Is that from the ‘wear sunscreen’ thing?

Nice tiny house bro, have you heard about our lord and saviour Cob?

Isn’t that the opposite? Makes it easier to get the timing right, but at the cost of dirtying loads more little bowls? Whereas if i dice my carrots while my onions are sweating etc, I can keep the production line going and only use one pot…

Ok.

Love your optimism about rich nations not disintegrating. The way I see climate change happening, there’s soon major changes in weather/ rainfall. Also some ecological collapse (eg bees, other pollinators, ocean acidification), with knock on effects to agriculture. Even problems in other parts of the world create pressure for resources, wars, increased migration… Too much to detail, but many things that come to a breaking point in the next decades.

I’d love to hear why you think this seems unlikely. Look at the end of the roman empire. Or any empire. Things don’t stay the same just because.

I remember a lot of long distance running, and some group sex where one person was the focus for everyone else to pleasure (if I ever write a sci-fi, I won’t put any sexy bits in it… always seems to age fast, and seems weird and dated after…[maybe that’s just me tho]).

I read that series a long time ago and loved it.

What do you like about the blue Mars social structure?

I guess the most fundamental 2 things is climate change, and the societal upheaval likely to result from certain modern technologies.

By climate change, I include patterns in economies, food security, water, migration, wars over resources, population/demographics, public health… that have already started but clearly will intensify.

For technology, I’ve heard that after the widespread use of the printing press, or the industrial revolution, there were big turbulent changes in society that lasted a century. Some people reckon the modern internet/social media was another such disruptor, and I do agree you can trace a lot of “post-truth”, loss of trust in institutions, etc, back to that. AI could make this worse too.

Then, most traditionally rich countries are facing demographic trouble and national debt.

It’s not clear how it’ll all shake out or when, but it’s difficult to see many players being able to afford regular supply missions to Mars in the next phase… lifetimes of people currently alive… we’re likely to see less progress than we’re used to.

I would go even further, by not voting the message those in power get from you is “the current situation/trajectory of society is fine with me”. Whether or not that’s what you intended.

What would that look like, do you think? In terms of how people would fulfil or replace those web activities?

Per sitting.

I was really into reading the books of game of thrones just around the time they started produce the TV series.

My wife had been burned before, she said she wouldn’t start reading them until the guy finished writing the whole series… We’re still waiting George!

*Niamh

I mean I’m gonna assume that radiators are that shape because it’s optimised for having the most surface area for the least structural material and least space taken up…

Garlic is so easy to grow they’d probably figure it out just by random luck. Drop a clove somewhere with a bit of soil and water - new plant a few weeks later.

Ministry of Transport (inspection) 'd.

Shiny!

Obviously that should be in an advisory capacity, and not making decisions (like approving drugs for human use [which i heavy doubt was actually happening])

Right, I’m no expert (and very far from an AI fanboi), but not all “AI” are LLMs. I’ve heard there’s good use cases in protein folding, recognising diagnostic patterns in medical images.

It fits with my understanding that you could train a similar model on more constrained datasets than ‘all the English language text on the Internet’ and it might be good at certain jobs.

Am I wrong?

Moïen!

Thank you. Just what I was looking for. I should have known “immigrants” would be involved, I think i just got thrown off by memories of “Drain the swamp” and thought this was about rival politicians.

Good luck with everything. Let me know if there’s any way we can help 🫠