They’re not. Our information pipe is just totally broken, people literally have no idea Trump is like this.

I don’t know what your country is like, but phone apps have basically eaten a lot of my family, and others I know. Sure there are some bible thumpers and such, but mostly it’s just… complete ignorance. An information diet of pure Facebook, tiktok, discord or whatever.

But my mom is still very sane and sharp, and by sheer coincidence, she has no idea how to use Facebook or any social media.

They’re physically possible, just massive engineering challenges. Read Orion’s Arm’s overview, it’s largely based on current known physics.

The moral of this story?

Biomagnification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification

The sword is backup. This guy knows science can go wrong.

What about the moon? Surely not…

Well, ultimately space elevators are the most energy efficient way to escape Earth’s gravity well. And once we have one of those, mind as well build a mass driver at the top so rockets don’t have to carry so much of their own mass. Then we can build a laser-based photonic sail on the other end to decelerate the cars and make them even lighter/faster, and then build track at the bottom…

Train.

What about interstellar travel?

Well, ultimately wormholes are way more efficient than any subluminal travel once the infrastructure to build them is in place: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a

So we control traffic on each side carefully. In fact, we could just suspend a really strong wire on either end…

Yep. Train.

Can confirm. Divers freak out, though I don’t understand why.

But the orca is fake. 100% never been eaten by one.

My level of worry hasn’t lowered in years…

But honestly? Low on the totem pole. Even with Trumpy governments.

Things like engagement optimized social media warping people’s minds for profit, the internet outside of apps dying before our eyes, Sam Altman/OpenAI trying to squelch open source generative models so we’re dependent on their Earth burning plans, blatant, open collusion with the govt, everything turning into echo chambers… There are just too many disasters for me to even worry about the government spying on me.

If I lived in China or Russia, the story would be different. I know, I know. But even now, I’m confident I can given the U.S. president the middle finger in my country, but I’d really be more scared for my life in more authoritarian strongman regions.

American here.

If Linus Torvalds bans Americans over something stupid we did, and my nationality gets insulted, this will be me:

(I am actually Central Texan, TYVM. Bring the insults.)

American here.

Americans are idiots. All of us are morons. I accept the insults on my nationality, even personally. Bring it. I don’t know how else to say/generalize it, because it’s true.

I’m gonna nod my head if something happens and Linus Torvalds bans us too.

I can’t imagine (as a unmarried guy) living in a marriage where my wife would be afraid to tell me who she voted for. Even if she votes Trump, she’s my spouse, and that comes way before that. She should chew me out if I make her feel afraid.

…It makes me feel shame for the culture some men are raised in.

That is not what I saw on Reddit and some other spaces, lol.

Maybe I just looked at it wrong? Or not long enough?

I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.

Easy, local AI.

Keep generative AI locally runnable instead of corporate hosted. Make it free, open and accessible. This gives the little guys the cost advantage, and takes away the scaling advantages of mega publishers. Lemmy users should be familiar with this concept.

Whenever I hear people rail against AI, I tell them they are handing the world to Sam Altman and his dystopia, who do not care about stealing content, equality, or them. I get a lot of hate for it. But they need to be fighting the corporate vs open AI battle instead.

Not a mega Star Wars fan, but Andor blew me away. It has everything! It feels like Star Wars.

So I poked my head into the fandom. Surely they love it…

Just imagine if the UN had teeth for enforcement, at least for overwhelming votes like this. I feel like its one of the biggest oversights of the post WWII order they tried to make.

Big countries, of course, would never allow that, but still.

Trump thanks you for your vote.

It’s easy to forget how bad it can get.

One day I wandered into /r/kotakuinaction over some linked comment on the Tomb Raider animation, and the Fallout TV series, and… yeah. I remembered.

And that’s a pretty mild example.

There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by crashing the first trolley into it.

Sounds like it’d be nice if you had real control over the car’s software, and you could roll it back.

This… also makes me a little more weary driving around Teslas in traffic.

Why does Trump always get a pass?

It’s like everyone against him has to be an utter saint, and one wrong move? Welp, voting for Trump, I guess.

And yes, strategically… this makes no sense for anyone who cares about what’s happening in Israel.

What Shyamalan movie?

(Seriously, it’s nothing like the movie).

And it’s fine, its entertaining and a spectacle with some emotional moments. I mean, it depends what else is in your TV queue, as there’s a TON to watch these days, but I wouldn’t skip it just because it’s not ATLA.

I want them to dive into exactly that in NATLA, more than they already have.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m really enjoying it as an ‘AU’ that explores some off-screen scenes and implications from the original. I think people are getting too hung up on it being ‘not ATLA’ (just like LoK).