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Seems like a per-satellite tax could incentivize reducing the number of satellites where possible, and could help fund some of the research hindered by too-many satellites.

They'd probably solve most of their problems by simply recognizing that a single term with a - isn't an exclusion, because it returns no results. That's like... a 10 minute regex f…

It's a Google feature that isn't very smart... adding a dash before a word will exclude results containing that word I suspect it trips up people that don't know this more than it'…

Most people will remember Anish Kapoor as the bean guy

I would argue that cyberpunk is only nostalgic because not much has been done to modernize it or push the genre forward. It's simply nostalgic because it's aged... similar mid-cent…

I suppose an advanced version of VR could replace some amount of travel, which is a significant source of atmospheric pollution.

There's a lot of backstory to this... it's a dig against Vantablack, which Anish Kapoor (famous sculptor) managed to buy exclusive rights for using in art: https://www.wired.com/st…

If you want to know what a "free speech zone" is on the internet go spend time on 4chan. I can't imagine anyone spending long periods of time there without harming their mental hea…

What do you suggest? the government takes over Google? Prevents them from controlling what they store on their servers? If society fails (which is little more than a prepper wet dr…

Product listing hijacks have been a known problem for years... and you can still do it today. A lot of the time I get something it comes with a business card offering a discount fo…

I disagree! photo manipulation plays a starring role in how pervasive and insidious these ideas are... I can turn off the TV and avoid movies, but I can't avoid ads, billboards, gr…

I worked restaurants through college and I've probably had food thrown at me over a dozen times because it didn't look like the menu! It's not the norm, but it's not completely unu…

> but nobody really expects the food they get will look anything like the food in the ad did Have you ever worked at a restaurant? It's not as unusual as you think. A lot of us on …

Young people ARE a nuisance that must be put up with when en masse. I live in an area that went through the full extent of gentrification, from being colloquially referred to as a …

>we no longer accept every image as representing absolute truth That's not true for many people (I'd go as far to say most), and we're so inundated with it that unedited media is t…

We've had Photoshop for 3 decades and airbrushing for even longer and it's had far-reaching impacts across society... no one is really immune to it because it isn't obvious and it …

>However, if a couple of these civilizations start to openly seek contact to others, what can the hidden ones do? Stay hidden or destroy anyone close enough to put you at risk alon…

It's technically a different thing because this attempted coup was domestic, and I don't think the whattaboutism accomplishes much... there's no hypocritical rhetoric in the thread…

The voodoo doll seems like a weird example to use, these people weren't sitting in their houses imagining it. They literally broke into congress in search of congresspeople, you ca…

Just because they were bad at it doesn't mean they didn't try. Here's a list: * Breaking into congress * Carrying flags representing a rival (dead) government * While wearing tacti…

I came here to say this. My step-sister's family sticks to the concept of family despite all the women being raped and beaten by their father. They will not address the problem, th…

how many "former" government employees work at Google?

Most of their work probably doesn't even need to be technical. How many high-profile attacks have been based on social engineering?

We already have all the pieces needed, they just need to be connected in a better way. Forests need to be managed to optimize for sequestration; log the right parts at the right ti…