The Copycat Theory certainly accounts for a portion of the sightings. Anybody that doesn’t think there are a lot of people with drones that would go flying them during this just to mess with their neighbors is a fool.

Mass hysteria also certainly accounts for more of the sightings. You only need 1 out of every 600 people to see an airplane/satellite/bright star and think they’re seeing a mysterious object to have over half a million Americans saying they’ve seen one. I’ve personally known several people in my life that would easily fall into this camp. Need I remind anyone about rainbow sprinkler lady?

As for what got this all started or any current sightings (if there are any, anymore) that don’t fall into the above categories? 🤷

they will begin typing every single document to have ever existed, along with every document that will exist

Excellent. Now I just need to figure out which one of them is doing my taxes.

a million monkeys typing for a million years generating the works of Shakespeare

FFS, it’s one monkey and infinite years. This is the second time I’ve seen someone make this mistake in an AI article in the past month or so.

Tranfering between devices on the LAN.

Edit: Wait, no, it’s the other way around. 2.5 on WAN, and just a single 1GB LAN port. That absolutely doesn’t make sense.

legitimate faith-based initiatives

Found the oxymoron.

I think the point is that you can recheck it weekly if you want to see how much it changed.

U.S. Car Buyers Will Finally Have Access To Adaptive Headlight Technology, As NHTSA Issues Updated Rule

If the polls close while you’re still in line, stay in line – you have the right to vote.

I feel like that is worded poorly. I think it should say something more like…

• If the closing time for the polls passes while you are in line, don’t panic. As long as you are in line before closing time, and stay in line, the polls will stay open long enough for you, and everyone else that was in line on time, to vote.

Granted it’s not as pithy, but the first version just gives me the mental image of a bunch of people belligerently standing in line in the dark at a locked door demanding to be let in.

But instead we just lock up the criminal, because it’s cheaper.

Except, in the long run, it’s not. It’s only cheaper within the scope of one or two election cycles. Over the long haul, weighing the costs and economic benefits of making person a productive member of society again, it’s way cheaper to do that. But nobody ever won an election promising to spend more money now so that we don’t have to spend nearly as much in a few decades.

Spoiler alert. The mammals won (for now)

Some would even say three orders of magnitude.

Read the comment you’re responding to, again. Nothing about their suggestion leads to either of these scenarios.

They gave a link.

*than

So it’s not a flaw.

And apparently, there’s no way to change your password. Oh, boy.

But, he is, right? Is there some nuance in the definition of “dictator” I missing that gives him some wiggle room? Or is this more like obvious racists and pedophiles being offended at being called racists and pedophiles?

Exactly. Just like when we were supposed to stop tracking how many people had covid so that the number would stop going up.

Reading through the comments in this thread, I’d just like to mention how amusing it is to see so many people in the fediverse arguing in favor of walled gardens and vendor lock-in. Like, do you even know where you are?

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