How many billions (in today’s money) were spent on going to the moon? What about the billions poured into refining the internal combustion engine? The billions that have gone into making and running massive particle accelerators?

Technology is constantly advancing and we often don’t know where it’ll take us until we get there.

oh … well that’s nice, sounds err lovely *discretely calls animal control to come shoot you with a tranq dart*

6-7 slices of marmite

you … you slice your marmite and apply it to toast as if it were luncheon meat??

Here’s a list of well-supported USB WiFi adapters - https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md

Can you just stream video and audio directly, like a standard IP camera? This list of solutions in the Raspberry Pi documentation could have some ideas - https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#stream-video-over-a-network-with-rpicam-apps (there are some RPi specific solutions, but also general Linux approaches e.g. ffplay)

Someone mentioned funkwhale on a different thread - full disclosure, I’ve not actually used it. It seems to also be federated, although it looks more like a way for artists to publish their music without the need for record companies?

yeah, they’re not actually using dead bodies as a fuel source, rather they are already expending a ton of energy to burn bodies so why not capture that heat and use it for a second time to heat up the living.

a ship/boat is female (called “she”), while nature is also feminine (often personified as “Mother nature”).

This isn’t gender though, this is just personification. The thing about grammatical gender is that it is *not* personification. For instance, Germans don’t view a table has having some kind of male quality, nor do the French view a table as being somehow female.

But it could’ve easily been French (or some other language) that ended up in the same position.

You realise you wrote this in English don’t you?

Alright, stick your head in the ground if it makes you feel special. You’re clearly too deeply invested in this to listen to reason. It obviously doesn’t matter what you or anyone else believes anyway.

Hinduism is pretty incompatible with the Jesus narrative

Of course it is lol

If there were a real god that cared about what rituals you perform in this life, then you would expect multiple religions to appear independently all over the world with the exact same rituals. But that has never happened once. Every single religion is totally different from all other religions that are properly independent of it.

Never has divine inspiration revealed the same “truth” in different parts of the world independently. Almost as if it’s all just common or garden mental illness.

Don’t know about running but it should definitely be an advantage for swimming. Michael Phelps, the Canadian champion swimmer, has size 14 feet.

As for women coming on to him, maybe women penguins?

Don’t leave us in suspense - what was the opinion?

looks interesting from a quick search - can you say any more about it? How does it work, what kind of music is on there, how legal is it?

Don’t you think the Jesus story would be a terrible way for an omnipotent being to send an important message that’s vital for everyone to hear? Just creating a normal human and plonking them in some desert backwater - who looks and sounds just like any other human. The only difference is he hears voices in his head, and can pull off some pretty mediocre magic tricks.

If all it takes is an appealing story to convince you that something with literally no evidence is true and you should devote your life to it, there are many other stories like that, check out the Baghavad Gita for instance. Some really wonderful characters and truly fantastic events - not to mention absolutely mind-blowing magic, all of it completely true (apparently).

Don’t forget to tip the used engine oil into a shallow hole in the ground when you’re done dumping the battery!

I think they mean that ARM became dominant by widely licencing its RISC architecture to pretty much anyone. This startup wants to make RISC V designs and licence them to various chip manufacturers - so they won’t be in the business of making chips themselves, just the design.

But as long as they are RISC V chips, then they would run the same software as any other RISC V chips.

Would that be a risk? Isn’t the whole point of RISC V that its ISA is open and free to use? That’s not the case for ARM or Intel’s x86 architecture.

it’s evangelical christians praying for their saviour Trump. You know, morons.

Here’s an example of a different bunch at it - https://www.newsweek.com/national-faith-advisory-board-prays-over-donald-trump-1976277