I think before all browsers ended up filling it in, it was standard practice to set up the server to intercept anything missing that part before the domain name and stick a “www” in front so it wouldn’t just dead end. Basically a redirect.

What can be also hard is to admit that you don’t know, but that can be turned into a good thing by admitting your ignorance and either listening to someone’s reasoning, or together try to find an answer. Especially with kids, part of being a parent was learning with them as you seeked out answers to a simple question that you weren’t sure about. A subset of the XKCD Ten Thousand. Being right or appearing to know something isn’t always as good as the journey to get to the actual facts.

You could also prefix something you’re not fully sure about with “From what I understand”. That lets you pivot to being wrong if the other person presents better facts, but also is a more positive if your position remains solid.

It’s like them championing state’s rights. Or free market. They’re all about the slogans if they get the votes, until they aren’t.

That actually makes sense. At least to explain the picture. If you’re going to concrete over the whole bay, an underground rail system is easy.

What I see lacking is a dedicated way to get all the trucks and trains in for the supply chain.

Using LLMs that way with the knowledge that it is a sort of mirror of yourself works much better than pretending it’s an actual consciousness that understands you. Think of it as a modern journal or diary that you can put thoughts into and then get back more organized, maybe with some ideas to branch from.

I looked on my instance’s federation (fedia.io) just to see what it was, and while the defederated list wasn’t nearly as long compared to the federated, what struck me is how many there are. Lots of people out there with their own now. And from what it looked like, most of the defederated ones seem to be single user ones, so that tracks for how many spammers there used to be in the first year vs. now.

The loss is the imagined future that you would have continued to grow in your mind into something that becomes regret for a non-existent thing. Find out if there’s anything there. If there is, great. If not, then you know where you stand and can use your energy for things that have potential.

A bonus for just saying something without expectations is that you’ll be more yourself, so anything that does happen is based on a realistic setting and not some planned outcome that distracts you.

The only thing worse than the mind games some people play with others is the mind games you play with yourself. But you can stop doing the latter.

Yeah, Erika beat everyone to that.

It’s meta, you don’t give a fuck about even telling people you don’t give a fuck.

Then in your 60s you begin to forget that you ever did have a fuck.

I could think of a few subjects, but with such a short time to prepare I’d probably ramble on like a rabbit hole of connections to related stuff. It wouldn’t be a great TED talk overall.

When the first image of black hole was due to be released, a few science channels had videos on what we should see (and did). And was also depicted as in the movie Interstellar.

had one of the first and supposedly the best and easiest to understand using visual aids.

The very simplest reason is because of the accretion disk, which is the only part we can actually see, and how the black hole’s gravity warps the back part of the disk around so we see many sides of it that we wouldn’t without the strong gravity bending the light. I.e., we don’t see the part of Saturn’s rings that are behind the planet.

The positive use has been covered by other comments. Aware of things.

The negative use is much like certain red hats. It helps show which people to avoid having discussions with, as they’ll beat you with their experience in idiocy. My usual response to them if any at all is “the opposite of woke is sleeping”.

Then you’re wasting their time and yours, as well as the effort to change anything. That’s the funny thing about the “danger” of voter fraud, it rarely is a problem because of how little one vote alone has any power. Maybe a small local district that comes close to a tie. Not that your votes isn’t important, but it’s one drop in a bathtub of water. If no one votes, it’s empty.

But they want you to think that it’s the few people who may try this that’s the problem so they can put in ID laws for other purposes, and to deflect attention from the efforts of mass manipulation of results or the disenfranchising of large demographics in strategic areas. That isn’t done by the voters, but by those in control or who work for them.

Everything he touches…

It would have been a longer and more complex article requiring a lot of research if they tried to go through all the issues that could be contributing. Hell, it’d be a book.

It was joining Facebook long ago and adding people I knew that made me realize I’m not going to ever bother going to a reunion. I only had a few close friends in high school, and the rest… well, let’s just say it didn’t take long for me to block their constant postings about all sorts of junk topics. My mistake was seeing Facebook as a newer version of the BBS forums, but once I figured out it’s all about saying “look at me”, and not about actual discussion… not my thing.

The LCD screen and size were the selling point beginning with the first ones. Newer phones can do more, and for some that might be better, but I don’t like the smaller screen, and will go to a computer before I try to see a website on my phone. Guess it depends on your needs and priorities.

Getting ready to retire, and boy I do not want to be around once my scripting that everyone relies on breaks. And it will, it requires regular upkeep by me. Not by design or maliciousness, but because of Microsoft 365 stupidity. But oh well…