You'd be taking on debt to start a business in most cases, too, though, and if you're running your business in the rural areas then it's likely going to be something with a very high debt factor like farming. There's nothing wrong with being a farmer, but you'd probably have a better work life balance as an electrician in an urban area.

Oh we know it doesn't always take place slowly, you can see where it happened quickly correlates with mass extinctions, for example. But OP is saying "surely these things survived warmer periods?" and the short answer is "yes" the long answers is "maybe not the same ones we have now, though" and the answer to "can't they cope and evolve to tolerate this if they could then?" is "yes, if it isn't so fast it kills them all"

https://www.coralsoftheworld.o... Looks like the cretaceous extinction got 70% of genera at the time so its hard to say. Generally with this sort of human impact it is the speed of the change to the environment that is the issue, rather than that it happens at all. E.g. a forest can deal with the local climate changing if the population moves north or south over time, but an abrupt change and the local population just dies outright.

Yeah like Slashdot itself limps on since the olden days of the internet and makes enough profit to keep the lights on, so too will Twitter, but the hey day of both is now past.

I chuckled and then it occurred to me that one of these bots probably could convincingly SWAT someone, it'd be darkly comic to trace an attack to a confused and computer illiterate department in another state.

Agreed, I love my older Synology NAS with its media server features but I heard those are deprecated on the newer ones and you have to use something like Jellyfin. Which is fine I guess but it was an easy recommendation to folks that want something that 'just works'. Proprietary drives sounds further user hostility.

And every computer fails but they're not programmed to fail. He's talking about how you can't just silence a few genes and live forever.

Yeah the more time you have to develop expertise in more things they more creativity you'd be able to produce.

For programmed death look up octopus life cycles and what happens after they breed, or similar cycles in fish like salmon around breeding. Humans and other mammals don't have that, but eventually we fail, too, more due to entropy and living as a large animal.

How many duplicates would also be scattered over the Caribbean and lost in deep space to get that one to hit though?

With the advertising bubble deflating it isn't too surprising they're trying to hop on the AI hype train. As creepy as it would be if it worked, and it's bad they're trying, there's no way what their proposing will actually work in a way that makes anyone money. It's more selling pickaxes to goldrushers.

Where does information come from and who vets it? DoD was already ordered to stand down on reporting Russian cyberattacks, too, this is furthermore attempts to increase our vulnerability.

We could, or we could source it from elsewhere and keep ours in the ground here for future use. Kinda like we could cut down our national forests, or we could just import lumber from a conveniently located neighboring country and keep our forests around for future use. We could even make a lot of money selling allies highly advanced defense equipment instead of making them decide that was a huge security risk and they should make their own.

Obviously the P25 stuff would get us here, and was supposed to be fast, but I guess I'm still kinda impressed at the speed at which they've shit their own pants.

The whole administration is so deeply stupid they only see other people as NPCs at best