Back when I used to mod Reddit, starting maybe a year or so ago we'd occasionally get users who would be inexplicably targeted by the auto-filter.
The accounts weren't new, weren't shadowbanned, weren't using any filter-triggering words (that I could guess at), and an examination via Pushshift didn't reveal any kind of spammy behavior. Nonetheless, their posts would get silently removed by the site-wide filter, and frequently we wouldn't even know until they modmailed us.
Now I can't help but wonder if this was a result of a beta-test of something like this. Something they had done had invisibly lowered their "Reddit credit", leaving us as confused as them.
Hate to tell you this, but 'locking jaw' in any breed is a myth. There's no such thing; 'lockjaw' is a bacterial infection, but has no relationship to breed (and in any case, won't result in the jaw locking only after a bite).
The Discord notification thing actually is actually a really cool idea. That's where it feels like it moves from hobby into daily practical use kind of stuff.
One question I have, if you don't mind - did the washer/dryer come with some smart functionality, or did you have to do somethin like opening them up and wiring into the electrical line for the beep speaker to sense voltage?
Two-hundred-ish years in the future, humans have become really good at tinkering with food genetics to boost their productivity.
Which is probably a good thing, because the majority of humans live in giant space stations, and so being able to grow food which is tolerant of extremes in temperature, gravity, radiation, etc. is really helpful in keeping everyone fed. Even so, getting truly fresh food is something of a small luxury - you can probably afford it, but not for everything.
One side effect of this is that almost no meat or animal products actually come from animals as we would recognize them. Even seafood products are derived from massive cell-culture farms, rather than complete organisms. Depending on your point of view this may or may not be a good thing; there definitely are people out there who claim to be able to tell the difference.
One possibility I don't see here, as portrayed from both the predator- and prey-perspectives. Tentatively I'd call it "Pragmatism", "Utilism", or maybe "Mutualism":
##Carnivores:
"We understand that other species shouldn't be expected to give up their lives just for our consumption. However, death comes for us all anyhow, and we shouldn't be expected to deny our own nature either. Once they are already passed, so long as it is safe, their remains should be sent to us for consumption. That way, no herbivore suffers nor do we starve."
##Herbivores:
"It is not the fault of a Carnivore that they are born as such, any more than it is our fault we are born as we are. Neither of us should be expected to give up our lives or well-being for the benefit of others, but once we've passed away? Flesh is just flesh, not life. We should accept that our bodies should be turned over to the greater good of cooperation between our clades."
(Notably, I am aware that this ideology would require many, many more prey than predators, possibly rendering predators a disliked minority in any society that practiced it.)
Here's a picture of a to-scale model to emphasize what the other comment is saying - Ingenuity isn't that small, and also remember that Mars' surface gravity is only about 40% of Earth's.
Stuff from locally-owned stores. Tools, supplies, car parts, food... if the markup isn't egregious, I'll always try and get from them before a big box or online. Not only does it help the owners, but they're frequently knowledgeable and can sometimes work stuff out for you.
They don’t understand how to use a search engine effectively anymore or how to rapidly filter through large amounts of information to find answers
This bit, at least, may be at least as much a fault of the environment - the increasing awfulness of search results these days. It used to be you could search a specific issue (e.g., "borked.exe high CPU usage" or "how to partition a drive") and your first results would be relatively well-written sites run by actual tech people. More recently, though, it feels like:
The first 5-8 results are near-identical "help" sites that are 40% introduction, 40% basic troubleshooting steps, 15% "download our app!", and 5% actually useful tips.
There are tech site results listed... but they're from 2016, a different software version, maybe even a different OS.
"Okay, so, to fix this problem you first need... [SIGN IN TO CONTINUE READING]
If you're very, very lucky, you'll find a Reddit (or now, Lemmy) thread on the issue.
I'd consider myself pretty technically savvy, and even I find it frustrating to search for IT info or fixes these days. The newest problem is AI-written answers cooked up for you on the spot, which are frequently completely unhelpful yet pushed to the top of the results.
I am really, really glad that someone else had said this before I got here.
The opening of ANH is a really great demonstration of minimalist storytelling. Not a moment of design - starship, character, action, nothing - is wasted; every interaction conveys something be it emotion or plot points. And after forcing the audience to sit through the opening crawl, I think that deluge of information is needed - anything less would have lost the audience.
Assuming the majority of the material on it is still Radium, the good news is it's mostly undergoing Alpha decay - which can be stopped by something as simple as your skin. Depending on the decay chain, there's also probably a bit of Beta decay in there, for which a strong metal box will probably suffice.
But the real point here is that 10 uSv is the radiation equivalent of being alive for an average day, so brief exposure is unlikely to cause real injury. But here are some things you can do if you're still concerned:
Limit time exposed to it. It's okay to take it out to show to friends and family, but otherwise keep it somewhere people aren't likely to be nearby.
The aforementioned metal box.
Wash your hands thoroughly after handling, and/or wear gloves. It's unlikely, especially if the radium-painted parts are under glass, but possible that radioactive materials could end up on your skin. Washing hands should prevent this.
If you've heard of the "Radium girls", the thing that really made them sick is that they were licking radium-coated paintbrushes, causing radioactive material to end up inside their bodies. Since (I presume) you're not licking the compass, you're much less at risk.
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Back when I used to mod Reddit, starting maybe a year or so ago we'd occasionally get users who would be inexplicably targeted by the auto-filter.
The accounts weren't new, weren't shadowbanned, weren't using any filter-triggering words (that I could guess at), and an examination via Pushshift didn't reveal any kind of spammy behavior. Nonetheless, their posts would get silently removed by the site-wide filter, and frequently we wouldn't even know until they modmailed us.
Now I can't help but wonder if this was a result of a beta-test of something like this. Something they had done had invisibly lowered their "Reddit credit", leaving us as confused as them.