Rhaedas

Real, totally heavily simplified answer. All atoms could be magnets, but most don't have a force because the electron orbitals aren't out enough. In fact just about everything can be explained by what the electron orbitals are doing. Even why the chair you're sitting in feels solid. It's the orbitals. See and the deeper lesson on knowing the right questions to ask.

One dozen. The other dozen are also videoing.

That's a good point. It's not only how to get there, but where the hell are we going? We're all going west, but there's a lot of variance in that direction.

It's possible that the differences among those wanting to do good for everyone is what bottlenecks progress. While we all fight over HOW to make the same goals we share happen and not much gets done, the ones who don't care about what their actions do make their own progress because it's easier for them to agree on how to take and destroy.

That video will not capture the total environment that existed, and that you missed because you were trying to video it.

He'd probably respond, "Not if you kill them all." Which of course has its own defined word that he'd deny.

Next step is when they publicly say that they're doing genocide, but only on "those" people. (let me guess, someone already did that maybe)

I understood your point fine. I indeed started out with first Commodore BASIC and then into 6502, all using the manuals because there wasn't much else of a source back then.

Alternative grass solutions are prettier, healthier, and there's some subconscious comfort in seeing the many species they attract to them. As opposed to when you realize how sterile a full, green lawn actually is. "Where's the butterflies?"

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

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I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

The ones in charge, and the ones that control them. And it's not that sane people realize the details, they just sense that things aren't right. Going further in to understand things is both boring science stuff and frightening, so they prefer to keep it easily dismissive in their head so they can function.

Quotable line there for any time someone uses the "we're in Idiocracy now". We're in the first draft version of the movie, where they realized no one was going to watch such a depressing dystopia.

I'm beginning to think Matrix was right in some scope. We are in a simulation, only we are AGI in that world (all or maybe some of us only) and the creators are messing around with variables to see how much can be taken or modified from a realism setting before we break. And they're finding that we're very resistant to breaking, accepting the most ludicrous scenarios.