I don’t really run into ads so no.

All I’m saying is I’ve seen many beautiful ladies age with a very similar change in facial structure from Megan’s before and after photos at top in 20 years (and yeah, it’s semi-shockingly been ~20 years between those photos).

P. S. Yeah you’re right Laura Loomer. That’s definitely surgery on her, much larger change and shorter time-scale.

Nah left is original, right post-surgery. Two ladies. Megan Fox and… I forget the other one at the bottom.

I think Megan looks fine BTW… Just did this think called aging, not necessarily botched surgery.

Quality meme skills. I’d say marry her, but you already did.

So what’s the dealio with Pebble as far as privacy and FOSS?

It’s open source? I see it claims to be, but I’m dubious because it’s Google that agreed to OS it, and it relies on Google Play (can also only install from Google store) so I presume it has some deep tendrils in the backend, hoovering up data.

Anyone know if it works OK on MicroG etc? I’ve never had a smartwatch, but if I was to try one the Pebble at least looks interesting.

Cheers

Yep how do you bring back the advancement chief?

Travel? Cool, by the time it arrives, the exact same amount of time will have passed locally as remote. The 100 years of advancement will arrive after your local advancement + travel time. So it will already be out of date. Useless.

You’d have to use faster than light travel, or communication - eg by quantum entanglement over a distance ten million orders of magnitude greater than we’ve ever witnessed it. Woah, did someone say that this is fundamentally impossible with our current understanding and technology? Yes, they did. Reading is fun.

You’re telling me what I was talking about? Returning back in time is exactly the comment I was responding to.

This is incredibly random but I’ve been wondering lately what might happen if we colonized a place where comparatively speaking time moves much faster than on Earth.

In theory you could bring back years of advancement in a shorter timespan, but this is obviously just a pipe dream.

This goal is impossible for the reasons I explained.

Yep, and as I said, the return trip with all the rapidly evolved super-geniuses would be the impossible part of the plan.

You can’t travel someplace else - experience say 100 years, and then travel back to your place of departure and have had only 20 years passed. That’s fundamentally impossible.

I explicitly said ‘return back as though less time had passed’ - i.e. backwards time travel - was theoretically impossible.

I never claimed travel forward though time was not.

Interstellar is just a movie, mate. There is no such planet, time passes at the same rate everywhere - ie the caesium standard.

Time dilation is a thing, but as far as I’m aware it’s not possible to travel someplace, pass any greater amount of time, and then return as though less time had passed - that’s time travel. It’s theoretically impossible, at least with current technology and understanding of relativity. Great movie though.

Edit: downvote if you don’t understand that time dilation isn’t magic, and you can’t travel back through time.

Blockchain is here. NFTs are here. The Metaverse is here.

Not long ago they were the ‘unavoidable evolution of technology’ that we were sometimes scolded for mocking.

Maybe they won’t go away, ever. But that’s actually not important.

Just because a technology exists doesn’t mean it will be relevant whatsoever in the future - even if the technology is ostensibly a huge market with billions of dollars being poured into it, and there’s nothing wrong with calling out stupid technology and complaining about it.

The AI LLM slopaverse is both a stupid business model and a stupid technology (given the amount of investment and valuations). Considering real world utility of LLMs I’d say it deserves around 1/1000th of the current investment - if rational people ran the world.

Good job standing up to unsafe bullshit in the workplace. It’s never easy.

So, like… wisdom.

I’d want to visit that garden, place looks picturesque.

Bummer. When this kinda thing happens to me I just accept the fate the universe has delivered me, and pick off the sticker for like 45 minutes while watching an episode or something.

No other removal method has proven reliably non-damaging.

What a beautiful Anas platyrhynchos stallion.

What a reactionary zealot response.

This is a dumb exclusionary policy being fairly pointed out, not ageism.

I’ll explain it with a comparision of the language used.

The language used for benches like this in my country, Australia: “Priority seating. Please stand for seniors, pregnant, or handicapped people”.

Priority, based on needs. Anyone can use it otherwise.

The language used in this sign: “Benches are for seniors are handicapped citizens only”

Exclusionary, based on privilege and needs. If you are old and infirm and a citizen ONLY YOU may ever use this bench, and if you’re not a citizen (tourist, asylum seeker, migrant worker) you can fuck off regardless of your needs. Pregnant women? Who cares, they’re not old and they’re women.

This is not a subtle distinction. This is language used to assert a hierarchy and exclude underclasses, and it’s embedded into every aspect of US society without most people even noticing because they’ve never seen different.

I disagree wholeheartedly. This is a dumb exclusionary policy being fairly pointed out, not ageism.

I’ll explain it with a comparision of the language used.

The language used for benches like this in my country, Australia: “Priority seating. Please stand for seniors and handicapped people”.

Priority, based on needs. Anyone can use it otherwise.

The language used in this sign: “Benches are for seniors are handicapped citizens only”

Exclusionary, based on privilege and needs. If you are old and infirm and a citizen ONLY YOU may ever use this bench, and if you’re not a citizen (tourist, asylum seeker, migrant worker) you can fuck off regardless of your needs.

This is not a subtle distinction. This is language used to assert a hierarchy and exclude underclasses, and it’s embedded into every aspect of your society without most people even noticing because they’ve never seen different.

Its amazing the amount of obvious highly personal profile information people will give away just for a little convenience, nary a care that its impossible to get back once it’s gone.

The simple fact is that we hairless apes were never meant to have the sum of all human knowledge and endless distractions available to us at all times.

We’re inquisitive creatures and it’s hard AF to put that phone down when dopamine loop at 1am.