Holy cow. I"m gonna try that. Didn't realize they were making 2fa paid.

Yes. I rather enjoyed my time on social media. But I also take steps to make the experience mine (as much as I can). I have met and conversed with far more people, and a greater diversity of people, on Twitter, for example, over the last 16 years than I ever would have IRL or using any other medium.

But social media also isn't necessarily critical, either. I left Twitter earlier this year because most of the people I talked to had left, and thus the value dropped, and I could see from their shenanigans that things were heading south anyway.

1. Tailor the experience on SM as much as you can.
2. Block and ignore things that you don't like.
3. Use your brain to avoid scams and drama.

Hey, remember when Twitter was user focused? Good times.

I didn't make it past the title.

Based on down votes, it's not tech that's getting slower and stupider...

Jesus, some of you suck.

Yes. It's called opinion. See the heading Discourse|Tech at the very top set off by blue, bold type? That tell you it's not news.

So don't expect the same rigor^1 from opinion pieces as you'd expect from content labeled News.

If it were presented as News, the demand for rigor is higher. Of course, good writing and good rhetoric says the author should back their claims, but there is less need to.

1. I am not stating an opinion on the rigor or lack of rigor Business Insider adheres to.

Fingerprinting children in schools is to help in identifying victims in the event of a shooting or other mishap, but that wouldn't have gone over well with parents.

Pro tip: when someone says "It's for the children" there's a deeper reason they aren't telling you.

Spoken like someone who only receives the PowerPoint deck.

Of all the problems big tech represents, not paying their share of telecom fees isn't one of them.

Thanks! I guess I wouldn't have expected much interaction between the systems.

Why would an increase in stellar density suppress planet formation? Curious.

There is a physical limit on how big scopes can be and we are reaching it. Also, other types of astronomy like radio are impacted by the transmissions.

There isn't a ton of nuance. First it started with Starlink. Everyone poo-pooed the concerns. Then Amazon and others announced constellations. Next governments will do it. In your life time, the impact on astronmical science will be significant and y'all will be,'"Didn't see that coming." Though more like you'll say "Yep, I predicted this."

Depends on the city but many ancient cities were purposefully buried as part of expansion.

Some cities in the US are built on top of their predecessors. There are parts of downtown Seattle that are underground but accessible. You can even take a tour. Pick up "Four Lost Cities: A Secret History." It's a light history of four ancient cities that were abamdoned.

Yep. Doublespeak on display.

Why not both but probably the latter.

That would be a stretch. It's more nature and nurture. Your physical characteristics will impact tonality and what not. You're upbringing will impact cadence, pronouncation, and other influences. Finally, your brain will make its own choices combining all this input into your own voice.

You can consciously influence some parts like pronouncation and accent if you work at it.

Agreed. I finally upgraded because a few games I wanted to play wouldn't run on mubGTX970. But I note sims like X-Plane 12 and I think MSFS have the 970 as recommended. So it varies.

I have yet to see a game requiring rtx30+.

OK, Bing chat seems waaaaaay more fun than ChatGPT.

Thanks for the info. As I was replying I got to thinking there must be a DB that has the info like number of comets, periods, magnitudes, etc.

Be interesting to take a peek.

Comets are rather common. They can have very different periods some very long, others shorter.

What is rare are comets that are visible to the naked eye. Been over 20 years, I think, since the last one.

What you are observing is an uptick in interest from MSM in all things space due to the JWST, Space X, happenings on the ISS and other interesting things. That means more stories and more awareness. It just seems like an uptick.

Is there another space/time?

How so?

It's hard for philosophers to prove we or they exist because they use words which are inexact.

Scientists have proven we exist in this space/time.

For the love of all that is good in the world, unclinch your sphincter.