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Ah. And, yeah. As per IP. It's a real thing. Not a hoax.

I don't remember m2c2, but the other two were definitely things.

I don't think now is any less judgmental than then, you're just less likely to encounter someone who has indulged in gossiping about you in meatspace because the world is so much "bigger" now.

Nah, it's definitely less judgmental. The dilution is a thing but overall most places internet (or even just notably travel) enabled really are less judgmental, or at the very least less likely to translate it to real-world consequences (losing job, being beaten, lynched, etc.). Exposure does a lot on that front, and exposure has increased a... lot. A lot a lot.

Okay, so I'm probably not going to try it today. But I just realized I don't know why we don't mix, say, cake batter, in whatever container you're going to bake it in. Like. If you can stir/mix well enough in the baking pan, why do we not do that? Because it seems to me on the face of it that would mean losing less mix to the sides of the mixing bowl and having one less thing to wash.

So. Has anyone tried it, or at least know from observation/practical experience why it's a bad idea?

E: Though having gone through the normal motions of box mixture based baking, it does look like at least one answer is probably sticking. Would probably be a bigger concern than normal if you did the mix in the pan, even if you greased it beforehand. Hrm. Probably give it a try the next time we've got something to cook I'm not the most fond of. This time is banana bread, and banana bread is for eating, not experimenting.

... right here. Neo was talking about this thread, or at least wrote it that way. When they came up on the first page of the thread.

And yeah, you're not going to find anything reputable because it's utter BS. Bonus points for it being deflection away from the US insurance companies that basically did exactly that, specifically targeting high cost insurance holders to not pay/kick off the insurance plan/etc.

Eh, on one hand not really but on the other hand sorta'. It was definitely taught that american involvement of substantial note was hinged pretty strongly on the pearl harbor attack. Which, y'know. US being US might have well been teaching it didn't start until PH :V

There's no harm in people longing for a simpler time when you never had to worry about all the pettiness inherent to social media, not having to worry about having your job being obsoleted by a robot (Well, unless you were a horse and buggy driver ), not having to worry about the world going up in a cloud of nuclear flame. It was a simpler time, and we live in an era that is increasingly saturated with things that humans were simply never evolved to handle.

It kinda' wasn't a simpler time, though. Just different kinds of complicated. There may not be much harm in wanting things to be simpler (though only may, because as they say, for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.), but there is in fooling yourself and trying to fool others into thinking something that wasn't simple, was. Or that the simple thing was better in... just about any way.

And really, we aren't getting terribly much more saturated, it's just that we've currently got a few generations that still remember (and more importantly, grew up) when our current stuff wasn't around. Let that lot die off and then another generation or two later the current lot will be the ones complaining about simpler times, except they'll be talking about the late 90s/early aughts and whatnot. People tend to remember their younger years as much better than they were, ha. And by extension remember growing up around people that were the same way, leading to pretty romanticized views of ye' olden times.

Though @ Yoink... man, that's so untrue it's almost painful. A lot more of yesteryear was spent sitting on your arse waiting to die or plodding away at the exact same damn thing every day for your whole bloody life than it is now. You had more wars and violence and whatnot, but you also had a hell of a lot less to do, and a hell of a lot less options to choose from so far as what you did goes. Even war is something like 90% waiting and 10% existential panic and dying/being maimed.

One of the biggest reasons I'd hate to see a regression to pre-internet et al days is because they were goddamn boring, particularly on a personal level. People found ways to entertain themselves, but I'd rather not be stuck with moonshine and town drama m'self, tyvm. Social media may be petty but there is bloody nothing more petty than someone that doesn't like you and knew yer momma.

If you really want to go experience the "excitement" of war, though, nowadays they're just a plane trip and a meeting with some shady fanatics that will probably kill you away. Couple hundred/few dozen years ago you largely had to wait for it to come to you. Now you actually get to choose! If you're bugnuts enough to actually want to live that sort of thing, anyway.

I'm optimistic about cyborg technology outpacing AI.
By the time that AI starts evolving independent of human intervention, we should all have computer chips throughout our brains allowing us to match the AI's in thinking speed, and mega-man fists that can shoot lasers at any bots that try to attack us.

The trick is, just like our current functionally!cyborg technology, the chips probably won't be in our brain. We do have the occasional bit of internal or grafted cybertech at the moment, but it looks a lot like most of our development there is going to be like it currently is -- via external peripherals. It's a lot safer, probably a fair bit more efficient, and certainly currently a hell of a lot easier to just... make stuff that interfaces with the wetware via the wetware instead of implanted hardward. Smartphones, glasses, guns... bluetooth, developing AR software, etc., etc., etc. Conceptually we could probably wire some of those directly to our brain, even at the moment (if with likely fairly shoddy results -- results, but not particularly decent ones), but.. why, when you can get the same effect laying it on the palm of your hand or building it into your eyeware?

I mean. Other than the awesome factor and maybe the glowing laser eyes and whatnot. I'm sure that's reason enough to many but it probably won't be for the folks funding development for quite a long while :V