Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear “Divide & Conquer” attempt.

Give it to someone that needs it.

Phew okay. In that case, I do agree that a hyper-aggressive species could be the Filter, though it’s worth noting that our radio signals have actually reached further than our furthest probe, so I would go off that when doing round-trip destruction calculations. I love Mass Effect’s take on this idea (though I haven’t played 3).

As for why I asked women: Mostly because I thought the non-sequitur was funny.

No offense intended, but do you identify as male? I can’t even be having this conversation if you do.

Yes. I’m a guy, and I would love to get a girl’s take on this.

Do you think Fermi’s “Great Filter” is not necessarily that a civilization destroys itself, but that it discovers a way to destroy the Universe?

Like, maybe the fabric of our reality is more fragile than we realize, and the reason we don’t see “aliens” is that the universe doesn’t get old enough for intelligent life to meet.

Of course, this assumes we are in a statistically “average” Universe, since presumably there could be a Universe in which intelligent life co-evolves within the same solar system.

Ngl as a Canadian, I implicitly thought 8.5x11 was A4. Well that’s dumb, we should switch.

I consider my current career success to be due to a great deal of luck, but I also can’t deny that a lot of work went into being ready when that moment finally came.

Hard work doesn’t always translate to success, but you can definitely nudge the dice in your favor - especially with a more “holistic” approach to life.

Yeah, as long as they’re transparent about it, I don’t mind at all.

I disagree, I don’t see pacifist values as weak at all , quite the opposite in fact.

I don’t agree with a lot of religious teachings, but this is one thing I think they (in theory if not in practice) get right.

I’ve seen decent AI memes, but this might as well have been posted by a bot.

Same. 10 minutes would be fine, compared to not noticing I’ve been messaged until the next day.

Ouch, that sounds like a painful way to live. I’m sorry to hear that.

Yeah, from my understanding, the chip itself is about the same size as a CPU chip.

Wait, seriously? That’s quite a jump from the last one I heard about.

Also: it’s actually 1,121 qubits, even more impressive.

The real correct order is to use brackets to remove ambiguity.

I honestly think this is a Lemmy problem in general. Crossposts can be good for individual communities, but they do fill the feed with a bunch of repeat posts.

I’d love to see a feature where cross posts are grouped together in the feed.

ptsd flashbacks intensify

I’ve done that a few times where I’m completely baffled at the thought process behind someone’s post. Then I remember I might just be talking to a 14 year old, and suddenly it all makes sense.

They call tea “the”. The what???

They have played us for absolute fools.

Depends - who is the “we” in the question?