A friend of mine was stung by a wasp and had an anaphylactic reaction. Her head pretty much looked like Rocky at the end of a fight.

No, I guess Canada and possibly many other countries are similar but I didn’t experience them yet.

Been there twice, it was interesting and already shocking in 2008.

You US Americans should visit Europe or live there for a while. Then you can decide to come back or stay but you’ll have at least a reference point in your brain that things can be different and maybe that the US isn’t the greatest country in the world in all fields.

Also like Daria Morgendorffer

It’s like asking someone with running shoes if he wants to run…

American suburbs, so strange

RC cars

If that’s what they want…

We need a GoG for videos…

Thank you! I agree with the quotes. Something like DRM free GoG would be great for videos… but I also don’t know any service like that.

Do you have a source where to watch it? Star Trek is often available on streaming but I’ve not found B5 yet (in Germany).

I can’t say, I didn’t watch more than a few unrelated episodes of both series and at the time they were running here in Germany they basically turned into a single entity in my mind “the dark and dirty space station show”.

A year or two ago I tried watching DS9 from the beginning after forcing myself to watch Star Trek TNG but stopped before the first season ended.

I would try the same with Babylon 5 but it seems not available on streaming.

Weird that both other comments at the time right now associate it with sci-fi series about space stations.

Not selectively I guess. You could drink alcohol until you get alcohol induced dementia. Not fun from what I’ve heard.

Sounds horrible

You always did. People walking around with guns, religious fanatics, places where you can get killed for no reason. People abducted and tortured -> Guantanamo bay. Your economy is just running better and your military is way more offensive.

I got an update for the YT Plugin yesterday evening. Also; I’m in Europe, maybe it’s a regional change?

I just tested it again, it still works here.

GrayJay still seems to work

Unlike fusion reactors AI has a pretty convincing “demo” in my opinion.

On a first glance the output of LLMs and image / video generator models is very convincing and the artifacts and mistakes appear “small” for people that don’t know much about the technical details. So it’s easy to be convinced by “we’ll just fix those little bugs and be done in half a year” promises.

EV is a similar story: electric bikes and radio controlled cars and drones work great so it’s conceivable that bigger cars and trucks would work too with a “little” battery and motor tweaking.

Nuclear fusion though isn’t really tangible yet. For laypeople or seems there is no progress at all. Every now and then some scientists report that they can hold a fusion reaction a little longer or more effective but it’s not “tangible”. That’s probably also holding back a lot of investors which with all their resources mostly still seem to invest based on a gut feeling.

As far as I know fusion energy never got that level of hype and amount of money thrown at it. I mean the research reactors are super expensive but still on another level.