latenightnoir @ latenightnoir @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Think you took a wrong turn somewhere, this is the Technology community...

Nope... zero. It's just what I feel is the right thing to do, regardless of results. And, on a more self-serving note, I will at least die with a clear conscience knowing that I did all I could do to follow and respect my principles, to be at least a quasi-decent human being.

Agreed, that was the "advertised" goal, and the overall shape things took once it was set into motion. But looking at things now, in retrospect, I genuinely believe that's just what everyone was told to sell them on the idea, with the actual plan being very different for those who had access backstage, y'know?

I mean, it's much easier to motivate people to uproot their lives (regardless of how abysmal their living conditions were at the time) by promising a Land of Opportunity For Everyone, instead of telling them "yeah, we're a bunch of rich guys who want to get even richer, and we need cheap labour to get things started, then work for us, so that we may accumulate all of the wealth."

Yaaay!🥳 My brain's getting better at brain things!

To be perfectly frank, I can relate... Not gonna give up trying, just that I've never had much use for optimism given how things have been going overall.

"I'm so sorry I'm repeatedly punching you in the teeth, I have no idea how to stop! We need to form a thinktank for this, we need more money, we need access to the entire library of human creation, help, I CAN'T STOP PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE FACE!"

That guy was ridiculously correct about a frightening amount of things...

Again, no such issue, I'd actually have a bit more respect for LLMs were they this eloquent and pleasant!:)) Glad to have generated a crumb of something good!:D

Damned fine quote and personal reinterpretation, no apologies needed!:))

Oh, I'm not putting this on any individual citizen, I'm genuinely sorry if it came out that way!

Sharing is virtuous, and everyone should most certainly try to share more (within their means, of course!), but the game was rigged long before those who are alive now ever existed. Unfortunately, as long as the system itself doesn't change, individual action can only achieve so much in terms of offering fair conditions and opportunities for everyone...

Oh, wow, so not all of that sci-fi was purely -fi! This makes so much sense, yet I've never conceptualised it as such. Like, I knew the concrete pressure differences, but never had them set in a big picture view:-?

Jesus, now I wish I would've taken up more physics, would've happily soldiered through the math for this amount of interesting!

Yep, this is very clear, thank you! Visual aides are OP, I swear!

Huh, that's really interesting! Yeah, given all of these factors, I would imagine that absolute vacuum would be... well, nothing in terms of cold or hot:-? Wow, that's a huge paradigm shift, I shoud dare to be stupid online more often, I'm learning more from this thread than I would have expected!

Thank you!

Eh, maybe in other countries, my folks would've probably killed me if I'd presented an interest to delay University:))

But you're right, it's objectively better to take some time and get some perspective, and those 4.5 months really do sound like a good learning experience! Most definitely a lot more immediately useful as pertaining to living in general!

And can relate to your experience of returning home post-University, my home town is now... tumorous, for lack of a better word. But, yes, home is where one is, best way to go about it. Everything changes, the only thing which is somewhat constant is the fact that we'll have to live with ourselves until we won't:))

From my understanding of it, the American Dream's going just fine! The only problem is most people misunderstood that it was about all of them.

Funny, I always felt that the old "one can never go back home" adage holds true precisely due to the continuous addition of layers of context, in that I'm never the same Me going "home," which means it can never be "home" for the new Me. I do know that comfort of familiarity, though! For me, it's getting back to my own bed:))

Either way, your experience sounds wonderful, and I kinda' envy you, tbh. I've always had trouble appreciating new places and contexts, because I see the familiar everywhere I go, in people, in tendencies, in shared cultural elements... Maybe it's different for everyone, I guess, or a matter of perspective. Very good food for thought!

Hmm, is it because vacuum acts essentially like an insulator? I'm thinking this because, from what I remember about high-school thermodynamics, heat needs to "jump" from matter to matter, and there's not a relevant quantity of matter in a vacuum to act as a heat absorber, like air does over here, right?:-?

I'm genuinely asking, I'm sure I have brain rot from watching too many sci-fi movies...

That makes sense, I mean we're already melting over here with the atmospheric buffer, I imagine it'd be the same or maybe even hotter straight on.

Feel dumb for not thinking about it this way, to be honest, thank you!

Thanks! I was about to ask if there is time for the pressure differences to act upon our biology, or if the freezing bit happens before everything has a chance to go pop!

This is very true, but people still need a significant push to get there. They still need to first be angry enough to not want to take it anymore, before they start looking into what can actually be done.