I once went down the rabbit hole of thinking about how the targeting works on the TNG kind of transporter. Like they need to know to the molecule where your body ends and the rest of the universe begins. And you want it to identify clothing, because you don't want to end up nude on the other side. Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by. We don't want any of those pesky Fly problems now do we? This might sound easy, but is actually extremely hard. The human body is very complex and like a ship of Theseus what is part of the body is a bit nebulous and can change. All of the microbiome in our gut is essential for us to stay alive. And more importantly we don't want to leave behind a puddle of crap every time we transport. Plus what happens if we come out the other end, do our intestines just implode? Or does the transporter fill them with air, leaving you to fart uncontrollably until you die?

And how does it know what clothes are? If I'm wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I'm wearing skies? What if I'm barefoot on a carpet? What if it's a leather carpet? What if I'm wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?

The only thing that makes sense is a super powerful AI system that can real-time scan every molecule and figure out what's what. And it doesn't only need to be smart, it also needs a lot of real world knowledge. It needs to know what is "logical" to include in every situation. This means it has to be an AGI, has to be superintelligent (at a minimum speed wise) and would most likely be sentient. Them being used for this one and only purpose is really cruel.

This leads me to the conclusion TNG style transporters are basically slavery and put a whole different spin on the morality of the people in that universe. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

That's not how orbital mechanics work

I'm goin' down to South Park, gonna have myself a time

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Akshually cheetahs don't live in the jungle, they live on the plains. It would be pretty hard for them to run super fast in the jungle. Like a lot of cats they prefer to be in a more open terrain with not a lot of trees like plains, hills, deserts and mountains.

They strip away everything that actually helps people, so in that way it's really small.

Worf worked in security and got to be first officer of the Enterprise. After that became Strategic Operations Officer on DS9, which is command even though it's still ops related. As a bonus he became first officer on the Defiant as well.

It's one banana Michael. What could it cost, $10?

And the name of that bus? Albert Einstein

Also you fart too. So there's that...

So you're saying to solve climate change we need to remove the humans? You might be on to something there.

Sounds like the perfect plan to have Trump change the law so no woman can hold a high office ever again. It'll blend in nicely with their proposal to not let women vote ever again.

0 emissions? Methane from cattle is a large contributer to climate change. If we had as much horses as we have cars, the amount of methane would be too much to handle.

I don't think this has anything to do with YouTube really. They would love to show you all the content all the time. But the strict copyright laws and agreements they've made with some parties, such as FOM, requires them to gatekeep some content. YT figured out a long time ago it was better for them to have the content and gatekeep it, than not have the content at all.

It sucks, but the whole world of regioned licensing sucks. And it's a complicated subject, made more complicated by decades of large companies maximizing their profits and lobbying for complex laws and regulations.

This also clearly isn't enshittification. It's kinda sad how that word has just become "I don't like this", instead of the narrow definition it originally had.

No, Mars lost 99.999% of all of it's water. The part that remained is stored frozen inside. As soon as you take it out, it will be gone forever.

You can try and use and recycle it as much as you can, but once you lose it, it's lost.

Holy shit, new nightmare unlocked.

I've had some horrific shit done to me for medical purposes. What got me through it was remembering two things. First of all, this is all to fix something else, it may get bad but it will get better. Second of all, pain is only temporary and exists only in my body/mind, it holds no power over me and it will pass.

Hope you had have fixed whatever was wrong, that makes something like that worth it.

Stitches that desolve are excellent. I hate the kind that needs to be monitored and removed manually. But I hate it even more when they use the staple kind, there is something just not right in using staples on a human being.

I've had one of those super long hairs be ingrown. It just coiled in on itself. I thought it was a black spot, so I dug it out with a sharp pair of tweezers. Once I got it and started pulling, it just kept going. Hair and puss came out and it felt terrible. Once I got it out it healed very quickly and felt much better, so I'm glad I did it, but that feeling still creeps me out.

I really wonder what it could possibly be? Trump has every lawsuit imaginable waged against him, he has broken just about every law and proven himself to be a terrible human being. Even if Putin has video of him raping kids (which given Trumps connection to Epstein seems likely), I don't know at this point it would matter? His followers would just say fake news or not even care. And he's already elected as supreme leader, president for life, dictator or king, however you want to state it.

Putin will probably have him killed if he doesn't follow the plan, but I have a feeling Trump wants to follow the plan regardless.

I think it was naive of us thinking there's no way someone would be willingly become a cuck for Putin, he must have some leverage. But I feel at this point, Trump just really really wants to be Putins main bitch.

I may have brain damage, but I can't see this image without hearing Morpheus' voice in my head screaming: "NEEOOOOO WAKE UP NEEEEOOO!"

"He's probably just joking" is something I heard so much over the past few years about things the right has been spewing. THEY ARE NOT JOKING, THEY ARE NEVER JOKING! I don't know how this is a hard thing to understand.