Mirshe

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't matter much with these. They're in low orbits, barely scraping the thermosphere, and are designed and launched with an eye to deorbiting within several years. Even if they smash each other to bits, most of the pieces will deorbit and burn up in a few years, tops.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If you ignore all the sinkings of ro-ro ferries...

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I'm almost guaranteeing these are marketed toward women, so yes, that was probably a source of great amusement for the designers.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago

I was about to say, all those third world countries in Africa and South America are looking to do wind, solar, etc because it's cheap and independent, rather than relying on coal or gas from other nations.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just had half a building fall on them.

The rollcage ain't saving you from that much concrete.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

To be entirely fair, Papal infallibility was only really defined in 1870.

Now, Papal supremacy (the idea that the Pope is the ruling agent over the entire Church, and that their decisions must be unhindered) is ancient.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well of course, first you invent the ansible.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm familiar, but I think there's a lot of less extreme thought along the same lines throughout especially the C-levels and presidential classes. It's gone beyond being a selling point and started into being a full-on belief because they've been selling the lie so long.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is also a growing cadre of these people who, I think, truly and deeply believe Peter Thiel's hype about making a godlike super AI. Silicon Valley has been due for a religious awakening for years, and a techno-god that you can, theoretically, entreat with personally from the safety of your browser window? It's tailor-made. At the very least, I feel like a lot of them have fallen into Pascal's Wager about the whole thing, and that's enough for them to devote time and energy and the limitless money they can beg or borrow to this.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It already is. Trump's lackeys already went waving paper to Congress to get them to figure out legal wording to bypass the 14th without another Amendment. I expect we'll see that sometime around November or December.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be entirely fair, then, this happened to me. It's how I discovered being nonbinary.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

American law continues to be built on "oh we forgot to make that a law" and "oh we didn't think that would matter".

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