For me the visualization of direct collapse black hole formation is that there's still a huge mass of gas falling in, at the boundary of the new black hole nearly dense enough to direct collapse itself. The blowback would compress the inflow over the density edge and you get a whole cloud of black holes.

It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.

I guess I should clarify... I disagree with the idea that my post is in opposition to the bulk of your post. I just never intended the thing you rebutted.

If you don't have or attend dinner parties, you should. It might seem quaint or antiquated, but sharing lives over food is one of the most underrated, easiest, least pressure-laden social experiences you can have. Even if the food fails to come out right, it generally works out fine.

I disagree with your clarification - and post in general. I addressed dinner parties and the like. Not the world at large. Some things need preserving. Casual social interactions are not among them.

Lazy, ignoring explicit instructions and hiding it, possibly blackmailers and unionizers... sounds like they're already direct replacements for people.

If I find out somebody is using wearables to archive anything that includes me without my direct permission at a dinner party I attend - video, audio, or stills - it'll be the last time I ever speak to them.

Almost precisely nothing that happens at these sorts of things needs to be preserved - in fact, it should specifically be fleeting. Experienced, then gone. This desire to preserve everything is a sickness.

That's not how tariffs work. He'd have to collect from crewmen at the bases that got bombed. You know, the importers.

A 100% tariff does nothing related to national security.

But at this point I don't understand why any explanation needs to be offered for any tariff. They do what they want and the Supreme Court has been revealed as a toothless, sycophantic shell company owned outright by the republicans. Whatever losses they hand the right are performative.

Just don't say why. Follow any objections up with, "See you in court... eventually..."

I suppose when the automatic urge is dishonesty it's hard to override it and say nothing.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.

This may be okay, depending on the subject. Soft fields like arts and humanities? Okay. Engineering? Not so much.

This bullshit is a modern problem though. The comparatively ruthless past didn't seem to struggle in producing relatively competent graduates in sufficient numbers. Now you can layer many things on why that may be changing. The unbelievable increase in the cost of education is an excellent starting point. That in itself is massively stressful.

But lowering the bar in the name of coping with fragility is bonkers to me. Save it for fields of low consequence. I want the guy designing bridges to have been graded thoroughly.

"How did you get hired?"
"I was top at Fortnite. You?"
"Combat flight sims."

"Damn, two Boeings just crashed over an oil refinery on city limits and took out half the city."
"Did you remember to save your position beforehand?"
"Yeah."
"The reload and continue from there. No-one will notice."

I love computer games. I have XPlane 12 and many scenery packs. I rank well on Elite:Dangerous. From the sounds of it, the FAA would see me as over-qualified. In reality? There's no way in hell I'd be taking those kinds of risks with real lives. There's a huge difference between having good reflexes and a good eye, versus having the complex 4D spacetime relationship mental models needed for robust air traffic control.

Let's see if other countries can push these problems down faster than the US can bring old ones out of retirement. I'm betting American ingenuity prevails.

The are really pushing hepatitis C++ these days.
 

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