They can’t do anything actionable without pissing off the megadonors. The same megadonors bribing the Republicans. And they’d rather lose than piss them off.

Following the Citizens United ruling, this was always the inevitable outcome.

Gravity isn’t the only issue. Radiation and cosmic rays are a much bigger problem than that. Psychological issues from being in cramped ships for so long. Food production. All sorts of other crap, too.

I haven’t, but I’ll put it on my wishlist. Thanks!

Yeah, I knew I was gonna get downvoted for it. I get it. I am also enamored with human space flight, and it’s why I’m such a massive sci-fi fan. It’s such a romantic notion. I feel no joy in accepting that humanity isn’t meant for the stars.

But Neanderthals weren’t meant to colonize the earth. Sometimes the species needs to leap forward to meet new challenges.

Totally. And we should ramp up the funding of those teams to send more, even to the detriment of human space flight programs.

By mining the asteroid belt, we’d never need to put anything in space again (except humans and their food). No more limitations on ship sizes based on what we can afford to launch.

I still think that’s trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. For biological humans to be able to explore the solar system, we need to advance in space-based manufacturing and AI control of those systems. Then there’s no more need for cramped spaces, for one. The AI can capture the appropriate asteroids, start towing them towards earth, and have a massive space shuttle ready to take on passengers when it arrives. Same for planetary accommodations, where the AI can set up everything before we arrive.

Having to launch every single piece of material from out of the gravity well of earth is just not scalable or realistic.

For us to be more than just tourists in our solar system, and especially before we get to other stars, I really think we need to sort out how to digitize human minds.

Totally. I think there’s plenty to learn from human space flight. I just think we need to put it lower on the priority list for the moment, unless we can get it better funded.

I think we do have it now. It’s time to shift.

There’s nothing wrong with doing both at once.

I disagree, so long as space programs remain underfunded. Give them access to the defense budget? Then yeah, go to town and create even more diverse efforts.

Absolutely. I just think we’re putting the cart before the horse, and human space flight should come later.

I would argue it’s almost always impractical to send humans.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but humans simply are not built for space. Trying to force this square peg into a round hole is such a tremendous waste of resources at this point.

I wish we could divert all of human space flight budget to automating probes. We’d be mining the asteroid belt by now. Once we have space-based automated manufacturing, then it will be the time to bring in the humans.

If you read into it, this was a limitation on AMD’s part, which they tried to resolve. You don’t have to buy it, and the rest of their lineup should meet your expectations.

Yeah, it totally fucks repairability. But it sounds like this is not something this company normally does, and not something they could control.

They should at least offer a superior warranty to cover such scenarios.

Simply being a doomer doesn’t accomplish anything on its own. You have to translate it into meaningful action.

You don’t “grow out of it.” You just decided to put your head back in the sand.

I’m convinced most of the accounts accusing people of being “doomers” are astroturfers trying to gaslight people into complacency.

I get the frustration with a system being so locked down, but if 32gb is the minimum I don’t really see the problem. This pc will be outdated before you really need to upgrade the ram to play new games.

That’s standard for emerging technologies. They tend to be loss leaders for quite a long period in the early years.

It’s really weird that so many people gravitate to anything even remotely critical of AI, regardless of context or even accuracy. I don’t really understand the aggressive need for so many people to see it fail.

If you want more people to join the fediverse, you have to improve the user experience. People don’t want to read an article breaking down what the fediverse is, how to join an instance, how to find content, etc.

Streamline the join process so it doesn’t require learning the lore and technical training. Stop promoting the fediverse generally, and instead push people to easy to use frontends and popular instances. Remove the barriers to entry. If they want to dig deeper into different instances and the technical stuff, let them do that later. Stop loading the info dump at the front.