That would require some kind of machine capable of learning, a model of language so incredibly large that it can comprehend these linguistic nuances, or an intelligent form of artificial device.
Wonder if we’ll ever have something like that in the future.
Some sources have reported the explosion was a result of a gas leak, however no official cause has been stated as of yet. Dallas Fort Worth has a history of gas explosions after heavy rainfall due to the clay soil absorbing the water, expanding, then contracting, causing explosions.
10 people have been confirmed injured as of publication, as per the Forth Worth fire department.
Europeans: “Those perfidious Russians and the nefarious Chinese are the two single biggest threats to our domestic security. Why… they’ll just hack into any old thing and fill it full of evil communist propaganda. They’ll shut down our critical infrastructure, hijack our data services, and spam us so full of phishing attempts that you won’t know what’s safe to click on! And all just to watch us fail, then laugh at us. The fiends!!!”
Also Europeans: “Google’s CEO said we need to dismantle the last ten years of digital safety standards so we can undermine the YouTube adblocker. Make this our top priority.”
No microphone
Its funny, because I’d love to have a sound setup that accepts audio. I do FoundryVTT games regularly from my couch, and being able to talk at my TV, rather than setting up a bluetooth headset, would be great for hybrid home/remote games.
I know my TV has a built in mic, because it occasionally goes into “Did You Say Something?” mode based on keywords I never bothered to figure out. But I can’t get it to sync with the server I’ve set it up against.
Damned near everything has a mic in it, but nobody wants to let you use it for what you want.
Its so easy to forget all the garbage games that got churned out 20 years ago. Even the good games - your FF7s and Warcraft 2s - had their share of notorious glitches.
The ability to patch a game after release has definitely not improved first-iteration releases. But you can go out and get a copy of Skyrim or Resident Evil 7 or Dragon Quest 9 and play it with a very reasonable degree of confidence that it will work end-to-end as intended. You can’t say the same thing about Super Mario 64 or Mortal Kombat 3. Hell, the whole speedrunning community has to distinguish between “glitched” and “glitchless” runs, precisely because finding glitches in classic games is such a pivotal part of beating them in record times.
staring at my Microsoft DevOps certification, dejectedly
I hate these takes, because they always open with “What would happen if a large volume of matter vanish?!” And yes, removing anything on the scale of “All the salt in all the oceans instantaneously” would be catastrophic entirely on the grounds that any instant movement of enormous mass is going to destabilize natural systems.
But the question that people are looking to answer is “What would the world look like if the Atlantic was a bigger version of Lake Michigan?” Not “what would hitting the oceans with a Star Trek teleporter do?”
Kinda grazes at the edges of this, but doesn’t really seek to distinguish what a fully-desalinated ocean system would look like relative to a salty one. It just describes a transitional period in which freshwater life migrates out to the ocean. But it doesn’t discuss what a deep-sea fresh water world would look like.
Also, the “eventually the sea would re-salinate” gets us to a more fundamental question “Why is the sea salty to begin with?” And that gives us insight into where salts come from and why they are fundamental to the ocean ecosystem.
“Skills Issue”
Demonstrably so, given the success of Russian industry.
In fairness, the Russians had one big advantage the Americans didn’t…
Russian scientists.
But my point is more that they had no compunction over taking German scientists when presented with the opportunity.
I mean, if we’re going to be serious, the USSR had its own version of Operation Paperclip. Operation Osoaviakhim
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On arrival the 302 Germans were split into several groups. A large group of 99 specialists from the Zentralwerke was installed in Podlipki in the north east section of Moscow as part of Korolev’s NII-88, 76 design engineers were transferred to Gorodomlya Island, and 23 specialists to Khimki as part of Glushko’s OKB-456 for the development of rocket engines.
But once the Germans had been pumped for info, they fell by the wayside. The difference between Russians and Americans was that the Russians didn’t put German scientists in administrative positions. They just squeezed them for their findings and retired them. The scientists didn’t end up running the fucking departments.
Staring at a bunch of empty tissue boxes
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Christ then be mad at advertisers then
Right. Yes. This is what I’m mad at.
they don’t feel like they’re suffering
I’ve heard people who get tattoos often enough begin to enjoy the feel of the needle on their skin. So who are you to say tattooing bar codes on everyone’s necks is a bad thing? Don’t yuck my yum!
So who cares then?
Presumably the people drowning in this suffocating deluge of mass marketing.
let other people enjoy things
What if they aren’t enjoying it?
What if they’re just getting caught up in the oppressive frenzy of hype culture, getting bombarded with ad-induced anxiety, or simply trying to fit in with whatever they’re told is “normal”? What if the emperor has no clothes but we’re all told its rude to point?
Am I allowed to make fun of Morbius? Or is that 
under the Let People Enjoy Things rubric?
If they get enjoyment out of these products, does that really negatively affect you?
If its getting injected into every webpage, spamming up my email, blaring across the radio, on billboards along every mile of road, and natively included in every other media venue I visit?
Yeah.
There’s a Sci-fi horror book I enjoyed, called “John Dies At The End”, that posits an alternative history in which computers were created from the brains of pigs.
As a consequence, the civilization is heavily invested in harvesting organs in the same way that we’re invested in drilling for oil.