Both are true at once. Preference mathching is best, but preference shifting can work if you have a correct template for that specific human. Then you can determine what preference shifting has worked on this type of human in the past, and deliver that kind of material in that kind of context to get the process along.

Notably, same thing is required. Deep understanding of one's thoughts. Preferably before one thinks them.

Want a scary thought?

What is your wife doing on your wifi, and who is she dressing up for?

Want a REALLY scary thought?

Look up the trend of old men autogynephilia that leads to cross dressing and even social transition.

Except that of course, none of this happened. Read the facts.

You vastly overestimate how far a few hundred millions gets you in the industry that moves several trillions USD in insurable value a month. These massive superyachts are tiny boats are a rounding error for insurance clubs that insure ships that cost billions to tens of billions as a matter of routine by the hundreds. And they do NOT fuck around with ship safety. They blacklist the Master, the Master better learn how to flip burgers real fast.

I should add that in old scenarios where they couldn't do behavioral patterns very well, they still had specific circumstances they could track.

For example, say a specific hard drive model has a known controller logic problem that will manifest in drive just randomly not being recognized on boot any more after a specific amount of time. Imagine something like Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 controller failure, which was well understood to happen in a specific time frame after first start of the drive due to controller logic bug.

Now imagine I'm facebook. I got a tracking cookie that enabled me to see that you did in fact buy this drive on this day. I also got a tracking cookie from a page with build guides that indicates you accessed it the next day.

That means I can push very expensive, very high value data recovery service ads to you within specific time frame when this drive is expected to fail. And you will have a moment of "holy fuck, my drive is gone, my wife's photo album, my kids, my dog, my pet fish!!! Panic! What do I do?"

Go on facebook to ask and... it's right there in your face before you even get to the relevant local group. An ad for a local data recovery service. "Oh my god, thank you facebook! You saved my marriage!!!"

They have done this for a while now. Specifically, they want to get at our revealed preferences before they reveal themselves even to us. The best ad is the ad that makes you go "oh yeah, I actually do need X now, and they're selling it right here. Click!"

They do this through tracking individual behavioral patterns as accurately and as widely as possible, and then matching those patterns to past lessons of what people with similar patterns did.

We're fundamentally biologically determined pattern recognition machines, so as long as you find someone similar enough to us, having similar enough circumstances and past behavioral patterns, data from one's preferences can be used to infer preferences of the other.

UNCLOS article 98. They are the monkeys of the insurance clubs long before they are monkeys of the owner. Owner can stop them from being employed on the boat.

Insurance clubs will stop Master from getting employment in shipping industry. And do, all the time.

Incorrect. Master is legally required to disregard any such orders from the owner.

This is one of the things that can actually get you in trouble internationally, as one international law that tends to actually be applied fairly evenly is the UNCLOS parts about ships in distress.

Articles 39 and 98 are utterly unambiguous here.

This is because it's enforced by insurance clubs. You want the boat to be able to enter ports? Better be in good standing with insurance ports, or your boat a useless boondongle that can't find a berth anywhere. These are the people who can tell national governments and Saudi rulers "no". Run of a mill Western billionaire? You're a bug to these people.

The weirdest part is that even if all the worst things about this were true, it still had nothing to do with Zuck.

This would fall on ship's Master. (Captain for laypeople).

Man discovers that bureaucracy is for the aristocracy with proper connections who cut the red tape, not the plebs who cannot.

News at 11.

Another thought came to mind. Let's assume we have intentionally fired and targeted rockets, and choice is between the Moon and the Sun.

I would choose the Moon, for the reason of recycling. We can likely recover materials from those rockets later. Many of them highly valuable once remnants of meteors that hit our planet's surface run out and before we start asteroid mining/if we discover some significant obstacles to mining asteroids in the future.

Shoot it at the Sun, and it's gone for us. We cannot use it again.

IMHO it makes sense to do keep them at least hypothetically recoverable in the future at no cost to us. Moon is worthless. It's an old, dead rock in space with no atmosphere and no magnetosphere. It eats massive asteroid collisions regardless. Even six to seven digit rocket shots at it would change nothing relevant from our perspective. If anything, I'd try to concentrate the rockets falling on the Moon in hopes of making it more concentrated batch of resources to more easily recycle in the long term future.

Story implies they didn't aim at all, it just took itself out?

Am I reading it wrong, or is story lying? I will admit I didn't verify.

Honestly, a bit confused here. The problem with space debris is that they stay up there, requiring a lot of tracking resources so that new launches don't get hit by it.

If this one went into Moons gravity well and crashed there, that means it's not a problem any more. Trash has been taken out. That's a good thing, isn't it?

Most of "Steam's Linux users" are almost certainly Steam Deck users at this point. Steam Machines running SteamOS aren't relevant yet due to RAM costs hitting those, and if you're a gamer on desktop, you boot into your windows partition even if you're a mainline linux user pretty much every time.

Microsoft knew exactly what it was doing when it allowed you to run windows even without a license in 10 and 11.

There are almost no exceptions to this outside the neckbeard crowd. Hence the main fluctuations in Linux users so far have been from Steam Deck adoption rate.

Unfortunately, "year of Linux on desktop" remains a meme in 2026.

It's an issue of battery capacity and charging/output speed. When battery was small, charging speed low and engine power low, you could do with cheaper air cooling.

As charging speeds and power go up, air eventually becomes insufficient.

Leafs from last 7-10 years are mostly ok. They had low power, low charge speeds, and so battery doesn't heat all that much in normal use patterns. Old Leaf's main problem was BMS. It was primitive and did a very poor job at maintaining the battery.