We could've been reduced to ash and radiation but instead we have whatever a subprime mortgage is.

Rude af tbh

I fully expect what the first reply to this might be.

You also need a big enough battery to get through slow hours.

So you can get the Zero-emissions Off-the-grid gym!

We have learned to approximate and then precisely measure time millennia ago through various means, yet never on this journey we learned to alter it, except by a miniscule margin using relativistic effects.

We can measure distance, and we can move things. We can measure illumination, and we can create light. We can measure sound, and produce it. Alter temperature? Yes! Produce all sorts of artificial radiation? Yes! Electric charge? Sure!

But time? Nuh-uh.

As people born on February 29th can't celebrate their birthday on the correct date every year, they are most likely to celebrate it on neighboring days.

Assuming equal amount of people was born each other day, this extra quarter adds to those actually born on February 28th/March 1st, making those days most likely for someone to host a celebration.

Maybe that's all she needed all along.

We know now that you can't turn "base metals" into gold through chemical processes, but if you could, gold would no longer be scarce and therefore no more valuable than the base metals.

They must of just let there babies starve or something idk

This is a semi joking post

You can see where one ends and the other begins if you look with the right eye. Taking what people would be doing anyways and forcing them to do it for your own gain. With that framing, you can see how serfdom, and slavery all become progenitors to modern day capitalism. It's evolved with the times and always found a way in. I can't believe I didn't see it before.

I am on the shitter instead of the shower. So, sorry if I babble crap. But imagine something like GitHub but for the purpose of restructuring society.

In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”.

Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

People often shit themselves when they die... Do vampires when they get turned from alive to undead?? This is important lore to consider

Structurally they are similar enough that we can communicate. The discovery would be altering our science, but every attempt to exchange beyond technicalities and niceties is somehow incredibly boring to both sides.

After the initial awe, it would be like, yeah, we know aliens.

Between AI, voice cloning, and modern CGI I’m surprised we haven’t gotten a real computer-generated talk show host.

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

KERPLOOIE, SNOW! YOUR MOVE!

If you built a snowman during the day the snow only needs to be below freezing. It can get colder that night or the next day by quite a bit. The exterior of the snowman would be colder than the inside even though they're both frozen.

When that AI shopping tool made to sell you couponed products pops up, abuse it. Ask questions about its products that any real human would answer in a normal way, that an AI simply cannot. This would get it through to them we don't really want or need this.

In computational terms, a low resolution version of an image is almost by definition 'simpler', with fewer colours and details intact, but it seems like it would be much harder to do a convincing 1:1 replication of it in a painting compared to recreating a 'clean' HD version.

Or am I way off the mark? 😆 I'm not a painter, obviously. Seems like getting all of those weird JPEG artefacts right would be something of a novel skill for a traditional painter (or even a digital painter, for that matter).