It won’t. The day it seems to have disappeared is when it’s finally been perfected to be indistinguishable from a human.

I worry I’m that person to others

Back in the day, Apple had to tweak the shuffle feature on iTunes because truly random wasn’t random enough for people. It seems incomprehensible to some that a random playlist would play the same song twice in a row. People should roll a die more often.

It’s funny how I go out of my way to avoid harming spiders in my house, but then I hop on my bike and ride the trails, murdering thousands of critters - bugs, mice, frogs, you name it - and I don’t lose any sleep over it. It’s just a byproduct of my hobby, and since I’m not acutely aware of each little crunch, it doesn’t register. The only time I even pay attention to it is when the baby frogs spawn and there are millions of them. I try to avoid them as best I can, but for each one I manage to avoid, I probably crush 30 others.

Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

I’ve dealt with them in the past by carrying the plant into a tiny room and spraying the air with raid (not directly onto the plant) This needs to be repeated few times every 3 days or so to kill the entire population. Predatory mites should work as well but I’ve personally not had success with them

They came up with a system that turns outrage into cash and they’re literally printing money right now.

This is only marginally more practical and economical than drilling and refining your own oil.

Your own parents were in the exact same situation. And their parents. And theirs…

Oil prices skyrocketed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well. Markets react to world events. Shocking.

I don’t worry about it - I’m playing the long game.

Leave it to Lemmy to politicize Chuck Norris’ death.

Is this a joke?

Yes.

Oh, well, for it to do that, it would need to be able to detect an incoming missile.

It does have sensors that look for the heat signature of the missile’s rocket engine. There should be alarms screaming in the cockpit, the plane diving and doing pirouettes with flares flying everywhere. I don’t know why that doesn’t seem to be happening - maybe the video isn’t real.

You still need to know where to point that spy satellite’s camera at. If you take picture that covers hundreds of square kilometers then you don’t have enough resolution to spot the ship but you can’t zoom in much either because you don’t know where to zoom.

It’s different with buildings because you know where they are.

You can see in that video above just how well that “IR masking” works. The shape of the plane is barely distinguishable against the sky.

There’s only so much you can do to hide a plane from heat-seeking missiles. The best bet is to try outmaneuvering it and confusing it with flares.

Printing money isn’t the main driver of inflation. In developed economies, most of the money in circulation is created by private banks through lending.

Most inflation comes from demand outpacing supply. For example, when a war in Iran disrupts oil production, supply shrinks and prices shoot up. Similar thing happens when workers demand higher pay - businesses face higher costs and pass them on to customers through price increases.

Central banks fight inflation with interest rates - not by “printing less money.” When they raise rates, borrowing gets more expensive, people and businesses spend less, demand drops, and inflation cools off.

A little inflation - around 2% - is actually good. It keeps the economy moving. As money slowly loses value, people have incentive to spend it rather than hoard it. At 0% inflation, people have less incentive to spend on non-essentials or invest, because holding cash is costless. And deflation is the real killer - everyone holds off buying because their money will be worth more tomorrow.

My parents’ porn VHS collection didn’t ask for my age and neither did my grand-dad’s titty magazines hidden in the tractor shed. Internet wasn’t even a thing for most people then yet I had already seen plenty of porn before I turned 10.

It clearly did affect me and I don’t deny that but I doubt it would’ve made much of a difference had I have to wait untill I was 18 for the flood gates to open. Nobody would’ve seen me for months if that was the case.

As long as they weren’t taking part in illegal street racing.

“We” as in the hivemind that is Lemmy userbase?

They suspect it was hit by a Qaem-118 ground-to-air missile fired from a pod on the back of a pickup truck. These things only have about a 25 km range and are mostly designed against drones and helicopters, so they pack a smaller warhead - which is probably why the plane was able to fly back home.

And for anyone wondering how a nation like Iran could hit the world’s most advanced 5th-generation stealth fighter: with a heat-seeking missile from short range. Stealth mostly protects against active radar, whereas IR radiation is something the plane itself emits (heat). It may not be enough to detect from hundreds of kilometers away, but this was apparently much closer.

No… but is that a KONE branded security screw for an elevator?

Edit: Yes it is, here’s the tool for it. Interesting.