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Seems like a good bet. I looked up 4-5 movies that I was sorta interested in based on trailers last couple of months. They were all sorts of genres: all of them were +-.3 of 6.5 on IMDB.

Amusingly, I’m pretty sure SSA employees cannot access X, as it’s blocked by the firewall to make sure they don’t waste any time “shopping” or “reading the news”

This is what my wife keeps saying, with certainty. I thought it was weird at first, but then I remember that he had that protective order specifically because of the strong threat of violence to him if he was deported back… to the country they sent him to.

I am hoping it’s not the case, and that this is just them wanting to avoid having to back down, but it really wouldn’t have been a big blow to them to bring one person back.

Yeah this was my reaction a while back when I saw their promos about how they want to de-extinct wooly mammoths and dodos. Like ok neat, but where are the mammoths supposed to slot in, a rapidly warming arctic that will more likely have palm trees than ice by the end of the century?

I mean I’m being a little obtuse here on purpose—these species choices are obviously guided by marketing potential. No one will pay attention if they resurrect some niche mouse that went extinct a couple years ago, so they’re picking stuff that looms large in pop consciousness.

But in the end, it’s a private company, and I very much doubt their whole goal is to make money off of conservation societies and zoos to make extinct animals—far more likely it’s to refine and recreate new genetic editing procedures which will then get ported into making purpose-built animals for industry (think the sheep who’s milk has certain valuable enzymes or chemicals built in) or like human biotech (so, like, GATTACA).

The “founder” gives off strong Palmer Luckey vibes. (This is based on visual aesthetic and his general demeanor vibes only, he could be a saint, I have no idea)

I have personally benefitted from getting month old backups from tape storage when a major file got corrupted. It took a couple days and a service ticket, but it resurrected a very large file that we could not have easily recreated otherwise. The specifics of how tape backup work made this possible. I guess you could have stuff in cd media and shit, but I’m guessing the tapes can do large quantities and stay good longer assuming they’re cared for.

Exactly. I’m sure it’s a different set, but I immediately thought it was an article about grand Budapest hotel because of the wallpaper and angle.

Well it could be shitty at universities for the next while. But honestly, it seems like we’re probably gonna have an economic collapse. Might not be the worst thing to be back in school while that’s going on and maybe you miss the worst parts of the job market.

And also, if it’s something you want to do? And you feel ready? I feel like you should do it regardless. There will still be financial aid at many places regardless of the trump stuff.

This article resonates strongly for me, thank you for posting it. I often muse that some of what gets termed a disorder or an illness is just a lazy way to hand wave over someone not being happy about fitting in with certain aspects of “normal” behavior or culture. There is of course actual mental illness, but once you start investigating stressors or traumas, the concept gets more complicated than “something’s wrong with your brain” in terms of cause and effect.

I read about a study that was about instilling “learned helplessness” in the participants, and the one group that was mostly resistant to the effect were the chronically depressed group. This led the researchers to speculate some of what was termed depression was actually an inability to suspend reality; ie the “depressed” group saw reality a little too clearly, and aside from this making them resistant to the effects of induced “learned helplessness” it also made them distressed.

Thanks again, you’ve managed to improve my education twice today!

That is very helpful. Now I want to know silly stuff like, what happens if you fly through the beam, and could you in theory reaim the array towards a completely different receiver plant, and be able to shift power around as needed (albeit very slowly)

I was hoping the article would explain how they planned to transmit the energy in a useful way. It says beaming back my microwave, but I have no idea how that works or if it has a good scale potential. Guessing they’re targeted at some surface that vibrates or heats up and that geberates the power on the terrestrial side of the equation?