I mean you have a point.it’s now literally impossible to grasp the achievements we will be capable of soon, even with this early success of ai. Sufficiently capable ai could present opportunities once thought impossible and we will be able to build things far beyond our current abilities.

I suppose I’ll wait and see how things shake out

A big part of the reason weather is predictable now is because of the reliability of the jet stream and Gulf Stream, which are both weakening due to climate change. Once these are sufficiently weakened, predictability of weather patterns critical for travel through air or weather will absolutely be affected enough to all but halt these methods of travel, unless we innovate or begin delivering in subs.

It’s hard to tell how quickly all of this will happen of course and to what degree it will affect us when, but my own personal belief is that with every study seeming to underestimate the effects, it doesn’t seem far enough off to not plan for.

Cautious calling any news good news on this precipice

Totally. And once weather become unpredictable, we lose the ability to travel safely over oceans, or even eventually by car, decimating trade, and everyone’s precious economy.

Gonna have to find a good spot to settle in for it.

It doesn’t sound like you’re addicted to chatGPT

Yea he didn’t fund it, he bought it, and then we subsidized it as tax payers.

They didn’t one up NASA, who has been underfunded for decades, and has landed humans on the moon, they outspent them.

Collecting taxes which are owed anyway, and funding important programs is a good way to be one of those with “lots of money” and can get things done fast.

The dictators didn’t get us to the moon, funding NASA and recruiting scientists and engineers through funding got us to the moon.

Billionaires are leeches and thieves and they don’t get to just decide when society advances.

Pretty sure a couple of random dudes who fixed bikes made the airplane, and nasa invented a ton of “true advancements” using our tax dollars, without some dumb billionaire turning the rocket into a penis analogue.

We don’t need to wait for a thieving boss to decide to help so they can commodify their premium limbs to those worthy, we extract the help from them in the form of owed taxes, and move society forward together.

Rather, we should just fund medical research and enact universal healthcare, and give the billionaires some free time to pay and file their full taxes.

Thank you!!

Right, but, let’s say I haven’t seen it. What is it?

What is this casual gigantic hand in front of him??

Totally, it would definitely necessitate someone hitting the campaign trail with bully pulpit against those corporatist senators and washing in those willing to primary them and enact progressive reform. Lot of things have to go right, but the support is there nationwide, even to flip seats with the right campaign.

Nearly inconceivable but not quite impossible .

Go on

If we vote for someone legendary like a Bernie we could prob get it before the water wars

And people are buying them because they’re too broke to buy or repair a washing machine.

And there’s only one company making them until they create a profit margin large enough for amazon basics to start making their own.

I didn’t say that

Just completely unnecessary the shit these companies do with new technology.

A great many things I have which do not need to be connected to the internet to function.

When I grow up….older than I am currently… I will produce goods that last a long time and do not require a subscription or internet access to function. I will make a meager profit, as that is all that is necessary.

Anything in space fits the question really.

But anyway, I keep hearing about these habitable planets. I would take a one man rocket out of here to one of them with an atmosphere, water, and oxygen and just kick it. Maybe bring a solar cell, my switch, and a couple of sandwiches. Figure the rest out.

That’s fair

I don’t know, when someone says they have a pretty good chunk I think 500k

Well you misstated it, so that’s why included it. I’ve not reached any conclusions, I’m merely stating that it is very strange to pretend that us humans can say the Milky Way is the only galaxy known to contain life, having barely peered elsewhere in the immensity, and knowing so little. There is also zero evidence that life emerged here. Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum of space, so it is just as likely that life came from elsewhere as it spontaneously emerging here.

Lol I don’t have a want for anything to be true, only to know what is.

My comment was based on scale. To say the Milky Way is the only galaxy known to contain life is true. But only to us, who have done very little in the way of exploring, know very little about what could possibly be out there, have an extremely limited number of resources to use to even begin to search for life, and have only barely begun to use them to do so.

Out of the millions of galaxies, the billions of stars and planets, which could potentially contain life, we have barely searched 2 planets with rovers, and have only searched for alien life through radio waves otherwise.

What I’m saying is we are trying to find a needle in a haystack, have done a once over of a single straw of hay next to us, and declared there are no needles in this haystack.

Known to us, a single inhabitant in the boonies of one arm of the Milky Way who has done little to even try to check besides a little bit of radio wave monitoring

Do they?

What?