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I'm pretty sure I've seen Star Trek episodes where they wake the captain because something happened during one of the other shifts.

Edit: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Duty_shift

Hmm. There might not be a way around that. At least is constructive critizism. And there's a good chance it's some bacteria (as it most often is) and it'll solve the issue for good. I can't give any advice on the social norms. I'm mostly thinking in a problem-oriented way...

Hand them some tea-tree oil and the instructions how to use it and tell them to wash their feet for a week with that.

Hmm. I'd say people want recognition or socialize. The right wing stuff is testing the waters. The rest wanting to talk. Especially when it's about health, relationships... Those people just want to talk. With most people you can react accordingly and they're able to tell from your reaction if you also want to chat and socialize.

With the immigrants stuff I found you can tell some people your experience and opinion is different. And that'll pretty much end that conversation. With some people that doesn't work at all and have the opposite effect.

"Don’t Like Mondays" from Bob Geldof (1979) would be another example of a good song about shooting elementary school kids.

I'm a robo-dog person. I like Spot.

I don't know and my empathy isn't good enough to picture what a person like that wants. They seem to be pissed, the complexity of the world is too much for them. And they're a bit low IQ but speak up immediately and tell some simple truths that won't ever work in reality. Their thinking is: When I was young everything felt simpler. When I was young we also had a different currency. So bringing back the old currency will solve all issues... So I'm not sure if they even want the fourth Reich. I think they just want to be negative and complain. They'd probably also complain if that happened.

Hmm, maybe with the next M4 Mac Studio. The current one maxes out at 192GB of memory. Which isn't enough for an decent quantized version of a 400B model. So either like 380GB of (unified) RAM or 8 NVidia A6000.

Yeah, they want all kinds of things. A Brexit for Germany, less taxes, more taxes, less freedom, ruin the economy, autocracy instead of democracy...

Yes. At the same time some aren't that sure or scared of death. And the rules are that detailed that lots of people have committed some kind of offense and can't expect to go to heaven for sure.

Also the bible has implemented some additional rules so you can't take a shortcut to heaven... Suicide won't do it because (surprise) it's a sin... And generally speaking god is just testing you with this life. That's kinda the only thing why it matters and why you would want to behave and live it like he intended.

Also there is martyrs, suicide cults etc taking that shortcut straight to heaven.

Hmm. I'd say if they want that feeling so much... Just give it to them. You can still pay taxes and do the accounting correctly and not tell them. This isn't how it's supposed to work, but there are lots of other relationships or families where someone keeps being childish and the other people need to do things behind their back to make things work.

(And the thing that really matters is you doing it right and being able to produce the invoice if being asked. Not that your relatives have that piece of paper.)

I think it's a combination of several factors. First of all there is the network effect. A social media platform gets interesting once there are enough people and we're just about 50.000 active users. Which isn't much compared to other forums, discord servers and fanbases of single individuals (streamers, ...)

Next there needs to be some motivation to join or some attention. We had that for a moment when the Reddit API thing happened. But I don't see that as of now. We need interesting content. And a nice and welcoming community. Or something that motivates people to come here.

And there is the technical issues. We've had lots of them. Federation broke for some time. There are still some bugs and user interface issues. Moderation tools still are an issue. Onboarding (choosing an instance, finding a good app) is a bit complicated. And I don't see big leaps in software development, things that are visible/obvious to the user.