TheHalc

Sounds like your dad was taking about software daemons and Maxwell’s demon.

I’ll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced “root”, not “rout”.

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Motörhead still kind of works.

1. I don’t stop thinking, I just do my best to move my thoughts onto something else if I find myself dwelling too long on one thing. Before long, it’s an incoherent chain of nonsense, and then sleep.
2. If sleep is not coming, I just enjoy that I’m lying down with my eyes closed and getting some rest. I can survive a day or two with just a few hours of sleep, so if sleep comes now or later, I’ll be fine. Sleep usually comes.

It’s been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.

Somehow people think it’s worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we’d be happy to just dump it in the ocean.

Living in Finland, I’m proud of the fact that we’ve got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.

Oddly enough, it’s safer than wind.

Solar’s a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.

take responsibility [… like] human drivers do.

But do they really? If so, why’s there the saying “if you want to murder someone, do it in a car”?

I do think self-driving cars should be held to a higher standard than humans, but I believe the fundamental disagreement is in precisely how much higher.

While zero incidents is naturally what they should be aiming for, it’s more of a goal for continuous improvement, like it is for air travel.

What liability can/should we place on companies that provide autonomous drivers that will ultimately lead to safer travel for everyone?

I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it’s stacked on top of other things.

Archive.is used to block people with Finnish IPs too, allegedly because of personal immigration issues.

I don’t get the impression it’s something anyone should ever rely on.

You’re right, I was being a little flippant.

Still, it would certainly be far more niche. While being able to ride a horse was an essential life skill a little over a hundred years ago, you might get an impressed reaction if you were to tell someone that you ride these days.

In a galaxy with replicators, who would actually still know how to cook eggs (other than Sisko’s dad)?

Hopefully you’re in a better situation now, I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to go through that.

I guess I’m fortunate that I tend to associate it with some of the worst conversations I’ve had with people on Reddit rather than anything more personal.

“We trained it on social media.”

“Why does it keep making stuff up and then getting argumentative if called out?!”

X+4 what? Hours?

Combat! I loved that, especially with bouncy bullets.

Tell me more about Hazel’s bush…

Go on…

Nieces, nephews & godchildren.

Spreading and sharing those thoughts and memories, fragments of our selves, so that they can live on in everyone we ever interact with. People who will, in turn, spread those fragments on even further.

Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a “bone doctor”.

The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians… Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.