They want to punish the people they don’t like, not reduce crime.

Don’t cut yourself on that edge.

It’s not that we think we have zero responsibility or whatever - it’s that, as you described, we put in a lot of effort to find coping mechanisms and management strategies, and then people like this cut-rate psych point to the results of that effort and say ‘See, it’s gone!’ It’s not gone, you dingbat, we have to manage it and it takes a lot of work, and maybe it would be nice - just once - to get some recognition for all that work we’re doing rather than pretending the problem doesn’t exist any more.

Have you fought a goose before? Clearly not considering how you’re mouthing off.

People know to steer clear of Canadian geese for good reason. They’re known to break people’s bones with their wings when they decide you need to be punished. The weight/strength ratio is vastly different for birds than it is for mammals. Birds have to fly, so they’re built ridiculously light for how strong they are - and they have to be strong to be able to fly.

A swan is much bigger and - critically - much meaner than a goose.

I’m pretty sure your ass would care, depending on the kind of bread. A firm crusty bread would probably do some damage. Kinda like how too much fentanyl does damage. Physically.

The thing missing from most of these bullet points is that extracting energy from rotation reduces the speed of the rotating object.

Even black holes are affected by the gravity of objects near them, same as anything else - which means that the black hole will slow down if you slingshot an object around it.

That’s why it’s called energy extraction rather than energy creation.

So sure, you could make a black hole bomb… but making the black hole in the first place would take as much - if not more - energy than you’ll get out of it. And usually you’re going to do enough damage just throwing a black hole through your target.

LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It’s not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.

Because it’s beneficial for the software company’s reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it’s not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.

Not even close to all software. There was a broad mix of stuff that used 2-digit years that would have had problems with it, stuff that used 2-digit years where it wouldn’t really impact anything, and stuff that used 4-digit years and so wasn’t a problem.

However, if it drove any sort of critical infrastructure, it had to be audited just in case it fit in the first category.

That depends on if they’re reporting LESS money than they actually made, or are reporting MORE money than the shop itself actually took in.

If everything is in cash, you can inflate it pretty easily without raising eyebrows.

Only in the sense that taking an ocean cruise makes you a sailor. She’s not an astronaut, she’s a tourist.

I like how they respond to the first part of the sentence (they’ve read texts) and act like that is the entirety of the critique, despite including the second part in their quote.

75 years later, lesbians still dress this way…

Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

Well, then the problem would be solved anyways!

I’m pretty sure astronauts are trained on the usage of garbage receptacles.

The air filters would capture it eventually. It’s not like the ISS has dead air.

I mean, the same goes for a login. People share Steam accounts too.

That implementation of NFTs was a total scam, yes. There are some cool potential applications for NFTs … but mostly it was a solution looking for a problem. Even situations where it could be useful - like tracking ownership of things like concert tickets - weren’t going to fly, because the companies don’t want to relinquish control of the second-hand marketplace. They don’t get their cut that way.