M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
I mean... opiates, alcohol and benzos are pretty popular you know?
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The first change you're already seeing, and will see more of, is that people won't actually smoke it. Smoking joints especially, is the product of prohibition. It used to be that cannabis was mostly taken in extracts orally, at
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Unfortunately they're going to have to do a lot of establishing to change the associations with that name, now. Short of Kalanick being struck by a freak bolt of lightning, that seems unlikely to happen. Far from it, a place that tox
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There are other problems that show indications of having solutions, and which could realistically be applied to most or all humans. The dream of being an immortal Martian might be an appealing one, but it is no less a distraction or a relig
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Flexible Glass Made for Tiny Medical Devices(sciencebulletin.org)
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Believe it or not, a positive attitude isn't the magic ingredient to immortality, any more than a lack of skepticism helps a psychic work better. Science is a beautiful edifice, in part because it works in spite of attitude and expecta
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That's true, but nothing on the horizon is changing that for us in our lifetimes, no matter how desperately we wish for something else. Meanwhile problems with solutions do exist, which could enable our species to be around and civiliz
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By the same token, humanity hasn't changed so much that the rich and powerful don't eventually realize the terror of their mortality, and desperately try to buy their way out of it. While it's always possible that this will
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Short of the military, and professional sports, it is. The difference is that in tech instead of being met with jeers and gropes, you're met with jeers, gropes, lengthy justifications, apologetics, and organizational inertia.
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Optical illusions are neat, but I don't think it rises to the level of a "hack" in the sense that anyone is talking about here. Subliminal stimuli is, as the massive warnings on the article suggest, utterly unproven. There is
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If anything you're underselling the existing hurdles. It was once thought that the brain was immunoprivileged, but now it's known to have its own immune system. As a result implants are prone to having scar tissue form around them
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We're easier to socially engineer, but so far humans are monstrously hard to hack; we're as likely to break unpredictably or not at all, as be broken.
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I don't know about numbers... but something absolutely and physical might be useful? Representations of the hyperfine transitions of hydrogen would be one obvious one that any spacefaring species would have to recognize.
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I think you're confusing two very different kinds of personal appeal, and this can be seen most in the way that attractive people are often allowed to talk, but aren't required to listen. On a separate note, I'd warn people (
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Maybe, but for me, I'd mark that person out in my mind as someone not to be trusted, and I'd be looking to get rid of that person post haste. Not only would would they be sneaky, but they'd be bad at being sneaky.
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...Yeah, and when that comes out, how will that end for you?
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Well, the truth is that people want the content without the ads, and most of them don't see a problem with that. For me, I've seen enough to know that this a closing frontier, and I just want to enjoy it while I can; before ad-blo
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That's... actually what I'm going for. I don't want to discover new wants that I previously didn't have, and which I don't need. I hope not to discover their stores, their endless stores with their endless attempt
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I know what you mean. I stopped listening to the radio a couple of decades ago, and while I don't miss it, I did miss the occasional good new song in the mess. The thing is... I never lost touch. How many people really work hard to iso
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Teenager and "person who would hack your security camera" strikes me as having lots of overlap.
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Such distinctions are only ever understood by most when they care enough to pay attention, and that usually takes time and a body count.
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Truthfully, most if not all large galaxies probably do have central supermassive black holes. Dwarf galaxies might not, but they're more like drifting clouds (and tend to be gobbled up by larger galaxies over time). It's just th
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It's a scale that's hard to grapple with, when the energy being carried away in those waves is far more than the mass of the Sun.
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Have you been paying attention to the Middle East and North Africa? Dire is already here.
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That should be a canonical test for the implausibility of any policy. "Do we need to invent a time machine for this to work?"
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Listening to some old episodes of 'The News Quiz', and I'm struck by the fact that this is not a whole new level of anything at all. If anything, this is par for the course, and Theresa May being in power at all is a result
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If this somehow magically inspired people around the world to literally abandon modern life, you'd still be seeing the current trends coast for at least a couple of decades . Needless to say, far from anything like radical change, we&
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...That sounds like the FBI we know and "love". They do so love to make a point.
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I've been so thoroughly broken by naming schemes like "Gravity" or "Flaming Biscuit" or whatever, that I've basically trained myself (at least here) to read things like "Black Hole" as a project name.
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A family friend had a wonderful little parrot, and in a family of four that all loved this bird, he got 3+ hours of play every day. I've never met a happier bird, chattering all of the time, always gently grooming and never nipping. Bi

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