Is chemical energy more readily available from plastics than from wood? You’d have to imagine it is if evolution is adapting these timescales.

Oh yeah, location sharing will have almost no effect those risks. Totally agree.

Just disagreeing that low probability of occurrence automatically means the risk assessment should be low.

Risk assessment is probability and severity. The probability can be vanishingly low, but if the severity is astoundingly high then acting like a high risk situation could be appropriate.

Take asteroids. The last planet killer to hit us was 94million years ago. A rudimentary estimate could put the probably as 1:94mil. The severity of an asteroid impact of that magnitude is off the charts, so it is reasonable to consider it a risk and act accordingly to spend resources to search for and track asteroid trajectories.

The severity of abduction, murder, and rape is probably pretty high for most people, so considering it a risk even with a very small probability is not unreasonable.

My old boss used to say “Hope is not a strategy.” I think that’s a pretty good philosophy.

I really love this cover of virtual insanity.

https://youtu.be/ZTDcdRTziMM

I know it’s almost unrelated to the discussion because you’re talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?

My brain forgets how to read when someone is watching. It can be a meme with 5 words… if they’re watching me while I look at it, it might as well be in Sanskrit.

Is that the artists name?

I’d argue the checks and balances worked, the electorate failed. Trump tried to overturn and election and the checks and balances held. That should have been political suicide. He should have not even won a school board seat after that, but the electorate failed and reinstated him. You cannot build enough checks and balances into representative government to save the electorate from repeated mistakes. The checks are there to ensure someone must show their true intents to the electorate before they make a choice.

Luckily Lemmy isn’t that popular yet. (Plus we’re all poor.)