It’s a long time since I watched it. I’m wondering what meaning you found in Zardos except…

I’m just not sure the two use cases meld very well. Mastodon tends to be “reply and fly”, whereas Lemmy can get into discussions.

I don’t know why that is. Maybe it’s the twitter character limit that’s been baked into people even though it’s not a thing on mastodon (might depend on instance).

Can we agree it’s not orange? That is what I was originally pointing out.

White light is light that contains all visible wavelengths at the roughly the same proportions.

The key word there is “visible”. Our eyes adapted to the spectra of our star when filtered by our atmosphere. We perceive that spectra as white.

The sun is, by definition, white. White is what we call it when an object reflects all spectra of sunlight.

It’s only at sunrise / sunset when the atmosphere filters out more of the blue spectrum that it apparently turns more orange/red.

The political bias of AI will be set by those tuning the models. Now mix in a bunch of voters asking LLMs who they should vote for, because people will outsource their thinking any chance they get. The result is model owners being able to sway elections with very little effort.

…and yet the death of Qui-Gon is meant to be the event that set Anakin’s fate.

The encryption of streaming media is annoying, but it’s not what I fear. The ability to lock the software that I run on my hardware to “approved vendors” only is what worries me, and it’s what TPM promises. A security model where the only trusted party isn’t even the person owning the hardware.

This is what some call “mindfulness”. The ability to be aware of feeling an emotion, and then to be able to step outside of that and ask “why am I feeling that?”. You can then start to work on the cause rather than the symptoms.

If you ever get taught meditation, a lot of it is about letting the mind go in the direction it wants to go, catching it, noting it, and then resetting. Lather, rinse, repeat.

You just did it when you were writing an essay.

I don’t think Congress has declared war since Vietnam. Everything since has been at the presidents whim and been termed a conflict, police action or some other euphemism.

Signal groups?.. Oh! That’s why people wanted usernames.

No. Signal is for people I know.

The UK doesn’t have a first amendment. It has the ECHR.

…but not the 👌gesture. In some cultures that’s very rude.

What were they “investigating” for 6 months? It was a nationally televised event. The decision to press charges or not should have been near instantaneous.

Mexico is a long way from Europe and the food hasn’t travelled well.

Never let her watch Star Wars.

Congress has just passed a defence provisioning bill which allocates new funds for Ukraine and bolsters NATO troops in the Baltic states. They’ve also nixed the “department of war” name change.

If hegseth could read he’d realise they’ve ignored him and done things anyway.

i work at cloudflare

I shouldn’t worry about it.

A bit of both. It’s common for people will help people who are obviously struggling (luggage, prams or just mobility issues) but it also has the advantage that you get them out of the way.

Actions are better than words.