Maybe, but more importantly there are no people or organizations so good that everything they do is good by association nor any people or organizations so bad that everything they do is bad by association.

I think it is not so much that people want to be angry as that they want someone to blame for everything that is going wrong in their life, someone who is not them, not someone powerful enough that they couldn’t do anything against them anyway (such as the people actually responsible for most of those issues) but someone they can hurt to make themselves feel better, even if that doesn’t solve their original issue.

Honestly, when judging the actions of large organization such as governments it is best not to rely on simplistic “good guy”/ “bad guy” narratives. It might be best to judge each action on its own merit since it might be entirely different parts of the organization performing each action or making each statement.

Hell, the whole “good guy”/“bad guy” thing barely works on individuals.

I hear some of them even consumed food & water.

Seems entirely reasonable. Honestly, more reasonable than visitation about dogs or cats which are much less long-lived animals.

Elon Musk seems like the kind of husband that would set the world record for artificially aging his wife based on being annoying to constantly have in your life.

You might want to check for software support if there are any programmable features.

There is really nothing wrong with the idea of shelter as a service (i.e. renting a place to live). The problem is more with buildings as an investment, whether in the form of landlords or home owners living in their investment. NIMBYs are in large part caused by the latter to take just one negative example.

I suppose oil well firefighters like Red Adair and similar specialized companies could be counted as private firefighters.

Your argument would make a lot more sense if we were talking about colonizing a planet that already has an ecosystem.

It sounded to me like you were advocating for Apytele’s view to counter conspiratorial thinking by giving them more made up conspiracies that happen to align with whatever short term goal you have at the time, basically to be content with having the wrong thought process reach the correct outcome for that short term goal.

Depends on what you count as casual sex. People grow emotionally more attached to friends with benefits than to strangers too and might help them in a tough situation over a stranger or mere acquaintance.

Honestly, the situation we find ourselves in is because we applied your “solution” for decades while ignoring the long-term consequences of that kind of appeasement of illogical thinking.

A newer kernel does not automatically offer more performance. In fact it could be the opposite if it includes workarounds for Intel’s latest CPU security fuck-ups.

I don’t think a lot of people outside of Xbox console players played Halo.

I just discovered a game called Vintage Story which seems to have some pretty good looking landscapes despite being originally based on a Minecraft-like visual style.

Agreed, games that make you replay the entire game to see the 10% of content that were exclusive to a certain decision are not great at all. They are essentially just games with 10% less content for all practical purposes unless we are talking about something where restarting is part of the game play like Rogue-likes.

Then they shouldn’t link to the social media post from elsewhere though as described in the article.

Well, as far as I know it nobody has done that yet and current LLMs seem to focus more on general applications than on being efficient for specialized use cases like this.

Mainly because most social media isn’t really very well made for the purpose of making sure you have seen every post (anything with upvotes/downvotes) or limit the content of a post (microblog-style social media, video/image focused social media).