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As far as I can tell, it's been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all

I keep reading this but I never found the source. Is this actually true?

1. (some) Clothes on
2. Not sleeping
3. Hair looks good enough
4. Essential Everyday Carry (blunt, lighter) ready to go
5. Still 10 minutes left

Girl doing better than I usually am

If anything, having enough cash saved up to live an entire year with no work, and buy that much weed, demonstrates strong financial management skills

I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between racial diversity and racism (whether casual or systemic). Of course it's not easy to quantify the latter...

If cops listened to science and common sense they would be arresting very different people

I'm still hoping for labor camps at minimum wage until they repay what they stole (i.e. forever). Fuck capital punishment

I once tried steeping (black) tea in a friend's drip coffee maker. That shit was the strongest, most flavorful tea I've ever tried. 9/10 would recommend

I think you should take a more constructivist approach - what we have now, rather than what we might have in the future. Currently we have a network of like 20 major servers, mostly federated with each other. If one of those servers becomes insanely popular and overrun with bots and garbage, the rest will simply defederate from it. From the perspective of users on those other servers, they've only lost 5% of the network they liked. From the perspective of users who were on the popular server before it went to shit, they now have to move servers but still have 95% of the old network as they remember it.

Do users all move to the new instance?

What incentive is there for them to move? By the very nature of hype explosions, they are exponential, and as such most users will have joined when it was already quite popular. They won't remember the "good old days" of their server being federated, so for them it's fine to be isolated on a garbage server, at least initially. I suspect if something like this were to happen, most other servers will also limit signups for some time, to keep the spirit of the network alive and growing organically.

If you're talking about the OP image, it's actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

On a very fundamental level, the scaffolding that makes words make sense is the neuron structures in your brain which fire when they recognize certain sounds/scribbles. Things like etymology and grammar are not necessary for a language to be used for communication (in fact, languages existed for much longer than the notions of etymology or grammar). Both of them help make the language more standardized and thus more understandable, but they are not required - you can totally make yourself understood without knowing about either of those things.

Oh how the turntables

Printing on Linux used to be a massive pain because CUPS, until I learned that I can just yeet PDFs at network printers with nc.

I can't fathom Windows printing being worse than CUPS somehow. But then again I'm pretty sure last time I printed anything on Windows it was via a parallel port.