I'm part of several volunteer groups, rotating seasonally to avoid burnout. One thing I have noticed when it comes to volunteer work is that it's mostly women. More than mostly, it's actually all women, I'm often the only guy in the room.
Men, where are you?! You're not at the soup kitchen or the community closet, you're not at the potluck, you're not at the school fundraiser.
Being a "breadwinner" isn't even an excuse. These women hold down full time jobs, usually have several kids to care for, do all the housework, and still they find time to volunteer for their community. I'm always the only one that's actually "unemployed" and spending my free time volunteering.
It would be nice to have another guy to hang out with so I don't have to be pressured to join yet another 'mommy group' on Facebook while listening to your wives complain about you.
It's super easy, just lookup a local community organization and contact the person (woman) in charge and ask how you can help. They may even give you a manly job like crowd control at an event, or hauling things with your truck. Don't worry, it's not all scary emotional labor, I promise.
It was a very good video, I must say; I watched it a few days ago. It clarifies a lot of stuff.
Dear EU,
Do not sign any deals with the Tr💩mp administration. They cannot be trusted to carry out their end of any deal (or even understand what they're agreeing to).
Let them impose all the sanctions they want, cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. You're better off without them.
Things will change soon, one way or another, and whatever deal you make now will probably not reflect that reality.
Sincerely,
me
That's a point which needs to be studied; it's quite possible -- especially as the cost of orbital pollution per m3 of orbiting material steadily escalates.
That said, at some point we might have a permanent habitat up in GEO, for various reasons, and then it would make perfect sense to provide data services from that location. ...but we're nowhere near that yet.
It's definitely time to be working towards an international body with sufficient teeth to regulate near-Earth space, regardless.
@artemis My charitable side says they're seeing connections outside of the films that I'm missing. My less-charitable side agrees with your "pseudo-intellectualism" theory.
I suppose we could toss the two into a cage-match and see who wins, but really -- as with a certain other recent highly-promoted cage match, who actually cares? I'll watch Nolan's films if someone else makes it easy; otherwise...
@sundogplanets ...and even they would probably be more efficiently served by a single satellite in geosynchronous orbit (Hughes apparently still provides this service).
@Hex Agreed! ...and I'm reading an article now which may help shed some light on the defensiveness you're encountering: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking
(via @eryn)
drinking game where every time you find yourself thinking "I need a drink", you have to take a drink
(game best played with potable water)
RE: https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/116946237726860418
Image Description: photograph of a black cat and a black dog, wherein the dog is in the lower part of the photo and the cat is in the upper part -- but the cat's upside-down head is blocking the dog's eyes, making the appear together (at first glance) like some kind of dark eldritch creature from the deepest darkest pits of suburban eldritchia.
...which, of course, is not exactly wrong...
@ChrisMayLA6 Would the same people who say "let's save money and increase efficiency in the workforce by cutting budgets for healthcare and social safety-nets" also say "let's save money and increase efficiency in our manufacturing and transportation equipment by cutting budgets for maintenance and fuel"?
One has to wonder.
@Hex Yeah, this stuff is all extremely well-documented by now, for anyone who is not intentionally trying to avoid learning about it. :queer100:
...and I think your analogy is especially helpful in that it doesn't take the extremist "AI is all automatically crap and bad" POV but rather "AI is a tool to be used only with great care, because it can really wreck things when misused and it costs a lot of resources but there is nonetheless a lot of value in it when used appropriately". ...or something along those lines.
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@scanlime Unheard of! Making air superhot just to cook things is clearly unnatural and demonic.
@rachaelspooky (Amending that to "primarily non-CWM", I think... no harm in having some allies along who don't mind being seen with a bunch of "weirdos".)
@lunastation This is part of what I like about Brandon Sanderson's fantasy: there's always progress at the end.
(I think there might be a name for this subgenre, in which the magic has rules that people can figure out and use technologically, but I can't remember it.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ReggieHere/116948154327103885
He said "mugged by cats", so I have to boost (it's in the job-description) -- but the lede here is that we could be making an actually-effective all-natural mosquito repellant... possibly in-home... :blobcatthinksmart:
Yeah, I had been thinking about that -- how space colonization would play out in an era when a manufacturer can remotely disable your car and there's nothing you can do about it. ...especially if the colony was privately-funded...
@rachaelspooky proposal for a campaign in which non-ciswhitemale people go around the country in an electric bus visiting public parks in "conservative" parts of the country and just, like, sit on benches reading for an hour or two
Oh hey, apparently today is my 9th SRSniversary! 🎉 🍕
(This courtesy of my calendar, which also reminds me that it's time for another treatment in the upstairs bathroom drains. Thanks, calendar. Maybe today should just be some kind of plumbing holiday or something...)