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If they’re caught in the act, sure. A great cat training tool is a spray bottle of water. But from the story it sounds like the cat wasn’t doing anything at the time, so even if it is a nuisance animal, no correlation is made with an act and a punishment. Not true on the kid, he got something right when he did his malicious action, so if he has any intelligence he might connect the two and not do it again.

I know this is a stupid question, but is that even legal?

Sometimes a 9, but usually bounce between a 2 and 3.

Possibly. I didn’t dive in deeper to see if they even know the shape of the orbit. From my understanding a capture is very unlikely to have a near circular orbit. But planetary discs definitely aren’t captures, so something changed the stars in those.

The Republican argument is that there is rampant voter fraud and so some type of proof of who you are is needed to allow voting and curtail all that fraud.

The truth is there is very little fraud at the voter level. They want to make voting difficult for certain groups of people who are more likely to not vote for them, and this is one route they take. Other methods are gerrymandering districts to favor their side more, not allowing more times and places for working people to have a chance to vote, and actual physical intimidation by their groupies near voting areas.

So this is just a problem invented in order to solve in ways that will help the right wing. Nothing more.

Now, there is a trend of repeated voting fraud, but it’s not at the voter level, but at manipulation of voting counts through lawsuits, or outright alterations or loss of mass numbers of votes. Guess what party those votes tend to be leaning towards?

Given there are known polar planetary discs, and this orbit seems stable, wouldn’t that suggest that polar systems are formed because of some past interaction between the two stars that disrupted them from the original plane of formation?

Arrr.

I’ve always loved the word “sonder”. Knowing that people have their own lives and thoughts and usually they aren’t centered on you at all is liberating. I wish I had run across this as a kid, to realize that the peer pressure I thought was there giving me anxiety was totally self-inflicted and I could just be myself.

Right? I mean there’s serious risk there, but there’s no pretending. Invest in a pirate, share the loot. Pretty clear and up front.

No one said the scam part was that the elixir didn’t work.

non-canonical is key. It was a device used in the films to convey Gandalf using messengers to rely information. Had the moth (sorry, The Moth) been in the books, it absolutely would have had a name.

What will make you stay up longer instead of sleeping is wondering if it was the same moth. I say no, given the time span between events.

Figures, I just purchased an account last week. That’s fine, it’s not that expensive anyway and hopefully this helps more people decide to move from Google, like I’m in the process of doing.

It’s not even about too late. He’s the REASON they’re tanking. From his PR disasters to him pushing ideas like the Cybertruck. More attention to Tesla just means more problems. But less problems in government, so I support him leaving.

Yes, after the fact you can’t just dump what you have and get something else unless you can afford to lose the money. I was referring to when some were out looking for an EV, especially back when Tesla was the name everyone was talking about. Now there’s much less of an excuse since other brands offer decent alternatives.

That’s a bit of a reach. We should have stayed in the trees though, but the trees started disappearing and we had to change.

It may vary between models. Mine if you spam the wrong finger it just counts down 30 seconds before you can try again. But restarting does force a pass entry before fingerprint will work again. I guess the caveat is you have to be able to hold down the power and then select a restart.

Lots of attacks on Gen Z here, some points valid about the education that they were given from the older generations (yet it’s their fault somehow). Good thing none of the other generations are being fooled by AI marketing tactics, right?

The debate on consciousness is one we should be having, even if LLMs themselves aren’t really there. If you’re new to the discussion, look up AI safety and the alignment problem. Then realize that while people think it’s about preparing for a true AGI with something akin to consciousness and the dangers that we could face, we have have alignment problems without an artificial intelligence. If we think a machine (or even a person) is doing things because of the same reasons we want them done, and they aren’t but we can’t tell that, that’s an alignment problem. Everything’s fine until they follow their goals and the goals suddenly line up differently than ours. And the dilemma is - there’s not any good solutions.

But back to the topic. All this is not the fault of Gen Z. We built this world the way it is and raised them to be gullible and dependent on technology. Using them as a scapegoat (those dumb kids) is ignoring our own failures.

Then maybe we should avoid a trade war with Chi…oops, too late.

This is now the correct application. The meme is still valid, just needs to be adapted.