Rare Earth by Peter Ward is what you’re after here. I took an elective in college that effectively was reading a bunch of space science (and history, it was odd) and discussing. This one caught me off guard but was a decent breakdown of a possible answer to Fermi.

I don’t necessarily agree with the supposition, mainly because it still comes from a place of specifically carbon-based life as the end goal. But they do lay out reasoning in an easy to understand way that was super neat to learn.

Nope.

Personally? Nationalism & nation states. The longer they stay around, the more likely everyone is to think they’re more deserving of X, and pull the literal and metaphorical trigger that leads to hitting the filter.

I recognize that individuality is very much our thing, but that will literally only take you so far.

rsync gang when?

“Cruel and unusual punishment” then?

Eyyy, this is also my first, but is a 2017 instead 🙂

Yupp! Set up folders, enable on multiple computers; baby, you got a stew going

BT Sync no longer in vogue here? That’s what I’ve used to both sync and distribute certain things. Used to use it for my image backup until immich came along and stole my heart. Still use it for phone backups

“Outperforming” here means extracting as much wealth as possible and consolidating it in the hands of a few. All the while being an absolute detriment to the health of the environment and people it uses to extract said wealth.

But ya! Outperforming!

I go in to eat said baked goods ❤️

Kimmel: “If anyone else has something to say now is the time.”

proceeds to have the band play loudly

Fair that they don’t have to let them speak necessarily due to it being “private” property, but goddamn you could at least have said “let’s have some music while this gets sorted.” Dude crossed the line from eh to asshole in my book with that one line.

Aight, so long as we’re including other religious texts and having the class be a deep dive into similarities and differences and what might make the “human condition” between all of them, I’m game.

Oh no? Just American Christianity? Sounds like something that goes against the Constitution there.

sips tea

Usually, you need a 10:1 ratio or so of hens to roosters, otherwise they start fighting a bunch. So maybe the person just has 30 hens laying about 🙃

Revert this later

My wife and I recently moved to a smaller town in the Northeast from Colorado. It’s been an adjustment, but honestly I’ve found some wonderful communities here supporting each other much more than I had out West.

This isn’t to say that it’s a hellhole out there. It’s more that I wasn’t expecting to find it here, which gave me a bit of a recheck to my thoughts on the state of things.

It also isn’t perfect, but I’m not letting that bring down the hope it brought me.

Now back to being jaded 🙃

Ah. Glad to know I can put a damper on my excitement for motorcycle riding season to be back…

Granted, this is possible with any car in any state. Just need to make sure I’m explicitly on the lookout for teslas driving behind me.

Sounds like one hell of a severance should have been given 😘

…when two young men squeezed in between her and other women…, prompting Israeli soldiers to fire at them.

So, I guess queue jumping is punishable by death now? Wtf, if you are worried you get the individuals, you don’t fire blindly and hope your weapons training included curving bullets.

The fact that this is a regular occurrence is yet more “scales from my eyes” this past year than any of my previous 30.

“Iran told us exactly what would happen and when, so clearly we need to ignore the genocide our ally is committing and rally* behind them because Iran is being, like, super duper rude.”

sigh

Here I was thinking that the attack would make people realize how far Israel has gone and maybe there would be more pressure to end this shit.

Ahh, sorry OP! The AP decided to bounce around with titles, my bad!