darkpanda

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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So can “cube.”

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mexico isn’t in NATO.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

To be fair, it’s all he’s got going on. His life is in ruins.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

Chris Hadfield has entered the chat.

https://youtu.be/lc8BcBZ0tAI

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

It certainly feels like more, but that’s only anecdotal and might be a result of some confirmation bias. It feels like we’re seeing more plates from out of province where I’m at, and where I’m at is very much a touristy place in Canada. It’ll be interesting to see what the tourism numbers look like after the season is through.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Will they be introducing company stores next?

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Lydia, I would think.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago

And won’t exist after January 19, 2038, 03:14:07 UTC.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

It never would have happened if they just had stronger laws preventing the dinos from having easy access to gender affirming care.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please Rich Evans if you’re listening please go to Comic Con in full Lucas regalia. We need this.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Our eyes are not perfect organs so why pretend like they are? Our eyes fail us:

  • when it’s too dark
  • when it’s too bright
  • when there’s fog
  • when there’s too much rain and snow
  • when there’s glare from the sun
  • when there’s obstructions
  • when there’s sensory overload
  • when there’s something covering our eyes like dirt and mud
  • when we can only see on the visible spectrum

Why wouldn’t we want more incoming data to account for these shortcomings? Optical-only vision-based solutions are incomplete because our eyes are incomplete. I can’t see that a car is stopped dead in the road 10 feet ahead of me in thick fog, but an advanced set of telemetry sensors can. My eyes are not better than the scores of technology we’ve built over the past few decades and I’ve been practicing with them for 46 years. Give me a helmet that includes LIDAR and infrared and night vision and sonar and telemetry from a satellite and GPS and weather tracking and god knows what else and I’ll be much less likely to rear end that car in the fog. We humans invent technology to make up for our shortcomings, so why go with the idea of “if it’s good enough for biological evolution it’s good enough for these multi-ton contraptions we have hurtling down highways next to each other several metres apart at 100 km per hour every second of every day?” It sounds ludicrous on its face. We can choke on a peanut because our swallow tube is the next to the breathing tube ffs. We can do better.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t doubt that for a microsecond. There is zero chance that the man has ever ridden a bike, skated a skate, hopped a scotch, skipped a rope, or frisbeed a frisbee.

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