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Comment Re: Cry me a river. (Score 1) 99

Then they will do something else. Where does this line of reasoning end, just stopping innovation to preserve raw labor numbers?

Logically, with UBI. You can shut down all the social programs which it supersedes and their administration, take it back from people who don't need it through the IRS without any substantial changes, and pay for it through taxation on the wealthy — thereby creating more money by increasing its velocity.

Yes there were people who were left behind [most notably in agriculture] but on balance humans' quality of life is dramatically better.

Yes, and what I want the system to do instead of encouraging some wealthy people to play a game of increasing some numbers in ways which don't even affect their lives, and they are only doing for bragging rights, is share more of the available improvements in quality of life with more people.

I am far from against technology. I am against it destroying everything that we all universally enjoy, things like being able to eat and sleep and breathe and shit comfortably. Every world war is more dangerous to the continued existence of our way of life than the last, and we appear to be on the cusp of one. And for what? Once again, so that the worst old men the world could produce can play some games with others' lives. Does it not make sense that instead of allowing these rich old fucks to kill us, we should share the wealth more when that actually creates more wealth? How are we going in completely the wrong direction again?

Comment Re: shocked I am! (Score 1) 54

My .sig is for you.

And mine is for you.

Hey, maybe if it was the other way around and them darned Jews crossed into Gaza and fucked up a peace and love music festival

A peace and love music festival held right next to the apartheid wall, which was most importantly not held on the day on which history began.

Your arguments are stupid, and more importantly boring. You are a net loss for Slashdot.

Comment Re:So make sure you use your challenges (Score 1) 9

So teams that don't use their challenges, are penalized compared to teams that do use them. Of course, the other side of that coin is, if they use their two challenges too soon, they might wish they hadn't.

Some questionable calls are more important than others. Some would be so important that even a small chance of success would make it worth challenging. Others would need to be nearly certain to succeed to make it a good decision. There's a lot of luck involved in which situations occur.

Comment Re:Spreading misinformation (Score 0, Offtopic) 65

Removing misinformation is not illegal either. It's common sense.

Who decides it's misinformation?

Quite a few times things which were deemed misinformation back during the COVID times turned out to be different than official sources said (at first or later).

When such heavy hands occur, especially when the government is pushing it, it makes the act seem extra suspicious, or so I've heard for the last week along cries of fascism.

Comment "Smaller than a hair" - no (Score 1) 15

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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