There are some schools where unlimited spending would have no benefit whatsoever.

There is a reason we don't send untold billions of dollars in aid to Africa anymore and the answer isn't racism. The same logic applies here.

> Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the US govt has no power outside its territory.

I don't know what planet you live on but this hasn't been true for the better half of the last century.

Gamedevs will put up with anything.

No they won't, only when it makes money, without jeopardising their IP.

Marriage is the highest form of social engineering, it is an observed fact that it is the primary driver of the civilizing process in human history.

Its absence and the resultant breakdown is being observed in real-time, it should be no surprise that the degradation of society from its absence takes a long time to be felt and it will take a long time to repair this error.

This is a pretty bad-faith argument. Marriage and civilization are definitely correlated, but claiming that the breakdown of marriage is the cause of social issues needs substantiation. Marriage (and sexual abstinence) was very important for property inheritance. It was then codified into social systems as a downstream impact of property rights. A world with birth control, DNA testing, and an extensive legal system muddies this justification.

It's not social engineering, it's biology; many animals mate for life too.

Yet many humans don't mate for life, throughout human history. So is that their biology?

Yes? Individuals within a species vary. Nature isn't precise, it's a random walk.

Also, desires can change over a lifetime. Some correlate strongly with hormones and others with life experiences.

Big difference between mating and marriage. Lot of marriage where mating is not happening but couples cannot separate because of social/legal/emotional ramifications.

yeah marriage is more of a business deal than anything else

/married for 20 years

It is a plain fact that there would be more interest in public transit if it was as clean, as safe, and as reliable (if not cleaner, safer, and more reliable) than driving using personal vehicles.

Would it make sense for cities to wait around, and buy huge fleets of autonomous vehicles? Probably.

You might like Chrono Symphonic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQxH77NWEQ

OCReMix is quite good for this.

I love this jazz arrangement https://open.spotify.com/album/4NtHhdEp0nCFLz3SwoM4QB?si=rUV...

And despite being trigger/cross love this one as well https://open.spotify.com/album/7izJQDtszjo9DbOVEMsvEj?si=HnN...

Hard for me to listen to the last one without getting a little emotional, something about the lyrics and simple piano accompaniment

I used to listen to this album all the time some good 15 years ago, but have forgot its name.

Thank you so much for this. I am so glad to find this again.

The other OCRemix albums are highly recommended too, especially the early ones.

Disintermediating the consumer experience the primary value proposition of AI clients, and, yes, I mean to say disintermediating even though AI -- in effect -- becomes an intermediary.

It has shown that it is a much better intermediary than all others because it does what you ask it to, unlike Google Search and Amazon Search et al, whom make their bread and butter by disregarding what you ask for and instead sending paid slop to you.

That's funny way of spelling DS9.

TOS was what it was. Some episodes were better (and aged better) than others. After a pretty week start, TNG was pretty solid. DS9 was good too far more often than not. While other series had their strong points, I'm not going to go to the mat to defend any of them.

No love for VOY? :)

I know it's been a long time...

There were definitely some good episodes and it probably got better over time. I'd probably give it a mild thumbs up overall with reservations.

The overall Star Trek experience since DS9 feels like:

Fans: "The last series was the worst ever!"

Star Trek producers: "Hold my beer..."

Fans: "You know, the old series weren't so bad in retrospect."

... if they're rootable without the ability for Sony to revoke that rootability ...

All smart TVs should not come with WiFi or Ethernet controllers.

Then they are not smart TVs anymore. More precisely, they couldn't offer the features one expected from such. Think about a smartphone without internet connection.