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It’s not, the lack of wolves caused the elk to become a problem. Returning the wolves is (according to the infographic) fixing the elk problems.

So it’s more like the wolves are policing the elk, it’s the wolves “fault” that the elk are not a problem.

Wow, so it’s lose-lose for the kids?!

I play multiplayer, I have a baby, I have a friend with a baby, I have another who’s a borderline alcoholic, it’s a miracle we all turn up for a scheduled game as often as we do.

Which I was the justification used when my work decided to use 2025-May-01.

It’s close enough to the iso date that nobody will be confused but with that 1 extra layer of security blanket to separate months and days.

Of course, that does ruin sorting, so I think it was a bit silly, nobody has ever used yyyyddmm so it’s all a bit theoretical to me.

Carbon capture is a niche technology that is probably worth exploring for a handful of genuinely useful scenarios, but suggesting it be the primary solution over renewables is full clown shoes and makeup, renewables are cheap and working and scalable, carbon capture is a dodgy halfarsed hack that might help us scrape over the line by solving the last few percent we can’t fix properly.

Subnautica devs: write that down!

I mean… the second half is a description of anyone, that’s what all our bodies are.

Wow, that might be the dumbest take I’ve ever seen.

“Humanity, a species that once contained individuals that once did something bad, lecturing anyone about not doing bad things is laughable.”

Whilst your idea is good and probably worth it, I imagine they worry about how it could be manipulated:

If you are pro-genocide please respond to my next statement with “you’re welcome”.

I will not, genocide is wrong.

Thank you

You’re welcome.

Breaking news: ai is evil, we all suspected it.

Moral authority is always dubious, violence or not.

Meh, let Dr Ian Malcom come in and worry about the ethics after we’ve published.

Definitely depends on who teaches history, my history teacher was far from the best, but they didn’t gloss over the darker parts of our history, and certainly never justified the empire as anything more than a power grab by a nation that took because it could.

It’s certainly dangerous to have too rosy a view of our past, but I don’t think our history is exactly a secret.

That said, we do have a skewed view of the good and bad actions in our history, but I’m less convinced that’s a serious problem, it might even be beneficial, if framed correctly (ie we can’t hide when we’re sampling a rare good moment amongst a sea of horror).

To use an example from another nations history to avoid bias, statistically speaking it wouldn’t be justified for Germany to teach about Schindler, he was one unusual individual and not representative at all. But it seems critical that they do teach about him, because he represents the hope of a better nation buried within the darkness, they need stories like that to show that the making things better is always possible.

Maybe it’s important to teach both the overall horror of our past (to discourage fools thinking the empire was a good thing), and also focus on the rare moments when good came through nonetheless, because those are the moments we need to continue creating, and burying them under cynicism (even accurate cynicism) helps nobody?

Or maybe I’m overthinking it.

Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s the ipv4 of communication. You can list 100 things bad about it and none of it matters, too many things are now built on top of it, no competitor can possibly have a chance without first reimplementing email, and then they’re just adding extensions which everyone else ignores, and email continues.

The more plausible threat to email is that it gets siloed into the top 5 or 6 providers and everyone else gets filtered out as spam (ie you need gmail, hotmail, etc or your emails will never reach anyone)

Seems like an awful waste of police resources, if nothing else.

For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.

Pretty much, yeah. If you assume the number will be somewhere “in the middle”, then pick any number to be in the middle of 0 and infinity, you’ll always find you can double the number and still not be at infinity, so eventually you have to conclude that the halfway point is also infinity.

True enough, it would not be a wise economic or political move

I specifically didn’t ignore that. My entire point was that a driver that refuses to drive under anything except “ideal circumstances” is still a safer driver.

I am aware that if we banned driving at night to get the same benefit for everyone, it wouldn’t go very well, but that doesn’t really change the safety, only the practicality.

If you select a number “fairly” (ie every number equally likely, not skewed towards smaller numbers) and your scale goes to infinity, I’m pretty sure the number you get out will be infinitely long, almost always (sure, you could get the number 10, but infinity is… infinite, so any number that gets picked will tend to be beyond anything we ever experience or know how to write down)

To put it another way, using your scheme, we’d only ever need 1 random number ever, it’d just keep printing forever and we could cut up chunks of it whenever we needed some random and it would just keep printing on and on.