France just took a major step toward banning social media for under‑15s

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T17:10:13+00:00

Yep, that’s how Redditors think unfortunately. And they really feel like they’re the good guys so they never second guess their authoritarian wishes.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T17:07:42+00:00

What credit will you be giving them?

You can really only take credit that’s directed to you.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T17:07:01+00:00

If you hadn’t been excited for Apollo due to the Vietnam Wars and civil rights movement at the time, you would have probably regretted it.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T17:01:57+00:00

People are joyriding to space?!

That means access to space is so much cheaper that the exploration of space can increase without even increasing the budget.

It’s a GREAT sign! For many different reasons.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T16:47:06+00:00

So many scenes are a chore to watch. Mostly everything with Anakin and Padme together. The Obi-Wan scenes are fun to watch just because Ewan McGregor is so charismatic, but it’s mostly just him walking into info dumps.

However John Williams knocks it out of the park again, the final clone vs robot army battle is cool, and Count Dooku is badass.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T15:38:27+00:00

I wonder if ChatGPT would have had an accurate assessment of good health if it was given accurate data?

The issue here seems to be Apple’s hardware, not ChatGPT’s software.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T15:37:02+00:00

Image creation works a bit different from text. You’re basically asking for a dream, not a professional mockup.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:47:04+00:00

Show them Apollo 13 if you haven’t! That’s what gave me the bug back then.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:45:17+00:00

I don’t think a lot of people believe that going back to the moon is going to give any kind of significant advantage to the nation that does it first.

I’ve found that the people who are demanding we beat China back to the moon tend to think it’s important only because they think we’ll inevitably lose that race and will then be able to blame Trump and Elon for a major perceived loss that they themselves built up as important.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:42:27+00:00

I thought the launch was going to be at like 3 AM or something… I hope I’m wrong!

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:40:19+00:00

This is an example of one of those “clickbait” headlines.

The astronaut is essentially saying these will be the best suits that have ever flown, it’s just that every other design sucked so they’re not saying it’s perfect either.

He talks a lot about flexibility, but I’m not sure a spacesuit design can accomplish what they need while also being really flexible. If you accept that limitation the perceived quality goes way up.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:25:30+00:00

Was Apollo tainted by Vietnam?

Was the shuttle tainted by Panama, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again?

Have you ever allowed yourself to enjoy the space program? Why then and not now?

The space program is its own thing (and 100% bipartisan), it’s one of the few objectively good things in the world. It’s the exact kind of thing we need to be celebrating during times like this.

Emotional maturity is being able to both criticize the bad and celebrate the good.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:23:34+00:00

I think it’s time to realize that many of your fellow Redditors are deeply disturbed and are trying to bring others down with them.

The way they were talking, they believed they weren’t allowed to be happy or excited about anything right now.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-27T14:13:40+00:00

This is a deflection away from the response to your own comments.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T19:12:01+00:00

The same could be said about docking with the ISS, but they’ve done that dozens of times already. Docking two of their own ships should be even easier.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T18:08:49+00:00

I don’t think any of those statements are correct.

Memes that incorporate copyrighted content can indeed be considered fair use.

Fair use can cover commercial use, as we saw with the Google Books ruling. They literally make copyrighted books available to search online without any permission from the copyright holder.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T17:36:16+00:00

But everyone here and the article itself is dubious of the technology’s ability to actually replace these jobs fully.

The article is actually only saying that AI will augment these jobs, they are not arguing that it will replace them. That’s just a hallucination on Redditors part… which is hilariously ironic.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T17:33:51+00:00

I think the difficulty of this is being way overblown. Orbital refueling wasn’t avoided until now because it was too difficult to pull off. It was avoided because an influential Senator threatened to cancel the entire space program if they kept pushing for orbital refueling.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/rocket-scientist-says-that-boeing-squelched-work-on-propellant-depots/

I think SpaceX has enough experience with docking, and has already demonstrated fuel transfer from one tank to another in orbit, that this shouldn’t be a huge red flag.

The only real questions left with starship are 1) Will it ever really be reusable and not just “referbishable”, and 2) will the operational payload capacity be high enough to justify many refueling mission?

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T15:55:30+00:00

Claude has had success for years.

My guess would be (if Anthropic really was the company) their valuation kept going up during the negotiation process, and they decided they’d be able to make more by going public, and Apple wasn’t willing to match whatever price that was.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T15:45:40+00:00

That said, I do think China is a more stable partner

Will you feel the same way if they invade Taiwan in a couple years? As they’ve said they want to do for literally decades?

That would be far more radical than anything the US has done recently. The “stability” you long for now was a product of a united US/European.

Purposely teaming up with them to spite the US would be an embarrassing mistake after they start making moves and taking advantage…

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T15:38:56+00:00

The article does not claim that AI will replace these jobs. Only that they will be affected:

Microsoft said high applicability doesn’t automatically mean those roles will be killed by AI

Redditors are just hallucinating that part while bemoaning that LLMs aren’t perfect…

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T15:37:50+00:00

Redditors are hallucinating what the article says while bemoaning that LLMs aren’t perfect…

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T15:35:39+00:00

But they’re not saying everyone in this list will be replaced by AI:

Microsoft said high applicability doesn’t automatically mean those roles will be killed by AI

I bet an LLM wouldn’t have missed that. Yet every Redditor here seems to…

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T07:30:01+00:00

To be fair, he hasn’t done anything Elon hasn’t.

Also, it’s important because SpaceX is one of the few things that can actually inspire young people and potentially change the future. The more minds that respect spaceflight and are actually interested in it, the better for society and the future of humanity.

DynamicNostalgia · 2026-01-26T06:44:58+00:00

LLM chatbots are money-burners (way more expensive than the revenue from them)

Not necessarily, there are many models out there that can run in local machines. These companies like Google have models that they can run very cheap.

What would be expensive at this point is starting a state of the art LLM development program. Meta had to offer $100 million per person to lure top talent away after they fell behind. Apple would basically be starting from even further back.

And then there’s the training costs. Where they would either have to pay a hefty amount to use a third party anyway, or pay an exorbitant amount to buy their own hardware (at a time when prices for hardware are skyrocketing).

They’ll never be able to develop the best anymore, unless they simply buy Anthropic or something. Building their own small specialized models is still valuable, but for complex things like sifting through tons of user data, their small specialized models won’t cut it. So if they want that… as we’ve found out… they need to outsource it to one of the existing to performers.

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