Are you even more worried about the failure of possible legal protections when the government decides to use the navy to sink fishing boats and come back to kill the survivors?
There’s a limit to what you can do when the house and senate refuse to impeach a president who is obviously breaking the law constantly, and when the justice department sees itself as the president’s lawyer.
The sanctions on the ICC judges were just one of a number of illegal things that the Trump admin has done, including their attacks on fishing boats in the Caribbean and the killing of the survivors of those attacks.
A judge ruled that these sanctions were illegal and ordered the Trump admin not to enforce them, but the Trump admin refuses to stop doing illegal things.
Metallic hydrogen sounds so cool.
My guess is that a rocky planet that is 5% - 95% covered with ocean is probably pretty rare. You probably mostly either get water / ice planets or rock planets.
Another thing that makes Earth unique is the liquid iron core. Without that you don’t get a magnetic field. Without a magnetic field, it’s hard to keep the atmosphere intact. That means that water vapour gets blown off over time, which eventually results on a dry planet like Mars.
As for all 3 states of water, as long as you’re in the range to have a wet surface, you’ll probably get all 3 states of water. The poles will get a lot less solar radiation than the equator, so if the equator is wet it’s pretty likely that you’ll get at least a bit of ice at the poles. If there’s a lot of water then it’s easy to get water vapour. Even Europa which has an average surface temperature of -171C (102K) has a liquid water ocean under the icy surface, and although its atmosphere is extremely thin, part of it is water vapour.
Some Sci-Fi planet types are reasonable.
The Kepler program found a lot of exoplanets and has categorized them generally as Hot Jupiters, Cold Gas Giants, Ocean Worlds & Ice Giants, Rocky Planets and Lava Worlds.
If you ignore the gas giants because there’s no surface to land on, rocky planets (and maybe desert planets) would be extremely common. Water or ice planets would also be incredibly common. And, if you’re really unlucky, you might end up on a lava planet – one that’s small and very close to its sun.
What wouldn’t be common are things like an entire planet that’s a swamp, or an entire planet that’s a forest of Earth-style trees. I’m sure it’s entirely possible that on some planet there’s a life-form that becomes the dominant form and that looks vaguely like Earth-style trees, but not the kind you see on a typical SciFi show filmed near Vancouver.
Mars may have “river deltas”, but without the river.
Mars is a world. It is a place. It has biomes as varied and unique as those of Earth.
Suuure. A biome is a geographical region with a specific climate, flora and fauna. Mars doesn’t have much climate because it has very little atmosphere, and it has no flora or fauna. There’s no way in hell that it has biomes as varied as earth.
I haven’t seen a single example. You’ve hand-waved things that you think maybe sometimes do happen, but no examples of it actually happening.
Debanking, afaik, is more of just something government agencies do at their discretion
Can you provide an example of that happening?
There’s also the way it bypasses many of the protections and assurances we have about the latter, like due process.
How does it bypass due process?
People could choose to live closer to where they work, so that they could get there on a bike or on public transit. Many instead choose to live in the suburbs where there’s no option other than driving.
Star Trek has always been “woke”, from the first interracial kiss, to the half-black, half-white guys who were enemies.
But, it also never lost track of the idea that it was basically a Western in space. The stories were about being on the frontier, where nobody had yet explored. The people on the ship came from a planet that thought it had everything all figured out, where people lived in peace with comfortable lives free from danger and with all their needs met. They were “civilized”. The people they encountered out on the frontier were not civilized, so there was always conflict between civilization and the great wilderness of space.
Like every western, there has to be a shootout. There has to be a chase. The civilized people display a code of honour even in a place where the laws no longer apply. Because the system of law has been left behind, it’s up to the heroes to be judge, jury and occasionally executioner. It’s not the kind of a show for a courtroom drama. And there’s no waiting for someone to come help you, if you get in trouble, you have to get out of it on your own.
These kinds of stories go back longer than westerns. Before westerns there were tales of the knights of the round table, or about ronin in Japanese culture. They’re about strong individuals from a moral society going out into the wilderness. The Arthurian legends are actually in some ways closer to Star Trek than westerns, because in that case you have knights encountering mystical creatures beyond their understanding, which is like the aliens / creatures that are encountered in deep space in Star Trek.
The point is, I think Star Trek got away from this core formula, and it suffered as a result. In TOS the Enterprise encounters a couple of aliens who are at war with each-other because one group has white on the right side and black on the left and the other has white on the left and black on the right, that’s pretty obviously about racism. But the episode isn’t characters talking about racism. There’s some of that, but mostly it’s an adventure. There are phasers being fired, self-destruct sequences activated, aliens chasing each-other through the corridors of the enterprise. Also, what’s key here is that the Federation has everything all figured out. They’re anti-racist, they see the problems with these “uncivilized” aliens and want to resolve them. But, the damn aliens won’t listen to reason. You can’t avoid the idea that the racism of the aliens is stupid, but they don’t have to spend a lot of time talking about it because it’s so obvious. So, it challenges modern racism while mostly being shootouts, chases, etc.
Modern Trek seems to be a lot of navel gazing and figuring out that the wonderful utopian world of the Federation doesn’t have everything all figured out. Earth and the Federation is no longer a utopia that can teach awful aliens how to treat each-other with dignity and respect. It’s shown to be a flawed place. It also seems like the action and adventure often takes a back seat to character development through dramatic soap-opera like scenes. I think they lose a lot when they forget it’s supposed to involve action and adventure. It’s fun to have stories where you know who the good guys are, and you know who the bad guys are. It can challenge modern culture and point out things like racism without there being racism within the federation.
I hope they abandon the whole “burn” universe, and start fresh with something where the federation is a happy utopia where everything is nearly perfect. Let it be the aliens who are flawed, and the federation is the beacon of civilization and goodness that tries to make things right out in the wilderness. If they want to explore a modern issue like religious fanaticism, that’s great. But, make it so it’s the aliens who are religious fanatics and it’s the federation that’s trying to help them, maybe drawing on their having overcome the problems with religious fanaticism back in the dark days.
Easy rule, don’t put anything in the oven that doesn’t belong in the oven
Who’s to say what belongs in the oven?
For example, bread recipes sometimes tell you to proof the bread by putting it in the oven with the heat off but the light on. There are similar recipes for making yogourt. Or it can be a good place to dry seeds.
Those things “belong” in the oven. But if you turn on the oven without taking them out you might be very sad. That can happen if you’re turning on the oven in person, but it’s easier to verify the oven is empty when you’re doing that.
It’s an alternative to using more serious threats, like physical violence. The state can freeze your bank accounts to get you to comply with its demands, or it can send a SWAT team in to arrest you.
disrupt the logistics of protests
Again. This wasn’t just a protest.
Especially if you forgot that “X” was still in the oven, for various values of “X”.
Then again, a well designed smart oven might include a burn sensor that would shut the thing off if the smoke got too bad.
Apache license, source on Github. If they piss off their users, someone will fork it.
They could have just used the pen and paper with no cash.
The people who side with the so-called “trucker convoy” that was mostly non-truckers defend it as simply being “free speech”, and “being critical”.
But, what actually happened is that the so-called “truckers” occupied downtown Ottawa for weeks, including areas with high-rise residential buildings. They prevented any traffic from moving, and harassed anybody who came nearby that weren’t part of the occupation. They also leaned on their horns at night keeping people nearby from being able to sleep. Eventually two of the organizers of the occupation were tried and convicted for “mischief”, a crime that can lead to up to 10 years in prison. They got off extremely light with home detention for 1 year and another 6 months of a 10 pm curfew.
Fallout boy?
The difference is that LLMs generate something that is designed to blend in. It’s supposed to convince someone that it was made by a human.
So, a “vibe constructed” house would probably look like a real house to someone who didn’t know much about houses. But, the pipe from the sink might just go into a space between the walls. The electrical system would be a random mess of lines that would short out as soon as it was connected to the grid. The doors might look right at first, but when you tried to open one you’d see that the hinges were installed in a way that opening it was impossible.