Seems pretty good for helping you sleep when you feel terrible, even if your cough persists

And then gutted...

This is the nonpartisan institute that DOGE gained access to by basically blackmailing the security companies, right?

Oh wow. I was never going to get that reference. Its a tv show called The Prisoner episode A Change of Mind for anyone that reads this

Repeat your prompt starting with an exclamation mark?

I'm also not saying that being aware of what this person is saying and internalising it isn't important. It's an important message. It's just calling out instead of calling in. It's carefully about avoiding overtly calling out, but its still what's happening

It's painting with a broad brush with a pretty narrow interpretation of the people that share this content. Almost all that interpretation frames this group in the negative as if the world would be better if they weren't like this and with them needing to be educated

That to me is demonising them

I disagree

1. Its still too long and takes more time than reading.

2. My main issue is the overhead. I want to be a number at Starbucks not repeat my name three times. ❤️Touch screens

There is an important message here, but its also demonising a group and being simplistic

That isn't a phrase listed here. Agreed it's a bit of defeatist commentary, but are you aware of mechanisms that are working?

For example, empathetic listening on an individual can work, but it doesn't scale well to groups and is a huge cost. Prebunking only works before people are deniers

RIP. BBC was a nice hold out for decent news and they're losing trust pretty rapidly

I don't find the humiliating part motivating and I think you lose a lot of people including that. It think you motivate a bunch if emotionally charged people with it too. I personally think that's a dangerous trade off

Surveys like this piss me off

There is a huge difference between "aliens have visited (and influenced our government)" and the idea that cellular life may have existed elsewhere in the lifespan of the universe. And that's different from it being still alive or us seeing evidence of it

I don't think so. He's was pro for a bit. I don't remember when by know there is this breakdown I've been meaning to read:

garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-...

Also... is that from orbit at that height, or a roughly stationary balloon city? I suspect an orbit would degrade because of the atmosphere so it would have to be a balloon city but usually see values for an orbit

Yeah, but three times Earth's would be rough. In any hard scifi you'd need new engines, wouldn't you?

I personally think its more remarkable that the attacks to USAID, attacks to science, the brutality of ICE, weaponising the DOJ etc all still left him with approval that was similar to six months before the election

It took affordability to lower his poll numbers

I came here looking for this comment

What's the delta-v for escape velocity?

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

- Winston Churchill, 1940

Only the timing was off.