On the other hand, do keep in mind that mighty empires have fallen. We cannot say for sure that things will be fine just because in the past the USA has survived

organizing absolutely has. Ever heard of the civil rights movement and the black panthers? And various kinds of organizing similar to that throughout history?

Now, critically, the organizing that worked wasn’t exactly… non-disruptive. It’s not enough to just stand with signs yelling at designated government hours, it’s about making life hell for those in power, until your demands are met.

Maybe because reading is a sign of being intelligent/cultured in people’s mind, and people on average value that slightly more than physical fitness

Some people just have unusual features

You know, I think it’s interesting how this used to be considered the nutjob’s territory just a bit over 10 years ago. And now, at least for the USA, this might be the thing that keeps you out of jail.

It’s kinda frightening

There will be plenty of uses for high speed wireless connections once the new mobile networks with big capacities come online. There’s pleeeenty of research on the applications.

A huge part of newer mobile network generations is the increased capacity. Faster speeds is effectively the same as more capacity in the towers.

This means that companies could actually afford to start offering unlimited data caps, there just has to be the push to do so. But I do genuinely believe that within a decade there will be no more datacaps for mobile data in cities, at least (or at least plenty of plans with unlimited and no throttling). Well, idk about the US considering you got data caps on broadband, but, I’m sure Europe will get it.

The nice thing about celcius and kelvin is that they’re the same scale, but celcius is just shifted 273.15 units. And it’s more intuitive for humans to work with smaller numbers with bigger relative differences. But yes, kelvin would be a lot better to work with, especially considering stuff like doubling temperature (doubling energy) would actually work correctly in kelvin.

But if there’s one thing that makes a lot of sense to base temperature enough for human use, I would indeed say it’s water, because all life uses water, we are completely surrounded by it, and it’s super important to nearly everything we do too.

I always considered this comic to be tongue in cheek, In practice it would not end up like this.

Yeah, we really are steamrolling right into a cyberpunk dystopia, aren’t we? Well, if we can even include the world “punk” there. It might as well just be cyber-capitalism in the end.

Seriously? That’s my home setup, and a lot of my friends also have 3 monitors.

I’m surprised you don’t know anyone who has three monitors. It’s common for tech-y people.

It’s not practical given our current technology, but theoretically it could be in the (far) future, in a situation where energy is abundant but matter is not.

Which, admittedly, is likely gonna stay a very niche situation. Mass is the densest form of energy that we know of, after all.

From the people who love to say “it’s just words, words can’t hurt you” here comes “books and words are super dangerous and needs to be banned!”

My arch install doesn’t brick itself by itself. Sometimes an update needs some manual intervention but that doesn’t brick it.

It’s funny, because at first the hawkish right loved ukraine

Okay, but unless you have a proper harness and other safety equipment, you face a heavy risk of severely, likely permanently, injuring yourself if you slip up.

This time it will be different!!!

And then people say competition is what makes society go around.

Nah, cooperation is the core of everything we do, and we should embrace it as much as possible.

Imagine if we managed to make a translator for the speech of an animal, knowing what they say and being able to say something back. Literally speaking with animals. That would have been so amazing and revolutionizing.

Yeah, seriously. The path is so obvious and linear for society today due to that. I feel like it just gets easier to predict the future, from axioms such as “the rich are powerful and will always try to expand their influence and cement their rule”.

It’s easy to see that climate change will never be solved for as long as something big doesn’t change, wealth inequality will keep rising, it will just keep being more and more expensive to live and own things, working conditions won’t improve or may even worsen, automation will put out more and more people out of a job, creating a massive crisis, poor countries will get worse leading to wars or other crises, and ever more commercialization of everything, such as art and hobbies.

At least, unless it collapses/a revolution happens.