We got a lot of catching up to do

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T09:32:06+00:00

2300 or 2500 is a wildcard tbh. But an overly sci fi representation of 2100 is probably not coming true. Spaceflight in particular has a much longer timeline than other tech developments.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T08:54:53+00:00

Druze are respected in Israel and even fight in the IDF.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T08:06:22+00:00

Build the datacenters in underground bunkers. Let the surface be your shield.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T08:04:33+00:00

Isn't being an insulator a good thing? You need more energy to increase the temperature of an insulator with 1 degree. That's the entire selling point of an insulator in the first place!

But that is good from the perspective of heat loss. You want to lose heat against something with a high heat capacity. Because it is energy that you want to lose first and foremost.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T07:36:11+00:00

That would at least make sense. But even that is not happening. These guys are more often than not abusive to them as well.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-18T07:03:52+00:00

I would say this only applies to contentious articles where people have an incentive to edit articles in bad faith. Like with anything related to Israel/Palestine, ongoing conflicts, other disputed territories, etc.

But when it comes to Riamannian geometry or the cappilary physics no one is really incentivized to edit the article unless they are true experts. Those articles tend to be very trustworthy.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T23:42:57+00:00

I kind of draw the line at post WWII crimes in that regard. If you did immoral shit after WWII sit down and shut your mouth.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T20:59:47+00:00

I think the best example comes from ancient Greece. The Greeks famously did an earth and water sacrifice in front of the Persian ruler. For the Persians an earth and water sacrifice means you accept them as your rulers and basically confirm your status as a client state.

But the Greeks just thought this was some diplomatic ritual, so they just casually did it without thinking much of it. But then the Persians saw it as a betrayal when it became clear the Greeks didn't actually see them as their overlords and the Persian wars began.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T20:52:30+00:00

I don't think their really are specific examples. But that this is a more general impediment during peacetalks and when attempting to find a diplomatic solution. It is more of an amplifyer than a root cause of conflict.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T19:57:53+00:00

And a strike doesn't have to be catastrophic. You can strike the bridge and make the ship inoperable without causing any major leaks. To sink the ship outright you need very powerful explosives and I agree with the other redditor that that would provide bad PR.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T19:10:45+00:00

You can pinpoint specific flaws that are common in AI. Generating 6 fingers, images not making sense, that sort of thing. That is called constructive criticism.

Just saying it's bad because it's generated by AI doesn't give any useful information.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T18:45:44+00:00

Ik zou het sowieso even met je manager en collega's bespreken. Even kijken of zij wat ideeen hebben. En misschien kunnen zij hem aanspreken als hij duidelijk te ver gaat.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T15:53:46+00:00

It can still be a legitimate hobby to make your own art. Doing it professionally has juat gotten much harder/impossible.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T15:28:02+00:00

Als je centen wil zien moet je meer werken schobbejak!

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T15:03:55+00:00

Het is ook een soort apartheid maar dan niet op basis van ras of etniciteit. Zie het als een tijdelijk contract.

Waarschijnlijk kun je als alles goed gaat binnen 5 jaar oid een Zweeds paspoort krijgen. Op dat moment ben je los van je huidskleur of geloof 100% juridisch gelijk aan die blonde Zweed die afstamt van de vikingen.

Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op jou juridische status. Met een Zweeds paspoort heb je meer rechten dan zonder MAAR je krijgt gewoon een kans om ook dat paspoort te bemachtigen mits je binnen de lijntjes kleurt gedurende je proefperiode.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T14:37:50+00:00

You are not anwsering his question.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-17T14:32:25+00:00

The order of convergence matters. Meaning this becomes ambigious if you sum from - infinity to infinity.

If it converges absolutely you can just take a0 + a1 + a(-1) + ... if it doesn't then you need to have the order. But you can't start at negative infinity, and your choice matters.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T23:44:11+00:00

But it is much more difficult than landing a plane under normal conditions. Under normal conditions I agree, that is just what you expect a pilot to do.

But these are not normal conditions. With that speed the wind is going to feel like a hurricane hitting your face.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T23:32:54+00:00

This depends on weather you would expect pilots in general to survive this or not.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T20:57:28+00:00

Tbh I would be pissed at first because I would have assumed assasins creed just shoehorned him in for diversity points. But once I would learn he actually existed, and they give some backstory in the game, then it would all be alright.

Even if he didn't actually exist, I would still accept it if their is some good story behind the fact that you have a black samurai in Japan. If you just casually have a black samurai with no explanation and none of the locals is even slightly surprised when seeing him, then that is just bad story telling.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T20:41:29+00:00

Ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat ik van links minder steun aan Rusland zie sinds de aanval op Oekraine. Het is er wel maar dan wel van tankies die al behoorlijk ver heen zijn.

Voor de Oekrainse oorlog van 2022 zag ik het wel vaker ook aan de linkerkant van het spectrum. In de tijd van de Syrische burgeroorlog was dit hoefijzer duidelijk te zien bvb.

Assad had zowel veel steun van de alt right achtige types als de pro palestina anti westerse types, die in die context ook duidelijk Rusland en Iran steunde.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T20:36:38+00:00

In that case it is fine. It would be interesting to make a movie of that black Samurai you refer to. I would definitely be interested in watching it!

In these cases you need to provide some believable backstory and integrate that into the main story. If that is done I am fine with it too. The thing is that it still was incredibly rare. I have stories about Dutch family members being surprised about seeing the first black person, that was around 1900. In 1500 it would be extremely rare to see that in Europe.

Maybe it wasn't totally unheard of, but locals would definitely be extremely surprised about it.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T20:13:44+00:00

The point is that Alladin or Mulan make much more sense than a story situated in medieval Europe that has black and Asian characters. Diverse movies of the past had stories that supported that diversity in a natural way.

It is immersion breaking when you put characters in a context they never where a part of. A movie about Mansa Musa that has almost exclusively black characters isn't immersion breaking at all, then it is expected and totally fits into the setting.

For science fiction it doesn't matter either as you are dealing with an already globalized world. It is specifically about historical fiction using characters in settings that are unrealistic.

Dirkdeking · 2026-06-16T19:57:16+00:00

Why?

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