Notices by V (miss_rodent@girlcock.club)

@inthehands It was close enough that I walked past it a few times, but, I was also stress-walking around downtown a fair bit because I was there for a friend's trial x.x;; so maybe farther from the courthouse than it seemed

@inthehands not off the top of my head, it was between the courthouse & nicollette mall,
*searches*
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers, I think?

@inthehands Fair, I've had it happen in several cities in NY, but, I'm also a local here; minneapolis is the only time I've had it happen elsewhere really, lol.

So not the recent trip to MN, but the pevious one when I was staying in downtown minneapolis for a week, I ended up heading to a small bookshop out there near the hotel,
And an older man, I think an owner of the shop, asked for help carrying things inside -
I didn't think much of it, just helped carry it in with him, bought a couple of books.
But thinking back on it - it stands out, because it was the only time a stranger asked me - a visibly-queer stranger - for help like that in the midwest

@inthehands I mean... Iraq comes to mind.

@inthehands The be fair, "bomb the hell out of 'em" has... basically never worked, historically.
Without a land invasion & occupation, all the bombing does is make the survivors hate you more, and calcifies resistance, often unifies the people against you. Would be not at all surprised if Iran saw a dramatic drop-off in anti-regime activity while this has been happening.

@argv_minus_one @ireneista @davidgerard Yeah. I wonder how much of the Slopfondler contingent is people who heard the last 30 years of "learn to code" as career advice/pressure, did, got a job they hate as a code monkey for some evil megacorp monpoly that should have been broken up in 2007, and now that they finally have some way to stop doing real work (that they hate) are mad that those of us with any sense of ethics want to blow up the datacenters.

@veronica either way - you sure as hell don't need my ID or biometric data to know that an account I made in like 2009 is owned and used by an adult - Infants are not prone to creating new accounts on anything.

@veronica Also, with most of what is listed there - even in isolation - you can infer approximate age well enough to determine "adult" or "not adult" pretty reliably anyway... not many children owning cars or sitting on 18+ year old bank accounts, for example. But even something like favourite artist can give away approximate age-range.

which is tons more in supplies, mining materials, presumably some ways to send the shit they're stealing from a planet you have no fucking business invading in the first place back home where it can be used.
Supply drops - because it will need supply drops from earth, because mars can't support human life on it's own - also take months to arrive, have to be launched in tight windows, and you need to land in the right place b/c mars doesn't have a global shipping system.
If you want a colony >

that is self-sufficient, then... good fucking luck. If the water purifier breaks. for example - which it will, eventually - the nearest replacement parts will take months (potentially years) to get there, while the colonizers die of dehydration in the meantime.
Unless you want to send a *whole industrial supply chain*. Through space. Several orders of magnitude farther away than the moon.
And just... hope they can mine all the needed inputs within range of the colony?

This is not happening >

There is no path to make this happen anytime soon - most of these problems are solvable in a "If we have the physicists assume infinite money and infinite materials" sort of sense.
SpaceX needs to eventually make money though, not just stuff the entire GDP of earth into a furnace every week for half a century to do colonialism but in space.

of orbital launch platform.
If you're doing a return trip, you also need a vehicle that can launch from mars, which has a harsh climate, some atmosphere, and gravity - all of which are different than earth's, so, the math for a launch from here doesn't work.
You also need fuel, and the return ship needs to support the colonizers and keep them alive for *likely multiple years* on the return trip, without them going mad and eating each other.
This isn't even accounting for the *colony* part yet>

alive.
A trip to mars takes months, a trip back takes years, the windows for those trips to be made are pretty small. To send colonizers to mars you need to also send enough supplies for them to survive, and to create and sustain an environment they can survive in, for the trip there, the entire time they are there, and the return trip if there is one.
If there is a return, you're launching enough stuff that you likely can't launch from earth - so, multiple launches, or you need some sort >

Mars colonies are not a thing spaceX will be doing anytime soon enough to justify the delusional amounts of money people are throwing at it.
I keep seeing this brought up, and, I do not think people really understand how overwhelmingly bad an idea trying this under current technological conditions would be, or how obscenely unprofitable a proposal it is.
It's not like colonizing on earth, where you have a native population to enslave, and local food and water sources to keep your colonizers >

@AnarchoNinaWrites I think we're well into "too late" for the problem to be settled by november; oil industry folks in the US & some entire countries have been warning that reserves and stockpiles have been drawn down to 'critical' levels - those reserves don't refill fast, especially when you have to refill them globally all at once. & the fertilizer shortages will impact *now* - but not show up in the econ data until the harvest season, b/c agriculture moves at it's own pace.

@glyph @snaums Unfortunately, rsync is both a thing maintained by volunteer labour & released free [in all senses]
... and also critical infrastructure for several entire ecosystems.
Like... if someone built a bridge, and opened it to public use - millions use it, it becomes the main way to cross that particula gap
The maintainer doesn't owe it to anyone to *not* pave over the bridge with shit instead of asphalt...
... but also, it you depend on it, you;re gonna be mad about the shitbridge.

@glyph I've had this sot of thing happen with gamblers before... Like, people who can do - and have done - the math to *prove* what they are doing is a losing bet - but insisting they have a 'system' (that the math and reality don't support) or somesuch thing >.>;

@glyph (as an aside - going to a casino with a bunch of math nerds, and watching the flashing lights make them entirely forget several years worth of statistics and probabilities is fucking fascinating. Convinced me to stop gambling for any significant amount of money.)

@glyph In general,the smartest people you know are almost certainly only one context-switch away from acting like complete fools.