Yea the issue with algorithms is that they don’t adapt to your viewing habits, they instead try to adapt your viewing to known “rabbit holes” that have massive engagement. Conspiracy content is one of the biggest ones on there and thus a ton of people get pushed conspiracy videos constantly. Thankfully there is also a large (but not nearly as large) anti-conspiracy community that is debunking a lot of stuff constantly, and calling out how stupid this stuff is.

I would be very surprised if it was that far away to be honest. They estimate there are likely trillions of planets in our own galaxy now. For us to be the only one would be absurdly unlikely.

As far as the history of the universe is concerned we are actually super early on in its lifespan. So in some ways it’s actually more likely that we will be one of the early civilizations that perish before the others show up.

Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I’ve seen really allows you to do that easily.

Searching medical records for people with diagnosed autism I assume.

I’m guessing you don’t know that vaccines generally rely on heard immunity to be effective? If a significant portion of the population doesn’t take the vaccine, even people who have the vaccine might get infected. On another note, immuno compromised people might have legitimate reasons for not getting the vaccine, and rely on that same herd immunity.

They’ve released less than 1% of the files. Still plenty of things we have yet to see.

Yea it was mostly supposed to be tongue in cheek :P Not actually mad or anything

Yes, I acknowledge all of that. Which is why I was correcting you when you said every one of us is descended from immigrants looking for a better life. It’s wrong to act like they are completely gone, not because it makes our ancestors look bad, but because it erases the people and cultures who are still here with us and persevere.

You can also just disable it, which is much more secure. You can have it not open your locked phone but still be used to verify it’s you in apps which is also nice.

I mean, native Americans/native indians still exist. So not everyone

Find someone with a 3d printer. Your local library might have one even. I’m printing 55 whistles every 6 hours for around 7 cents a whistle.

So as far as I know, and I am no expert to be clear, the whole reason Europa even has a liquid ocean under the ice is because of tidal heating. Where the moon itself is pushed and pulled, heating it up immensely because of the friction of that action. So there would be no “air pockets” as such, because the ice itself is the thing creating the ocean. And due to ice being less dense than water the ocean would actually be exerting pressure on the ice mantle, not the other way around. I think this is one of the driving forces of the cryovolcanism found on Europa.

Why would you assume the ice isn’t being squished/stretched as well?

Not certain about the mars trilogy but there is a collapsing space elevator in the foundation series (at least on the show, haven’t read the books yet.)

I think that depends on how big the tether is tbh. It has to be usable as an elevator so it can’t just be a thin cable. And your scenario is assuming that it would be cut down near the base, if it’s damaged anywhere higher up anything below the cut will fall down to earth.

Ah thanks, I was a dingus and looked up the diameter instead of the circumference. Still doesn’t really matter where you build it. No matter what it’s fucking up a a good portion of the equator if it falls.

Nevermind our reputation. I don’t think our society itself will recover from this.

By the necessities of its design a space elevator has to reach geostationary orbit, which would make it tall enough to wrap around the planet twice if it fell. Wouldn’t really matter if you built it on a west coast or not.

You just said that no one else is the problem except the people who voted for the Democrats. And you think that’s an irrefutable case? You are delusional or intentionally trolling.