Countries on the same planet results in a completely different situation. Dark Forest theory is a result of great distance (the enemy could become technologically superior within the time it would take just to gather intel), being hidden (so MAD doesn’t apply), and having a large number of civilizations (even if only a very small percentage of civilizations send out dark forest strikes, the principle holds.)

I’m not really sure what you mean. I don’t think ‘infinifte’ value vs arbitrarily high value makes a difference here. Also evolutionarily, intraspecies collaboration is beneficial, not necessarily interspecies. Although we’re talking about civilizations making decisions, not animal behaviour.

This isn’t really accurate. Mbin does what Lemmy and Piefed do (Reddit replacement) plus what Mastodon does (twitter replacement). They’re just in different tabs of the interface. You have the option of microblogging if you want, but threads are still pretty much exactly the same compared to Lemmy or Piefed.

Sapphic Safari

I feel like the highest peak on Deinonychus Earth should be the toe claw.

Linux could still make a significant improvement in responsiveness or performance. Especially with something like Cachyos.

Tesla Burger and Epic Bacon. Very cool, Elon…

He really has the naming skills of an 8 year old.

It sounds like you handled that maturely, and about as well as you could. It’s not like you can just choose to be less sensitive.

I have had zero partners, and I think I’d feel really insecure with someone more experienced. Depending on the person it might not be a dealbreaker, as long as it’s not more than maybe 2 or 3. Although I know that is a very small percentage of people my age :(

≤1.5⁰ C total warming.

Not necessarily. It’s way more complicated, and there’s no clear line. If you use that definition, then coyotes and wolves become the same species, for example.

Well now it’s as if half of the books in the library are written by the parrot. The librarian doesn’t know the difference, and keeps trying to make you speak with the parrot anyway.

Cross eyed is so much more uncomfortable. It also looks smaller than parallel to me.

Most roadwork contractors are spending most of the money doing job and paying employees, not funneling it to an neonazi AI.

SpaceX has taken a ton of money from taxpayers, (at the expense of NASA,) but hasn’t been making good progress on the Artemis program, for example. Musk has also threatened to stop decommission the Dragon, which the US astronauts currently rely on.

In my opinion, Elon is a national security threat, and SpaceX should be nationalized and managed by NASA.

While I agree that it’s a good idea to seek help, antidepressants do have significant negative side effects for some people, and aren’t really that effective long term. And therapy can take a long time to help, if it does at all.

I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, but the last sentence of your comment feels a bit insulting.

Well, it is one of the most effective antidepressants…

No reason to carry knives in public

Knives are so useful, I think carrying a multitool with multiple decently sized blades is very reasonable.

I love pickles, Kalamata olives, kimchi, and artichoke hearts. I’d say I like everything else, although I’ve had some bad green olives and am not crazy about capers.

Have you ever had homegrown sundried cherry tomatoes? I think there’s a huge difference in flavor between good and bad tomatoes

I made this post in response to seeing a low quality AI video that was literally an ad for a company.

I’m fine with actually high quality AI stuff (labeled, preferably), but there seems to be almost none.