It’s all about tone. The original comment was incredibly combative and hyperbolic (“I utterly loathe Mass Effect. I consider it one of the worst pieces of science-fiction ever created.”) so much so that it would easily be mistaken for flamebait given the thread was likely to attract fans of the series.

It certainly didn’t strike me as the start of an open-minded conversation.

But in hindsight I should’ve just downvoted and moved on rather than commenting as I did, so that’s on me.

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Ahh yes, the old “sticks and stones” defense that completely ignores human nature and basic decency. I use the same logic when I tell other people their babies are ugly. “Look, if you ask me your kid is an eyesore but it’s just my opinion so I don’t know why you’re so mad right now…”

Funny, I feel the same way about Fallout and The Witcher. Just… don’t get the appeal. As always, to each their own. Hence why I generally try to avoid yucking other people’s yums.

They basically remap wavelengths, so yes, absolutely those would be representative of real features, either in the atmosphere or on the ground.

That said, absolutely, sometimes there’s a bit of artistic license in how the wavelengths are mapped.

Edit: the space.com article on the image describes some of the physical features depicted:

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-saturn-moon-titan

In infrared. Titan basically looks like a brownish grey blob to the naked eye due to its incredibly dense atmosphere.

I don’t. Played with it a bit but as a capable writer and coder I don’t find it fills a need and just shifts the effort from composition (which I enjoy) to editing and review (which I don’t).

Oh please. The anti-TikTok hysteria has been going on much longer than the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and the narrative has largely been about national security concerns, particularly as they relate to election misinformation.

Agree or not with the anti-China rhetoric about TikTok, but at least argue about the facts and not inane conspiracy theories.

You know what?

I’m fine with that hypothetical risk.

“The bad guys will do it anyway so we need to do it, too” is the worst kind of fatalism. That kind of logic can be used to justify any number of heinous acts, and I refuse to live in a world where the worst of us are allowed to drag down the rest of us.

You mean the front fell off? Damn, Elon should move into ship building…

No, I used another example of a leader who did both good things and horrible things as an illustration of how you don’t get to use the good stuff to erase the horrible stuff, thereby exposing the flaw in your apologetic reasoning.

Modi is a demagogue that’s stoked the worst aspects of Hindu nationalism and encouraged racism and violence in the name of power. Any socioeconomic gains under his rule don’t erase those facts.

That you attempt to use the tactic of equating criticism of Modi and the BJP with criticism of India, the country, as a method of stoking nationalistic anger toward those opposed to their rule only further illustrates how Modi and his supporters have, charitably, fascist tendencies.

Under Hitler Germany went from economic stagnation and depression to building the forerunner of modern rockets in the V2 while many Germans experienced a huge gain in living standards in an incredibly short period… well, aside from those targeted for genocide, anyway.

You might want to reconsider your thought process.

No need for cloud storage, just use a peer to peer data replication product like Syncthing. Fully encrypted, data is only stored on the end devices, entirely controlled by the user.

Disregard everything below. I mistook the comment about neo-liberalism for a quote from this guy.

I’m leaving the text up for context, but this criticism is misdirected.

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It says everything you need to know that he (I suspect deliberately) confuses neo-liberal for left-wing ideology.

Neo-liberal = capitalist with a smoking jacket and a fancy degree on the wall.

SV is absolute rife with anarcho-capitalist ideology. I can only dream of a version of SV that actually carries some measure of economically liberal ideology.

My guess is this guy is confusing social liberalism with economic liberalism. But, of course, that’s the entire right wing schtick these days.

The thing that I struggle with is, once I have this data… what do I do with it? I’d like to pull it to a laptop for analysis and so forth, but I’ve never found a decent open source package for that kind of thing (the closest I found is pytrainer and it is, to put it mildly, a little rough around the edges).

Any recommendations that I’m not aware of?

The problem is DMs. Having what appears to be a “private” communication mechanism that isn’t private at all might mislead users into divulging information that could put them at risk.