Rhaedas

And uneducated. They do not like awareness of reality.

My response when managers at my work use the word “productivity” is, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

“Sammie lovers”

I think there are other conspiracies within the automotive industry that are true, i.e. could have done better for fuel economy but would have impacted profits. The water car is not one of them. There are applications that use water to change engine dynamics that are viable (my dad had a patent on one and lived his life battling people who didn’t want to hear about it), but running on water is too far from reality.

No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.

It’s not something the Jedi would tell you.

Except for when it’s not normal and people post about being unfairly banned while showing a ban message telling them why. Yes, it’s bad moderation and you should move to a better discussion place if that’s how they run the place. It’s not how all social media is though.

I did read all of that btw, I was just commenting on the parts of the discussion where you were talking about the definition of censorship and comparing it to freedom of speech suppression. There are different levels, some more acceptable than others.

And my solution is still valid, even if the initial reason for posting was simply overpowered moderation.

In a federated social media you can literally either find a group instance with a similar mindset as you that will let you post whatever it is you feel is being censored, or you can set up your own instance and be totally free to post it. That post and/or your instance might get blocked by others, but you have full freedom to put it there to be blocked. If you think people have to read what you say without the option to not read more, then that’s a different thing altogether and you might rethink your points. It’s a form of “if everyone is an asshole…”

That’s how MIKE was discovered in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. He was playing subtle pranks throughout the Moon bases that appeared as weird glitches, and the tech who figured out MIKE existed had to teach him about humor. What was funny every time, what was funny once, and then the jokes that seemed funny to a computer but could get people killed (like a malfunctioning airlock).

I saw a discussion once about how difficult the idea of an accurate progress bar really is. Note how so many things now take the easier approach of a circular or other shape that shows activity without being tied to any particular time prediction. My preference is a combo progress bar with actual throughput numbers/graph, so you can tell if there’s really progress or some bottleneck that will make it longer.

Everything find equilibrium eventually. I’m sure any limits for a runaway situation depend on a lot of factors, but their ceilings are all far above anything we could tolerate. Runaway doesn’t mean there’s no point to level out, only that at the time it’s not controllable and escalating fast.

The last “runaway” situation the Earth had was called the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) 56 million years ago and globally had a 5-8 degree Celsius rise over thousands of years. That might be a good example of a natural situation and its limits. Keep in mind the differences in rate, we’re increasing the global temperature faster than the PETM (or anything we’ve found in geological history) so we don’t know how that faster rate will act in determining a peak. There’s theories of pushing the Earth into a hothouse world that would have its own equilibrium that is far hotter than we can survive.

The good news is that it will never get to that point. Venus is a different planet with a different makeup and history.

The bad news, it doesn’t have to get nearly that bad to be bad for us and the rest of existing life. Not even close. Just a few degrees more, and we’re doing really well in getting there.

Lots of scifi takes that route since we are very good at killing things. A well known version is the Asgard asking for help in Stargate SG-1 since they need more primitive tactics they’ve long ago forgotten.

Going through that every morning will shorten your lifespan.

A couple of minutes of eternity.

They’ll be told that the “other people” are also being hurt, so they’ll be happy.

Any questionable acts would happen after the movie’s end. My thoughts have always been what the effects were to Susan once she saw he was telling the truth. We don’t even really get that short of the look of amazement, and maybe shock on her face.

“Companions”

That’s new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car’s 8-track system.

Yeah, it’s old music, but introduce kids to it and they love it as much as we did.