geekwithsoul

Only tangentially related, but Hank Green talked about this on the vlogbrothers channel recently https://youtu.be/pBI3o7ySlRo

If stuff like this was obvious to everyone, people would’ve been smart enough to not vote for Trump. And articles like this do erode the number of people who support Trump or are anti-vax. Just because it’s yet more evidence to you of fuckery from these twatwaffles doesn’t mean it’s not also a revelation for someone else.

Just don’t touch the book or listen to the audio tape you find in the cellar.

Obi-Wan voice That’s a name i haven’t heard in a long time

Why would anyone switch off IPv4? That makes no sense and isn’t commonly done. You run dual stack in most cases – NAT v4 and straight v6. A lot of folks are using v6 on mobile phones without even realizing it because telcos ran the numbers years ago and realized it was cheaper to push v6 at the end user layer than run NAT and/or try to find v4 addresses on the transfer market. There’s been no unallocated pool of v4 space for almost a decade.

What do you imagine the “cost” is?

City governments have been pushing hard because they’re worried about their tax base and economies - not so much for the office space itself (though that’s in danger), but the ancillary businesses like coffee shops, lunch places, and car parks. It’s a shitty reason, as they could take the opportunity to rearchitect office space into livable housing and solve the problem that way - but they don’t want to.

Yeah, I was one of the ones banned from a number of AI communities despite not engaging with them really on my old Lemm.ee account. With UM involved, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised :) Sounds like just the sort of shit he’d have a hand in stirring up and just the way he’d do it.

Have you ever heard the phrase “You can’t reason someone out of an opinion that they didn’t reason themselves into”? If they’re objectively not fat, than what they’re really saying is they feel like they’re fat, not they they think that they’re fat. That can be for a whole host of reasons, but arguing facts with them won’t help. Far better to have discussions with them about why they feel that way and why they’re focused on it. Ultimately it’s an issue they have to resolve themselves and not something you can convince them of.

Such changes are called germ-line mutations because they occur in a cell used in reproduction (germ cell), giving the change a chance to become more numerous over time. If the mutation has a deleterious affect on the phenotype of the offspring, the mutation is referred to as a genetic disorder. Alternately, if the mutation has a positive affect on the fitness of the offspring, it is called an adaptation. [Nature]

I’m assuming you mean “mutation that gets passed down”. Whether a mutation is a disorder or an adaptation takes generations to determine, so we may not know the identity of the individual. Furthermore, what was once a disorder may become adaptive in a different environment and vice versa. In general, I suppose if it was adaptive, they might be called “ancestor” :)

More broadly, and outside of germ-line mutations (meaning it’s not passed down to offspring), everyone has cells with mutations. The person doesn’t have the mutation per se, but a cell or cluster of cells do, so identifying them by that mutation doesn’t make a lot of sense. If it’s bad, your body either kills it or it kills you (e.g. cancer). If it’s good, it likely doesn’t change anything significantly.

Totally get that! Probably explains why I played as much Cyberpunk 2077 as I did! Books-wise, haven’t been reading much cyberpunk lately other than some re-reads like Snow Crash and Diamond Age - mostly been escaping into Pratchett’s Discworld. Comfort food as it were.

Yeah, figured that might be the case but thought I’d mention it just in case. Not sure what “new” cyberpunk is out there - especially since 2020… unless you count non-fiction :)

You didn’t mention him, so maybe okay that his stuff is older, but check out Bruce Sterling

Why do you think Mastodon is exempt from those rules? The law applies to all sites/services with a significant UK audience - some of the Mastodon .uk instances will definitely be subject to this, and because of how badly the law is written, it can apply to many more.

People can have their hardon for hating Bluesky, but they’re literally just trying to avoid being fined by the UK govt here - this wasn’t their idea.

The UK government is forcing them and all other web services to do the same. UK-hosted Mastodon servers may coast under the radar for awhile, but they’ll come for them eventually.

Rather than getting mad at Bluesky for implementing government-mandated age verification, how about actually getting mad at the UK government?

Yeah, I get pushing for Mastodon over Bluesky, but Bluesky is being forced to do this by the UK government for UK citizens so this is just exaggerated rage bait.

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Food of the gods, and almost as soothing as Xanax if you’re having a bad day. Also, honestly not as bad for you as a regular PB&J made with many big name jams/jellies. For extra decadence, toast the fluff.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”

You do know they’re rounding up and incarcerating/deporting legal immigrants and talking about denaturalizing citizens, right? They left that argument behind about only going after “illegals” after the inauguration. Now we’ve got Stephen Miller basically recreating internment camps and Laura Loomer talking about feeding 65 million Hispanics to alligators.