There are so many pessimistic comments.

To those who are saying, something along the lines of, aliens wouldn’t come because they wouldn’t recognise us as intelligent.

That is a really stupid augment, even if they were significantly more intelligent than us, we still standout from all other minds on this planet.

We literally study everything, just for the sake of knowledge.

A high intelligence civilisation that has the ability to reach us, would also have to a high level of curiosity to archive that ability.

To answer question posed. There are two ways to look at this:

• if we assume that, at some point an alien civilisation will contact us, the next 10 years is as statistically likely as another ten year timeframe.
• from a background rate, of the actual likelihood of being contacted at all. I have to say, it is exceptionally unlikely. The travel distances/times, and the time a civilisation exists for, all count against contact especially physical contact.

Trump is an idiot. If he actually cared about US power, he wouldn’t give Xi this opportunity.

It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit or not, the fact that Xi can even make these comments, in a credible manner will hurt US trade relations and by extension, power.

I’m wondering what exactly people raising privacy concerns are worried about?

Even if I tell you my ASL, what can you do with that info?

I’m usually very privacy aware.

The big tech firms already have the information, it can also likely be brought on the dark web.

44/M/NZ BTW. Even if I tell you which small town I’m from, it doesn’t get you to my doorstep.

How to cover up leaving 10 minutes late!

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I have a boox note 3. It’s great, ReadEra is my default reading app, syncthing and Netguard are the main things I use.

I once long ago worked in the incoming mail department for are insurance company. It was basically data entry.

Thing was, there wasn’t enough work.

There were two teams of five, plus a supervisor for each team, and a manager above them.

So what would happen was, we would arrive in and go to our spots, a few minutes later the main would arrive. Most days there was 100 pieces of mail to process, a really busy day may have twice this amount.

Even the most complex items would take me 10 minutes to process. The bulk was around 3 minutes, given the above, could personally have processed all the mail on an average day, with 3hrs to spare for complications.

On an average day, I got in the order of 30-40 minutes of work.

On slow days, it was more like 20.

I started coming in late, sleeping at my desk. Wandering around, going up to the upper management offices and the roof.

I eventually got fired, after months of this behaviour. Not because I was underperforming, no! I got fired, because I was “effecting the moral of the team”

I can see the point of why I was fired. I was an arse, I wasn’t suitable for the role.

This fucks me off sooooooooo much; in NZ there are a lot of (a fuck of a lot) of roads that don’t have overtaking zones for a long way.

Getting an opportunity to overtake the slow prick you have been following for 20 minutes, just to have them speed up…forcing me to go faster than I’m comfortable with, then being in front and have them sitting on your arse for the next 10km, even though you are going faster than before you overtook them…FUCK OFF!!!

This is the only correct answer

And socks…

That is exactly the same for your kids, it is not until their world expands a bit when they are 3-5YO; before that you are literally everything to them.

You could have most people in a relatively small area with the rest for farming.

There would be little need for the equivalent of roads, almost all travel would be walk or bike. The longest distance between two points is less than 34km. If the main settlement is in a ring around the middle of the cylinder, it is less than 17km to any point.

If we can do B, A doesn’t provide many benefits.

A 1km diameter, 30km cylinder would provide enough area to feed ~140k people. 95km^2 of space.

That is assuming no imported food etc, based on 7000m^2 per person which is almost 2 acres each.

140k people is a small city.

Moldering: “to crumble into dust, to rot”

All the definitions of molding I can find, are about shaping something.

Literally nothing.

Give him a high five and tell him to keep doing what he is doing. Since we invent the time machine, I wouldn’t want to fuck that up. Really I wouldn’t even visit.

I would however be expecting a visit from my future self, to get the details on how to solve global warming and a bunch of other issues.

Colour would like a word with you.

Wouldn’t that be mouldering?

Lathes are serious machines. They require serious caution!

At my previous job, there was a very lucky apprentice; he was working on “the small lathe”; the sleeve on his overalls caught on the work piece. His arm was pulled into the machine the overall sleeve tore as it was being pulled in. He got very nasty friction burns all up the under side of his arm; if the sleeve didn’t tear, at minimum he would have lost the arm…the lathe didn’t stop spinning during the event. He panicked (understandably) and didn’t think to hit the e-stop.

Table saws and lathes…don’t fuck around with them. Powerful tools require serious caution; but they are also very useful when used correctly.

Legend.

Always found that strangely motivating.

You can probably trim that down by one.

• Treat others as you would have them treat you.
• Pursue a useful existence.

But I would also add:

• Treat yourself with genuine respect.

This feeds back into the first point.