Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
If I recall right (and it may not be right lol) it was timing as well as how many other populations there were. I think the initial discovery and research made some assumptions that what they found was the only people around and that it was a sudden disaster. Just like now we think that the dinosaurs were already suffering for various reasons and the asteroid was just a final push towards extinction over time.
There’s other recent research that counters this idea. It’s still uncertain. Humans have dipped low before, just probably not levels rivals animals like the cheetah, otherwise we’d show the same genetic issues they have due to the inbreeding of the survivors.
I don’t have a reference to it at the moment, so it’s a “trust me” scenario, but what I found then was through googling (because I used to be convinced of the bottleneck), so it’s out there.
And starts with “Writing a constitution for your new country is an exciting task! A constitution serves as the foundation of a nation’s government, outlining its structure, powers, and limitations, as well as the rights and freedoms of its citizens. Here’s a general outline to help you get started:”
(actual local LLM model reply)
Mine ended with “Remember to tailor your constitution to your country’s unique history, culture, and values. It is also essential to ensure that the document is clear, concise, and easily understood by the citizens it serves. Good luck!”
I think we messed that part up.
Which is technically correct, since you are answering “What is [the answer]?”
Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
My opinion, I always use a hard F.
Just to clarify - so you don’t believe in any of the supernatural stuff and are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?
A nitpick, none of the gospel writers were eyewitnesses, the documents were written long after Jesus was gone. They are interpretations of stories passed down, and all four gospels have different takes on events. So the phrase “gospel truth” is very ironic in its definition.
The thought experiment goes past everyone’s point on gravity eventually creating a velocity that is devastating. What would such a mass (between 100 and 180 km in diameter based on map of Corsica) do if it just magically settled gently onto a land mass and then gravity came into play? It wouldn’t be extinction level, but there are lots of regional effects to consider. Weather patterns would be a huge one. Continental plate deflection, which would affect ground stability and water flow. Certainly earthquakes if anywhere near even smaller fault lines. A change in Earth rotational speed and wobble.
“You’re not going to heaven Why the fuck would you think I’d ever kick it with you? None of you are going to heaven There’s a trillion aliens cooler than you”
“From God’s Perspective” - Bo Burnham
Which is why the case for having tactile buttons instead of a screen is so strong. You can use feel to use these controls while still watching the road.
Not an expert in the field, but my understanding was there are parts of our own upper spinal cord/lower brain that handle very basic controls. For a much larger body could there just be a larger part like this for simple subconscious and reactionary commands?
This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren’t survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.
So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn’t change the point.
This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.
Sure. It’s not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it’s the vegans. At least they’re making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.
Very automated. I’ve been having regular calls for a while now from all sorts of different state area codes, same exact script about a loan offer almost complete and just lacking some income info. I let any unknown number go to voice mail, and find it entertaining to see which AI voice I get this time. For a while there it was a friendly woman that had a convincing tone, but the one guy’s voice they tried sounded like he needed a vacation and was over his job.
“It’s the same picture.”
Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.
True, the implied was “if you can”.
Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.
But since we’re talking about early life forming (actually chemical replicators, much simpler than a virus) let’s use the card shuffling odds, but decks of cards are being shuffled in billions or trillions of places on early Earth every second for millions of years. Even a very low odds of finding a working sequence of molecules will be found geologically quickly given the amount of times done over area and time. We’re pretty sure now that life began very soon once the Earth cooled down enough to allow it. What took much longer was the more complex forms of life like viruses and single cells, then even longer for multicellular.
Places would change up and down in tone and attitude since the days of Usenet, BBSes, and FidoNet. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. How the world is in RL affects how people talk online, and the world changes over time.
The simpler answer may be that your feed has changed some since you started and you’re pulling in discussions that have a different vibe than when you started. Just as you can grow your feed by browsing around, you can cull certain places that tend to be darker by blocking people or instances.