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“If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor,” Mamdani told the crowd. “Regardless of whether we agree, I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn alongside you and never, not for a second, hide from you.”

That's a great line, but it's also sad that it's a line that should be applauded. That's how leaders should be. For the record, Trump wouldn't even be able to understand what this means. Evidence: he was given chances in his first term to be a leader for everyone, and he not only fumbled the ball, he lost the ball in the bushes and took asking for him to do his job to be a personal attack. He was never fit for even a company leader, much less anything higher.

Windows 10 was the last Windows I'll use. Windows 7 was the last one I was happy with. Windows 98SE and XP, we had great times, didn't we? Miss you guys.

Reconstruction should have been a New Deal/Marshall Plan level reimagining of a new country. Instead not only did we let things rot and fester while pretending much was solved, but any sort of reparations would make more sense while the actual last generation victims were alive.

House dust is up to 50% human skin particles. You're breathing in all sorts of crap, and outside I'm sure there's loads more including animal crap.

You're including a great list of things we have or do have to look into to solve before space is trivial. You're omitting a lot of the problems of underwater, or even above water colonies. I do agree that colonization of space comes only if we can make it self-sufficient, as getting all the resources from a gravity well makes it ridiculously costly and limited. I disagree on how any of the problems have no solutions though, as they've been discussed even before I was born, and I'm old. 🫤

Will humans change by necessity and by exposure? Of course they will. The Expanse did a good job of suggesting early changes to those living in low gravity conditions (which is probably the biggest thing to solve, not radiation or material sources). And after even longer they will change even more, making the different places become subsets of the species as we diverge.

Thanks for the link, I could not remember where that site was from so long ago, but it's a great collection of lore and speculative ideas.

We just disagree on what can be done. I can't imagine the scifi visions of underwater places that ignore how a small crack leads to instant crushing, or the constant corrosion that has to be fought against. On the Moon and Mars we've got the dust that is still a questionable thing on how to handle (electrostatic charges were the last I saw that seemed like they may help some). If you don't have to rely on Earth for most supplies and you find ways to counter radiation (a few meters of slag works, not practical for a ship due to the mass, but a station isn't a problem). Rotation may solve a lot of the problems with zero G, but we need to do more research on site before we can just accept it's unsolvable.

It may not matter and we may not be around that long for it to be a factor anyway, but assuming we are, we have to move on from the Earth, as the window of habitability is not that long. Huge for us at human scales, but cosmically we're way past the halfway point.

I'll be glad to give more info. I'm not sure where to find the logs to tell you what VLC is doing. See my other comment on the comparison of a browser - I want it to use VLC as if I was browsing websites where it just loads into the existing window.

I'm trying to get any new video I click on to play in the existing instance of VLC after running a first video. Not in a new instance. If VLC is open no other video will ever use that instance. It's like if you load a new webpage in a browser but have to either close the existing browser window first or load into a new tab or window, and I find it difficult to believe that's an accepted behavior.

Well, it shouldn't, if people would mind their business.

It's like that even in the US, it's a regional/county/city thing. Some let strays exist but if reported they'll come in and remove them, usually not great for the animal. In some places like that there are people who run sleeper organizations who quietly go out to reported feral locations and do a capture/spay/neuter/shots to keep the population down and help the animals. Some ferals are not ever going to be a pet, and that's fine as long as they have a place to live that's safe (from humans).

Normally bees are female, right? Worker drones are sterile female, and only when it's queen swarm time do males get hatched.

But honestly, as long as the stalls are enclosed, who the hell cares? We all have to do our business, and it doesn't matter who is in the room or other stalls.

Finally a realistic title. We as a society have been so reluctant to talk about adaptation because that means we're going to lose what we have thanks to mistakes, ignorance, greed, and lies.