Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.

Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

• Naked Lunch soundtrack
• Eraserhead soundtrack (especially side B)
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts

Those poor, poor academic publishers… they’re actually going to have to do some reviewing? And maybe even some EDITING? …nah, they’ll probably just run them through OpenAI…

I was at a friend’s house helping them re-do their kitchen tiles, and I wrote something like “a blessing on whoever walks through this doorway” underneath the tiles next to the entrance. I kinda wonder if anyone’s ever going to find that, and if so what they’re going to think about it.

• July 4th events megathread (r$ddit interface): https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1lopwzc/50501_july_4th_events/
• another list of events: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
• lemmy instance: https://50501.chat/
• more social media links: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I’m comfortable. (varies by time of year)

Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.

Well… that can be more serious that you suggest. Tenure-track faculty need publication-worthy projects and grad students; what if the only funding available is military- and surveillance-oriented? Big universities are going to expect scientists to bring in the money or leave.

some “unofficial” replacements

• !streetart@lemm.ee… see !grasweeti@slrpnk.net, a lot of the same material (and is more active).

• !TwoGoobers@lemm.ee … see !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun, a lot of overlap

• !webcomics@lemm.ee … see !webtoons@ani.social for a partial replacement

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Regarding !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee, @klu9@piefed.social has created !action_movies@piefed.social to replace it and more.

Even thought about a comm themed, “stop buying new shit”.

!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

(hey @sevon@lemmy.kde.social it’s this one)

Then I wanted to make robots but I went to a robotics company for a high school project and they explained engineers don’t build anything and the technicians don’t design anything.

I was affiliated with a robotics lab for a couple years, and I’m pretty sure that’s not true industry-wide. I’m mostly saying this for other folks who may be reading. Look into it first before believing what that company person said.

Any update on where this community is moving to, @Bubs@lemm.ee ? Another possibility is to merge with !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun

some of these are “ask” communities which sometimes turn into discussions

• !ask@lemm.ee
• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
• !casualconversation@lemm.ee
• !casualuk@feddit.uk
• !Dullsters@dullsters.net
• !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
• !forumlibre@jlai.lu
• !general@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
• !preguntalealemmy@feddit.cl
• !rant@lemmy.sdf.org

I have an HP Chromebook 11 that I was going to install linux on (iirc you have to open it up and flip a hardware switch to do so) but I ended up keeping Chrome OS on it. Anyway I mention it bc the form-factor is nice, it’s very small and light but still usable. Only thing I don’t like is the touchpad so I hook up an external mouse whenever possible. You can get those chromebooks for under $100 refurbished too.

Mr. Daydream!!! Little Miss Trouble and Mr Impossible were cool too but shoulda had better stories.

why talk about moths?

If an extinction-level event happens soon and all this info is stored in an EMP-proof bunker somewhere, future alien historians will say that the moths and the lamps represented how helpless we felt in the face of our certain demise.

When I looked through the list of lemm.ee communities I was subbed to, my first thought was: omg I hope JohnnyEnzyme takes this ok…