No kidding. Those guys are scary.

I'm not "confused" about any of this. Don't confuse fictional confusion for you're own double standards and cognitive dissonance.

It's really not. There is no plan, just a series of impulse-driven changes, shying away from the ones that cause problems that happen fast and are easy to see.

For the moment, until he randomly lurches in a different directly.

US policy looks like a drunken toddler staggering in random directions because that's exactly what's happening right now. The toddler bumps his head and lurches away from the pain, but the lesson doesn't stick.

The only answer for US business leaders right now is exactly what most of them are doing: hunkering down. No hiring, no expansion into other markets or offering new products, and cutting capex and opex wherever possible to build a cushion of cash to give them freedom to absorb whatever may happen in the future.

n/t

And I have a hard time believing that Apple (or whomever) can't brick them remotely, even when in China, after they've been reported stolen. As soon as they connect for an update, the IMEI identifies it and bingo, drop a (virtual) brick on it. Why TF NOT ?!?

So defunding police is bad when iphone safety is jeopardized.

mmmkay.

From a BBC story about the "two men in their thirties"

Big surprised face, again---> :|

OK, spotted the guy who either has no kids or was absent while the wife did all the work. First of all, please kindly go fuck yourself with your judgmental bullshit. Parenting is fucking hard...mistakes get made. Should Roblox get sued?...no...can parents supervise every fucking minute of their kids life?...no, they can't. If you think they can, you're fucking stupid. If a parent says they can be on top of their kids online interactions, they're lying...probably to themselves. You can't shelter children perfectly from all that is bad in the world.

However, while parents can't nerf the world, you can't go the extreme other direction and think a parent is a criminal because their kid was on roblox, a child-friendly platform, unsupervised for 30 minutes. Parenting is really fucking hard...convince a woman to reproduce with you and you'll experience this yourself.

If you've ever actually used Roblox, you'd know it's actually pretty strict with moderation. Again, please fuck yourself and your stupid misinformation. Kids get banned all the time for stupid bullshit. My son got booted because some petty bratty kid reported him because his character was standing in the kid's way. His friends have had their accounts permanently banned for routine swearing (like screaming "shit" after dying). They have very strict AI moderation and users are banned for the flimsiest reasons...including stuff most of us would consider kids being kids.

I've literally been on that platform for 100s of hours playing games with my kids. I've never seen anything inappropriate beyond teenagers cursing and saying offensive things teenagers say (calling each other gay, for example, as an insult). I've never seen anyone contact me nor heard of anyone trying to contact my kids or any other players.

Does that mean it never happens?...of course not, but it's much rarer than in schools, parks, the grocery store, etc. Also, it's bullshit to sue them. I think they take reasonable actions. Where there are people, there will be crime. However, there are AI filters + moderation. If people figure out you're up to no good, action is taken. There are infinitely better ways for pedophiles to find victims than Roblox. In my mind, it's like trying to get laid at the church when there are 4 bars down the street.

Keep in mind. Roblox is a mixture of social media, gaming, and the best child-friendly programming environment I've ever seen. My children were building their own custom games at age 8. It got them into scripting and hacking around, modifying existing games. It's a great creative outlet and great for teaching game design or general programming (in Lua). It's a great way for them to keep in touch with their friends who moved far away. It has many good things going for it that are very positive for children.

However, it's also really fucking profitable. They have every incentive to keep criminals off the platform. Parents spend a shocking amount of money giving kids Robux, the in-game currency...for a lot of kids, that's what they ask for every christmas and birthday from their relatives. Pedophiles?...I'm confident they're not very profitable...kids spending relative's money to buy pointless items?...really fucking profitable...but only if parents think it's safe for their kids.

These conservative culture warrior incels are so fucking ignorant...they go on message boards and claim the Roblox corporation is more interested in pedophilia than being billionaires. I am confident anyone who can get into a leadership position at a large SV corporation likes money more than touching children....especially in the most indirect way on a very restrictive platform that probably attracts the wrong type of kids anyway.

The subject of your post is Kessler Syndrome, but Kessler Syndrome is definitely not a concern with these LEO constellations. Anything not regularly reboosted at these altitudes quickly deorbits because they're flying within the outer edges of the atmosphere. Kessler Syndrome is a potential problem at higher orbits where stuff in orbit tends to stay in orbit for a very long time, making accumulation problematic.

As for being hit by falling space junk, It's super rare for stuff that has reached orbit to hit the ground. That tends to be a concern with stuff that doesn't quite make it to orbit, which is one of many reasons why launch reliability is important.

Besides Kessler? These satellites cannot cause Kessler Syndrome precisely because they deorbit. There may be ill effects of burning a few hundred tons of material in the upper atmosphere every year, we'll have to see, but Kessler Syndrome is definitely not an issue.

This is a common strain of misunderstanding I see all over the place. People think that evolution is somehow magical and that what it produces is mystically better because it's "natural". That's all garbage.

Evolution is a random process. There's no intelligence guiding it, nothing that ensures that the "choices" it makes are the best alternatives or can't have horrific consequences. In fact, the vast majority of evolutionary changes are utter failures that immediately get selected out.

Also, it's silly to claim that climate change is moving "too fast for evolution". Evolution absolutely can and will respond to climate change... it might be that corals go extinct and something else evolves to fill their niche in ocean ecology, or it might be that corals do evolve in something like their current form. Evolution is fine either way and will produce something that settles into a new equilibrium. It might not be an equilibrium humans like, and it might not settle fast enough to make us happy, but we need to realize that what we're concerned about isn't the ecosystem -- that will survive regardless, unless we get into some runaway feedback loop that turns Earth into Venus, or Neptune -- what we're concerned about is maintaining an environment that we're accustomed to.

Given all of that, our potential creation of genetically-modified corals isn't somehow subverting evolution, it's just another evolutionary avenue. Rather than random mutations, we'll create some specific ones and then we'll throw them into the mix and see if they get selected for or against. The same mutations we create deliberately could also have occurred randomly and would that make the outcome any less "natural"?

And if we've already altered the environment so much that our preferred ecosystem is going away anyway, what's the harm in trying to use CRISPR CAS-9 to "guide" evolution in a direction we'd prefer, rather than letting it randomly go in whatever direction it will? Could our genetic modifications make things worse? Sure! Could random mutations also make things worse? Sure! Which is more likely to maintain an ecosystem of the sort we enjoy? No one can say for sure, but in general if you want to get from point A to point B you're better off aiming for B rather than just walking randomly.

Even better would be to stop changing the climate, but at this point all we can do is try to limit the amount we're changing it. And we should do that! But the best that we can do might still not be enough for corals as we know them, so if we like reefs and reef ecosystems (and we really do; I'm an avid SCUBA diver and I love reef ecosystems), then we should probably put some effort into researching modifications that can survive warmer and more acidic oceans.

Both are true, I think. Without discussion and care the numbers would probably be an order of magnitude larger, maybe two... but that's still very small.

It used to be that stupid people would get drunk at the local watering hole on saturday night and complain about not being able to sell their turnips at the proper price at the market. But now they make youtube vids or complain at the school board about books they've never read. The stupid have grown global and influential, pushed by billionaires who find it advantageous to sow chaos.

I though most vampires were fluent in latin...?

So you see children having fun playing lame video games with their friends and your mind thinks "groomer!" "pedophilia!!!" Seriously...you think you're insulting me by calling you an "awful parent," but you completely lack any credibility. There's clearly something wrong with you if your mind goes to that. However, you clearly have never been on the platform.

The most common complaint is not criminals, but the excessive AI moderation. My kids have gotten kicked off a few times for routine swearing...the same shit you get in trouble for at school, but nothing hateful...like audibly saying "shit" when they get killed in a game with the mic on. They've gotten kicked off for many seemingly bullshit reasons, including just random kids acting like dicks.

Any pedophile on Roblox today has to be very careful...because my son has gotten kicked out of a game for standing in someone's way too long. Their threshold for booting you is pretty low and his friends have gotten their accounts completely banned for saying the F word too many times.

Look, you clearly have pedophilia and presumably right wing incel/extremist thoughts on the brain, given your casual and incorrect usage of the word "groomer." Where there are people, there will be crime, but I don't think the risk on Roblox is any higher than anywhere else on the internet. Your concerns are purely theoretical and don't apply, especially these days, with how strict moderation is.

They make a FUCKTON of money...that game is a money-printing machine...they're not going to let pedophiles ruin that.

But then again, if you're a QAnon nutjob, no sense in letting reality get in the way of your fun conspiracy narratives. Yup...the Roblox corporation...they'd rather fuck children than be billionaires...right???