Rhaedas

"If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s a smart owl."

It would be. Dust (Mars and the Moon) is a huge problem that we might struggle with for a long time. Any form of terraforming, well...we're very good at accidentally doing that, but a purposeful change towards a goal of making it nearer to Earth-like, that's a complex thing. And there is the Red/Green Mars argument to have if we ever did.

What would be even easier is to just bring materials to a spot and build lots of huge habitats. We've had blueprints that are still reasonably valid since the 70s and even before, it's just getting the small percentage of materials we can't find out there already into space that's difficult. The plus over a natural body is that you don't retrap yourself in a new gravity well to fight, and you can locate anywhere with whatever environment you can maintain. The plus over the captured asteroid is you know what you have from the beginning since you're build it, and you don't have to use a lot of effort to capture it, derotate it, mine it without ruining its ability to hold atmosphere.

My opinion is that we still could do this type of thing technically, but the window has shut on the will to try. We can't even stop damaging this planet.

It was war, conflict and invasion that turned people to Yahweh to be the major god, since he was the god of war. Before then he was a minor figure. The odd part is why previous references weren't eventually changed or edited out to reflect this turn to monotheism.

That's sounds like a done deal then, and he knows what he wants. Honestly, as a parent that's all you can ask for.

Not designed, but trained. Training involves rewarding finding answers, so they WILL give you something. "I don't know" is not going to fare well in the training development, so it naturally gets filtered out, while very creative (but wrong) LLMs do well.

Designed so they wouldn't become another HDMI fiasco, where you have to search for aftermarket clips so your plug stays in. Now, do Displayports need it, probably not. They feel about as secure as a USB. But there is that fear going back to even VGA, where most worked fine without screwing them in, but just to make sure... (I can't recall, did EGA have screws?)

It's hard to let them go, but they have to live their own life, and you hopefully did the best you could to give them the tools they will need to succeed. Look at it this way, making such a move early in life lets them sample what else is out there, and no reason they can't either come back or move on to something else entirely, now armed with two different culture experiences. So much better than being trapped in one place or maybe worse, settling for that, and not see other places at all.

I guess the real question is why is he making the choice. Current conditions in the US? Her? A bit of both? Or maybe he's gotten a sample of AU and likes what he saw. As long as it's a good reason(s), and they all are, then why not?

Free will is something where people talk about it as a binary thing, but it can be both the ability to make choices, yet very deterministic at the core. If someone asks you to think of your favorite color, in your mind you visualize what that is, and it's your preference and choice for whatever reason you like it best. But the deterministic part begins when you wonder when you made that decision. Can you even narrow down the instant when it popped into your mind as the preferred choice, or what occurred before it was made? At some point there was a triggering of thought and memories from the question asked that resulted in you thinking of your color, but when did it go from predictable neuron firings to a choice? There is a gray area there.

For what it's worth, while I enjoyed some of the later Terminator movies for themselves, the saga ended with T2 in my mind. Where that future led could be just as dark, as someone else could come up with their version of Skynet eventually, like any other technology, but we are left to ponder that on our own. The actual previous future is gone thanks to the efforts made, and we're allowed to try again.

This is exactly what a President, an elected service worker sworn to protect the rights of the public, should be doing.

Not.

Crusade (Babylon 5 spinoff)

Also, that picture should be labeled as NSFL. A vehicle profile that only looks good on a sheet of paper in crayon.

looks at Ohio

Okay.