Sometimes I downvote my own comment just to add a little chaos.
InputZero
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Yeah it's scary how much of Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction turned out to be speculativly accurate. Makes me really worried we're heading towards an Oryx and Crake future.
Anon isn't dumb, just simple. Nuclear energy can be the best solution for certain situations. While renewables are the better choice in every way, they're effectiveness isn't equally distributed. There are places where there just isn't enough available renewable energy sources year round to supply the people living there. When energy storage and transmission methods are also not up to the task, nuclear becomes the best answer. It shouldn't be the first answer people look to but it is an answer. An expensive answer but sometimes the best one.
Also nuclear waste doesn't have to be a problem. If anyone was willing to cover the cost of burning it in a breeder reactor for power or burry it forever. It just is because it's expensive.
Type 2 is manageable and treatable, that's the whole reason why it's called type 2. Type 2 diabetes is not curable, a patient with type 2 diabetes will have type 2 for the rest of their lives. It can be managed such that the patient can go about their daily life with very little to no thought about their condition but it doesn't just go away.
I was looking for this comment and I'm glad someone got this one in promptly.
I have a gut feeling that his talk of tariffs is a bluff. Even if it's not my gut still tells me there's going to be exceptions for certain things that are big money makers for Trump and his allies. Trump's administration is not going to tax themselves unless they can provide a loophole to get themselves out of it. Ultimately it's the consumer who pays for tariffs, but they're entire purpose is to slow down trade and if that costs Trump and his allies too much of their wealth it won't happen.
Trump is as predictable as he is unpredictable because he doesn't stay consistent. He changes what he says and does to be perceived as best he can in that moment. Which makes understanding his actions a little easier, his past actions are irrelevant to his future decisions, it's just about what's in his head in the moment. Which is just a lot of words to say that Trump, his administration, and his allies are just chaos, and you never really know what chaos will bring except a change in the status quo. It's not looking optimistic though.
Biology isn't that simple. A person can have one fewer sex chromosome, monosomy, one extra, trisomy, and many extra, polysomy. In fact it's starting to show that a significant minority of people have trisomy 47 (the name for having one extra sex chromosome) but live perfectly normal lives because those extra genes are suppressed. You could have an extra x chromosome and never know it, does that exclude you from being a man or a woman? Which brings up the topic of gene expression and epigenetics which is even more complicated. If you're looking at science to give you a certainty about sex and gender you're in for a long search.
Being real for a moment, the way that the next election cycle begins immediately once the previous one ends is a bit of a burden. I'm already tired of hearing about 'Decision 2028'.
Maybe try asking them nicely first, or putting up a sign that doesn't have a threat in it? Like, I get it, someone slighted you so you got to make them think twice before crossing you again, but going straight to building a trap with razor blades is a bit extreme and will probably land you before a judge.
Even dog shit in a trash can is super polarizing. This was the first comment I saw even mentioning asking the person nicely to stop first. Like maybe put up a sign saying 'No dog poop please' before making a threat or a thing meant to bother the dog.
For what it's worth, I don't think anyone who is trying to discuss the election with you in good faith paints you as just another MAGA American. We know some Americans faught tooth and nail to stop this. Now you could be lying just as easily as you could be telling the truth, although I have no reason to think you are lying. So assuming you're telling the truth, as crushing as a second Trump presidency is for me, someone who doesn't live in the US, who literally can't do anything about him, it must be so much more worse for you.
I know you're tired but your fight against fascism is just beginning, it's far from over. I hope you can find the strength to keep going. As an outsider all I can do is tell you that some of us see you and know that you're not well right now. Gandalf put it best;
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
As far as I'm aware, you are correct. However the capability to upscale a video well enough has been around in the home since at least when Nvidia released the Shield with its AI upscale like 6 years ago. I rewatched DS9 and Voyager switching it on and off and it did a good enough job back then to trick me into thinking it was HD. Since then it's just gotten better. Maybe the picture of Be'Lana is a photograph that was taken on set or a frame that used generative AI to upscale it. It's still very sharp from what I remember watching on TV when it aired.