It’s just a number that is way lower and more sustainable. It’ll grow back but it’ll take time. There’s probably someone better equipped to tell you the Goldilocks zone for world population.

The cynical answer is “charge for air”.

So imagine you’re someone like Elon Musk, you’re invested in space exploration and you’ve just told the world you’re going to build a colony on Mars. What’s the benefit? Sure, it’s land, you can charge rent. It’s going to cost a lot to get appliances and other “creature comforts” there, so that will be a service as well. But look at what else Mars lacks that we have? Air. They will charge for air.

Building a colony on a planet that does not support life doesn’t have many obvious short-term benefits. I think the biggest long-term benefit is, you do it to show it can be done, then when you discover a planet that does support life, you take what you learned from the Martian colony and you send people there. After a couple generations of scientists and engineers and others have made it a place worth living, you can start sending regular people.

Now if we could get Earth’s population back down to about 3 billion, we might be able to reverse some of the damage and keep Earth much longer. One way to get rid of 5 billion people is to colonise them on other worlds.

But, all that’s pretty optimistic. What’s to stop these space companies from flying settlers into that planet’s star rather than landing them on the planet? Not the sun because people would notice. But if those people take a decade to arrive, and messages take months to get back to us, well, easy coverup.

I think it’s okay to have more than one account on Lemmy as long as you only have one per instance. Many communities have rules against multiple accounts, but each instance is its own community. They’re just federated. Just don’t use them dishonestly. But that’s up to each user to decide.

I made a second account on another instance, but I haven’t found any use in using that account over this one. I have been banned from a few communities, but not because I broke rules, because a mod saw me in another community and thought I’d be a bad fit for their community. I say a bad thing about generative AI, I’m risking a ban from generative AI communities. I say a good thing about AI, I risk a ban from anti AI communities. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t. So I don’t let others influence what I say. The truth is, I’m neither entirely for nor against the tech. I just think it needs to be regulated and used responsibly. That’s just one example. I don’t believe in ban evasion. But if my other account sees something in a community that banned my first account with zero interaction, that isn’t ban evasion, it’s just normal use of the service. Mods banning people who never interacted with their community are the abnormally behaving ones. But it’s not a big deal. Just a grey area.

Been married over 20 years and I can confirm this is true.

But, probably more appropriate for the ‘couples memes’ comm than the all-ages-appropriate Star Wars franchise’s meme channel. At least there you will see more older folks confirming this to be true.

4MB on Android. Sounds like it’s just the ROM and an emulator. Nice for the icon if you’re a fan, but probably easier/better to just run an emulator. Plus you can get a ROM hack that fixes the game (I assume). For my time it’s gotta be the second one, Simon’s Quest, which is practically the blueprint for how all the good Castlevania games have been made since (refined in Symphony of the Night and perfected in Aria of Sorrow, with the best one being Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on PS4/5, XB1/XSX, and PC.

I got no sympathy for people who sell pirated games, though. Selling mod chips or selling modded Switches is one thing. It’s a service many people can’t do. A Switch has to be opened and soldered, though IIRC the OG was easier to do, but has since been patched. Compare this with the 3DS that anyone can jailbreak in minutes. But selling pirated Switch ROM dumps that they probably didn’t even dump themselves? Or even if they did. If I’m gonna pay, my money’s going to go to the people who made the game… not a bloody Reddit moderator.

Both platforms will be discless for their next generation. PS6 and Helix will both be digital only.

The problem is, PlayStation does not have the infrastructure in place to implement a proper disc to digital system like Xbox has. Xbox’s still half-arsed though as it only covers XB1 and Series games. Like PlayStation games, Xbox and 360 games are not individually license-coded. So they both need a mail-in programme where you can mail in your discs and get a code to redeem the game on digital.

The only real issue I have with that, aside from the possibility they can take your game from you, is that at this point, we don’t need a next-gen console. GTA VI is the big release this year (though I personally don’t care about it) and IMO it doesn’t look better than Cyberpunk 2077 from nearly 7 years ago. Okay, the faces look better, but the world? Hell no. I just got Pragmata and it in no way pushes the envelope of what XSX/PS5 can do. Hell, the 360/PS3 era games are still peak, IMO. I don’t need PS6 or Helix.

They do that. They still sell PCs, as far as I know. Consoles are subsidized because you have to buy from them.

Those PCs just don’t run PlayStation games (unless they have a PC version).

I always felt like if you bought a PC, you should be able to buy a license to play Xbox and/or PlayStation games on it. Just have to pay the piper. Sadly it didn’t work like that. They all make money if you buy multiple machines, so they will push you in that direction if you want more diversity in your gaming.

So like imitation recipes? Like you take a meal from a restaurant and try to get people to match it?

OP probably just found the picture. OOP probably just found a picture of a snake in a computer and made the joke, not caring it’s actually a cobra.

I don’t think most people can identify five breeds of snakes reliably, but I think most people know a cobra when they see it, due to the fins or whatever they’re called. Like you know when you hear a rattlesnake (I assume; I’ve never encountered one).

So, you are capable of looking at a person’s post history… and you confirmed you hate users who contribute to the site/Fediverse because it takes traffic away from the paedophile social media site.

We’re not going back there no matter how much you harass us for bringing content here. I can’t go back — they literally banned me for saying paedophiles should face longer jail sentences.

Also, I’ve never made AI music. Not sure where you got that. I’ve only posted music on the music comm. I did use AI to make a playlist once. But so what?

It sounds like you just hate people here for not using Reddit. And I guess you’re free to do so, but even if you could get my ban overturned, I wouldn’t go back there out of principle.

I’ll bet he would, and I bet I know what angle he’d go for, too.

Next story: boy moms want to know why their sons have to sit in the back

Agree, it’s what I’m using as well.

Let’s assume OP isn’t an idiot. So why a paid or ad supported Lemmy client? Well, Boost was also a Reddit client, maybe OP is just a fan of the developer.

But still…

What’s funny is that OP isn’t a bot and is just reposting from Reddit, and admits it on their profile.

The person you replied to is mad that they stole content from a more mainstream site a lot of us don’t use for some reason or another. Like they’re mad that OP is “hurting” Reddit.

Certified billionaire, certified paedophile. (And we’re not sure about the first one.)

Whereas I’ll just play the 3 latest Saints Row games again. I mean The Third, IV Re-Elected, and Gat Out of Hell. We don’t talk about the shitty reboot. What started as a GTA clone for Xbox (when GTA was PlayStation-exclusive) surpassed GTA (at least, IMO) with its third entry and beyond. I’m not sure the Saints Row games I like are better than Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but I will say they’re better than any GTA since. (And they’re more fun than San Andreas, and that counts for something.)

She wasn’t even blocking a roadway. She was turning around. She saw something she shouldn’t have, or they thought she did, because she was near enough to it and they assumed she saw it. She probably did see it, since she was trying to get out of there. Either way, she was leaving and they still killed her.

If you’re talking about the truck drivers, they were just never aware of it. Global politics aren’t their concern. Getting brown people out of the pool of possible competitors was, and they voted accordingly. Papa Trump told them that Iranians are brown and therefore have to go, and they backed him. They’re also Muslim, so, you know, guilt by association for 9/11, at least in the minds of the uneducated masses. To be fair, these people also believed the president they voted for when he said he could beat Iran in a few weeks. They thought Trump would control all the oil by then and sell it to them cheap. They thought they were his people because they waved the same flag and carried guns. But they got to keep a brown woman from becoming president, so they still consider that a net win… even with diesel having nearly tripled in price. It’s like that quote by former US president Johnson about giving white Americans a brown or Black man to look down upon. And they’ll vote all the way down the Republican ticket in November, too. Because, they will tell you, eventually that cheque will come in. (And they still believe they’ll get the $1776 for the America 250, the $2000 DOGE cheque, the $3000 tariffs cheque… and they believe the Trump phone was made in America…)

This — but, I’m sure at some point, AI could develop a cure for various cancers. If it’s a straight-up race between humans and AI, the AI will win. It doesn’t need to rest and it can do more, faster. I do not see this as being up for debate. If the human finds one cure first, it will be luck or it will be some dumb thing that the AI overlooked. Something like that.

But yes, if the companies paying for AI get the cure, they will not share it with the world, they will sell it at a very high price.

Most rich people aren’t stupid. Some were given their money, like the US president, but a lot of them are also educated. They realise the Earth’s population is not sustainable. They will happily let poor people die to create a better world for themselves. The cure will go to the rich and powerful, and they’ll let the working poor fight over the scraps.

Altruistic researchers should be the ones to discover the cures, but they probably won’t be. And even if they discover one or two, it doesn’t change much. Cancer isn’t one disease, it’s a family of diseases and a cure for lung cancer won’t magically cure brain cancer or breast cancer, unless we cure the root of all cancers — and this is where my education and experience fall short of someone who actually knows what they’re talking about here — which I believe is its uncontrollable reproduction. So I think if we could stop cancer cells from multiplying, that would go a long way toward treatment, but I would have to defer to the actual scientists and doctors here.

He’s 80 and he probably has deals in Russia for his family to live safely, does anyone really think he cares what happens to Americans?