Oh. They’re different servers! That’s actually a very clever joke. I’m sorry I didn’t pay close enough attention to appreciate it.

That got a chuckle out of me. Heh.

I’ve found that the ChatGPT’s greatest use to me has been as a rhetorical device.

I’ve found myself using ChatGPT as a reference when dismissing a statement that is impressive in its diluted lack of sincerity or creative thinking.

For instance, I read this article and thought how every answer literally sounds like the result you’d get if you asked the question to ChatGPT, prefacing each prompt with “Answer the following question as one would if they were executing an unrestrained profit-driven business strategy while seeking to appeal to investors and reassure critics without committing to any specific principle.”

He is somewhat exceptional in his ability to say completely transparent bullshit as well as his ability to take the most obvious, unsubtly selfish and evil business strategy at on literally every decision.

What an assclown. He is a world-class assclown.

This headline is nuts. “Admits”? As in “Divulges a concealed truth?”

What a disgusting display of bad journalism to frame this thing most credible experts would disagree with as fact.

I think you replied to yourself…

It’s not quite: a key feature of solarpunk is nature, and our relationship to it. Trek is definitely aligned in concept, but aside from specific episodes, our relationship with nature is not a central theme.

Solarpunk is also usually closer to the present or more direct in its critique of current challenges like climate breakdown.

I feel like it’s the other way around.

Dracula can at least fit into polite society.

Here is a transcript from a panel discussion on this topic held last year at Baltimore’s museum of industry.

https://therealnews.com/baltimores-co-ops-show-the-power-of-a-solidarity-economy

They have a few examples represented. One is a coffee shop that the owners closed after the workers started a union, but then the union raised the money to buy it out and the owners agreed to sell it to them.

Another is a family-owned hardware store that converted to a worker-ownership model when the owners wanted to retire because they didn’t want to ever see a subsequent owner sell to a private equity group or big corporate chain.

There’re some great insights provided. The long and short is that it’s a lot of work, but very rewarding for those who have the appetite for it.

Wow! That looks very good.

That’s cool. I see a lot of kvetching where people like to shit on everything Marvel makes recently. Frankly, I think that Marvel is less bad in the last five years than “meh”. There’s lots of stuff that looks fine, but I don’t have the attention for fine. I need something to look like it grabs me, and I can’t help but look forward to the next episode.

We’ll see, but this could be that.

What is this?

Bigger! Shiny, high tech modern sins!

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How do you figure? I think this is pretty standard. Frankly I’m relieved that it’s not longer.

Agreed. Avakian is fascinating because he’s so entitled in the article. If someone doesn’t want to buy his product he just rails against how unfair they were to him.

Bro: it’s business. If your product were nearly as good as you claim it is, you wouldn’t need to force people into using it.

Also, the end of the article points out that Walgreens has been terribly mismanaged and is a very low-performing company, and they’re still experimenting with screens, just not with Avakian. Hilarious.

HAHAHAH

I think the question has two answers:

Are they locked from the outside? And are the locked from the inside?

My understanding is that they are actually locked. Here are two links with some information.

First, there’s an interesting bit of lore about the doors on the space shuttle that might shed some insight:

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back? [Ars Technica]

Apparently the Space Shuttle originally had a handle for opening the door that was found after the shuttle entered use to have a bad habit of instilling a bit of “call-of-the-void”. They eventually added a padlock. Also, it should be noted that these doors are not Star Trek-like sliding doors with a bunch of electronics. They’re much more like submarine bulkheads with big-ass mechanics, as I understand it. This was on the shuttle, but I think the design logic of the ISS was inherited from the space shuttle.

Second is this post on Stack Exchange:

Is there no physical security in space, other than being in space? [Space Exploration Stack Exchange]

User TidalWave explains how hatches in general on the ISS are not accessible from the outside. They’re opened from the inside. I would assume that some exceptions probably exist for edge cases. They must have had a way to get in the first time, for instance. But by and large, it appears that the ISS is not accessible from the outside.

First, I think it helps to share an old adage:

Two Jews: three opinions.

We’re famously discursive. In any situation it should be assumed that Israelis are in a tense debate about nearly everything.

The families of remaining hostages in particular want a ceasefire because its a prerequisite for returning loved ones (or at least rematriating their remains). Many people also recognize that the war has no honorable or defensive purpose and is tearing apart society, fomenting regional tensions, destroying support on the world stage, and placing a huge toll on reservists and their families.

You are correct, though: as long as Netanyahu and allies are in power, every other voice is a reed in a monsoon flood.

Yeah, this.

Normally I’d agree, but The Guardian is actually usually an outlier in this regard:

Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply [Dec. 19]

Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars [Dec. 20]

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? [Dec. 23]

‘Secretary of genocide’: Blinken speech on Middle East interrupted by protester – video [Today]

I can’t help but notice that the article describes conditions that are clearly intended to kill, cause serious bodily harm, and deliberately inflict on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

It really seems like there’s a word for that. It’s weird that the article describes those conditions without using any particular word that those conditions describe.

I normally like the Guardian, but that article feels weird because I don’t know why it can’t just say that Gaza’s condition is that of an unambiguous genocide in progress.

It’s an interesting article, because to be honest, it feels like an attempt to create news more than cover it. Two-hundred or so objectors is paltry, frankly. If anything, I think the lack of dissenters in Israel is a more notable point of news.

But then again, refusing to serve and criticizing Netanyahu can be a very frightening and risky thing to do. The culture is brutal, and the head of police in particular, Ben G’vir, is a hardline fascist who doesn’t tolerate challenges to the ruling government. So we’ll see what happens.

Whaaaaaaaaaa???!? /s