Posts by syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
 (DIR) Post #AUNKiGjcUq2oxMnk9Y by syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
       2023-04-06T12:32:24Z
       
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       @cstross @izaya It looks interesting, but that's not really a lot of battery life compared to either a dedicated eReader or one of the (admittedly much more expensive) ThinkPad ARM laptops that have just been released.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZC0r9DOZK4hKuYN84 by syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
       2023-08-26T11:48:39Z
       
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       @tanepiper @ColetteDiskette @oskardudycz Talk about an edge case that would probably be better implemented in an application than a web pageNot to mention it's nowhere being a standard, and the initial pages documenting it appear to be on a Google development page. Yeah, that's a really open, unbiased source.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aolh7aQJLY3odSlzZg by syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
       2024-12-06T12:02:22Z
       
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       @futurebird I voted 'can't'. I'm dubious about the ability to continue to grow food, as far as I'm aware this has not been proven properly.I see others have brought up gravity, that's a huge issue.Really my question isn't 'can we?', it's 'why?'. What is the point? The human race are absolutely tied to Earth at the moment, and unless we invent stable wormholes,  multi light year teleportation, or FTL travel it's pointless.Even if we found another biome suitable for human life through a portal the question of terraforming arises. We don't have the technology to either terraform lifeless rock from scratch, or to genocide[1]/alter a biome to match human life. As H G Wells knew in War of the Worlds, we're currently intimately tied to Earth's bacteria.It would probably be more effective to upload our consciousness, with exploration via robots.[1] If there's a planet with life on it, it will be incompatible, so unless we can magically change ourselves it'd involve killing off that life so we can live.
       
 (DIR) Post #AomOiQzBh4gY6pu3Jg by syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
       2024-12-06T17:41:52Z
       
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       @RenewedRebecca ish. The US healthcare system seems more like a protection racket.A proper business not only makes money, it also delivers on its stated (public) goals, and actively makes steps to achieve that.If a health insurer is not repeatedly and actively making efforts to increase its accuracy in assessing claims, then it is not achieving its stated aim, and is committing fraud. It isn't a business at that point unless 'business' is redefined as 'takes in money. makes money'.