Slippery slope fallacy, zzzzz. Plenty of stable nations are socialist-leaning.

It's good for your system and forces you to move every 90 minutes or so. Just not before long meetings.

A long time ago, back when you had to go to the Unemployment Office every two weeks to turn in your paperwork and get your check, I was told that by a clerk. So far, I've seen no reason not to believe it, even though I've seen supposedly authoritative claims that it's not true. It's the type of thing the PTB would deny even though it's true.

Canada and Northern Europe are doing just fine. Better mental heath than USA by far.

> This isn't even a bubble.

I'm suggesting the "AI everywhere" is a bubble, space-server-farms is only an extension of it.

> you might prefer Cuba, North Korea or (as of recently) Russia.

Argument-by-extreme-example. They are not even democracies. I'm not suggestion ending democratic rule.

No, it means that they've lost their jobs and their Unemployment Benefits have run out. The various government agencies responsible for these numbers assume that if you're not receiving government handouts you've left the workforce and they stop counting you as unemployed.

Without a hostage there is no ransom!

Though sending PROMISE to the moon would leave Perseverance and Curiosity -- both of which remain active on Mars -- without an Earth-based testbed, Isaacman thinks it would be worth it. "We've had years now of experience operating the two rovers on the surface of Mars,...

But the older that Perseverance and Curiosity get the more engineering baby-sitting they will need. Repurposing the test rover risks shortening their life. Judging the need based on the first half of Mars missions is insufficient. Past 50 people need a doctor much more often. Rovers are similar.

Francis Crick calculated how long it would take for life to evolve from scratch, and concluded it would take longer than the earth has existed. In response, he developed the hypothesis of panspermia

Any such calculation is likely to be off either direction by a factor of about 10 such that the age of the Earth and age of the universe is not different enough to distinguish. And we don't know all the pathways to biogenesis such that estimating the early stages is a fuzzy art.

Panspermia is certainly a realistic possibility, as some microbes have incredible survival abilities.

Note that my early description didn't mention that the chemicals the intermediate-step proto-cells would consume and produce may be partial or full fuel for the subsequent stage(s), perhaps after being altered by the environment a bit. Having to rely on the environment to "adjust" the food supply may be why separate sub-microbes are necessary.

I've never had anything to do with Face-Book. So ... I don't know. How do they stay in business ( & grow ? ) with such a vampire reputation ? Do (some) people really really need their services  ... whatever those services might be ? Is FB like Adobe or Broad-com and have a spectrum of highly-advanced nitche products/IP  that people "in the business" cannot do without.

More evidence we need to tax the rich, they have way too much money and are chasing really stupid shit. After you have 20 yachts then #21 doesn't have the same ego kick, so you look for pie-in-sky investments.

Rumor is there's also a bubble in bubble insurance*. Does that mean it will double-pop?

* Or at least bubble hedges

Seems that  AI has already been incorporated into smart-glasses. I mean, who needs another device with a snow-plow already  hanging off their nose ?

It's not the highest scope in the world, but its forte is mass surveys, not resolution, so it doesn't have to try to compete with Hubble. If it finds something interesting, then another resolution-oriented scope can zoom in.

It's great for finding moving and flashing things, as it allows automated comparisons over time of most the sky. This scope might even find Planet X, although let's not call it Planet X because Elon tainted X things. Call it Planet NoElon.