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This is largely a myth. It would only apply to large cities, and then, the fresh water sources were frequently protected by law in cities.

Alcohol itself doesn’t actually destroy the pathogens in question- booze was made by microbes, after all, and as for bacterial… only beer and liquors was boiled, and simply adding it to already-contaminated water wouldn’t make it safer; since that only happens at much higher concentrations of alchohol than you’d find, even in liquors. It does inhibit bacterial growth, though, usually people were mixing booze into water to make things taste better. (Similar to how modern restaurants will frequently add lemon slices to cover the taste of tap water.)

in terms of maintaining hydration, alcohol- even weak alcohols- are very much not good for that, even 3% alcohols, particularly in high-heat or under activity.

Boiling water was discussed in Roman and Greek writings well before the medieval period, as well- mostly in the context of making it not taste funky; and usually they were talking about filtering it to remove contaminants (for example, near mining operations.)

Again, streams rivers flowing were generally safe for consumption and would only become unsafe as a result from urban pollution, of which, there were controls in place to protect at least some water ways and wells.

they’re both drunk, though. so that’s more than normal.

So. I just learned Musk is bald.

Look at the marvel movies. Boring. Formulaic. Not even worth watching the trailer.

so all the other movies where all the action follows a set pattern… are not boring and depressing?

I think one of the reasons I liked Rogue One was that it’s “win condition” wasn’t “every one lived happily ever after”. although I will say, if you have enough time to find a beach and make out, you probably have enough tome to find a shuttle, or something.

(the other reason I liked Rogue One was Alan Tudyk as K2-S0)(okay, actually, that’s why I loved Rogue One. Sue me.)

it rather depends on the atom and how you go about doing it- and also, what the atom is surrounded by. if it were split in such a way that neutrons were released into other neutrons, generating a cascade reaction… then… yes. That’s kinda how a nuke works.

But in general? probably not.

Yeah. OP’s cat is clearly setting them up.

The thing is… arch…. You can actually fix. Most times.

Unlike the proverbial him.

(Not that you should have to.)

Eh. Having a huge dick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Big dicks tend not to get hard and flop around.

And also blaming the witches for their problems.

Like bro? You were born with a tiny dick. Blame yer daddy.

naked and apparently lacking.

Dammit, now I can’t unsee that.

in the next pane, she rips them off, and in the last pane, he breaks out into the “hello darkness, my old friend…” song.

This… this is so wrong…. I can’t stop laughing.

Cats, the procedural!

this isn’t guaranteed. Look at how long people have been working on autonomous/self-driving cars. Even in the most automated factories in the world, you have humans picking up the general tasks.

claims about general AI is going to be a whole lot of nothing until there’s suddenly something. that could be tomorrow, it could be a decade, or it could be a thousand years from now; and without general AI, you’re basically going to be restricted to very specialized robots doing highly specialized things. Until general/deep AI is cracked, humans will still very much be desirable in the loop.

a lot of the buzz around AI right now is because LLMs are “convincing”, but they’re incredibly stupid, and they don’t know that they’re stupid.

Dunno, but dependence on robots is a central theme in a lot of asimov’s work.

The naked sun, for example, in which our plucky earther and his robot buddy is asked to investigate a murder on another planet and while there, evaluate Solarian culture “for weaknesses” (specifically, earth and the aurorans are concerned about excessive reliance on robots.)

You begin to see nuanced interpretations of the 3 laws with robots like the economic world brains that control basically all economic decisions at a government level. (I robot stories,)

But it becomes clear that robots are taking over in The Robots of Dawn (where the real culprit was a telepathic robot whose telepathy was created accidentally.)

Labor. We could be labor.

Right now AIs can’t build themselves, never mind the infrastructure they’d need to maintain systems, etc.

There’s a lot that’s still way more efficient to just have humans do. Like removing the dust from the server cabinet. Or inspecting the power plant, etc.

As for the “until humans bother it”, heh you know some dumb fuck going to be a creep and try to turn an ai sexbot into his girlfriend.

yes. And then it’s literally just a… reboot.

You don’t sit there waiting for it to install. It’s just restarting the kernel so the newly-installed version takes over. (and generally it only applies to the kernel updates.)

They still haven’t figured out how to do updates without installing during a reboot.

Something Linux has been doing since the 90’s