Also, not all races are contested by both Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes the third party is the only one running for a position, sometimes it’s just one third party vs the Republican.

Local races are significantly different.

Because no matter how prepared I think I am, there’s always at least one item on the ballot I didn’t expect to see.

I can sit down at my computer and look up everything on my ballot and make better informed decisions in the comfort of my home. I can lean over and ask my spouses opinion on what they’re voting for and we can decide what we want to do. In the end we each make our own decision, but at least we can discuss it.

I have a QR code on my envelope that shows that I can track my ballot from end to end and ensure that it’s where it is supposed to be. If it never arrives, I can go vote in person and have a provisional ballot to ensure I didn’t vote twice.

it’s much harder to prove because the official acts part also includes all the evidence and testimony needed to prosecute.

So if you can’t use evidence from official communication to prove that the treason happened. That makes the prosecution of presidents very difficult. It’s going to be extremely difficult for a prosecution to tell a coherent story to a jury without including any “official” acts as part of the crime.

You misread, I specifically said that Earth doesn’t have enough mass for that.

First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.

Second - Launching things on a rocket is kinda dangerous still, there’s a risk the rocket will blow up on launch, scattering the material across a large area. This is a big reason why things like nuclear waste is a problem to transport in general, much less flying it somewhere.

Third - Launching something into the SUN is really hard, it would be easier to send something out of the solar system than back into the sun.
https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/43694

Fourth - Someday we’ll figure out a use for everything, wall-e style. If we dump everything into a centralized landfill, we’ll eventually be able to collect/sort/recycle it into something useful. Throwing it into the sun (or off-planet) would make that stuff unavailable forever.

Finally - Throwing stuff into the sun would actually get rid of it forever, yes. It would be completely decomposed into the atoms it was made from. If we threw ENOUGH heavy metals into the sun, we could actually poison the sun making it not able to fuse hydrogen anymore, but even if we threw the entire earth into the sun, it wouldn’t be enough.

The Teletubbies are the Elois from HG Well’s The Time Machine.

This shows that AI isn’t an infallible machine that gets everything right — instead, we can think of it as a person who can think quickly, but its output needs to be double-checked every time. AI is certainly a useful tool in many situations, but we can’t let it do the thinking for us, at least for now.

No, it’s not “like a person who can think.” Unless you mean it’s like an ADHD person who got distracted halfway through the transcript and started working on a different project in the same file.

Nicer looking graphics than can play on my computer, that’s for sure.

The current generation is now showerthoughting the same thing people used to say about credit cards.

Agreed, and there’s also the bonus of much less likely to get a counterfeit item.

Of course it’s Technology Connections. Who else would make a video about a (now) useless piece of 80’s tech with enough content to satisfy any level of curiosity.

https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to “is this prime?”

Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.

Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it’ll finally create a technique to solve fusion.

Maybe it’ll just be something that we know now that we didn’t know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.

Sync for Lemmy.

Here’s the source of their comment.

Why is anything worth the effort?

Cause research into primes makes computer security stronger. Cause research in general can make new discoveries that can lead to unexpected improvements in life.

Cause we need to know the answer to everything.

Cause it’s better than mining crypto or doing AI training models over and over.

Formatting is off.

2^136,279,841 - 1

2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime

Nope, it’s real time travel with no FTL. The reason it’s “finished” is that it takes hundreds of real life years to get anywhere, so they have plenty of time to populate the world’s before the first players arrive.

Payment up front, in non negotiable bearer bonds.

Literally happened at my local fire station. They were doing a pancake breakfast fundraiser and some kid accidentally hit the fire alarm, dispatch paged out the station to itself.

I understand what you mean, but every building has at least a few places in it where a fire can start and nobody would notice (obviously.)

Warp 10 is infinitely fast, then how come the upgraded Enterprise D can go warp 13!?!?!

edit: I don’t know how to make this a link…
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/All_Good_Things…_(episode)#Continuity

#it’sJustAShowIShouldReallyJustRelax