That’s why I keep my toothbrush wrapped in paper.

The nazis, too, had a lot of power and yet they lost WW II.

it’s called the Paradox Of Tolerance.

my dad uses this LLM python code generation quite routinely, he says the output’s mostly fine.

I don’t like saying it because people get very emotional and unreasonable about this but:

These things were normal a long time ago. It’s only been in recent years, especially starting from the 1960s, that moral panic took over and these things are looked at now as “a crime”.

To me personally, settling mars has nothing to do with colonialism, or capitalism, or hookers and blackjack. It’s about the fact that humanity is like a steam engine, and somebody threw too much coal into that thing. Now it’s cooking hot, and one way to keep it from exploding is to “release steam” (in a metaphorical sense). That means, settling off to some other planet.

I guess it’s like german “Realität”/“Wirklichkeit” (both meaning reality).

I understand “Realität” (reality) to mean something “real”, like something touchable. Language, and literature are not “real” to me. They’re “wirklich”, but not “real”.

I have a question. Why do you assume that humans are identical to their mind, but not to their body?

Yes, it’s pretty cool. Side notes:

• plants produce a literally electrical voltage across cell membrane when collecting sunlight. The solar panel is very much a technological copy of plant leaves.

• biology can be incredibly efficient sometimes. storing information in DNA takes just about 40-50 atoms per bit, and DNA is about 2.5 nm in diameter. For comparison, the finest structures in modern computers are 3-5 nm in size.

• since powering the whole thing is incredibly important, animals have one specialized cell (mitochondria) inside every normal cell, simply for the purpose to convert the energy from sugar into a usable form. Plants have two of these specialized cells, with the other one’s job being simply to collect sunlight and turn it into usable energy. That, in my opinion, makes them more advanced than animals. ;-)

great minds think alike

“shit” expresses excitement. And just like excitement, that can be good or bad.

Well, it lays on tables a lot, with the backside facing up.

The same could be asked with smartphones.

Why don’t smartphones include solar panels on the back side of the phone?

I would laugh if it wasn’t so painfully true.

I would not consider integration to be basic maths, honestly. Basic maths is addition and multiplication, and maybe vector geometry.

No map in the entire article? Or did I miss it?

“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.

Hope comes first, births comes second.

You can’t fake an indicator and hope for the situation to improve.