ShaunaTheDead @ ShaunaTheDead @kbin.social

Hi, I'm Shauna! I'm a 37 year old transgender woman from Ontario, Canada. I

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I get what you're saying, but it's not like we're just taking that water and blasting it off into space. It's going to be used and then make it's way back into the ocean eventually. Either through evaporation and precipitation, or directly through rivers that feed into the ocean.

Of course, if there hasn't been already, there should definitely be some extensive studies into whether there are any blockades as far as that water returning to the oceans in a reasonable amount of time.

Depends where you live, I guess. I don't really consider -20 to be dangerous but I live in Canada so I know how to dress for cold weather.

Yeah but C makes more sense. 0-10 is cold but not freezing, 10-20 is cool, 20-30 is warm, 30-40 is hot, 40+ is "you're gonna die of heat exposure! Get inside, what are you doing?!" increasing in urgency with the number. If it's in the negatives, it's the same as the 40+ except "cold exposure".

Well if we're considering alternate histories where a civilization gains access to a working computer then it's basically impossible to tell. It depends on so many variable factors. Whether someone in that time period takes a significant enough interest to even look into it in the first place, whether they're smart enough to solve the question of what it's doing, and even who's hands the computer falls into.

There's a famous example of an ancient Roman trinket that was kept in the collection of a wealthy person. It was a small device that when placed over hot water would spin. We would recognize that device today as a steam turbine and we would know that it has the possibility of sparking the industrial revolution if the right person got a chance to look at it.

So if an ancient civilization got their hands on a modern computer and managed to do anything useful at all with it, it would alter world history in ways that we wouldn't recognize it anymore. Even if they didn't directly reverse engineer the computer but instead gained insight into other technologies like electricity or plastic production, it would alter world history in such a way that the modern computer would almost certainly be produced much earlier than in our own history which kind of nullifies the point of the question.

Technically everything that a computer does can be simulated using any medium, pen and paper for example, or rocks and sand (relevant XKCD).

As for actually creating the parts needed, well a modern computer is just a very advanced Turing Machine which only requires 3 parts to operate: a tape for storing memory, a read/write head for reading/altering the data in memory, and a state transition tape to instruct the head to move left/right on the memory tape.

The memory and state transition tapes themselves can be anything, even a pen or rocks as in the previous examples. The read/write head could be anything as well. In previous iterations of computers we used the state of and turning on and off of vacuum tubes as a read/write head.

So conceptually, any time that humans were intellectually capable of reasoning out the logic. Their computer would just run much slower and be less useful the farther back in time you go.

I'm not sure where you're getting that idea from. Almost anything designed for Windows works flawlessly through WINE or Proton. If I do run into an issue I usually find that Windows users are also having the same problems so it's not a Linux compatibility issue. Every once in awhile I'll have to run winetricks or protontricks to install a dependency. Overall, Linux compatibility is pretty incredible these days, in my opinion.

And he constantly deadnames and misgenders her because he's such a huge piece of shit, even to his own daughter.

Can you run the game from the terminal so you can see any error messages that are popping up? To do that, exit steam and run steam steam://rungamebyid/1817230

I'm assuming you're talking about this game which has an App ID of 1817230. If it's a different version of that game, find it on steamdb and use the App ID from the correct game.

Get out of here with this racist bullshit

It's kind of weird how they basically showed Ferengi's getting jacked off on several occasions.

Gul Dukat is dead to us! What does Damar think of Kevin?

"I can't post racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic bullshit to Lemmy without getting banned? CENSORSHIP! WE GOT CENSORSHIP OVER HERE!" -OP probably

Yesss! Oh my god, just be up front about what you want! I hate when people lie about their intentions on dating sites.

Wow I thought it was a coincidence that his helmet is in the transgender pride colours, but in fact, he apparently does openly and vocally support transgender rights (and queer rights in general)! What a stand-up guy!

We're not enemies as soon as a Windows user walks in. Or... Uuuugh.... A Mac user.

FYI the absolute best thing you can do to help with deforestation is stop eating meat, or at least eat less meat. Chopping down forests for agricultural (commercial and subsistence) use accounts for 80% of deforestation globally.

Yeah, this. AppImages are like executables on Windows, the entire program is contained in one file. If you type sudo find / -iname *.AppImage it will show you where all of the AppImage files on your system are and you can find the one you want to remove and delete it.

Uh oh, if Foxconn is in charge of an AI factory then we're sure to see our first AI suicide attempt in no time.

Yeah, we're what's known as persistence hunters. The main thing limiting animals in distance is overheating, and Humans have the best cooling system in the entire animal kingdom with our entire bodies covered in sweat glands and little hair to hold in heat. We're designed not to be the fastest, or the strongest, but to outlast. We chase our prey until it gives up from exhaustion.

Probably a big part of why we evolved intelligence is that it's important to be able to track your prey as a persistence hunter. Being able to notice patterns like a snapped branch means the prey went that way, or recognizing animal prints would have played a huge part in who survived so it was selected for.

I'd just like to add The Orville to the list, somewhere after either TNG or DS9. Could also maybe add Galaxy Quest to the list for the TNG vibes.