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Dasus

@ Dasus @lemmy.world

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  • Me_irl

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  • I'm not sure what the average was, something something EU something. I don't recall whether it was a specific country or an index of some sort.

    But yeah I'd be fine with 50k. Idk if I'd be "have a house and a nice car" fine, necessarily, but yeah.

  • Me_irl

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  • I remember a study saying roughly 50 000 eur or 70 000 dollars annually and after that the increase of happiness with money is negligible. But that was like 15 years ago at least so I'm thinking it's more like 80k eur and 120k USD or smth at the moment at least.

    But yeah after that what's to worry about

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • I don't think you understand what our senses are capable of.

    You're literally just handwaving all the issues. Which is completely fine, as long as you stop pretending there's some actually reasonable science behind this fantasy-machine.

    The only limitations it has is the writer's imagination and the budget of the show. That's all. It's soft scifi.

    None of your explanations have even remotely explained anything. But you're refusing to accept they are actually handwavy soft scifi, which they very much are.

    Saying "volumetric displays and forcefields" doesn't make it rational that a group of people in a limited size room could think they're all in very different places in massive village for instance. That I could play tennis with you in the same village while there's a whole dancing competition going on in the same village but 3km away, with competitors and real people in thw audience.

    If you don't realise that 16 people in a small room the size of a couple of buses couldn't do that unless they're being essentially completely neurologically manipulated and just still instead of actually being on a tennis court, then I can accept it. It's completely just fooling your brain and not actually doing any of the things. That's acceptable. Pretending that saying "volumetric displays and forcefields" is a good explanation for any of that is beyond ridiculous.

    It's a soft scifi fantasy machine. Maybe you're just allergic to even thinking you might be watching fantasy instead of scifi and that just irks you doesn't it.

    But honestly, Outlander is harder scifi than this. And it's not especially technological. (It still is marked as scifi though or was at least)

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • I provided you with an actual photograph with a quote that's clearly showing that holographic food isn't real, as otherwise Quark wouldn't need to offer the person real food.

    You're just saying "trust me bro, it's definitely real food"

    Sure, TNG has like water leaving the holodeck as wet people can walk out. But Voyager contradicts those notions.

    https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143271/is-there-any-explanation-as-to-why-the-voyager-crew-dont-eat-on-the-holodeck

    Tldr;

    I just don't see a way this could work.

    Like I've said, the holo-tech is just beyond inconsistent and should not be anyones idea of "hard" scifi. The explanations contradict each other from one episode to the next and especially from one show to the next. It's soft scifi and I'm completely fine with that. Are you?

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • pretty much halfway towards what holodeck does already.

    Yeah, a bad copy that's not affecting all of your senses as has lots of limitations?

    VR is fun but it's nowhere near fooling the senses properly. Proprioception, acceleration.

    You refuse to answer questions which I say can't be answered while still not agreeing with me that it's goddamn ludicrous to even suggest the holotech has anything to do with hard scifi.

    It's a pure fantasy machine only limited by the writer's imagination, nothing else.

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • Yeah it's called a suite because it's not a deck of any sort on a ship.

    I'm still going to ask where you're getting "all the food is real" from?

    Nor do I think them necessarily not being federation holotech, which I also don't know where you're getting that, but since DS9 was under Cardassian rule and whatnot it's not entirely unbelievable.

  • vacation

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  • I'm in therapy and I'd still like a month away on a remotely uninhabited island.

  • vacation

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  • No, but on a remote uninhabited island you can pretend the bullshit doesn't exist.

    It's incredibly hard to delude yourself when something is in front of yourself face. Although this is apparently a flaw in me, as most people seem perfectly capable of it.

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • When you create a bar or a restaurant on the holodeck, all the food and drink there is real.

    Idk where you even got this idea but here, from DS9, which would seem to contradict that.

    S3e8 "Meridian"

  • Agree or disagree? A lie by omission is still a lie.

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  • People who palter often believe it is less unethical than outright lying

    God I hate those people (no wonder the example used is a used car salesman)

  • Please the overlords

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  • Yeah this. It's reasonable if the companies are and the system is.

    But for instance Ryde scooters in my city had most of their brakes set pretty friggin tight, so that pretty much any application of the rear bake lead to skidding.

    I know kids do it on purpose, and I did enjoy skidding a corner or two, but tried doing it minimally. Couldn't help myself though, especially because 50% at least were just useful accidents.

    But my point is that if the rear brake wasn't as tight, I wouldn't have skidded at all.

  • Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

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  • It very much depends, actually. You can totally take a photograph of a single person walking on the street. Especially if their face isn't clearly visible, like taking a photo from behind.

    It would be determined on a case by case basis. Ofc even unrecognised is wrong if you actually follow a person instead of just taking a shot of a random person for art.

  • Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

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  • How is that interesting or news to anyone, honestly?

    I seriously don't understand in what sort of police state people thought they were living in that photography is banned in general public.

  • Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

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  • Until now I assumed without checking that they obviously would be.

    Why, exactly? It's a camera. Cameras aren't illegal. You can do illegal things with cameras, but they're not inherently illegal.

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • Thats like saying "it works because of magic"

    No amount of any technology would be able to make people think they're in a vast desert with others several kilometers away when theyre actually standing within arms reach.

    But the technobabble handwaving works for me.

    There's just absolutely zero point in pretending the holodecks are "hard scifi"

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • In short; the holodeck doesn't "magic" its own power into existence.

    Yes, I'm aware. But even when they were running on strictly least power, they kept the holodecks up for entertainment. So yeah, some things about it won't ever make sense.

    I just watched voyager a while ago I should be able to remember it better damn.

    But anyway, even just having a large tenniscourt. Larger than the holodeck is. Let's say 16 tennis fields each with human players, and then the whole stages filled with people. How is none of that coming against the limitations of a small room? See what i mean. If everyone stands in one corner. Then how do you emit a town that should be just a display on the walls, but everyone can start traveling in opposite directions if they so choose.

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • Hmm I wonder if one could get pregnant on the holodeck. And could you then just pause it and continue another day? And would the computer read and write biological or holographic information?

    How would that work?

  • what happens in the holodeck ,.. has to be cleaned by someone

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  • If all holodeck food was real edible food, Voyager could've used it to stock up on food. As it is, it was coveted with "holodecks have their own power sources" or smth iirc and no-one went in there to nourish their bodies, just souls.

    Like how could people in a limited size room actually be further away from each other than they actually are? Not to mention a whole ship full of people running around in a single town.

    Let's face it the holodeck isn't exactly hard science, has too many logical holes in it from the start.

    It's just a fantasy machine and I'm fine with that.

  • Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI

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  • I don't think they were trusted. It's just one of those "pay-to-win" things. Can't have people not graduating from Princeton or even getting bad grades. That would mean they'd need to improve something.

    So just pretend like no-one is cheating, so you can have good grades to geta nice job with. Probably in politics. Or is that Eaton?

  • Fried rice, mostly from scraps.

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