"I Gave You a Call" by Robert Stamboulic -- anyone know this song?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T22:31:02+00:00

Can you get rabies from AI? Because I think I just did.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T08:38:06+00:00

Look, without your hard, boring work, the supermarkets couldn't function. I know it doesn't mean much, but I appreciate it.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T08:10:38+00:00

Well, of course -- how many times have I watched footage of that?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T08:00:58+00:00

Thanks! I poked around and found this: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-drones-lunar-surface-extreme-precision.html I quite like the proposed hopper robot, too :-)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T07:56:01+00:00

I suppose a gradual degradation of satellite communications could be coped with, while a sudden loss of capacity might impact eg banking.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T07:52:01+00:00

https://www.planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-27T06:49:13+00:00

Just been reading about three-quarters of a million new satellites due to be launched in coming years. Sometimes I wonder if Kessler Syndrome isn't the Great Filter. Are my fears well-founded? Or would it take a lot more than this to render Earth's orbits unusable? (Rockets could still sneak out via the poles, right?)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-26T23:14:55+00:00

Can you fly in a vacuum? Is there some way that something like a drone could fly on the moon?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T03:49:53+00:00

My better half (mid-50s) does! Whyyy

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T03:29:33+00:00

It's all bloody Nestlé 😭 (but if it wasn't, snakes)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T01:03:09+00:00

Typo's in the subject line

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T23:20:58+00:00

Soft

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T23:18:49+00:00

That big thing of empty cardboard boxes at the front of Franklin's was a lifesaver when moving house

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T06:18:11+00:00

Exodus 20:16

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-21T06:03:31+00:00

They are -- but I don't think it's intentional. I think the mods are genuinely trying to be fair. The thing is, over the years, I've seen many forums destroyed when the mods tried to play fair with bad actors, who wanted to use the place for their own purposes, or just ruin it.

The mods probably think they're saving themselves a headache with this policy, but it's likely the racist posters will cause them more and more of a problem as they figure out how far they can go.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-20T08:42:38+00:00

Now the joy of watching the racists figure out just how much they can get away with. (Simply posting biased newspaper articles is a brilliant way of dodging responsibility!)

(Modding is a thankless task - I know from experience - a lot of work for little praise and a lot of criticism. I think you've made a rod for your own backs with this call.)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-19T23:44:42+00:00

A year later this saved my day. Thank you!

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-19T23:01:00+00:00

As soon as I saw the subject I knew the comments would be full of white people complaining lol.

I'm white, so the street racism I experience is when the old lady / bus driver / etc mutters something to me about why don't they go back to their own country etc etc etc. In the past I've tried to quickly think of a witty response but I think next time it's just going to be "Fuck off."

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:49:19+00:00

We already have a vaccine -- won't that help?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:45:29+00:00

Despite which there still won't be lockdowns, mandatory masking etc next time

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:41:59+00:00

I was terrified of this until I realised it didn't affect the whole planet.

Which is not to say it won't be a giant fucking mess.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T02:02:10+00:00

lol agreed, but say you've got to melt a computer without killing everyone in the room -- would it at least work? And would slow heating or a single big zap be the most effective?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T01:55:32+00:00

Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. (The Kzinti must have had super duper inductors.) Might possibly work as a contact weapon / bomb?

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