swiftcasty

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[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

It went airborne and still got a quarter mile time of 10.63 seconds. This thing was packing some serious power.

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Old man yells at cloud

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ford’s Blue Cruise is pretty dang good, I have a hard time imagining Tesla is doing a better job. Tesla also has major problems with its leadership, and that culture inevitably flows down to development teams, so I definitely don’t trust their software.

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so, if I lose my job and my house, I should go to jail...?

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 46 points 7 months ago (16 children)

The leotard in question is worn by the model on the far right who, even though she is cut off, visibly has her hands covering her groin area. Perhaps a re-design is in order?

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately that deduction is for small business owners, not employees.
Source: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/how-small-business-owners-can-deduct-their-home-office-from-their-taxes

More context: I'm a full-time remote employee :')

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago
[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In other words (and more neutrally), there have not been any randomized controlled trials of parachute intervention, so we do not have data to say whether they would work or not.

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

There are 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies, and in the Milky Way alone we have located at least 10 planets in the Goldilocks zone. That could mean at least 2 to 20 trillion Goldilocks planets, and this is an under-estimate because the scale of our search has been comparatively small. So it is likely that there actively exists plenty of tool-using, scientific, space-faring life forms out there as you read this.

As for time scales, the heat death of the universe is estimated to occur in 1.7x10^106 (or, written out, 17000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) years. Many, many planets will move into or out of Goldilocks zones in that time. And, depending on the source and the age of the information, we estimate the age of the universe to be 13 or 26 billion (or, 26,000,000,000) years. I added zeros so the two numbers could be visually compared, and you can see we are a very young universe.

Combine these two points and you have ample time and opportunity for many, many civilizations to rise and fall. Where ten planets’ stars may be exploding, ten more may be just entering the prime conditions for life. So take comfort in the thought that we are, statistically speaking, not alone out here.

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