My economy is incredibly solid, and I’m not the most frugal. Could live off savings for more than a year.

Living in Scandinavia, background in physics.

“Too much water” is what it says, which I guess is tautologically true

As I understand it, it’s already way worse on Mars than we could make it here on Earth.

This is a rather common misconception about sensitivity, it is only true under the constraint where you are unable to increase the amplitude of your measurement.

Aren’t there plenty of situations where you can’t increase the amplitude of your measurement? Isn’t that why we use SQUIDS for high sensitivity magnetic measurements for example?

Quadrature squeezing is great, but I don’t think it’s the only way (or main way?) quantum sensors compete with classical sensors.

You don’t. Any appropriately sensitive/accurate accelerometer or magnetometer is sufficient to do this.

There are limits to sensitivity and accuracy that can only be overcome by quantum sensing though. So yes, you’re right, but that’s actually the point of the quantum part.

That trailer goes hard. Looks like D&D soulslike?

Guessing it’s this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tristinbaker.idlefantasy

I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.

What a strange article. They realize that LLMs choose words based on chance, right?

Guess that depends on where you are. Many places in the world have very high social mobility along with solid welfare and pension systems.

Maybe somewhat less that 40 years ago, but certainly much better than the last thousand years overall.

It’s more that intelligence implies success rather than success implies intelligence.

Actual intelligence boosts chances for success, but it is not required for success.

Maybe they’re not native speakers

No, rather my suggestion is to start rooting yourself in the reality around you, understand the relationship between that reality and the media reporting on it, and then try to understand international events through that lense.

If certain media reports on things in your area in an unreasonable way, it might be that it’s a fundamentally unreasonable media. If some group’s messaging and ideology doesn’t match the reality you see around you, it might be a group detached from reality. Use these learnings to build critical thinking and find media and sources you can trust, or where you at least understand their angle and blind spots.

Of course, it does really help to see the situation around your own country and in other countries with your own eyes. Not everyone has that opportunity, but if you do, seize it, and talk to real people in the community.

I think you’re on the wrong track. Reality is still immensely accessible to you if you go out in the world and critically check the information you’ve been given against the human reality out there.

Don’t lose yourself to the despair or confusion.

In a way, it’s also kind of blatant if you look back at the past 10 years and how nothing seems to socially make sense in a natural organic human way. Like orchestrated social event planning to manipulate psychology to lead to a certain path. (Look into generations of warfare, specifically 5th and 6th iirc.)

Plenty of things make social sense from the last 10 years in local communities, national contexts and international contexts. Both the good and the bad, e.g. a broad normalisation of LGBT and a backlash against it, progress in renewable energy and fights against different diseases, the rise of vaccine skeptics after COVID, the pandemic itself.

Or look at the “Ceuta crisis” in Europe. Images spread, right wing panic ensues, critical media investigates, it’s clear that the real situation is completely under control, the whole story becomes about an opportunistic right wing trying to create panic about immigration and left wing Spain.

All of this has played out in a natural, organic human way. Yes, social media has been a big, ugly shift in how communities work, and yes, they definitely work on purpose to simplify things that would previously die off most likely. But if you go outside and open your eyes, the world can make plenty of sense without some inhuman conspiracy beyond regular greed.

And please don’t say that anyone that disagrees with you are just victims of propaganda, that’s the ideal way to detach yourself from reality.

Geographically based around modern day Türkiye?

There are quantum objects that need to be rotated 720 degrees to return to their starting orientation. 360 degrees is not enough to get back to the start.

That’s what USB-A is like.

In addition to the shows you mention I’m really enjoying Silo right now, and found A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Severance to be really interesting.

I’ve tried several times to get into it, but I can’t seem to get over the acting being sort of second rate. It keeps pulling me out of the story.

I love getting to know new people. Especially in the context of sexual tension. People are so interesting when it’s about themselves, their emotions, worldviews and preferences.

Getting to know what people are genuinely excited about is always fun! To me at least.

What is ToME4?

Met a girl on Tinder some years ago while living abroad. She was really cute and fun to talk to, first date was just a regular thing with a beer at a tasteful bar.

For the second date she invited me to drink white wine and play backgammon while watching the sunset in the nearby castle ruins. I was blown away, that sounded like the most romantic date I could imagine!

I get there, we enjoy ourselves, chatting away. I’m giving all the signals, but she doesn’t seem to give any back. I get more and more confused, why would she invite me here if not to at least kiss or something?

Finally I force myself to lean in for the kiss, and she does kiss me back. But she looks at me like this came completely out of nowhere. We kiss some more and agree to meet up again another time.

We do go on more dates, but over time she tells me she thinks she might be asexual, after which the whole thing kind of fizzled out.

I’m still baffled she didn’t expect that kiss.