FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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If anything like this was ever done it's more likely it would be independent drones flying ahead of the plane at its 10 and 2 o'clock

A Nokia 3310

Mlem for iPhone? Also free

Have you tried Boost (android)? It's free and I haven't found anything to complain about..

What was your experience of r/NeutralPolitics?

Really makes me wonder what cybernetics will look like in a hundred, a thousand(!) years. No-one can experience someone else's consciousness. But if an artificial brain extension generated consciousness the same way we do and if it could be swapped between people safely. It might be the first time we have something saying, objectively, it has experienced being both of us in each of our brains and we see "red" the same way. The mind boggles...

Lightning trapped in sand etc. I used to play a kids game called Turing Tumble which shows how all logic operations can be replicated with little plastic seesaws and marbles. If you put the bits of plastic on the board in the right way you can see marbles falling by gravity performing binary addition. It blows my mind that that's all that's going on in my PC, just a trillion times the scale. I've worked in IT all my life and it continually surprises me that any of this stuff even works.

Why would you access Lemmy that way when there are lots of other ways?

No need to crash it, they could build at a controlled rate so that average house price growth is roughly the same as wage inflation, which seems moderately fair. The real problem is private builders with private investors will never be motivated to do this. The real problem is why they're used at all..

Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like..

Because back buttons are a basic feature of web browsers.

The sheer amount of information, feeling and emotion that happens to be conveyable by pressure waves in air. Can you imagine if sound just didn't work? How much that would suck? It's amazing that it's like.. a thing.

Sight too (obviously, now that we're thinking this way). But just how fucking weird can a thing be if you manage to think about it abstractly for a minute? Matter, over there, just so happens to excite a completely unrelated field that randomly permeates everywhere, even empty space(?!). And we went and fucking evolved little squishy organs that connect these intangible excitations in this weird field into the glob of electrical neurons that make our being. And by some complete fucking voodoo I'm sat here with a picture in my mind of all matter around me that's emitting EM radiation in the 400 to 790 trillion wobbles per second range. That's weeiird.

https://youtu.be/LWhxU7XvSZs

Don't forget that for centuries Christianity considered lending with interest to be a sin and so delegated it to Jews so they came to dominate banking and finance. By the 1100's Jews were considered the 'property of the king of England' and we're granted special rights such as free travel and having their legal testimony given more weight than Christians because they represented the king in financial matters.

Elevate an already hated minority to wealth and privilege as special servants of feudal power? What could go wrong?

It's things like this that feel weirdly tragic; that our ancestors went through so much shit that only the ones with weird reflexes to grab their cranium made it. Young enough to have not had kids yet mind you. Other kids reacted in other ways, but they didn't survive. And so here we are, grabbing our heads when our team doesn't score, a chromosomal echo of some brutal day in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley..

Believe it or not... Inflation

and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a denarius, and six pounds of barley for a denarius..” - Rev 6:5

checks to see which chapter of Revelation we're in

or "How to Lose a Country in Ten Days"

Little people planet doesn't sound like an improvement..

How much bigger would Jupiter have to be before fusion started?