Just build the ultra clear telescope on earth and put some mirrors down on other planets. If we put a mirror down on mars and observed earth through it, we’d see us from 6 to 45 minutes ago depending on orbit. You should also be able to do the same trick using gravitational lensing around black holes. We should be able to see a refracted version of earth right before the event horizon… given a powerful enough telescope.

I don’t think AI would feel dystopian if we didn’t have corruption in our government. “By the people, for the people” isn’t where it’s at. We need to push getting money out of politics. Campaign finance reform, government leaders shouldn’t be able to own individual stocks, create a generous pension for congress that gets taken away if they start getting money from the private sector at any time in their life.

If you run into a black bear, consider it your job to scare it off. The ones that attack people are the ones that have lost their fear of people. Don’t try to be their friend, it could lead to them losing their fear and having to be put down by a park ranger. Also, usually ear tags are given only during an incident. If they have two ear tags, they’re basically one incident away from being put down.

You can rhyme in sign language: “ASL poetry is a literary form that evolved from the art of sign-language storytelling. Like English oral poetry, signed performance poetry uses the conventions of repetition, rhyme, alliteration, rhythm, and meter to construct linguistic patterns that add emphasis, meaning, and structure to word forms.”