Sounds like an Issac Asimov plot. Hell, pretty sure it is an Asimov plot from one of the Robots books.

I’m surprised the glue has held this long for such a cheapo product!

So, what’s the scope? I got a couple of cheapies off Amazon and eBay, thought my cheapness was the problem. Posted on lemmy asking about options and it seems no matter the price, the FOV is going to suck, even for the $50,000 military models.

Got some 9V-battery powered infrared strobes for cheap, to be used as trail markers. Super neat and super cheap! But I have to point directly at them to pick them up. All I want is a monocular I can walk around with.

Out of time for a video than long, but you can bet I saved it! Love examining how we hominids came to be, how we came to behave. So many arguments as to how we “should” act clash with how we “evolved” to act. Untangling “should” vs. “is” would take us farther than arguing about ideal behavior.

Aim for a better world keeping in mind as it is, not how it should be. Am drunk. Making sense?

If the truth is in between, it’s because we’re arguing different things. I think everyone in this chain gets “it”, but we’re meandering a bit. Great conversation!

Recharacterize hate and anger as fear, human behavior makes more sense.

Yeah, racism is taught, as OP’s talking about, but fear of the other, the other outside our tribe, is genetic.

People take that opinion to mean racism is natural. Nope. It’s not skin color, it’s “other”. It’s a big world now, too big for us to easily parse, so we try to break each other into manageable chunks we can understand, skin color is an easy shortcut.

For example; I’m a middle-aged, American white guy. I understand, and am far closer, to my black friend down the street than I could be to any European, even one who looks exactly like me. My friend is in my tribe, my Monkeysphere, the European is not. Despite wildly different backgrounds, I share more in common with my friend than a random Spaniard. And if nothing else, he’s close, literally and figuratively, part of my tribe. Does that make sense?

(I’m replying to you and the post you’re replying to, if that makes sense.)

Racism is a single aspect of in and out groups. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, maybe 200 individuals max. People of any skin tone can be in my Monkeysphere, but if they’re outside of it, they’re somewhat less than human, less real. No one is above this.

I’m sure I’ll get comments from people who think they are above it. “Fuck you, you inhuman monster! I value ALL human life equally!” Nah, no one does.

It’s like this: which would upset you more, your best friend dying, or a dozen kids across town getting killed because their bus collided with a truck hauling killer bees? Which would hit you harder, your Mom dying, or seeing on the news that 15,000 people died in an earthquake in Iran?

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

Plenty of research out there, aside from what’s included in the article. The author is mostly explaining Dunbar’s Number.

Damned interesting! Where’s the Homer Simpson quote about old guys having all the cool names like Carol and Meredith and Lesley?

I just want to know where a stateless society exists ATM. Never mind how that’s to be achieved with ape psychology.

That’s the sort of case I was thinking about. All depending! But it probably doesn’t hurt to overwrite bad memories with bland ones. And as in your case, time is a factor.

Going back to a place where you took an ass beating last month? Nah. Same place in 10-years? Likely helpful.

Shockingly, people really can’t tell when you’re tripping balls unless they get a good look at your pupils and make note. ⚫️_⚫️

I’ve been falling off the Earth and had perfectly normal conversations. A few times, “I’m sorry. I’m tripping my balls off here and not making sense.” 🫨 No one ever new. LMAO, I’ve talked to cops!

Solid tools to have in any case. I wouldn’t buy a kit as I already have all that from other projects.

Just now got the USB port covers! Have a crappy light on my little .22, lost the cover immediately. Put on of those on and have hiked for miles, banged in around, wiped it off during general cleaning several times, still perfectly stuck. Little finicky getting it seated, well worth it for the perfect seal. $.86/ea. on eBay.

I’m stomping around the backwoods of NW Florida, occasionally crawling under bushes, no issues. Pixels suck at getting wet though, never again.

Is the stateless communist society in the room with us now? Can you give an example?

Be nice while driving since I refuse to look at a screen, let alone type on it.

Last update changed the phone buttons around for no reason I can discern. Not sure that’s ever happened because I was shocked, never had to relearn the buttons.

A goat that doesn’t know what time it is will work just fine.

Cannot stop giggling!

Yeah, you won’t see the poop emoji in Linux or LibreOffice! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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🙄 I just listed loads of chemicals that sound “chemically”, “unpronounceable”, all natural.

And I’ll fight you on “GMO’d”. Dare you to go to your local produce section and find anything to eat that wasn’t engineered by humans. Dare you to go into the woods and forests around your home and find anything to eat, untouched by human modification, outside of mushrooms and acorns and twigs.

Even our rice and potatoes and corn and wheat have been drastically modded. The modern use of speeding up those mods via fucking about with DNA is in it’s infancy, not much to see here.

Not familiar with the nomenclature on the last two, came from the Wiki on “water”. Point being, a lot of “unpronounceable” ingredients are perfectly normal chemicals.

The contents of an apple are less jokey and more to my point:

Important volatile compounds in apples that contribute to their scent and flavour include acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, 1-butanal, ethanol, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, ethyl propionate, ethyl 2-methylpropionate, ethyl butyrate, ethyl 2-methyl butyrate, hexanal, 1-butanol, 3-methylbutyl acetate, 2-methylbutyl acetate, 1-propyl butyrate, ethyl pentanoate, amyl acetate, 2-methyl-1-butanol, trans-2-hexenal, ethyl hexanoate, hexanol.

We got 2 small groups, not even 10 kids. :( Still better than the 0 from last year. Love that you came back and updated me! Gives me hope for…

Been talking about knocking doors, getting the hood together to make this the place to be for Halloween.