Hopefully Canada and Europe can capitalize on this moment and scoop up some US based researchers during this brain drain. It would be a shame if researchers felt the need to go to China instead

Judging by the comments here this truly is an unpopular opinion.

Ah okay that makes sense. Too bad the drivers are closed source that might be the cause of a lot of these issues

Nice. Which model is it?

Yeah the self-hosting thing is new, its really clunky and they dont encourage you not to use it. I think (?) they may have even discontinued it.

Its odd to me that Signal is supposedly the gold standard yet it breaks all these privacy 101 rules. Such as requiring you hand over your phone number to a central authority, not really allowing you to self host, and not posting an official app on fdroid. I’ve heard that portions of its official repo are not even open source (though I haven’t verified this for myself). XMPP sounds like the better choice to be honest.

It also might be a dealbreaker from a privacy perspective. It’s weird that Signal, which is supposedly the gold standard, has this requirement.

Yeah do people actually pay in that price range for health care in the US? If so then thats absolutely bonkers

Why are linux options light on the tablet front? It should work the same as on a laptop

Why did you two opt for XMPP rather than Signal Messenger?

Right. But in this particular case it doesn’t make sense. If microbial life were found on, say, Mars then that would be a discovery by NASA, which is a civilian agency. As far as I’m aware you don’t need a security clearance to work at a civilian agency.

On the other hand if the US  found some unknown craft flying in their sky that would immediately become a military matter and so be classified by default

Yeah. If they classify microbial life because it conflicts with religious dogma then you’d expect them to classify any scientific finding that conflicts with religious dogma, which doesn’t seem to be the case.

David Grusch is another, more recent nerd to fall under this category

Why would they classify that information if its just microbial? The motivation for classification is clear if the aliens are flying around in UFOs (so they can reverse engineer their tech without adversaries of the US finding out) but there is no realistic motivation for why they might classify microbial life

Damn so thats why I keep buying potato chips

Why is that?

Yeah it always feels awkward getting people to celebrate me. Like “hey guys lets have a party where you give me gifts and celebrate my existence”. Seems weirdly presumptuous

You don’t have to get your friends involved, you can just do something nice for her. Just pretend that its Mothers Day or something

If you don’t want to celebrate your birthday, you can take the day to celebrate your mom. She’s the one who did all the work, after all. And I think pushing an entire human being out of your birth canal is worthy of some recognition.

i.e. a “dumb phone”

I agree that if you can get enough parents onboard with the no cell phone rule then it’s not a problem. But there’s a bit of a coordination problem there so that might not be achievable in all circumstances