It's not a paradox at all...It's a matter of phyiscs and time. Think of it like this: The hallmarks of our presence, the environmental signature of rampant industrialism, has only been apparent for 250 years or so. We've only had radio for about a century. *AT BEST* the furtherest alien civilization that *could* detect us is 250 light years away. The Milky Way is 105.700 light years wide. That doesn't even take into consideration that such a civilization should even know to look our way. Why can't we detect alien civilizations? We face the same problems as above.

TIL that the origin of "robot" from "R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots" wasn't common knowledge...

Moreover, I'm stunned to find out that people think it was Asimov that coined the term. What kind of sci-fi fans think this crap?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you America's military leaders of the future.

The game introduces a mechanic **based on** a device that is used to trigger photosensitive seizures in a clinical setting; the mechanic, itself, is not designed to trigger these seizures.

Anyone else see this as the US trying to strong-arm Meng Wanzhou?

If there's not sufficient evidence to extradite her, there's not sufficient evidence to hold her for extradition. China's on Canada's case because we're abiding by our own extradition treaty with the US, whose using it in bad faith. Might be time to set her free.

Colour me impressed when they can target and destroy the multiple warheads of a MIRV like, say, China's DF-41...

"'Cuties' is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children."

...while sexualizing young children.

What else did anyone expect him to say? This isn't even newsworthy.

Instead of arguing against the right-to-repair and the potential for predators to get hold of your information, this is making a good argument to store less information on the damn car.

Sounds like Zuck just made a decent case for ALL tech giants to be broken up, then.

First, if you think you're going to be affected, move your servers out of the US yesterday. Canada's nice this time of year...

Secondly, expect malicious astroturfing to hit those that services that choose to keep their servers in the US. If services are liable for objectionable material, that creates the easiest circumstance by which some nefarious actor posts objectionable material only to have their confederate report the site. Repeat until the site is overburdened with policing content and the service declines.

The term "break the Internet" will have a new meaning.

Continued consolidation of IC manufacturers...This is sad to see, as it erodes competition in the market.

"New York City reached over a 25% infection rate and yet 99.98% of all people in the city under 45 survived, making it comparable to death rates by normal accidents. But of course the whole linchpin of the lockdown argument is that it would have been even worse without such a step. Sweden never closed down borders, primary schools, restaurants, or businesses, and never mandated masks, yet 99.998% of all their people under 60 have survived and their hospitals were never overburdened."

Cherrypicking numbers to suit one's argument is grotesque, at best. In NYC's case, what about people over 45 years old? In Sweden, what about those over 60? Why not use the same metric across all cases for a more robust (and legitimate) yardstick? Because that doesn't fan the agenda being pushed.

And so what if 99.998% of those under 60 survived? To suggest that's the only age group that matters is a digusting disservice to every single person. Your value as a human being is apparently predicated on your age, nothing more. What it says is this: Too old for the cut-off for 99% survivability? Too fucking bad.

While certainly innovative and, honestly, a likely direction future cinema will go, liability insurance alone will bankrupt this movie before it starts.

I can't imagine what Lloyds of London would charge to insure the likes of Tom Cruise in such an endeavour.

Institutions don't offer the "college experience"...They offer *education*. If you get that education, you pay for that education.

Complaining that you didn't get the "college experience" from your institution is tantamount to complaining you didn't get a Big Mac from an Acura dealership...That's not their fucking business.