Mossy Feathers (She/Her) @ MossyFeathers @pawb.social

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Idk, more options? It's a self-balancing thing-a-ma-bob that takes you places when you stand on it. It's cool and more options are nice. Also, I find it kinda amusing that you think a Segway-compatible city wouldn't also be bike-compatible. They max out at like, 12mph. You're not building a sprawling city around Segways like you would with cars.

Spicy take: high speed Internet (specifically high-speed) and cell phones.

What the fuck am I smoking?

Listen. Look around you. People expect for you to be connected 24/7. Your boss, your friends, family, they all expect you to be connected nowadays. Hell, Australia had to pass a law stopping employers from contacting you outside of work hours.

Then everyone has an opinion and they all want to share it (me too!), and if you don't have an opinion, you're a fucking weirdo, a dirty centrist, ignorant, or many other things (you're probably a Nazi or something, shithead).

Social media is designed to make you feel like shit and you're antisocial if you're not on some social media site.

Everyone is depressed and tormented by the constant flow of negative information on their pocket squares that they feel obligated to subject themselves to, all because someone they care about will get mad or be disappointed if they don't know or have an opinion about everything that happens every second of every minute of every hour of every day. I have a pocket square (which I'm using right now) because I feel like I have to have one nowadays. A significant amount of this is enabled by widespread high-speed Internet. Some of it would still exist, but a lot of it would become unfeasible due to the Internet being too slow. Doesn't matter if you have some crazy 32core phone with 64gb of ram and 2tb of ssd storage if you're limited to T-1 speeds or slower.

Sigh I'm doing the "old enby yells at clouds" thing aren't I?

Yes, the Internet is great and has done a lot of good things, and quite honestly, at the end of the day I honestly think it's done more good than bad. But I also think it's massively overrated at this point.

Cell phones kinda fit into the same category of, "everyone expects you to always be reachable"; and with the same conclusion (still good but overrated). I don't know how I feel about non-cellular tablets.

I was legitimately sad it didn't take off. It was a really cool piece of tech but it got mocked for being nerdy or geeky.

I wonder how much of that was encouraged by oil and car companies.

Probably nothing beyond normal VR stuff. It's still pretty new and it sounds like Apple is still trying to figure out the chicken or the egg problem when it comes to developing an entirely new platform and have decided to try putting the egg first to see if anyone will incubate it for them. Who knows if they'll commit long enough for it to pay off. Tbh I can see VR enthusiasts still getting something out of it since it sounds like people have figured out how to get it working with steamvr. Other than that though, I don't really see any uses for it. I think they're going to have to spend a lot of time looking for problems that are worth paying $1,000~$2,000 to solve (I'm assuming that's what a "consumer" version would cost), and then refine their solution until it feels natural before widespread adoption will be a thing.

I've also been to the US (west coast, Portland) and Jebus, that was terrible. First they don't give you a pizza but a slice of pizza, then it's reheated because they make a lot of it and can't sell it fresh. The toppings is dry ham and tasteless cheese, a ton of cheese, but just flavorless cheese. I tried in a couple of places there with practically the same result. Thanks, but no thanks.

WTF, that doesn't sound even remotely correct. How much did you pay, $0.50? You got scammed dude. I'm from Texas which, afaik, is probably at the bottom of the list of "places you think of when someone says, 'pizza'" but I've had way better pizza than what you're describing. Hell, Pizza Hut is probably better than what you're describing lol. That sounds horrid.

nor anything they would foam at the mouth to promote

Honestly, maybe they should lmao. It'd be really funny to see how people react to Democrats leaning hard into the unhinged shit the right is putting out and countering by committing to not do the thing the Republicans are doing; while also treating it like some legitimately new, revolutionary idea. It'd take a lot of work, but American politics would become extremely entertaining for the final two months before the election.

Listen, I don't blame them for trying to snag a baby. Babies are fucking delicious man. So tender and juicy...

Y'all should try one sometime!

Not a parent, though personally, I sometimes like watching online drama because of how unhinged and nonsensical it can get. However, the real fun stuff is when twitch streamers have collabs and know each others running gags or strange quirks. They're almost always unscripted and can result in the weirdest conversations and situations I've ever heard. The kind of conversations that end up being hilarious and I want to share them with someone but then I realize they need 2hrs of context to understand why it's so funny. Like chips for dinner, Rev stabbed a guy, or Jerma being a fucking psycho.

All three land crossings between Israel and Jordan were closed following the attack, the Israel Airports Authority said. The Allenby crossing mainly serves Palestinians and foreigners, with Israelis not permitted to use it.

How convenient. Sorry if I lack sympathy, I'm just not sure how much of what is coming out of Israel's mouth is trustworthy anymore.

you're full of mold and rot.

If a constant is defined by another constant, without a variable between, wouldn't it be fair to simplify that into a single constant? Additionally, based solely on the article, it almost sounds like they're inverting that, saying that Planck time and Planck length determine the speed of light and gravitational constant(?).

Decentralized networks seem to be getting stronger. The number of options you have is crazy. I'm hoping for the day that decentralized networks overcome centralized ones. It'll probably still be a while (years at least, probably), but given time, I bet it'll happen.

I also had an idea for a wifi network where a router talks to other routers in range to setup networks independent of the internet. The idea being that, if widely enough adopted, you could potentially cut out ISPs except in situations where the signal needs to travel long distances (like rural areas). The router would have an antenna for long-range communication, and then a second antenna to actually talk to devices in a smaller range. Kinda like meshtastic, but significantly faster (with the trade-off being distance and penetration).

Yes, I'm very aware of everything you just said. Doesn't mean it isn't frustrating to find out that an idea you had was a good idea, but you couldn't study it because you don't know enough about the subject. I love science and engineering, but I didn't find that out until after I graduated and I don't have the money to "respec".

Are you sure that's not a microphone for videos? It'd be really weird to have a hole like that. Water should easily push itself through that hole. I honestly don't know what you're talking about when it comes to air pressure. I'm pretty sure your eardrums can survive close to a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure, and those are way more fragile than your phone. I'm not sure why your phone would need to normalize air pressure.

It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.

Step 3b: it's a deceptively simple idea that someone else already thought of a while ago, that everyone agreed was a great idea, but actually implementing it is so impractical that no one wants to do it.

I had a thing like this recently, though I'm struggling to remember what it was.

What's worse is when you have an idea, don't have any idea how to pursue it because you're not a professional [career] and don't have experience making whatever it is; and then you see a successful paper or product months or years later about that exact same idea, made by someone who actually knows what they're doing.

It's frustrating yet validating. Frustrating because, "that could have been me", validating because "I thought of the idea before it'd been developed too! I'm so smart."

I should start keeping a list of times when that happens. If I had a nickel for every time it happened, I'd have 2~3 nickels; which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened two or three times now.

What's wrong with his shadow? Also, you may have an extremely advanced case of double breast cancer and will need to have them removed. (I didn't even know they could get that big, is this photoshopped?)

I had a similar thought about AI; that it's more like imagining something than actually drawing it. When you ask a program like stable diffusion to draw something, you're basically asking it to imagine something and then you reach inside its head to pull the image out. I think that if AI was forced to draw the "ol' fashioned way" then it'd be both better and worse. The results would be more "correct" but the actual quality would probably be worse. It'd also take it longer to get to the same level as a professional artist.

There are a ton of shortcuts you can take in the digital world to save time; you're basically a god limited only by your computer's specs. You can do extremely complex things near-instantly. This saves significantly on training time when it comes to AI. An AI forced to learn how to do art the ol' fashioned way would take significantly longer because it can't take the same shortcuts.

Iirc a nuclear rocket would cut travel time down to centuries between stellar systems. While cruising the galaxy in one go might not be feasible, travelling to a nearby system would be.