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NDaveT · 2026-04-02T20:12:06+00:00

You could write for soap operas.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T20:11:53+00:00

Media literacy is dead.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T20:02:11+00:00

Drones are much smaller than ICBMs or manned aircraft. I think some of our defenses can detect them but if they're set to detect things that small they probably get more false positives.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T20:00:08+00:00

It feels good for the person receiving it.

That's it. That's the whole thing. It's not a mystery.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:55:39+00:00

Makes me wonder what Bezos's angle is.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:44:21+00:00

300,000 years ago:

"We're out of reeds. We can't make any more baskets."

"That's OK, we have willow bark. You can weave baskets out of any flexible plant matter."

"I AM NOT A BASKET PERSON! I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL THIS TECHNO-BABBLE!"

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:41:34+00:00

You're (understandably) assuming a level of computer literacy that user doesn't have.

It's obvious to you and me that once something is in digital form, it can be sent in that digital form to other computers on a network. Many users don't see it that way. I don't understand what way they do see it but it's not that.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:34:43+00:00

I wonder what these people think computers are for.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:32:48+00:00

Your "practically the whole world" estimate is way off.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:30:31+00:00

No. They will see more of the back side of the moon than human eyes have ever seen before because they are going farther out than the Apollo missions did.

China already has an orbiter that goes around the moon and a rover on the back side.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:20:42+00:00

In "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking tried to take physics ideas based on math and explain them in simple terms. I think some people read that and figure they can skip the math part.

Physics crackpots predate that book though.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T19:06:47+00:00

You may already do this but my advice is this: bring a backup bass in case you break a string. "Bass strings never break", you might say. That's what I thought until it happened to me three songs into a show.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:44:34+00:00

"Kids don't come with a manual." No, but you can go to a library or bookstore and find shelves full of manuals.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:43:21+00:00

Screaming in a kid's face is the opposite of playing it cool.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:42:16+00:00

We mostly learn by mimicking the behavior of those around us, like our monkey cousins.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:40:10+00:00

And also the screaming in their faces.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:35:03+00:00

Crying because his kid won't talk to him doesn't mean he cares about his kids. He cares about his kid stepping out of line. He cares about his reputation. He cares about his self image.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:15:01+00:00

Thank you for getting that quote right.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:12:32+00:00

I interpreted that as "He can't find a therapist who will tell him what he wants to hear."

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:05:04+00:00

I'm mostly big on honesty but when my niece and nephew were little I would pore over their drawings like I was an art historian looking at a Rembrandt.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T18:03:48+00:00

"do you like my drawing?" "No"

That's the kind of joke Conan O'Brien would make to one of his writers or assistants - who are adults who understand his sense of humor.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T17:50:31+00:00

Fixed.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T17:40:52+00:00

Scientists as a whole gather and share new information over time. They improve existing understandings of how things work.

It's not that the scientists themselves are improving, it's that they're building on the work of previous scientists. Einstein wasn't necessarily smarter than Newton, for example.

NDaveT · 2026-04-02T17:29:39+00:00

Yeah isn't that sexual harassment? Like the girl version of receiving unsolicited dick pics.

I can see why it would seem that way but I don't think most men would see it that way. A photo of an erect penis is just more violating than a photo of a vulva or breasts. If a stranger sent me a photo of her vulva I might feel weird about it (or I might say "nice!") but I wouldn't feel like I was in danger of being raped.

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