knightly the Sneptaur

They are unreachable. This is the most heavily propagandized country on the planet and most don’t have the education to understand our political situation. Try and explain why corporate campaign financing is a bad idea and half of us start whinging about freedom of speech.

0, and I’ve done 4 of these in the last year.

Roughly half of the population has absolutely no clue what’s going on. Kids, old people, non-news-readers/viewers, etc.

A third of the population is vaguely aware that some shit is going down based on vibes but can’t identify the problem.

Half the remaining sixth can identify the problem as political but misattribute the cause. Leaving just a 12th of the population actually aware of our situation.

Site reliability engineer here, and same. The only “smart” devices in our house are PCs I built/wiped and reconfigured myself.

I’m not insulted or offended in any way, this is me trying to gently correct your misconception about how common relationships like mine are.

There’s no need to get emotionally charged about it, some people are serial monogamists and some aren’t and that’s OK. Some highschool relationships last and some don’t and that’s OK too.

Again, WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY ARGUING HERE? Seems like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing. What even is your point?

I very explicitly stated my point in the previous comment. There’s no need to get emotionally charged about a quibble over statistics

Rare is rare. You’re just splitting hairs here between what’s exceptionally rare and what is more common but still rare

Exceptional events are those that are extraordinary. A blue lobster is exceptional at one in two million, but the odds that any random person is in or has been in a polyamorous relationship are estimated at one in nine and a highschool relationship ends in marriage for one in fifty cases. Combining both gives a rate of one in 450, meaning that we can statistically estimate the number of poly households in the USA that started in highschool at around 286,000, or slightly more than one Alaska. Something so common is hardly exceptional.

There are more folks with poly experience than military experience, so if you want to say that my relationship is exceptional then I question your sense of proportion.

My point is that it really isn’t rare enough for an example to be exceptional.

The lottery’s odds might be hundreds of thousands or even millions to one, but someone is still going to win it. What would be exceptional would be a year where nobody wins the lottery.

1-2% odds are a lot higher than lottery odds. If someone offered me anything close to 50-1 on that bet then I’d absolutely take it.

That’s the thing, it might be rare but it’s still common enough that it’s existence isn’t really exceptional.

Trans people aren’t the norm, but any “normal” group of 200 people has 3 trans folks in it.

Likewise, most people aren’t polyamorous and few polyamorous relationships are stable on the timescale of decades, but there are enough people that the statistical likelihood of a 50-year-old polycule existing approaches 100%.

I don’t feel very exceptional, folks with polyamorous attachment styles are a lot less uncommon than most people think.

I wouldn’t take those odds, but I’m living proof that it can work. My highschool sweethearts and I have been an item for 20 years.

It can work if they want it to, I’ve been in a poly relationship with both of my highschool sweethearts for 20 years now.

Good for them.

What’s the issue?

Or having a button to refresh RSS feeds.

None of these are fountain pens, the obviously superior choice over ball-points.

I’d presume the check mark means the language pack is available locally and the warning sign probably means it’s missing some localization strings.

I think it comes from the right place, though. Anything that’s smart enough to do actual work deserves the same rights to it as anyone else does.

It’s best that we get the legal system out ahead of the inevitable development of sentient software before Big Tech starts simulating scanned human brains for a truly captive workforce. I, for one, do not cherish the thought of any digital afterlife where virtual people do not own themselves.

I used to work for HostGator and sadly that sounds about right. They started going downhill fast after the second buyout.

Same. I’m still a bit dysphoric about my voice. =/

To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.

Cloning the card isn’t enough, you’d also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.

Short version, they made a new kind of digital quantum qubit where the previous state of the art required a lot of analog sensors and controls. This means the equipment needed to hook up the qubits is simpler, and they’re hoping to build on this design to make scalable quantum computers that can support many more qubits than current techniques.

Not a huge breakthrough on its own outside of a very niche academic field, but a necessary step towards really expanding on the capabilities of the tech.