Is this US specific?

Sorry to see the weekly thread go. Important topic, but I don’t have enough to contribute beyond lurking and upvoting.

Such a classy kitty, bringing style to any encounter

Several teams actually

But you could also do a mean time analysis on specific tasks and have it cut off at a standard deviation or two (90-98% of task times covered), and have a checkbox or something for when the user expects longer times.

You could probably even make this adaptive, with a cutoff at 2x the standard time, and updating the median estimate after each run.

By that standard the only countries not monstrous are those too feeble to ally with.

Plenty of countries on all continents have sided with oppressive regimes, and conveniently ignored atrocities as long as they’re aimed at someone else. In anything from the Korea or Pakistani wars, to genocides in Central America, to slave trading within the African continent.

The West is due some criticism, but this approach is useless.

You are right that things would still look like we’re accelerating away from us, even if we were actually contracting.

Interesting hypothesis! How do we investigate?

What could we expect from a large central gravitational point? We should have other signs of the gravity well:

We would expect a point that we contract towards (and that seems ill fitting, as we see the expansion moves as the observer (including earth) moves), we would expect some kind of mass or similar effect, which would also have a size to fit it in (we know that gravity works different when you’re inside the mass, and we would be able to see it, much like black holes or dark matter), we would expect things to orbit the gravity well (which we know that at least our galaxy doesn’t orbit us).

You might want to actually check on these things to make sure they apply and are true, but at least at first glance it seems the expansion is better explained without a central gravity.

A programmer might, as trained/conditioned by the limits of programming languages.

A human would intuitively not, these are meaningless and/or convoluted concepts to the untrained human.

A common problem (before learning it is impossible/fraught with danger) is categorisation, like sorting of strings.

Say you have a text, and need to count words of different lengths.

One intuitive approach is to pass through it once and add each word to a list for the corresponding length, as well as making lists as needed. No 7 letter words, no 7-letter-word-list, even though there are longer words.

As humans we’re good at sorting things into an unknown number of categories, and we have to unlearn that for programming

Sorry for the late reply, but I’ve now watched the two seasons of Strange New Worlds and just can’t agree with you.

Strange New Worlds works at establishing plot lines, in the first season telling you a central character plot point and a few episodes later doing an episode around it. Until the J’Gal character plot there aren’t even any twists.

What I mean with plot weaving would be something like the Vulcan Archeological Medicine fellowships being a secret Romulan plot (established through the multiple glimpses into what they’re studying), or having reconstructed Pike after his premonition so that he can escape it.

And this totally makes sense, Strange New Worlds is a TOS tribute, and those are notorious for being very episodal, with almost no links between episodes outside the main characters.

Either we have different interpretations of plot weaving, or it’s extremely subtle that I cant detect it after a rewatch.

But the question is not what is simplest for the company. Arguably it would be even simpler for the company not to pay Bob, or anyone for that matter, they could also simplify a lot with not bothering with doing anything beside extracting money from people, slavery and robbery are very simple.

If we change the viewpoint from people living to serve companies, we might arrive at different conclusions, and maybe even a society better suited for humans, rather than companies.

Why? Bob has higher costs and longer preparation time for work.

In economic theory, the job is worth less to Bob, and he should be compensated more for taking it.

Is it fair that Bob should subsidise the company’s labor costs?

Bob’s labor also incurs greater costs on the communal infrastructure (roads, pollution, gas, etc), why should the company not also have a higher burden (higher tax) to compensate the commons for that?

Wheatgrass doesn’t seem to be a thing here yet, only powder form that I can find.

I did find a pet store that buys whole oat seed in bulk and sells by the kilo, next time I’m gonna bring a container to fill, but for now I have a bag with enough seed for another month or two ;)

I’ll have a go at that, thank you!

Edit with update: A fistful of outside grass seems to have been appreciated, but they are grazing less than usual, might be because it’s harder than the oats they usually get, or just because they haven’t gotten used to it yet. It seems to have done enough for them though, thanks for the tip!

Wow, mine will happily graze it down all the way.

Serious question: What do you do to keep a steady supply of cat grass?

I have two cats and they will destroy a full planter like in the picture in about 3 days. I really can’t go to the petstore to buy a new disposable package of grass twice a week, neither time, income or the environment will bear that.

I’ve tried planting oats, rye and barley myself, but a) don’t get it as dense, b) it’s surprisingly hard to get seeds in the 1 kg range, and c) my beasties will murder any fledgling grass even as the fresh, healthy, fully grown planters watch in horror.

What do you all do?

But in several countries it is legally abuse to withhold emotional safety from a dependant, including withholding the right to privacy.

I know, as I teach this to youth organisations who have a reporting duty against that law.

As for the health benefits, I’d urge you to read a basic textbook on child developmental psychology. The keywords used in most models are autonomy, privacy and keeping secrets, as important parts of social (and cognitive) development from about the second year, and only get more important with age.

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I’ll add my voice to the consensus, ignore the part where it’s connected to the books. It’s a superficially similar story, but it has neither the purpose, storytelling or even plot points of the books.

What I find the hardest is that despite having a solid plot and concept to follow, the series has very weak story telling. It might be that I’m getting old, but I find the focus is more on eye candy and cool situations than on progressing the story and characters.

It has the feel of filler content to generate ad opportunity, or an illustrated podcast about someone who once read the books but has too much ADHD to be able to retell what they read.

That is also the vibe of much other content on AppleTV, so might be a conscious choice of which I’m not a target demographic. I’ll be shouting at clouds about it though, maybe it’ll slow climate change while I’m at it.