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To be fair, to an OF model it is. To any creator their content is because that’s how they make a living. While getting people back to the moon is great and all, making enough to eat for the next month will always take precedence to people. I mean, if it came to whether I would be able to eat or people walked on the moon again, well, fuck those astronauts, my belly is going to be full.

If they find your coded diary, they are just going to torture you until you reveal how to decipher it if they have even a remote reason to suspect you. Everyone thinks they’re a tough guy until they’re waterboarded or they have their fingernails or teeth pulled out with a pair of channel locks. Everyone breaks under torture. The idea that someone can last until they’re killed is a Hollywood fantasy for action films.

The idea that governments are going to expend valuable resources like learned individuals or AI to crack some individual’s code is just Hollywood thinking. If you’re a suspect, the government will monitor you. If you do anything to make them up their suspicion, they will bring you in. They aren’t going to spend untold amounts of money deciphering every suspect’s diaries or writings. They’ll just torture it out of you, either physically(fastest) or mentally.

And let’s just put this out there - if some desperate person fingered you for being whatever, having anything written in code is as good as being guilty to them. You will not return to your previous life. At best you’ll be released and monitored till the government tires of you or it falls. The latter is no guarantee it will end. Just because the government might be replaced doesn’t mean that those taking over will view any more favorably. After all, if you were deemed to be a security threat before, what makes you think they won’t take that to heart. Once deemed a security threat you will always be a security threat, even to those who you may identify with.

I think you’re overestimating what governments like this have. What is more likely is that the government will just snatch up someone who knows the the made up language, torture it out of them, and then go from there. Far less resource intensive than having departments to decipher coded language.

No, you’re the product. They’re selling your data and viewing time to their customers.

Am I confusing him with one of the other dozen or two choices they floated, but wasn’t he against aid to Ukraine previously? I can’t keep all these christofascists straight, they’re such cookie cutter clones of each other.

Have you seen how much it costs to screen for diabetes? I think you can an A1c screen for like $20, but if you’re strapped for cash, that can be a lot of money. And a blood glucose screen can easily run over $100. And it requires fasting and going to a lab unless your doctor’s office is equipped to run the test. If this works, it reduces all that to just speaking into the microphone, wait a moment, and it spits the results out.

Just because we can do something easily now does not mean there isn’t room for improvement to make it even easier and possibly cheaper. Especially when you take into consideration how hard it can be to get some patients to follow the rules(i.e. actually fast) and/or follow through.

Snaptacles?

Once, in the middle of the day when it was bright and shiny, I pulled into a lot. I realized it wasn’t attached to the place I wanted to go, so decided to go through the lot and head out another entrance. Except the two lots weren’t connected. In fact the lot I was in was raised about a foot higher than the other lot. My tires stopped right on the very edge. Again, this was in the middle of the day with the sun shining. And it was obvious as fuck, as well.

You think you would notice, but the fact is your brain pulls crap like this on you all the time. Right now you can’t see the holes in your vision caused by your optic nerves. And it isn’t that your visual cortex is merely taking data from one eye to cover a deficiency in another. Close one eye and the hole is still not visible. The visual cortex and the systems it is connected to let you see what they want you to see. I am not asking how could he not notice, but rather, what was his brain doing to make him not realize. Because even in pitch black, with headlights it would still be visible that there is no bridge.

There is a section of road in my town that I’m guessing was suppose to have a bridge over the local river, but it never happened. The road leads right up to the river bank. In the 30 years I’ve lived here, there has always been a road block and warning. When a flood wiped out the warning and road block in 2015, they put a new one up. This is 100% the fault of whatever governmental entity is supposed to take care of stuff like that. Whether he was using Google Maps or a Rand-McNally road map is irrelevant because the first line of defense for having kept this from happening is on the local government.

Eh. It’s less radio transmitters are like flashlights more flashlights are transmitters.

Less cable management required. Less space required - though this is less a thing with modern mouses than it was back when mice used balls versus optical tracking.

The big selling point to old farts like me - I’m 54 - is they don’t cause my carpal tunnel to flare up. I can put it in an ergonomic position and I never have to move it. And while the market might not be huge, it’s good to see competition. Especially for things that aid those who don’t have full range of motion with their arms or hands.

Finally, it’s just a preference thing.

It really doesn’t to businesses. Many places I’ve worked didn’t upgrade the OS until they did a hardware refresh.