There are so many pessimistic comments.

To those who are saying, something along the lines of, aliens wouldn’t come because they wouldn’t recognise us as intelligent.

That is a really stupid augment, even if they were significantly more intelligent than us, we still standout from all other minds on this planet.

We literally study everything, just for the sake of knowledge.

A high intelligence civilisation that has the ability to reach us, would also have to a high level of curiosity to archive that ability.

To answer question posed. There are two ways to look at this:

• if we assume that, at some point an alien civilisation will contact us, the next 10 years is as statistically likely as another ten year timeframe.
• from a background rate, of the actual likelihood of being contacted at all. I have to say, it is exceptionally unlikely. The travel distances/times, and the time a civilisation exists for, all count against contact especially physical contact.

I had children to legitimise my dad jokes.

Trump is an idiot. If he actually cared about US power, he wouldn’t give Xi this opportunity.

It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit or not, the fact that Xi can even make these comments, in a credible manner will hurt US trade relations and by extension, power.

I’m wondering what exactly people raising privacy concerns are worried about?

Even if I tell you my ASL, what can you do with that info?

I’m usually very privacy aware.

The big tech firms already have the information, it can also likely be brought on the dark web.

44/M/NZ BTW. Even if I tell you which small town I’m from, it doesn’t get you to my doorstep.

Wait, of someone at InfoWars does something oniony, do we get the quantum of onion and not onion?

Just because you are all out of fucks, doesn’t really have anything to do with the finite/infinite nature of all fucks.

(thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today

This is the best news I have heard lately.

How to cover up leaving 10 minutes late!

s/main/only/

My oldest (8) bikes to school nearly every day.

His younger brother is allowed to walk to school next year when he is 6.

It is fairly normal here for kids, that are above 6/7, to walk to and from school if it isn’t too far.

Search on DDG, maybe “Candling”

Candling : The process of illuminating an egg with a bright light to examine its contents.

My 3 boys, and various friends loved that toy.

Yes; a lot of things get hit, even themselves.

To anyone saying that these are a bad toy. You are wrong! There are so many learning opportunities for babies and toddlers in this toy.

It is super cool seeing a really little kid “building” the duplo with their little hammer.

Climate change.

In the mid 90’s when the data was becoming more mainstream, I felt that there wasn’t enough info to make a decision on it, looking back from now there was but the O&G lobby was muddying the waters as much as possible.

A few years later, ~97/98; I had read enough studies and seen enough data to accept that, yes; we were changing the climate, and yes; we need to do something about it.

It has shaped a lot of the decisions I have made in the last 25+ years.

BTW electric power tools kick arse.

I was literally going to say this.

Except I was going to phrase it:
This is going to become depressingly common, like school shootings. Soon it wont even make the news.

This list seems intentionally misleading, I would have thought that highest grossing was the money earned by the actual actor. I.e. pay + backend.

I have a boox note 3. It’s great, ReadEra is my default reading app, syncthing and Netguard are the main things I use.

A non-vote is exactly the same as voting for the winner.

If you would have voted for the winner, then not voting didn’t matter because your candidate won anyway.

If you would have voted for the loser, then your non-vote reduced the chance for your candidate to win; which mathematically in a FPTP system means it increased the chance for your opponent to win.

Though, it is one way to always be on the winning team. /s

I once long ago worked in the incoming mail department for are insurance company. It was basically data entry.

Thing was, there wasn’t enough work.

There were two teams of five, plus a supervisor for each team, and a manager above them.

So what would happen was, we would arrive in and go to our spots, a few minutes later the main would arrive. Most days there was 100 pieces of mail to process, a really busy day may have twice this amount.

Even the most complex items would take me 10 minutes to process. The bulk was around 3 minutes, given the above, could personally have processed all the mail on an average day, with 3hrs to spare for complications.

On an average day, I got in the order of 30-40 minutes of work.

On slow days, it was more like 20.

I started coming in late, sleeping at my desk. Wandering around, going up to the upper management offices and the roof.

I eventually got fired, after months of this behaviour. Not because I was underperforming, no! I got fired, because I was “effecting the moral of the team”

I can see the point of why I was fired. I was an arse, I wasn’t suitable for the role.

That is really interesting.

So we have fungi growing on the outside of the ISS, and we have fungi growing were there is very little available moisture.

So hard vacuum and almost no moisture doesn’t kill off fungi. It can evolve to take advantage of extremely high energy radiation.

I wonder if fungi could grow on asteroids?