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How the fuck was "public drug use" not already illegal?

Also Pascal. And C++/CLI uses ^ for "managed pointers" (pointer to .net objects) and % for "managed references" which means there are all-together 4 ways to declare various types o…

Pascal uses this syntax. Also "pointer to integer" is written as "^integer" which is better than "int ". Syntax also doesn't allow confusing stuff like like "int a, b;".

Most of these products are extremely unhealthy so shrinking portions should be considered a public service.

The US currently has a large advantage is mass-to-orbit capabilities that is set to explode once Starship comes online. Elon needs to talk less about peace with Russia and more abo…

> The Soviets abandoned that project because they couldn't get their 30 engines to synchronize. Maybe this time AI (c) will help solve the problem. We will watch and see. Worth men…

I've been using ChatGPT for language learning by asking it to explain the differences between words. The answers align with what the dictionary says but are far more elaborate and …

You're underestimating the political complication of sending nuclear power to the moon. Solar panel manufacturing faces no objections.

Car companies deserve to have a severely depressed valuation because they're currently being forced to transition away from internal combustion. The ICE manufacturing industry is t…

I asked it how to convert a cell value to an unix timestamp in google sheets and it told to use the "UNIX_TIMESTAMP" and even provided an example. The function does not exist, it's…

A lot of stuff is known about it. Both the US and USSR first operated long-duration space stations nearly half a century ago. Gravity and radiation are well understood and we can d…

Only national space agencies have had a reason to invest in keeping humans alive for long periods of time so they are the only organizations that have demonstrated that capability.…

Life support is not particularly difficult if you can just throw mass at it. It's probably true that Starship would only be capable to support 10 colonists all the way to Mars and …

The FBI seized the laptop in December 2021, nearly an year before it was revealed. They knew it was real but they strongly encouraged media companies to "expect a leak". As a conse…

Providing sources is the most important feature missing in chatgpt and perplexity.ai does indeed attempt to solve it. The other problem is that chatgpt is often factually incorrect…

Germany genuinely believed that Russian gas will keep flowing.

As far as I understand the FBI knew that the Hunter Biden story was real but encouraged everybody else to believe that it was a Russian hoax. Doesn't this count as lying? It's not …

A lot of people completely agree with heavy-handed information control.

The distinction between the government "asking nicely" and "making demands" is not strong enough. In theory could Twitter could have resisted but the costs would have been quite hi…

The argument that "it's not censorship if a private company does it" was always weak. What these revelations show is that a lot of so-called moderation was done at the explicit dir…

This is a consequence of the Ukraine conflict - less natural gas means Europe needs to burn more coal instead. This situation is likely going to continue - relations with Russia ar…

Good. There should be zero tolerance for anything that approaches doxxing.

Publishing personal information should not be covered by "free speech" at all. It provides no value to society and can cause real harm to individuals. Elon was wrong in that tweet.…

Why do we need to cover the worst case with 100% renewables? The goal is to reduce emissions so it would be great even if we can just stop burning coal in the summer.

Refugees are easier to handle than tanks.