grabyourmotherskeys @ grabyourmotherskeys @lemmy.world

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Very interesting, thank you.

I get that it is expensive. My question was "if they..." not can or would.

I've had several interactions where people say "even if you moved a facility to China magically and brought all the people and they were willing, it would not work".

Now, I have no love for China but surely that can't be true.

Clearly what they intended. /s

When you say "they can't" do you mean "they haven't constructed a facility and hired people that can do this" or do you mean even if they did those things they would not be able to?

The reason I ask is I have been in several discussions on here where people have insisted it is the second.

The economist makes more money, the electrician adds more value.

I can elaborate but you can imagine the world muddling along without people telling you about inelastic demand but society would collapse in about two weeks if all the tradespeople disappeared.

As a developer, I am absolutely amazed that any of this (all the software you are using, all of it) even works a little. So: no.

I independently came up with "federation" (as in thought of it but not exactly this, and was building on others work) as the basis for a masters thesis in the early 2000s but left the program to get a job so never saw it through.

So, no, I am not annoyed. I am amazed, grateful, impressed, and humbled but I am not annoyed.

Along with this, if even one civilization had built von Neumann probes (which we are literally generations away from being able to do, conservatively) we should have seen them by now.

My belief has always been that if the phenomenon is "real", it's likely this.

I have often considered this. It does seem like the kind of thing you'd only read people into if absolutely necessary.

We know Hillary Clinton and John Podesta are into the phenomenon.

Presumably, if Bill was "briefed" he would have told them something by now.

The Obamas are actively working on a Betty and Barney Hill documentary. Presumably they are interested.

All of these people asked about it.

But why tell them anything at all?

I feel like presidents would be seen to need to maintain a distance from this unless there was a need for them to make a decision or announcement and lying through omission is ok in the intelligence community, it seems.

If there is any truth to rumours that people have literally been killed to keep this a secret it would be a bigger scandal than Iran/Contra, etc. No need to air that laundry if they don't have to. If they have imperfect knowledge of the phenomenon, no need to admit that and show weakness or create fear.

And so on. I think if we thought some vehicle might show up in a very public way, they would read a president in and prep them to address the public and other world leaders.

This is the traditional method.

I did have RH Linux die while updating core libs a very long time ago. It deleted them and the system shut down. No reboot possible. I eventually (like later that day) copied a set of libs from another rh system and was able to boot and recover.

Never used rh by choice again after that.

Then figure out the correct perms.

These are either wartime consiglieries or people better at preserving an economic status quo that greatly benefits China and is getting better for them every year.

Only an idiot would disrupt that.

Edit: a prideful idiot - checks notes - like authoritarian leaders can often be.

Also, say we did detect one. Our ability to respond limits us to a very long response time. Then another to get back an acknowledgment.

I've casually mused that the slow roll of disclosure (tdb if that is what we are seeing) that began in 2017 might be because we finally heard back "Earth sounds nice, looking forward to having you for dinner, I mean having dinner WITH you. Sincerely, Zorblax".

You cannot make a difference this way. Their music is a commodity they have signed agreements to sell. They probably (in the vast majority of instances) had almost no bargaining power in this and a lot of signed artists don't make a penny from their work, at all.

If you really like an artist, contact them via their official channels and ask if you can send them money directly or donate to a charity they like.

So progressive.

My brother, a Canadian who is socially liberal, economically conservative, and virtually apolitical thinks the fake elector thing is bs.

He doesn't care if it did or didn't happen.

I am not saying this to contradict you. I am supportive of your point. This is unlikely to even remote reach most people in a meaningful way, let alone die hard Trump fans that somehow think he's a virile, brave, genius business person with big hands and an animal musk that Larry from Three's Company would envy.

You are correct and I'm not aware of anyone I know on the drugs receiving this type of therapy. This is in stark contrast to gastric bypass surgery where in Canada you wait a year, receive counseling before and after the surgery and people still often end up back where they started a couple years later despite it probably being much harder on them physically than cessation of a drug. You can see why I am concerned.

I have an ileostomy (like a colostomy). When I first got it, I could only eat small amounts of food. I lost 60 lbs. If was wondeful. I'd eat small meals forever and reach my healthy weight.

Well, a few months later my body could easily tolerate more. And I ate more. Gradually at first then more. It wasn't more than six months before I was back to my weight before the operation.

A few months of imposed restriction did not alter a lifetime of habit.

I thought this was something I did wrong and researched it. Turns out it's how the majority of people behave.

That is my thing. As soon as they stop, the habit is still there but the inhibition will be gone (I say this as a lifelong person who has issues with over eating).

Reacting versus responding.