I don’t think Star Trek is very hard sci-fi.

Edit: to say that, I don’t think an interest in physics will naturally lead you to space fiction. And I don’t think “space” is the natural conclusion of “physics.”

How does a France go missing?!

You cross the channel…and it’s just more water. “Holy fuck…how long has France been gone?”

The standard English term is “mistress.”

They might the first ones to get training in a couple years. Aren’t they just scooping people up and feeding them directly into drone bombs nowadays?

June 15th for the actual Next Fest

Just in case, because you keep referencing it, the listing that we should be able to peek in their wallet and whether they have Netflix are likely illustrative of the granularity of inspection rather than actual, strict metrics for checking a politician’s financial transparency.

As an actually metric, I would say that politicians should not be able to move funds larger than a $1000 without reporting on it.

Online weirdos have eroded the venerable institution of sarcasm. I used to use /s more but I’ve decided to go further into absurdism. I just haven’t gone far enough

I thought the “best to never have hope” would serve as the “/s.”

Are you pronouncing lowercase “job” like the name?

Öresund bridge is Europe’s longest proper bridge

What about the Vasco de Gama Bridge in Portugal, which I’m finding out isn’t even the longest bridge anymore?

Google does have a text message app. I use it because the native Samsung one looked ass

No. Stop hoping until it’s been released and running publicly for at least 2 years. But don’t start hoping after it’s been 2 years because MMOs shut down randomly all the time.

Best to never have hope, actually.

I guess natural selection could produce that. Individuals that send out too many irrelevant signals get avoided and those that pare down outgoings reproduce more.

Hmm, but that doesn’t mesh with the original comic about telepaths lacking consciousness. Maybe I need a refresher on the word, but that seems like each sensor is making decisions on its own. So it’s a coaltion of independent cells acting in concert via telepathy?

This has got to be bait.

…So telepathic creatures just blast out thousands of concurrent sensor outputs? That seems bad. Being telepathic sounds like a mess…but I guess they aren’t conscious, so they just react to whatever the fuck happens.

They’ve shown they can take a careful eye to authenticity. Now we just have to see if that eye cares to look anywhere beyond Hungary/Central Europe

I actually forgot Civ 7 came out. Is this the first DLC? Has the “fix it all” patch come yet?

As someone who commented there, I feel the split in opinion is illustrated by the hypothetical statement: “I oppose pedophiles, whether they’re in the White House or doing drag.”

A normal response would be “Yeah, okay, but why’d you bring drag into this?”

Claiming that the *.ml issue was with decrying dictatorships instead of conflating them with right-wing fascists, is disingenuous.

They have horseshoed around so that they’re rubbing shoulders with fascists, but we don’t have to (pretend to?) be ignorant to catch them slipping.

Are there self-driving trains? Seems like they’re all staffed by a real driver.

Almost like we’re fine with trying with if only a car- or 2-sworth of people dies, but a train is too many.

(More likely that nobody cares about trains enough to try)

That’s because it wasn’t a real insurrection. It was a Trump-planned insurrection LARP that turned into a mob after all these noobs got too into it. They were organized and supposed to go in and out, making quick death threats at the Congresspeople who opposed Trump along the way. Showing “the public doesn’t agree with this” even if they didn’t manage to murder some enemies, instead it turned into memes and the collateral deaths.