Won't you need to understand French?

Of course it's a database. It's a literal base of data.

Is it ACID compliant? No. Does it need to be? No. It's not an RDBMS.

Who needs to collect location data?

Send back the name of the SSID you're on, and all the SSIDs you see, and look them up in a ssid geolocation database.

My dude, give 'Bullshit Jobs' by David Graeber a read.

You'll find that a lot of jobs are 16 or 24 hours of work, and 24 or 16 hours of sitting around warming a chair.

This gives a new meaning to Found On Road Dead.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)

My daughter figured out she had aphantasia when she was in her first year of Psychology at university, and read about it in her text book.

She'd just never realized that turns of phrase like 'just picture it' were literal.

Once the homeless person was in the car, it should have driven him to the police station (or donut shop, if closer) to be arrested.

Exactly. People who are actually, classically, gender dysphoric don't need youtube videos telling them how to be trans; they just are.

What we, as a society, need to be looking at is why so many young women are so horrified at the thought of *being* women that many of them are opting for hormones and surgery.

Some of it is that being trans now has a lot of social cache. But I'm sure that a lot of it is also that we spend a lot of time telling women how horrible their lives are. Don't go to the gym, you'll get creeped. If a man is walking on the same street as you at night, you're gonna get raped. You're going to make less money than a man, no matter what.