Building registers and such helps. It’s very achievable… You can physically build memory or a nand gate on a breadboard

I don’t know how I’d jump the gap from minerals to transistors, but I know how they’re arranged

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

No, humans can’t, scholars can. Most humans could learn historical materialism to the level they could pass a course on it, but the vast majority can’t apply this type of analytical lens in practice.

It’s a matter of disposition, the ability to look at a situation from multiple angles and question your beliefs about it isn’t something that can be taught, only learned. You can walk someone through it step by step over and over, even train them to go through a process when prompted, but without a certain disposition they’ll never actually use this ability without promoting

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again

Because that’s not how people think. Not anyone.

You can study history, and if you do it right you’ll see how stupid and individually directed most things are. It’s all conspiracies, that’s how the world has worked for millennia

One realization doesn’t free your mind and make you a scholar… That’s just not how humans work

Yeah, honestly I think it’s a little dumb, but they seemed to be having fun with it. It’s not even like it’s that hard to read, they put way more effort into it than it takes to read it

We need to be way more ok with people getting a little weird with it

Honestly, most people suck at giving gifts. Most people struggle to put themselves in someone else’s shoes

Your SO probably put real thought into the gift, and paid attention to you to come up with a good idea. And most people think new is better (although I’m with you). They think it’s sour grapes or something when you tell them how you enjoy the fact something has been with you for all this time, and how you’ve carefully repaired it over the years

So all in all, that’s a halfway well thought out gift. More effort than most people put into them, anyways. They were probably really excited and proud of themselves

I don’t know what to do with that information… Personally I’d probably accept the gift and leave it in the closet as a backup. I’m not sure if that’s better or not, but it would spread the experience out

People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem

They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload

The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented

Fair… When people ask me how I am I say I can’t complain, because I can’t… It’s not socially acceptable

You can have canned questions too, but I find that makes the whole thing feel even more empty. Personally, I like to talk about the weather not being normal, or about store prices rising and such. Just little observations that any sane person would agree is both true and a problem

It’s my own version of checking if they’ll make friendly noises… If you can’t acknowledge the world is falling apart or think Trump is going to magically fix it, we don’t have the common ground to keep talking. I’d rather sit there in awkward silence

I think a lot of social situations become easier once you flip it around and ask what outcome you want out of it.

Maybe it’s ok to have deeper small talk. Maybe when people don’t respond with friendly noises, they’ve failed your friendliness test

Mitochondria are specialized mini-cells

They have their own DNA like bacteria, just floating around inside their membranes. They undergo their own mitosis inside the cell, some cells can have hundreds of them

And they always come from the egg. They’re purely maternal

It helps to have canned fallback responses. Mine is “I know, right?” in a dry/sarcastic tone. It works for any comment and most questions, because it’s a meaningless affirmation

It even works when you fumble, it’s so vague you can use it to reply to a question and recover

It also requires an egg, just with the nucleus removed

We’ve done similar things before, these mice have 3 parents. The mitochondria come from the maternal line and have their own DNA

FYI, ddg initially used Google, and FYI, you’ll get slightly different results because it’s more complicated than that

But none of that was the point I was trying to make. I’m referencing the quality of Bing from a few years ago

Uh… There are open source search engines. They’re about on par with ddg or qwant, nowhere near even Bing from a few years ago

It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

Ah, I see, you are stuck on a pizza of ignorance. You must return to Sandwich

You must stack another pizza upside down upon your understanding

Acknowledge the pizza for what it is, a half sandwich. And how could a half sandwich ever turn into a whole sandwich?

I know, it must be terrifying to have the truth of the world laid out for you so plainly. Terror is a calzone, by the way