Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@sendpaws
KDE has the same thing. Even worse in a way, cause if I enable suspend-then-hibernate via KDE, it does work when the timers run out. After say 5 minutes the system goes to sleep, and after an hour it hibernates. BUT if I make the mistake of putting the system to sleep via the start menu option, it NEVER hibernates, even if you expect if to.
As far as the user is concerned, sleep is sleep, and I did tell it to hibernate after sleep... But no. Turns out the start menu option remains tied to systemd suspend.

@djsumdog In the last few years I keep hearing of archeologist discoveries that push back when various species of humans started, or when they left Africa, so it would not be impossible to cram in somewhere a new undiscovered civilization. The difficulty is, where are the artifacts left by the civilization? Clay figures, pots, writing in clay tablets, various tools, these are the traditional signs of civilization.

Even with massive floods, at some point you'll find something scattered somewhere because archeologists and geologists have been able to identify when and where flooding took place. So if you assume a flood wiped across a valley, you'll just go downstream, where the water would have settled everything it carried, and start digging for signs of the wiped civilization.

We could of course also be dealing with tribes that for one reason or another have their "technology" based mostly around biodegradable material. Less usage of stone, mud, clay, and more wood and plant matter, that would decompose and leave nothing to find for archeologists. They could still have had language, stories with basic philosophical concepts behind them, but expressed orally. You could have had civilizations that were intellectually advanced, but at the same time, you wouldn't be able to find evidence for it. At which point it would be like believing in Santa, with no evidence.

I've heard of Göbekli Tepe only in passing, and I just know that there's some fringe ideas about it being something, with little evidence to prove it. A geographical feature that looks as if it could be man made, but no human artifacts discovered.
I don't think I've heard of the Richat Structure.

I'm open to the idea, but ultimately it's important that we find conclusive evidence of human settlement. Even with cave men we've been able to find wall art and ash remains of fires lit by humans.

@cowanon
No. Mars' first colony won't be communist. If you want to know what the first space colonies will look like, you should look at what American colonies were like.

Conservative values, protestant values, traditional values, family values, meritocracy, free exchange. These are gonna be the words I expect will describe the first Mars colony.

@mischievoustomato

You might be interested in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1U1i6n0Ik
https://www.youtube.com/@SamekoSaba

@djsumdog
Here's an interesting though: what counts as an extinct civilization here? Would all humans have to die to call our civilization extinct? Or would we be deemed an extinct civilization even if we merely forever lost access to advanced technology, the thing that would give civilization status at the galactic scale? (imagine we simply run out of the resources needed to build that technology, and we're unable to find alternatives).

Cause I'm starting to think that the latter could be a reasonable possibility when it comes to alien life. Was watching a report earlier that it was predicted that we could run out of helium by the end of the century. Why is that important? Because it's used extensively during chip making these days (among other high tech uses). How fast would our civilization collapse if we suddenly were never able to make CPUs at least as powerful as current Ryzen or Threadripper?
There are countless rare elements our technology depends on, and running out of even a single one could radically change society. For the most of them, you at least can argue you'd spend whatever energy needed to recycle them. But for helium... when that escapes into the atmosphere, it's gone.

So imagine the galaxy, filled with 10,000 worlds, where civilizations maybe even more advanced then us existed, but they still couldn't travel between solar systems, they couldn't gather up the resources of other worlds, and once they ran out of critical resources on their world, they slowly reverted back to a feudal society. They could be even more, 100,000, 1 million, 100 million, and we'd never know, because their small window of technological prowess, of being able to communicate via powerful radio signals, has already passed long ago, before we discovered steam engines even.

How tragic would that be? A galaxy filled with beings as smart as us, but without the resources to actually put their intelligence to use.

Karen is not real, she can't ask for your manager.
Karen:

Remember how good Joker was? Well, technically I don't, cause I never watched it. When it came out, my first thought was: "WB makes shitty movies. I'm not watching this, because even if it's good, I'll just end up becoming invested in a franchise/series that will become shit".
So what happened? Joker 2 was universally considered shit.
So who was it that avoided all of it, that didn't get invested in this thing at all, and didn't get disappointed when WB did what it was bound to do?
Me. I was right.

@cowanon @coolboymew
As the guys at EFAP would say: why are we subjecting children to crap? Children, probably most of all, should be exposed to well written story telling, because it helps their brain develop. Not Disney slop.

@coolboymew @cowanon
I was a fan. But just like you, I received the message loud and clear back around Wonder Woman and Black Panther. "These things are not for you". So I stopped watching a lot of things. Star Wars being among them. These days I hear Andor is good, but I refuse to watch it too. It's not like their message actually changed. And even if it did, the Disney continuity is already poisoned. Not worth getting invested.

As a side note, this is your periodic reminder that there's more bad Star Wars cannon content than good Star Wars cannon content. As such, I say that this makes Star Wars an objectively bad franchise.

@cell Powerful things come in small packages.

@LukeAlmighty Disney: now give us money you bigot!!!

@LukeAlmighty
Disney: deal, but with a caveat... Starkiller is now an obese black woman... who's also non-binary or something.

@mischievoustomato

@earthling @mischievoustomato
✋ for the white part.
White supremacists are just a bunch of white niggers as far as I'm concerned.

@Mr_NutterButter
reel me in*
Jesus fuck... your typo made me think I was having an aneurysm. Technically not a hard mistake to make, but it messed with my brain so hard that it's hilarious.

@volandevsrat
Fuck it.. I'd give it a try. Can't be worse than what Disney has actually been putting out.

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
Sounds like a you (as in your country in particular) problem. I've learned Chemistry and Physics since age 11 till 16. Biology since age 10. And I stopped at 16 because I was specializing in economics. In most high-schools, you learn these until graduation. Astronomy was folded into Geography for me, which itself probably started at 9 or 10 years, along with History (for these 2 I can't remember for sure when we started).

I can't compare the grammar part apples to apples, cause I speak a different native language. I've had grammar lessons from the start of school till before high school. I could be wrong, but I do not remember any more grammar being done for my native language in high school.
But with English grammar (as a secondary language) I did have things being repeated and redone periodically, even at an university level. I'd wager that fields of study that touch on literature, journalism, might refresh some of the harder grammar for my native language at university too, but I wouldn't know for sure.

You're not distrustful of the experts. You're upset at politicians that toyed around with the school curriculum. Those aren't experts. They're just pretending that their jobs are important by constantly messing around with the curriculum, to make it seem like they're doing something.

It's not that you're wrong for being upset. Far from it. But you're misdirecting your feelings. Experts, of any field (apart from experts in corruption), have little to do with this.

@BasedLunatic
Don't know where this lady is from, but:
1) this is why we've invented something called "marriage". But maybe her feminist classes didn't teach her about it. In any case, if she got a thing called a "husband", they could both contribute money to paying that $2000 rent. Quite an outstanding invention really.
2) she literally just discovered real life and hard work. Am I supposed to feel sorry for her because she's tired at the end of the day, and her weekend is taken up by other stuff she needs to do? Yes, that's life. Most people deal with that. Often without crying on TikTok.

I wonder how many people got Pokemon triggered from that.

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