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  • You've described the reasons why aliens that see in the radio spectrum would never evolve in the first place. Aliens from a particularly cool star might have their vision attuned to infrared, but no place that's warm enough to have liquid water would be cold enough to make radio waves more useful than infrared.

  • I suspect most people think port and starboard are just synonyms for left and right. I did for a very long time. And you also have to consider non-native speakers who might not know the nautical terms at all.

    The trains where I live say "on my right" and "on my left". It sounds a little weird hearing an automated voice speaking in the first person, but it's concise and gets the message across to people who won't know nautical terms.

  • It just sounds like they didn't understand the relationship between Forgejo and Codeberg. I didn't either into I looked it up just now. IMHO their comment is best interpreted as being about Codeberg. People running their own instances of Forgejo are tangential to the topic at hand.

  • I think the abundance of trans women (≈ women who were raised as boys) is proof the social conditioning the only factor in why there aren't more women in STEM fields. Women love this shit just as much as men, but they're actively steered away from it.

    (Yes, women face other challenges beyond lack of exposure, but I think all of them can be traced back to social factors as well, such as how men are conditioned to treat women.)

  • Same. But I'm not expecting them to come for me, or if they do, I expect it to be late enough in the process that's I'll know to expect it. The odds of any particular individual being among the first of their cohort to be attacked are very low.

    I'm trying to find ways to think bigger, though, because doing nothing while waiting for them to get around to me isn't the legacy I want to leave.