Everyone who “does their own research”

It’s about total control from the perfect totalitarian state. Mass surveillance is a small part, and control of language is also a part. But it’s also about control of truth and history, and eventually even control of the inner mind.

The cameras are only a tiny part.

According to wikipedia, you can own up to a gram (1 or 2 doses, but like half a dose if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need the internet to know that), and you can gift it and make your own. But you can’t sell it…

It doesn’t say that. The X axis is basically the inverse of how many times a “usefull dose” you need to take before you die. Or you can see it as “overdose potential”.

It’s basically impossible to overdose on cannabis, but really easy to overdose on heroin. Coffee is kinda weird, it’s at 0.01, meaning you need 100 times the effective dose to die.

That’s basically 100-300 cups of coffee, so if you’re drinking just coffee you’re going to kill yourself from just drinking the water in the coffee way before the caffeine in the coffee gets dangerous.

It also doesn’t explore the mental health effects of repeated exposure to large doses of hallucinogens on people, which we still don’t have research on because of how demonized hallucinogens are in most countries doing research on drugs.

Also, I don’t think you’ll get that past an ethics board…

It is

If I’m getting more troglodytes stuck in my Tholian web, they’re getting the Rays! This is why we have a Min Cage people!

In the mirror universe, they save money in uniforms and spend more on guns.

I can’t hold all the orangesPADDs

Calling Car tok with Martok bout yer Wartok

Telegraphs have existed long before internet ever did. And heliographs predate those by a fair bit.

And then there’s the Hydraulic Telegraph from 2400 years ago.

One solution might be to shine lasers on a distant object, like the moon:

The moon is 1.26 light seconds away. That’s a 2520 ms ping.

This is one is officially beyond me.

You monster. That’s somehow even worse than not seeing it at all