The way to get past the bad part is to remember than you WON’T remember the lesson and you’ll have the moment of enjoyment with coffee again.

So “the friends we made along the way”.

That’s 2.5B with 80 views a day, or 1.25 with 160 a day. Sadly those numbers aren’t that unbelievable the way people consume short media. Just average it out so some make up for others only watching a few.

Oh, that’s you. Good, I thought it was me.

And depending on your refrigerator’s settings and insulation, the door compartments may be cold enough for more stable things but not for things like milk. Too me a bit to figure out having the milk in the door was both convenient and cutting its lifetime down a lot. Only takes a few degrees, plus the large door shelf is usually higher up, where the warmer air is.

The protomolecule was out there anyway, just a matter of when. Same plot as in Alien(s), it’s almost like this is what corporations do.

Great, they went crazy with the find and replace and redacted all the math and physics work that went into figuring out the Epstein Fusion Drive. Now we’ll never get off this rock.

You’re probably right, as that is the tendency of most people, to not have to go outside a comfort zone. It’s also assuming that’s true, and for all you know people who are stating this very thing might also be trying to do local action and failing because they’re alone. So rather than put someone down for asking a valid question, we could explore why people aren’t doing much of anything overall, and what can be done to change that outside of things getting far worse (which they will, as they have before).

Dawkins’ book “Climbing Mount Improbable” is a great and easy read to introduce the idea of making something complex and seemingly designed for its purpose a much more probable thing to happen if broken into small changes over huge amounts of time. And it’s like 30 years old, so probably outdated with more and better evidence now.

There is an old Youtube video by cdk007 (that’s still up!) that tackles a related fallacy, where finding a watch on the beach implies a watchmaker because nothing complex can evolve. He created a simulation using watch parts and evolutionary rules to show complexity does arise with the right conditions and enough time.

“Intelligent design”

Oh, I don’t think so.

Is that phrase even used anymore, or did it run its course of insanity and die off?

Only one minor flaw with this - Syril may have had a brief second of awareness that he was on the wrong side and had been deluded his whole life. I can’t say I’ve seen examples of this in reality.

Maybe a bit niche, and I haven’t played in a while, but the piped in bar music at stations for Elite Dangerous was incredible. It did not have to be that diverse and immersive, but their sound team doesn’t do anything less than 100%.

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It’s all he knows.

The vacuum problems kill the Hyperloop design just like they kill any major mass launcher ideas from Earth. On the Moon both will work great.

Mass rail transit itself is something that ought to be more wide spread. Just not like that.

The world’s first panorama. Da Vinci was just setting up a scene like in That 70’s Show, but people didn’t get it so he redid the bottom as a full table.

In addition to what’s been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he’s President.

Underemployment has always been an ignored statistic. The media and government report a single number as some sort of status of the economy, when it’s so much more complex than one data point.

I meant it as the phrase. The word itself for me has a very broad meaning contextually and is overused. I hope that gives a better impression of my value system.

I’m sure you understand that’s a phrase, not an implication that artists are all heroes. But it does apply. The person you see do something great and heroic may also have certain things about them that would ruin your image you have in our mind created from the good actions. We’re all people with potentials and flaws.