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@ptoothfish I've imagined a "Twilight Zone"-esque short about a man who every day wakes up in an alternate timeline where everything's almost the same except that all devices have completely different (often absurd) controls which he has to relearn every day. He ends up living in the Canadian wilderness in a log cabin he built himself.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social People hired to advise the 1% on how to survive a breakdown of civilization report having to give them some unwelcome news: in a breakdown of civilization, everything that made them wealthy and influential will vanish and suddenly they'll be nobodies sitting on a hoard of supplies they can't defend.

@xkcd@mastodon.com.br Would you have to hit the Earth exactly opposite of where the Yucatan peninsula is *now*, or what was opposite it 65Mya?

@Noisecolor@toot.community @davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt As opposed to the dedication to the public welfare of communist commissars.

@kkremitzki@mastodon.social Although Star Trek messed up when they gave Kirk a chartreuse shirt that was maddeningly in-between green and yellow.

@reece I've never understood why it was the clocks that had to be changed instead of businesses and jobs having "summer" open hours and "winter" open hours.

@golgaloth Was it Hallucigenia that they eventually decided was just a fragment of a larger fossil, or am I thinking of something else?

@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I never thought that if we ever had robots in our homes that we wouldn't own them ourselves, that they'd be spies and shills for the robot company.

@nyrath@spacey.space @selfsame@tiny.tilde.website Actually he's a perfectly reasonable monitor lizard that somehow got embedded inside a ridiculously bloated torso.

@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social @sleepfreeparent@kolektiva.social @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk Chips could always have been expensive specialty items for niche applications like military or space. But the manufacturers knew that if they could mass produce them economically that they would more than make up on volume. Cheap chips created their own markets.

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot Hench the end user's programming dilemma, dating from the first availability of macro keys even on dumb terminals: "is it worth taking the trouble to automate this?"

@somebody@tech.lgbt @apLundell@timeloop.cafe @Taweret@timeloop.cafe The gross weight of the first stage exceeded the rest of the rocket; that's how light and voluminous liquid hydrogen is.

@rajelaran@oldbytes.space Ala' "Alien", the Infectious/Biohazard ratings scale needs to go up to a 5: "agent actively working to escape containment".

@coreyspowell The JWST has revealed that we need a deep-infrared telescope with 20-50 x the angular resolution.

@coreyspowell I'm really hoping that SpaceX's Starship becomes a reality because you could do some awesome science with a 150 ton payload and a 9 meter cargo bay.

@hart If you're only as old as you feel, I'm 112.

@evildrganymede There was an episode in which Sheridan is time-skipped to a future where he and Delenn are Londo's prisoners on Centauri Prime, but despite their predicament Delenn tells Sheridan that their son is "safe". I took that to mean that he escaped the controller.

@JoeRess@fosstodon.org A lot of exposition that didn't make it onto the screen included that the Trade Federation's treaty would have virtually reduced Naboo to serfdom, including being able to dictate the planet's laws. That's a little more than "taxation"; more like the East India Company.

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @AndrewJonesSpace@universeodon.com @sundogplanets@mastodon.social At least SpaceX understands the importance of mitigating orbital debris and light pollution, and takes concrete steps to address this (not to mention not dropping stuff on populated areas). China's policies have always been "the needs of the state come first".

@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social @sleepfreeparent@kolektiva.social @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk TOO few, that's the problem: chip manufacture (and even more critically the literally unique facilities for creating the chip manufacturing machines) are essentially a global resource. Destroy them and you take away the capacity of the entire planet to create advanced chips. Something a techno-terrorist neoLuddite might aspire to do, but no partisan cause could benefit by it.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social What's love got to do with it?

@bleuje@mathstodon.xyz Reminds me vaguely of when I've stood waiting at the teller window at the bank and idly coiled the pen on a chain.

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Would sound like Star Trek technobabble explaining how dilithium crystals work, if it wasn't actually true. 😄

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Speaking of remembering phone numbers, I make a point of ALWAYS manually dialing the one number that is my emergency contact number, so I will remember it if I ever had to call without access to my phone.

@richardisaguyyyy@ursal.zone @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange For starters, the database would be on a centrally located server where the admins would have to be physically present to log into dumb terminals to approve any update.