And this is "stuff that matters"?

AI slop among the AI headlines...

... this is not going to really work. Art project?

What are you talking about? A valuable degree gives you freedoms you do not have without it. OBVIOUSLY, you must be willing to use them to benefit from that. There is really no need to state that. I am well aware that many are not capable of using these freedoms, a degree does not change your personality.

There are factors on both sides that are hard to evaluate. The Great Depression, for example, was not intentionally engineered. (I am sure there are conspiracy theories that say otherwise, but really, the complexity of doing so is beyond the human race still today.) The Luddites were a comparatively small group. Gen. Y/Z/Alpha is not targeted action, but more a long boom cycle coming to its end and too many greedy assholes refusing to adjust and making it worse. A surveillance apparatus is only useful when people are unaware. They are not. Also remember that back then, rulers and the aristocracy was basically with "license from God" and people believed that crap back then. "Armend killbots" for use against civilians are not in reach beyond what we already have (armed remote controlled drones, mines).

But we will see how this turned out. If you are in the US, that also depends on you. Go vote as long as it still means something.

Not at all. The point of the experiment is, as stated, the "Cultivation of the Dematiaceous Fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum Aboard the International Space Station and Effects of Ionizing Radiation". I.e. a study of the response of some organism to cosmic radiation. Whatever distant hypothetical goals that line of research is alleged to have are quite irrelevant to this specific experiment.

Since, however, there was no recording of the dose absorbed by the fungus, it is a failed experiment - there is no reason to assume that the growth is in any manner related to the radiation without such measurements.

Not to mention that the context of the discussion here is the supposed growth of this fungus from ionizing radiation energy, i.e. it "eating radiation". Since all previous "studies" are basically by one person and they are not confirmed independently nor do they provide any detail about the proposed mechanisms of "eating radiation" except some mentioning of "melanin", it is of some interest to see other research on the subject by unrelated groups. Hopefully such studies could at least verify the alleged observations of correlation between the radiation field and the growth. The one I cited is the only one other such study. Sadly, we see that this "study" is also quite worthless, as the most important independent variable isn't measured.

Finally, there is really no need to "see" how some layer of fungus material will "attenuate radiation", this is a long-solved problem. Radiation diminishes exponentially for neutral particles, by the Bragg curve for ions and in between for electrons. In this case, since the cells are very small and have close enough composition and there is no structure that forms as a result of the growth, which could influence the resulting radiation field, the stopping power of this "shield" depends on its averaged chemical composition and thickness and can be simulated with very high confidence without any need for observation. In fact, if the spacecraft is placed in a solution of the elements that make up the cells with the same thickness, it will see the same "radiation attenuation". Hard to see how the fungus even helps.

So if the "experiment" is about shielding, it is also a failure by design.

And that's about all there is to it.

That is a special case and it required massive bloodshed, a relatively small group having it done to them and was basically about freedom, not direct possession. Still an atrocity, but not one relevant for the current discussion.

Thanks for adding that. The number of people stupid and loud enough to write something like that being fully serious is raising.

Indeed. Funny how people with weakly justified views often have to add cheap manipulation tricks.

On the other hand, if your realize the GNU userspace is also on Mac, and the xBSDs, the numbers go up.

A flat percentage is really not the way to go for this. Sadly, it is the limit of what most people "understand".

Yep. I had to do that manually a while ago because some crappy websites simply could not deal. I guess browsers do that by default now.

Tanks have 10 levels. Playing for free is fine and fun until level 5 or so. Above that, you basically have to pay to win. You stop doing damage with the free ammunition. I stopped playing, but many people seem to be unable to and that is where all their money comes from.

I used to think like you until I read the headline, "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?"

You have a misconception about the experiment. The point wasn't to study the fungus itself but rather the point of the experiment was to see if and how much it would attenuate cosmic radiation.

I don't know if it's worth it or not. It was for me years ago.

However, regardless of how you believe it to be I think we can all agree that they are ripping us off with the insane pricing. There's really no justification to charge as much as they do. Universities should be accessible to more people and shouldn't cost tens of thousands a year to get an education. Not even for out of state students.

Most undergrad tuition is paying for everything EXCEPT instruction.
Public institutions should serve their public first and foremost, not scam them.

Just gopher it.