The data centers will be towed beyond the environment.

State-scale institutions are always conglomerations of adaptive subsystems (or quickly become so, if they’re not completely dysfunctional). This institutional ecosystem selects for subsystems that use state institutions to perpetuate themselves—and its these systems, not the individuals within them, that increasingly evolve to exploit the state’s authoritarian powers.

Between this and his friendly relations with Trump, Hochul, and Tisch, I get the impression that Mamdani has little interest in being a political leader or in the broader socialist movement—he just wants to be an effective administrator and happens to think socialism is the best approach.

It’s a reflection of the state’s earlier aspirations—the justification it used to overthrow the preceding authoritarian state.

The problem is, the more drastic the social and political changes are that the new regime is trying to enact—and the more entrenched the preceding regime was—the more tempting it is to lean on authoritarian vanguardist methods to cut through the pushback. But once they start down that path, the means inevitably become the ends and everything winds up back where it started.

A lot of people are making comments like “to boost Lemmy’s popularity/value”, but I wonder if making a lot of posts with relatively few comments is counterproductive?

Like, if I see a community where the top 20 posts have no comments, I’m reluctant to post or comment there because it doesn’t seem to have an engaged community. A community where the top posts all have long comment threads seems more inviting, even if the top posts go back two weeks instead of two hours.

You keep treating this like some kind of game… do you know something the rest of us don’t?

Hmm… the only cited sources in that article for a specific (effective) population size are also over 20 years old—the more recent sources just say it was likely a “small” number.

This article has a lot more detail on the various migration theories, but refrains from any specific size estimates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas

That article’s over 20 years old—I’m not up on the latest findings, but I know there’s been major work since then on both the peopling of the Americas and on the importance of genetic diversity.

The current consensus is that the minimum viable population for most species is between 500 to 1,000 individuals.

The problem isn’t inbreeding depression (you only need about 50 individuals to avoid that)—it’s lack of diversity to adapt to a changing environment. Pathogens would evolve that would wipe out the entire species because they’re too genetically homogeneous.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them:
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

several sound-responsive structures could be built into a single flexible device, with each one reacting to a different sound frequency. “This would allow specific parts of the device to move, bend or vibrate, potentially leading to aerodynamic robotic devices that can change shape in response to sound,” he says.

I’m picturing Yondu’s whistle-powered dart.

Conversation logs between the lab and Luna show that the agent had created an attendance policy but later lost track of it, allowing the employee’s lateness to continue for months.

Sounds like Luna should look into firing itself.

It’s just a list of their customers.

The discussion could be relevant to more than just the original poster if other people with similar cases find the same thread later. If the OP is forced to state their jurisdiction, the discussion might be more focused, but potentially less useful to others.

The idea that Trump’s “intel” team was inclined to dismiss the threat is the first thing that makes me think it might have been real after all.

Raspberry PIs.

I’d just call that respiration. Every definition of breathing I can find is particular to lungs.

Edit: Actually, that’s not true—I found a dictionary that lists a broader metaphorical usage that encompasses all respiration (including plants and fish).

The article you linked doesn’t discuss how the DR evolved, but it seems more likely to result from the occasional risk of submersion faced by most land animals, rather than something they all inherited from fish (who neither breathe nor sleep).

That’s an easy hypothesis to test, because all land vertebrates have fish ancestors.

Do you see all land animals washing their faces with cold water to wake up?

He dropped out because he was the weak candidate.

How did he assess that, though? Especially when the candidate he told his supporters to vote for instead only got 16.4% of the vote compared to his own 50.4%.