fizzle

It seemed more sudden and severe than just “oh some people didn’t not like him and then things changed”.

I didn’t know much about him really but he seemed to be investing in tech that could really shape the future, which I thought was “progressive”. Like when the first Tesla hit the market “big oil” had been suppressing the EV industry forever and putting your money behind something like that was bold and progressive.

Now he’s a Nazi supporting conservative nutty governments all over the world.

The US is an exception

That’s not really “eugenics” as I understand the term but whatever.

Thats not really true.

The US is an exception but generally, the cost of therapies becomes commercially viable with the passage of time.

For example, our 2 year old daughter just had her DNA profiled because she has a few manageable, yet ongoing developmental deficiencies. Her DNA markers will guide her treatment.

When I was a child this type of treatment was sci-fi, and when it was invented you could have said “by rich for rich” or whatever.

WDYM “for eugenics purposes”?

My partner has normalised spatial awareness, and no situational awareness. I do my best to herd her around for the good of mankind but I can only do so much

Yeah this is going to be part of my strategy.

Increased availability of better quality content, less reliance on algorithms serving up the next thing.

I’m yet to encounter this really, my kids (twins) are only 2. However, this is the answer as I understand it - limit access in terms of time and content, and relax those limitations as appropriate.

That said, I’m going to struggle. Everyone needs to find the right balance for their own home, but I suspect I will lean more towards allowing less access to more curated content than most parents. I just can’t abide the kind of brain rotting content that’s available. I can’t stand advertising of any kind. I know this will make me unpopular - or less “cool” than other parents, but I’m hoping that I can make up for it in other ways.

In most industries contractors actively avoid “discovering” anything of historic value.

In construction for example, if you uncovered an amazing archaeologically significant site, it will be a huge pain in the butt and cost everyone a loads of money due to delays et cetera.

In the case of a shipwreck, it’s not going to be heavily laden with gold bullion you get to keep. It will merely be “interesting” in “enhancing our understanding of 1700s naval operations” or some such. You probably won’t even get credited with the discovery.

The ships equipped for industrial operations at sea like this cost an absolute fortune to operate. They also have contracts lined up months or years into the future. These contracts have crazy financial penalties for delays et cetera. This means any kind of delay in fulfilling a contract can be disasterous.

Additionally, I don’t think much detailed survey work would be done prior to laying cable because that would be preclusively expensive. They would check depth per existing charts, maybe check what the sea floor is composed of geologically speaking. They definitely aren’t sending down remote controlled rovers to check for ship wrecks.

Honestly, I reckon they just steer the boat and spool the cable off the back, pausing momentarily to splice in the next cable when necessary.

If there was a big flashing sign that said “super interesting ship wreck right here” they’d close their eyes and make sure no one on board noticed that.

What do you mean “media”? As in movies?

What you’re describing about “getting in” to places and “treasure” is a little old school. In the before times archaeology wasn’t really a thing and “antiquarians” looted old temples and tombs and sites. Their objective was to take objects which had some value.

Archaeology’s primary motivation is to learn about places, the time they were active, and the people that were active in them. Obviously finding some beautiful object or treasure is exciting, but it’s so exceedingly rare that it’s not really a consideration.

I quite like watching time team. They have a great youtube channel now but it was a BBS series for many years. I feel like this is probably about as real a depiction of “archaeology” as you’re going to get. They brush dirt away with a tiny paint brush for days and get excited when they find a tiny shard of pottery because it confirms that people were active at the site in say, the 1300s instead of the 1600s as previously thought.

In the current era, archaeologists acknowledge that accessing ancient burials and similar sites is so destructive that there are instances where we know their probably is treasure and other wonders but decide to leave it. The most famous example is The Mausoleum of Qin Shi, protected by the Terracotta army. There are other similar examples.

I don’t know the actual reason, but I personally get a bad vibe every time I see the logo because usually it means I’m trying to install or fix some java bullshit, which never goes well.

I didn’t know this was ever in question?

Also stop calling it “my sequel”

No idea mate.

What? Edited posts dont disappear.

I’ve never heard of federated communities.

Keep in mind the fediverse is not lemmy. Lemmy is the software that allows you to read, post, and comment, but there are others like piefed.

The basic problem you’ve described is a potential problem, but in practice it’s not really significant.

I’ve never really cared much for the idea of “community” online and certainly on reddit. Like what is a community really other than a category of similar posts ? The idea that it’s the people that make the community and that you need one cohesive place or platform for that community to exist just isn’t accurate.

For example, every instance might have it’s own “selfhosted” community. If you search you’ll see a half dozen. Just subscribe to the few busiest like everyone else, and you’ll see all the posts. I guess what I’m saying is that “the community” informally exists across all instances.

The best thing about federation is that you can choose not to follow specific communities if you don’t want to support their content. Like maybe you’re into manga memes but you don’t want to support the lack of moderation on some instances.

I don’t know exactly how it works but piefed has a feature where if a post is a link to a news article then it will list the comment sections for all cross posts under one post. Something like that anyway, I’m not sure exactly how it works, but often when looking at a post for an article you’ll see comments from other posts of the same article.

Not really.

Plenty of other countries adopting Trump’s populist policies.

All the obvious things have been mentioned.

The only way to identify the problem is to share the exact steps youve followed and then others can reproduce.

Based on what youve told us, no one knows how the subdomain is leaked. Without meaning to be derisive, that suggests that something youve told us isn’t quite correct.

You could say that about everything that Trump does.

He has normalised the making of unilateral decisions. He has normalised vindictive policies. He has normalised armed forces in cities.

Its not that deep.

He’s just saying he can take things he wants if no one will stop him, and he’s trying to rationalise that.

Well I certainly am not going to attend… but mostly just because I’m not interested rather than any ideological reason.