What they mean to say is, “Surprisingly, this didn’t annoy people nearly as much as we had assumed. Score!”

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

Me too. I’ve got several “purses”. Can’t stand much in my pockets.

Where do you live where this could be problematic?!

Sometimes we men don’t ask for help simply because we want to see if we can do it ourselves. It’s a test.

I often have work at my camp that makes me think it would be smarter or safer to wait until I can get help. Then I think, nah, you can figure this out. That often leads to novel solutions.

Crying in front of a woman has got me dumped a few times, like next-day dumped.

I was honestly concerned my daughter might be a sociopath. Then I realized she was just 3.

Had a reddit post deleted for using retard as a verb, as in, “Have you tried retarding the action, maybe it’s too fast?”

Well crud, came to the comments wondering exactly that. Be a cool place to park one’s kayak or canoe, stretch legs. If you can’t get on it, it’s utterly useless. And news flash, people are going to climb all over it anyway.

By giving law enforcement a heat map of the area they cover, they could see potential crime hotspots in real time through the predictive crime map (PCM). This allows for better allocation of police officers and for more effective coverage.

Oh Jesus Christ. As if beat cops need a map. I assure you, after a month or two on the streets, they know exactly where the bad spots are, down to the blocks and homes. Hell, I’ve seen cops on a first name basis with offenders and constant callers.

Imagine cops asking for this tech, admitting they’re failing at one of the most basic parts of the job. “Really need this chief, we have no idea what’s going on out there!” Or, “This could be an important tool Mr. Mayor. Our street cops are clueless.” If the cops know anything at all, it’s where they’re going to face hassle.

The recidivism prediction is the evil shit here. Aren’t judges already using such systems when sentencing and calculating parole? Some algo assigns numbers to X,Y and Z factors, pops out a score?

Illegal only as of 2024. But still, it wasn’t a widespread thing.

Cats, OTOH.

I was about 6 when this animal launched. That state of technology was in the stone ages compared to today. Imagine the effort and genius than went into this probe!

The RTG also keeps the electronics warm enough to operate.

Thanks for the article! I have a vague memory of that thing launching and can’t believe it is in any way operational. And I certainly never thought there would be any fuel left!

Got a new TV a month ago. Fucked up and connected it to wireless, no idea what I was thinking. The only way to kill the connection (from the TV side) was a factory reset.

Windows is like that now. Once you enter an internet connection, you’re screwed. No way out but a full reinstall.

I believe yellow or orange ports always deliver charging power regardless of device’s power state.

Is there a “young man yells at clouds meme” here?

“Yes, you’re very clever calling out the hype train. Oooh, what a smart boy you are!” Until the dust settles…

Lemmy sounds like my grandma in 1998, “Pushah. This ‘internet’ is just a fad.'”

They have to take it home for homework.

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

Oops. Picked on the big dogs by playing their own game.

Seriously though, probably more going on than what we read here.

We out here poking and peeking.

These kinds of stories are exactly where Fallout themes came from.