In which case, the existence of the hotel still isn’t a bad thing, because without them the alternative would just be being homeless unless the economic conditions leading to that are fixed, and if they were fixed, people living in one long term wouldn’t be likely to occur anymore anyway.

Except both of these are the future we got, since they both exist.

The first one isn’t for living in I don’t think, just renting a place to sleep short term. Which, if anything, isn’t that basically just the old idea of a hostel where someone can rent a bunk in a dormitory style room, but with a bit more privacy?

When I look at their comment history, it actually looks more concerning. In the, “legitimately concerned for this person’s mental health to the point that one probably shouldn’t take whatever they say too personally sense”.

What about “didn’t use a cart in the first place”, or “brought own cart”?

Virtually nothing in politics or economics is ever permanent.

We already have more than two political parties. What we don’t have is more than two that are viable for anything above the local scale, which Musk can’t change because that’s a consequence of our electoral system. The best he could hope for is for one of the parties to collapse so thoroughly that it’s base moves to his and it becomes one of the two major parties, which has happened before a couple times but is very unlikely I would think.

I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn’t have the same impact

Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.

What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder

Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist

First they’d have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We’ve made progress but it’s been decades in the making and I’d be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.

But what’s dystopian about fusion? It’s just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.

Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

Honestly, I’m beginning to think that maybe up/downvotes shouldn’t federate, with each instance having it’s own score for each post. Though maybe that makes the score-based sorts less useful on small or private instances. Or alternatively, each instance could send a single up or down vote based on the ratio of voted from it’s users if any had interacted with something, to let vote score be mostly coming from within one’s instance but still with some amount from outside to sort the timeline with. Could make it take more effort to manipulate the rankings since one would have to either make bots on many different instances or set up multiple whole instances for it instead of just bots on a single one.

And why wouldnt he? After all, he wont be running for election again; either he doesnt manage to cancel the normal electoral process and isnt eligible, or does, and therefore doesnt actually need to run the risk of losing by making it fair enough to potentially lose. The only reason for him to care about popularity is ego, so if just insisting to himself and others that his decisions are popular is enough to convince himself of it, he will.

What if I’m saying names out of order, and say my last now but will say the beginning or other entries on the list later?

I wonder if this is intentional, some kind of regional thing to call it that instead, or perhaps someone using some sort of translation software that is using a synonym for “squash” in a context where it does not apply? (Though, that would require the original language also use the same word for the vegetable and for squashing things, is that common or unique to English?)

Guam wouldn’t even be leaving the US, unless you expect it to secede sometime in the immediate future and be successful at doing so. For that matter, if the question is “what would your dream place to immigrate be” rather than “what place do you think you would have a decent shot of being welcomed”, why should people not mention popular places? If people didn’t find them appealing, they wouldn’t be popular in the first place.

That’s not how a railgun works, that’s how a coilgun works. Railguns create a loop of electric current that flows into one “wire” (the rail), through the projectile into the other wire, and back down to the starting point again, this configuration creates a force that pushes the projectile down the rails

The Netherlands probably, but with the massive grain of salt that I suspect that choosing a “ideal place to live” without actually having been to that place is likely to result in a skewed idea of what a place is truly like, and as I’ve never been outside the United States I have that issue when thinking about any other country. I also doubt they or anywhere else that might make my list of ideal places would want me, seeing as I’m just some random factory worker without any especially rare skill.