I was not suggesting that obvious pattern was weird in any way. I was hinting that the example they chose to make a point has a very different and likely more severe set of potential outcomes that make it much more obviously trophy worthy than the iRobot situation.

It's weird that you invoke the rampant consolidation of wildly profitable media and telecom companies that shows no sign of slowing down while talking about a failing AMERICAN robot vacuum company being sold off to china as some kind of worthy trophy.

Wait, when did we all agree on what consciousness is? Actually, we didn't. This is fucking stupid.

In anthropological terms, human "mastery" of a new skill only requires a level of skill that enables wilful and deliberate usage of it. Using fire as an example, humans who were the first to create, maintain, and use fire deliberately are the ones who are considered to have 'mastered' fire. Downstream innovation of fire usage is still happening even today. That doesn't mean humans never "mastered" the use of fire.

They don't really need laws to protect themselves because most judges are already on their side. In other words, to get by without a lawyer, you need to find a judge that won't penalize you for having the audacity to defend yourself.

But then how will I drink your milk shake. I mean, really, drink it up.

Seriously, though, straws aren't going a way, genius. Corn plastic (or similar technology) is the easy answer. If plastics are banned, the stupid drinking straw problem is already solved.. Sea turtles still won't like having them lodged in their sinuses, but I think they've got bigger problems.

To drown out the sound of this comment.

I've always understood the punchline of the DOGE "joke" to be exactly this- "whatever one you choose has exactly as much substance as the one created as a joke." The absurd flood of crypto headlines about newly or soon to be minted coins at the time of DOGE's conception is what drove its creation as a joke crypto.

I've gotten quite a bit of mileage out of my steam library on a 50gb bootcamp partition using a lowly 2018 macbook air that I picked up at launch. I use a desktop for the latest and greatest, of course, but my air serves me well for both work and leisure. I'll probably just move to a PC laptop and run linux with a windows partition next work laptop purchase.

I think what you're saying is that, like most science "news", it's an empty summary of a scientific finding written by a shitty clickbait journalist who makes a living on tickling the cockles of political bias for clicks. Once upon a time, there was a chance the slashdot editors might catch or even care about stuff like this, but those days seem behind us. In this example, the clickbaiter manages to sneak the actual finding paraphrased from the study's author into the final sentence of his article that almost no one will read because the misleading headline already told them everything they needed to know so that they could log into slashdot and post snarky and acerbic political rants.

Yea, I agree with you. I just don't see how it's "on the other hand"... What we've done and what I said that we are "trying" to do are not even in the same ballpark. Incidentally, stuff the OP said is also on a different plane of existence.

"Reasonable" means that it hits the sweet spot where a sufficient cross section of the populace doesn't react with the kind of revulsion you're correctly expecting from "rugged individuals" while still remaining effective. The point is that, if that sweet spot exists, it's somewhere between OP's basement and the rugged folks flocking in groups to protest lockdowns as unconstitutional as soon as everything started spiking.

Yea, if only... What's your point?

True, but instantaneously zeroing out the infection rate is not a realistic goal. We're trying to bring the infection rate down with reasonable measures so that 1) hospitals will not be overwhelmed and 2) realistic and reasonable safety measures will prevent another mass outbreak. We've seen some evidence (e.g. Japan) that suggests reasonable measures are enough to continually bring the infection rate down, so if your plan is to lock yourself in the basement and shame anyone who isn't below ground with you, then you can fly a kite.

Having recently got into 3D printing, i can get 1kg of filament for $20. Not only is that far more useful than a print out, it turns out it's cheaper too. You see, to 3D print text on your 3D printer at 0.1mm layer height, your spool is far cheaper and last longer and you'll get more sheets than any ink cartridge.

Ink comes in at 2.25 cents per page.
Filament comes in at .75 cents per page.

Staining words on paper is ridiculously expensive compared to giving them physical embodiment. That just seems wrong.