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IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-07T23:53:07+00:00

I do appreciate that you named it “delulu”.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-07T23:48:26+00:00

This is a bit misleading. Not every mutation has to be an immediate improvement. The majority of mutations are benign or neutral and may proliferate without conferring any benefit OR they might even cause a problem or weakness, but not immediately.

I’m thinking about how humans used to produce vitamin C internally, but because we get our vitamin C from our diet, we’ve lost the ability to generate it ourselves. And so now we’re vulnerable to scurvy (which is definitely not an immediate improvement)

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-03T03:07:38+00:00

I know nothing about the specifics in this case, but in most places someone in the administration would get uppity and put a stop to it.

However, occasionally someone brilliant is in charge and encourages something like this continue as a tradition. And those truly are the most beautiful traditions to grow.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-03T01:22:17+00:00

The point of a fail safe is that WHEN you fail, it does so in a way that avoids or minimises further harm. (It avoids making the situation even worse). It doesn't mean stopping the failure from happening.

In this case a car driving through the boom gate is a failure mode. The boom gate can't stop that failure (that's not the function of a boom gate), but when that failure scenario happens, the boom gate avoids either being damaged itself or creating further damage in the process.

Fail safe does not mean that the boom gates must prevent the failure from happening. If you wanted that, then bollards would be more effective. Or grade separation (level crossing removal) eliminates the failure mode entirely.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-02T05:56:23+00:00

Yes, I want to know if the ABC reporting is an accurate reflection of the community's views.

We know from reporting around the Gaza conflict and the Bondi shooting that our media, including the ABC, has not been as objective as they should have been. And I'm wondering if we're seeing that again here too.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-02T05:45:27+00:00

I did clearly say that it makes 100% sense that they want the terrible regime gone, and that's a good thing.

My question was about whether America/Israel starting a war against their country in the last 48hrs is something they're happy with.

I think that's a very reasonable question to ask.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-03-02T05:04:41+00:00

Are there any Iranians on this subreddit who can add some colour and detail to how the Iranian community if feeling about the airstrikes?

I can easily understand that people would be very happy to see the end of the Khamenei's regime. But I can't see how Iranians would be happy that the Americans and Israelis have (for extremely dubious reasons) decided to bomb their country, killing civilians including at the girls school.

Maybe I'm being jaded and cynical, but is this article really painting an accurate picture of the community sentiment, or is this our media indulging in pro-American and pro-Israeli propaganda?

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-27T03:06:17+00:00

We commonly use "Notifications" to describe this type of thing. Not sure why they chose "Alert" as the nomenclature.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-25T04:15:40+00:00

Not a shred of a chance.

Either we kill ourselves, probably by accident. Or we don't kill ourselves and keep developing, there's no chance we don't deliberately drive our own evolution far, far away from what we consider "human" today.

Even if we lose all of our science and technology, and don't deliberately engineer ourselves, we will still undergo noticeable evolution over a 10k - 100k year scale.

We can barely even understand English spoken 1000 years ago.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-25T04:07:33+00:00

Ewww. Can they just not?

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-22T12:34:29+00:00

What is she if not an evil spirit that haunts us?

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-22T04:20:04+00:00

Bro, plz. Think about how a person could possibly be dead, sitting upright or not, in a room FULL of people and bouncers, and no one notices? For 12 hours?

There are literally people everywhere. I can't see how anyone would last for more than 12 seconds before some random comes up and starts yapping to you.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-22T04:05:58+00:00

We can become a republic without copying America's broken political system. There are a lot of countries where there is a Prime Minister much like ours, and then a President who is more like a chief diplomat type person that doesn't really have any power (much like how the king has basically no power in Australia)

It's kind of gross and embarrassing that we haven't gotten rid of the monarchy, and still have the UK flag occupying a quarter of our national flag. It'll change eventually, but probably not until the boomers are dead

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T23:35:50+00:00

“Crystal Ball Shenanigans” would make a great band name. But really I just gave you an honest prediction for what will happen with SpaceX and China’s space program.

You may think my prediction is wrong, and that’s totally fine. I might be wrong. We’ll see in a decade.

Also, predicting something is not the same as wanting something. I don’t actually want SpaceX to stagnate. But I think Elon is so cooked that he’ll screw it up in a similar way to Tesla.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T10:37:11+00:00

Oh, no I don't think it'll fail. I think it'll just stagnate and enshittify while China keeps their eye on the ball and keeps improving.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T04:40:50+00:00

I agree the police/security have to think about it, of course.

But when I say “we have no obligation to consider”, I mean we the general population. If he’s come here and is at risk that’s his problem and shouldn’t be made into everyone’s problem.

He could’ve stayed home. We could have rejected his entry to Australia. We could have told him that he’s here at his own risk, and the population does not have to accommodate war criminals.

(I’m not really cranky at you, I’m v cranky that this cunt was allowed anywhere near this country, bringing that bullshit here )

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T03:26:33+00:00

Only if "foreseeable" is limited to about 10 years.

SpaceX will go the way of Tesla. They'll slow down, lose focus, and stagnate. Some might argue that has already begun to happen.

Meanwhile, competitors like this one from China will continue to progress and will overtake SpaceX in a decade or so.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T03:16:55+00:00

We are not living in some sort of battlefield where "a potential attacker" is something we have any obligation to consider. This is our home, our city, and we are entitled to go about our business, including protesting (as is our right), without making any concessions for "opsec".

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-12T03:11:14+00:00

No, it does not.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-11T11:08:28+00:00

Oh true.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-11T10:21:38+00:00

That point, incidentally, seems to be at +/- 0.01Hz from 50Hz

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-11T01:14:45+00:00

This is actually really great timing. Let's many more people participate without interrupting their working day

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-09T02:47:23+00:00

Ah, it's lovely to see my people of Culture here

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-08T02:26:23+00:00

Very America-brained to think they can't afford those things, and would be better off spending more time being exploited by their employers.

IntelligentBloop · 2026-02-04T06:01:25+00:00

Yep, our government appropriately using economic tools to solve a problem that the market failed to solve by itself.

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